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Joe Miller

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997.

B.A. University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1987.


Joe Miller
CONTACT

Phone: (+61) 6259 8185

Email: joe.millercsiro.au

Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research
CSIRO Plant Industry
GPO Box 1600
Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA

 
RESEARCH
INTERESTS

Plant molecular systematics, especially polyploid species complexes, functional genomics of plant-animal interactions, application of new technologies in systematics research


SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS

Brown, G.K., D.J. Murphy, J.T. Miller and P.Y. Ladiges. In press. Relationships between Acacias.s. and their tropical legume relatives, tribe Ingeae (Leguminosae:Mimosoideae). Systematic Botany.

D.S. Seigler, J.E. Ebinger and J.T. Miller. 2006. Mariosousa: A new segregate genus from Acaciasensu lato (Fabacese: Mimosoideae) from North America Novon 16: 413-420.

Brown, G. K., S. R. Ariati, D.J. Murphy, J.T. Miller, and P.Y. Ladiges. 2006. Bipinnate acacias (Acacia subg. Phyllodineae sect. Botrycephalae) of eastern Australia are polyphyletic based on DNA sequence data. Australian Systematic Botany 19: 315-326.

Miller, J. T., D. Murphy, J. Grimes, P. Ladiges and R.J. Bayer. 2003. Chloroplast DNA evidence for non-monophlyly of derived tribes of the legume subfamily Mimosoideae. Systematic Botany. 38: 558-564.

Miller, J. T. and R. J. Bayer. 2003. Molecular Phylogenetics of Acacia subgenera Acacia and Aculeiferum (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) based on the chloroplast matK coding sequence and flanking trnK intron spacer regions. Australian Systematic Botany. 16: 27-33.

Miller, J. T. and R. J. Bayer. 2001. Molecular phylogenetics of Acacia (Fabaceae: Mimosoideae) based on chloroplast matK coding sequence and flanking trnK intron spacer regions. American Journal of Botany. 88: 698-706.

Miller, J. T. and D. M. Spooner. 1999. Collapse of species boundaries in the wild potato Solanum brevicaule complex (Solanaceae, S. sect. Petota): molecular data. Plant Systematics and Evolution. 214: 103-130.

Miller, J. T., F. Dong, S. A. Jackson, J. Song, and J. Jiang. 1998. Retrotransposon-related DNA sequences in the centromeres of grass chromosomes. Genetics 150: 1615-1623.

Miller, J.T. and D. M. Spooner. 1996. Introgression of Solanumchacoense (Solanum sect. Petota) upland populations reexamined. Systematic Botany 21: 461-475.


CURRENT
RESEARCH
PROJECTS

Acacia Systematics - Multiple gene phylogenetic studies of Acacia including detailed analysis of the American and Australian acacia species.

Mulga (Acacia aneura) - Plant Polyploid Species Complex - Understanding Mulga: Species delimitations in a polyploid, apomictic Acacia species complex.

Solidago Gall Genomics - Genomic investigation of plant genes induced by galling insects.

Website:
http://ccg.biology.uiowa.edu/miller.htm



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