Bernard E. Pfeil

Post Doctoral Fellow

Biodiversity and Evolution of the Australian Flora

B.Sc. (Hons) 1998, University of Sydney

Ph.D. 2003, Australian National University

Phone: (+61) 6246 5222

Fax: (+61) 6246 5249

Email: Bernard.Pfeilcsiro.au

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

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:

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

Papers: (submitted / in press)

• Pfeil, B.E. (in press).
  The effect of incongruence on molecular dates.
  Taxon

• Pfeil, B.E . and Crisp, M.D. (in press).
  The age and biogeography of Citrus and the orange subfamily (Rutaceae: Aurantioideae). American Journal of Botany

• Pfeil, B.E. and Crisp, M.D. (in press). The age and biogeography of Citrus and the orange subfamily (Rutaceae: Aurantioideae). American Journal of Botany.
  
  
• Stefanovic, S*., Pfeil, B.E.*, Doyle, J.J., and Palmer, J.D. (in press). Chloroplast phylogenetic relationships among phaseoloid legumes. Systematic Botany. (*equal contribution)
  
  
• Pfeil, B.E. (in press). The effect of incongruence on molecular dates. Taxon.
  
  
• Small, R.L., Lickey, E.B., Pfeil, B.E. and Brubaker, C.L. (accepted). Nuclear ribosomal ITS sequence variation in diploid and polyploid Hibiscus section Furcaria (Malvaceae). Plant Systematics and Evolution.

Papers: (2008 - 2005)

• 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. Preview online here
  
  
• 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) Abstract here
  
  
• 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. Abstract here
  
  
• 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. Abstract here
  
  
• 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. Abstract here
  
  
• 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. Abstract here

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. Abstract here
  
  
• 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. Abstract here
  
  
• 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. Abstract here
  
  
• 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.

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

Molecular taxonomy of Australian native Citrus relatives using microsatellites.

Genome evolution following polyploidy in Glycine.

The consequences of incongruence among genes on phylogenetic inference and divergence time estimation.

Coalescence simulation to distinguish between lineage sorting and hybridisation.

History of polyploid taxa; evolutionary significance of polyploidy.