Frank Udovicic

Frank's interests centre around the phylogenetic systematics of Australian plants, in particular members of the Myrtle family (Myrtaceae), such as eucalypts (Eucalyptus and Corymbia), bottlebrushes (Callistemon), paperbarks (Melaleuca) and related genera. He is also continuing research on Rhamnaceae, a cosmopolitan family that includes genera such as Spyridium, Cryptandra and Pomaderris in Australia. Practical applications and limitations of DNA barcoding and molecular identification are another area of current interest.

Projects

• Systematics of Corymbia, the bloodwood eucalypts
  
• Phylogeography of Eucalyptus deglupta

Publications

Ladiges, P., Parra-O., C.,Gibbs, A., Udovicic, F.,  Nelson, G. and Bayly, M. (2011). Historical biogeographical patterns in continental Australia: congruence among areas of endemism of two major clades of eucalypts. Cladistics 27, 29-41.

Gibbs, A.K., Udovicic, F., Drinnan, A.N. and Ladiges, P.Y. (2009). Phylogeny and classification of Eucalyptus subgenus Eudesmia (Myrtaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal DNA, chloroplast DNA and morphology. Australian Systematic Botany 22, 158–179.

Parra-O., C., Bayly, M.J., Drinnan, A., Udovicic, F. and Ladiges, P. (2009). Phylogeny, major clades and infrageneric classification of Corymbia (Myrtaceae), based on nuclear ribosomal DNA and morphology. Australian Systematic Botany 22, 384–399.

Bayly, M.J., Udovicic, F., Gibbs, A.K., Parra-O., C. and Ladiges, P.Y. (2008). Ribosomal DNA pseudogenes are widespread in the eucalypt group (Myrtaceae): implications for phylogenetic analysis. Cladistics 24, 131–146.

Kellermann, J. and Udovicic, F. (2008). Large indels obscure phylogeny in analysis of chloroplast DNA (trnL-F) sequence data: Pomaderreae (Rhamnaceae) revisited. Telopea 12, 1–22.

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