Dan Murphy is the Molecular Systematist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, and in this capacity he provides advice and assistance to researchers working on a variety of organisms, including mosses, fungi and vascular plants. His research expertise is in DNA sequencing, analysis of molecular data and plant systematics. His particular research interest is Acacia and related legumes (including weed species), and he has also undertaken research on Australian and introduced grasses including Austrofestuca, Austrostipa, Festuca and Piptochaetium.
Papers
Murphy, D.J., Udovicic, F. and Ladiges, P.Y. (2000). Phylogenetic analysis of Australian Acacia (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) using sequence variations of an intron and two intergenic spacers of chloroplast DNA. Australian Systematic Botany 13: 745 – 754.
Udovicic, F., and Murphy, D.J. (2002). Successful DNA amplification from Acacia (Leguminosae) and other refractory Australian plants and fungi using a nested/semi-nested PCR protocol. Muelleria 16: 47 - 53.
Murphy, D.J., Miller, J.T., Bayer, R.J., and Ladiges, P.Y. (2003). Molecular phylogeny of Acacia subgenus Phyllodineae (Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) based on DNA sequences of the internal transcribed spacer region. Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 11. Australian Systematic Botany 16: 19 – 26.
Nelson, G., Murphy, D.J., and Ladiges, P.Y. (2003). Brummit on paraphyly: a response. Taxon 52: 295 - 298.
Luckow, M., Miller, J.T., Murphy, D.J., and Livshultz T. (2003). A phylogenetic analysis of the Mimosoideae (Leguminosae) based on chloroplast DNA sequence data. In "Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 10". pp. 197-220. (Royal Botanic Gardens: Kew, UK).
Miller, J.T., Grimes, J, Murphy, D.J., Bayer, R.J., and Ladiges, P.Y. (2003). Molecular phylogenetics of the tribes Acacieae and Ingeae (Mimosoideae) based on chloroplast DNA sequences. Systematic Botany 28(3): 558-566.
Piccinin, R.C., Murphy, D.J., and Ladiges, P.Y. (2004). Morphometric study of a hybrid population of Acacia verniciflua and A. aspera (Acacia subgenus Phyllodineae). Muelleria 19: 9-18.
Hunter, A. M., Orlovich, D. A., Lloyd, K. M., Lee, W. G., and Murphy, D. J. (2004). The generic position of Austrofestuca littoralis and the reinstatement of Hookerochloa and Festucella (Poaceae) based on evidence from nuclear (ITS) and chloroplast (trnL-trnF) DNA sequences. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(2): 253-262.
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