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Refereed journal articles

Ebach, M.C., Gill, A.C., Kwan, A. Ahyong, S.T., Murphy, D.J. and Cassis, G. (2013). Towards an Australian Bioregionalisation Atlas: a provisional area taxonomy of Australia's biogeographical regions. Zootaxa 3619, 315–342. 

Syme, A.E., Udovicic, F., Stajsic, V. and Murphy, D.J. (2013). A test of sequence-matching algorithms for a DNA barcode database of invasive grasses. DNA Barcodes 1, 19–26. doi:10.2478/dna-2012-0002

Brown, G.K., Murphy, D.J., Kidman, J. and Ladiges, P.Y. (2012). Phylogenetic connections of phyllodinous species of Acacia outside Australia are explained by geological history and human-mediated dispersal. Australian Systematic Botany 25, 390–403.

Hurry, C.R., Walsh, N.G. and Murphy, D.J. (2012). A taxonomic review of Triodia bunicola and T. scariosa (Poaceae: Chloridoideae), based on morphological and molecular data. Australian Systematic Botany 25, 304–312.   

Sauquet, H., Ho, S.Y.W., Gandolfo, M.A., Jordan, G.J., Wilf, P., Cantrill, D.J., Bayly, M.J., Bromham, L., Brown, G.K., Carpenter, R.J., Lee, D.M., Murphy, D.J., Sniderman, J.M.K. and Udovicic, F. (2012). Testing the impact of calibration on molecular divergence times using a fossil-rich group: the case of Nothofagus (Fagales). Systematic Biology 61(2), 289–313.  

Syme, A.E., Murphy, D.J., Holmes, G.D., Gardner, S., Fowler, R. and Cantrill, D.J. (2012). An expanded phylogenetic analysis of Austrostipa (Poaceae: Stipeae) to test infrageneric relationships. Australian Systematic Botany 25, 1–10. 

Brown, G.K., Murphy, D.J. and Ladiges, P.Y. (2011). Relationships of the Australo-Malesian genus Paraserianthes ( Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) identifies the sister group of Acacia sensu stricto and two biogeographical tracks. Cladistics 27, 380–390.

Gibson, M.R., Richardson, D.M., Marchante, E., Marchante, H., Rodger, J.G., Stone, G.N., Byrne, M., Fuentes-Ramírez, A., George, N., Harris, C., Johnson, S.D., Roux, J.J.L., Miller, J.T., Murphy, D.J., Pauw, A., Prescott, M.N., Wandrag, E.M. and Wilson, J.R.U. (2011). Reproductive biology of Australian acacias: important mediator of invasiveness? Diversity and Distributions 17(5), 911–933.

Miller, J.T., Murphy, D.J., Brown, G.K., Richardson, D.M. and González-Orozco, C.E. (2011). The evolution and phylogenetic placement of invasive Australian Acacia species. Diversity and Distributions 17(5), 848–860.

Wilson, J.R.U., Gairifo, C., Gibson, M.R., Arianoutsou, M., Bakar, B.B., Baret, S., Celesti-Grapow, L., DiTomaso, J.M., Dufour-Dror, J.-M., Kueffer, C., Kull, C.A., Hoffmann, J.H., Impson, F.A.C., Loope, L.L., Marchante, E., Marchante, H., Moore, J.L., Murphy, D.J., Tassin, J., Witt, A., Zenni, R.D. and Richardson, D.M. (2011) Risk assessment, eradication, and biological control: global efforts to limit Australian acacia invasions. Diversity and Distributions 17(5), 1030–1046.

Brown, G.K., Clowes, C., Murphy, D.J. and Ladiges, P.Y. (2010). Phylogenetic analysis based on nuclear DNA and morphology defines a clade of eastern Australian species of Acacia s.s. (section Juliflorae): the 'Acacia longifolia group'. Australian Systematic Botany 23, 162–172.

Murphy, D.J., Brown, G.K., Miller, J.T. and Ladiges, P.Y. (2010). Molecular phylogeny of Acacia s.s. (Mimosoideae: Leguminosae) – evidence for major clades and informal classification. Taxon 59, 7–19.

Maslin, B.R. and Murphy, D.J. (2009). A taxonomic revision of Acacia verniciflua and A. leprosa (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) in Australia. Muelleria 27, 183–223.

Brown, G.K., Murphy, D.J., Miller, J.T. and Ladiges, P.Y. (2008). Acacia s.s. and its relationship amongst tropical legumes, tribe Ingeae (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae). Systematic Botany 33, 739–751.

Byrne, M., Yeates, D.K., Joseph, L., Kearney, M., Bowler, J., Williams, M.A.J., Cooper, S., Donnellan, S.C., Keogh, J.S., Leys, R., Melville, J., Murphy, D.J., Porch, N. and Wyrwoll, K.-H. (2008). Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota. Molecular Ecology 17, 4398– 4417.

Reid, J.C. and Murphy, D.J. (2008). Some case studies of Acacia as weeds and implications for herbaria. Muelleria 26(1), 57–66.

Murphy, D.J. (2008). A review of the classification of Acacia (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae). Muelleria 26(1), 10–26.

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.

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 b, 417–426.

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.

Ladiges, P.Y., Ariati, S.R. and Murphy, D.J. (2006). Biogeography of the Acacia victoriae, pyrifolia and murrayana species groups in arid Australia. Journal of Arid Environments 66, 462–476.

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). Molecular investigation of the Diuris 'punctata' group in south eastern Australia. Selbyana 26, 217–228.

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.

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.

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.

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. Australian Systematic Botany 16, 19–26.

Nelson, G., Murphy, D.J. and Ladiges, P.Y. (2003). Brummitt on paraphyly: a response. Taxon 52, 295–298.

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., 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

Book chapters

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 B. Klitgaard and A. Bruneau (eds), Advances in Legume Systematics, part 10, pp. 197–220. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Other articles

Murphy, D.J. (2008). Acacia 2006: Knowing and growing Australian wattles. Muelleria 26(1), 3–6.

Murphy, D.J. (2006). Book Review: Nitrogen fixation in Acacias. Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter 126, 40–41.

Murphy, D.J. and Reid, J.C. (2006). Wattles as weeds: some case studies from western Victoria. In Australian Plants Society Inc. Maroondah Group (ed.), Proceedings, Acacia 2006: knowing and growing Australian wattles, pp. 55–60. Australian Plants Society Inc. and National Herbarium of Victoria, Melbourne.

Last updated 24 Apr 2013