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: 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: 253 - 262. Gardner, S.K., Murphy, D.J., Newbigin, E., Drinnan, A.N., and Ladiges, P.Y. (2005). An investigation of phyllode variation in Acacia verniciflua and A. leprosa (Mimosaceae), and implications for taxonomy. Australian Systematic Botany 8: 383 - 398. Smith, Z.F., Murphy, D.J., James, E.A., and McLean, C.B. (2005). Investigation of the relationships of Diuris fragrantissima (Orchidaceae) within the ‘punctata' group based on plastid and nrDNA ITS sequences. Selbyana 26: 217 - 228. Ladiges, P.Y., Ariati, S.R., and Murphy, D.J. (2006). Biogeography of the Acacia victoriae, pyrifolia and murryana species groups in arid Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 66: 462 - 476. Ariati, S.R., Murphy, D.J., Udovicic, F., and Ladiges, P.Y. (2006). Molecular phylogeny of three groups of acacias (Acacia subgenus Phyllodineae) in arid Australia based on the internal and external transcribed spacer regions of nrDNA. Systematics and Biodiversity 5: 1 - 10. Brown, G.K., Ariati, S.R., Murphy, D.J., Miller, J.T., and Ladiges, P.Y. (2006). Bipinnate acacias (Acacia subg. Phyllodineae sect. Botrycephalae) of eastern Australia are polyphyletic based on DNA sequence data. Australian Systematic Botany 19: 315 - 326. Ariati, S.R., Murphy, D.J., Gardner, S., and Ladiges, P.Y. (2007). Morphological and genetic variation within the widespread species Acacia victoriae (Mimosaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 20: 54 - 62. Murphy, D.J. (2008). A review of the classification of Acacia (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae. Muelleria 26: 10 - 26. (PDF 410 KB) Reid, J.C. & Murphy, D.J. (2008). Some case studies of Acacia as weeds and implications for herbaria. Muelleria 26: 57 - 66. (PDF 4.6 MB) Brown, G.K., Murphy, D.J., Miller, J.T., and Ladiges, P.Y. (in press 2008). Relationships between Acacia s.s. and their tropical legume relatives, tribe Ingeae (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Systematic Botany.
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