Professor Peter Lockhart
Professor of Molecular Evolution

Background

BSc (Hons) Sydney (1985);
PhD Sydney (1991);
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (1996);
Associate Editor: Molecular Biology and Evolution

Research Interests

• Plant Species Radiation
• Pacific Biodiversity
• Endosymbiosis and Organelle evolution
• Evolutionary properties of DNA and Protein sequences

Recent Publications

• Whitfield, J. and Lockhart, P.J. (in Press May 2007). Rapid, Ancient Radiations: A Major Challenge for Phylogenetics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution
  
  
• Morley, C.G., McLenachan, P.A. and Lockhart, P.J. (in Press) Evidence for the presence of a second species of mongoose in the Fiji Islands. Pacific Conservation
  
  
• Collins, L.J., and Lockhart, P.J. Evolutionary properties of sequences and ancestral state reconstruction, in Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction, D.A. Liberles, Editor. 2006, Oxford University Press. In Press.[Edited book chapter]
  
  
• Heenan, P., Lockhart, P.J., Kirkam, N. and Havell, D. Relationships in the alpine Ranunculus haastii (Ranunculaceae) complex and recognition of R. piliferus and R. acraeus from southern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 44, 425-441
  
  
• Lehnebach, C., Asuncion, C., Monsalve, C., McLenachan, P.A., Hoerandl, E. and Lockhart, P.J (2006). Phylogenetic relationships of the giant Peruvian buttercup Plant Systematics and Evolution DOI 10.1007/s00606-006-0488-8
  
  
• Lockhart, P.J, Novis, P., Milligan, B.G., Riden, J., Rambaut, A. and Larkum, A.W.D. (2006). Heterotachy and Tree Building: A Case Study with Plastids and Eubacteria Mol. Biol. Evol. 23, 40-45
  
  
• McBreen, K. and Lockhart, P.J (2006). Reconstructing the evolutionary history of species radiations. Trends in Plant Science 11, 398-404
  
  
• Zauner, S., Lockhart, P.J, Stoebe-Maier, B., Gilson, P., McFadden, G.I., and Maier, U.G. (2006). Differential Gene Transfers and Gene Duplications in Primary and Secondary Endosymbioses. BioMed Central 6, 38
  
  
• Lockhart, P.J. and M.A. Steel. (2005). A tale of two processes, Syst.Biol. 54(6), 948-951
  
  
• Ovidiu, P., Lehnebach, C., Johansson, J.T., Lockhart, P.J. and Hörandl, E . (2005). Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Ranunculus and allied genera (Ranunculaceae) in the Mediterranean region and in the European Alpine System. Taxon 54, 911-930

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