Bernard Pfeil

Biträdande universitetslektor

Tel: 031-786 2601
E-post: bernard.pfeil@bioenv.gu.se
Fax: 031-786 25 60

Education Field/Undervisningsområde

Plant molecular systematics

Research/Forskning

Plant systematics including: polyploidy and genome evolution, processes that cause incongruence among data sets (homoploid and polyploid hybridisation, lineage sorting, gene duplication), molecular phylogeny, molecular dating, molecular and traditional taxonomy.

Research Taxa/Forskning Artsammansättningar

* Citrus and relatives (Rutaceae)
* Glycine and relatives, Medicago and relatives (Fabaceae)
* Hibiscus and relatives (Malvaceae)

Publications/Publikationer

ISI's Researcher ID list

Papers (2009–2005):

* Pfeil, B.E. (2009). The effect of incongruence on molecular dates. Taxon, 58, 511-518.

* Bayer, R.J., Mabberley, D.J., Morton, C., Miller, C.H., Sharma, I.K., Pfeil, B.E., Rich, S., Hitchcock, R., and Sykes, S. (2009) A molecular phylogeny of the orange subfamily (Rutaceae: Aurantioideae) using nine cpDNA sequences. American Journal of Botany, 96, 668-685.

* Stefanovic, S*., Pfeil, B.E.*, Doyle, J.J., and Palmer, J.D. (2009). Relationships among phaseoloid legumes based on sequences from eight chloroplast regions. Systematic Botany, 34, 115-128. (*equal contribution)

* Pfeil, B.E . and Crisp, M.D. (2008). The age and biogeography of Citrus and the orange subfamily (Rutaceae: Aurantioideae). American Journal of Botany, 95, 1621-1631.

* Maureira Butler, I.J.*, Pfeil, B.E.*, Muangprom, A., Osborn, T.C. and Doyle, J.J. (2008) The reticulate history of Medicago (Fabaceae). Systematic Biology, 57, 466-482. (*equal contribution)

* Innes, R.W., Ameline-Torregrosa, C., Ashfield, T., Cannon, E., Cannon, S.B., Chacko, B., Chen, N.W.G., Couloux, A., Dalwani, A., Denny, R., Deshpande, S., Doyle, J.J., Egan, A., Geffroy, V., Glover, N., Hans, C.S., Howell, S., Ilut, D., Jackson, S., Lai, H., Mammadov, J., Martin del Campo, S., Metcalf, M., Nguyen, A., O’Bleness, M., Pfeil, B.E., Podicheti, R., Ratnaparkhe, M.B., Roe, B.A., Saghai Maroof, M.A., Samain, S., Sanders, I., Ségurens, B., Sévignac, M., Sherman-Broyles, S., Thareau, V., Tucker, D.M., Walling, J., Wawrzynski, A., Yi, J., Young, N.D. (2008). Differential accumulation of retroelements and diversification of NB-LRR disease resistance genes in duplicated regions following polyploidy in the ancestor of soybean. Plant Physiology DOI:10.1104/pp.108.127902.

* Maureira Butler, I.J.*, Pfeil, B.E.*, Muangprom, A., Osborn, T.C. and Doyle, J.J. (2008). The reticulate history of Medicago (Fabaceae). Systematic Biology, 57, 466-482. (*equal contribution)

* Pfeil, B.E. , Craven, L.A., Brown, A.H.D., Murray, B.G. and Doyle, J.J. (2006). Three new species of northern Australian Glycine (Fabaceae, Phaseolae), G. gracei, G. montis-douglas and G. syndetika. Australian Systematic Botany, 19, 245-258.

* Straub, S.C.K., Pfeil, B.E. and Doyle, J.J. (2006). Testing the polyploid past of soybean using a low-copy nuclear gene – is Glycine (Fabaceae: Papilionoideae) an auto- or allopolyploid? Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 39, 580-584.

* Sweeney, M.T., Thomson, M.J., Pfeil, B.E. and McCouch, S. (2006). Caught red-handed: Rc encodes a basic helix-loop-helix protein conditioning red pericarp in rice. The Plant Cell, 18, 283-294.

* Pfeil, B.E. , Schlueter, J.A., Shoemaker, R.C. and Doyle, J.J. (2005). Placing paleopolyploidy in relation to taxon divergence: a phylogenetic analysis in legumes using 39 gene families. Systematic Biology, 54, 441-454.

* Pfeil, B.E. , Crisp, M.D. (2005). What to do with Hibiscus? A proposed nomenclatural resolution for a large and well known genus of Malvaceae. Australian Systematic Botany, 18, 49-60.

Papers (2004–2000):

* Craven, L.A. and Pfeil, B.E. (2004). Australian representatives of Macrostelia transferred to Hibiscus (Malvaceae), with the description of a new species. Adansonia, 26, 235-240.

* Pfeil, B.E. , Brubaker, C.L., Craven, L.A. and Crisp, M.D. (2004) Paralogy and orthology in the Malvaceae rpb2 gene family: investigation of gene duplication in Hibiscus. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21, 1428-1437.

* Pfeil, B.E. and Craven, L.A. (2004). The Australian Alyogyne cravenii Fryxell transferred to Hibiscus (Malvaceae). Novon, 14, 322-323.

* Pfeil, B.E. and Henwood, M.J. (2004). Multivariate analysis of morphological variation in Eucalyptus series Psathyroxyla Blakely (Myrtaceae): taxonomic implications. Telopea, 10, 711-724.

* Trueman, J.W.H., Pfeil, B.E., Kelchner, S.A., and Yeates, D.K. (2004). Did stick insects really regain their wings? Systematic Entomology, 29, 138.

* Pfeil, B.E. , Brubaker, C.L., Craven, L.A. and Crisp, M.D. (2002). Phylogeny of Hibiscus and the tribe Hibisceae (Malvaceae) using chloroplast DNA sequences of ndhF and the rpl16 intron. Systematic Botany, 27, 333-350.

* Pfeil, B.E. and Craven, L.A. (2002). New taxa in Glycine (Fabaceae: Phaseoleae) from north-western Australia. Australian Systematic Botany, 15, 565-573.

* Pfeil, B.E. , Tindale, M.D. and Craven, L.A. (2001). A review of the Glycine clandestina species complex (Fabaceae, Phaseoleae) reveals two new species. Australian Systematic Botany, 14, 891-900.

* Doyle, J.J., Doyle, J.L., Brown, A.H.D. and Pfeil, B.E. (2000). Confirmation of shared and divergent genomes in the Glycine tabacina polyploid complex (Leguminosae) using histone H3-D sequences. Systematic Botany, 25, 437-448.

Flora Treatments:

* Pfeil, B.E. and Tindale, M.D. (2001). Glycine. in Flora of NSW, revised edition. Vol. 2, ed. G. Harden. Sydney, NSW University Press.

* Pfeil, B.E. , Tindale, M.D. and Craven, L.A. (in press). Glycine. in Flora of Australia. Fabaceae, Vol. 13-15.

Current Research Projects/Pågående Forskningsprojekt

Evolutionary history of Citrus cultivars and Australian native Citrus relatives using multiple nuclear genes and markers.

Phylogeny of Rutaceae.

Genome evolution following polyploidy in Glycine.

Coalescence simulation to distinguish between lineage sorting and hybridisation and paralogy.

History of polyploid taxa; evolutionary significance of polyploidy.