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Kathleen M. Pryer

Kathleen M. Pryer

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
55
Citations
16049
World Ranking
14808
National Ranking
6194

Overview

Kathleen M. Pryer is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their work spans several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Cell Biology. Core research topics frequently explored include Fern and Epiphyte Biology, Plant and Animal Studies, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies.

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on plant sciences and systematics, with notable papers including:

  • Applying machine learning to investigate long-term insect-plant interactions preserved on digitized herbarium specimens (2020, Applications in Plant Sciences)
  • A step-by-step protocol for meiotic chromosome counts in flowering plants: A powerful and economical technique revisited (2020, Applications in Plant Sciences)
  • A drought-driven model for the evolution of obligate apomixis in ferns: evidence from pellaeids (Pteridaceae) (2021, American Journal of Botany)
  • Using computer vision on herbarium specimen images to discriminate among closely related horsetails (Equisetum) (2020, Applications in Plant Sciences)
  • Infraspecific diversification of the star cloak fern (Notholaena standleyi) in the deserts of the United States and Mexico (2020, American Journal of Botany)

The main venues where Kathleen M. Pryer's work has been published include:

  • American Journal of Botany
  • Applications in Plant Sciences
  • Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
  • Taxon
  • Systematic Botany

Frequent collaborators in their research projects comprise:

  • Michael D. Windham
  • Nikolai M. Hay
  • Kathryn T. Picard
  • George Yatskievych
  • Layne Huiet

The diversity of these collaborations and publication venues suggests an active engagement with research communities focused on plant systematics, evolutionary biology, and molecular techniques applied to plant sciences.

Best Publications

  • A classification for extant ferns

    Alan R. Smith;Kathleen M. Pryer;Eric Schuettpelz;Petra Korall;Petra Korall

  • Investigating Deep Phylogenetic Relationships among Cyanobacteria and Plastids by Small Subunit rRNA Sequence Analysis

    Seán Turner;Kathleen M. Pryer;Vivian P. W. Miao;Jeffrey D. Palmer

  • Ferns diversified in the shadow of angiosperms

    Harald Schneider;Eric Schuettpelz;Kathleen M. Pryer;Raymond Cranfill

  • Phylogeny and evolution of ferns (monilophytes) with a focus on the early leptosporangiate divergences

    Kathleen M. Pryer;Eric Schuettpelz;Paul G. Wolf;Harald Schneider;Harald Schneider

  • Horsetails and ferns are a monophyletic group and the closest living relatives to seed plants.

    Kathleen M. Pryer;Harald Schneider;Alan R. Smith;Raymond Cranfill

  • Fern phylogeny inferred from 400 leptosporangiate species and three plastid genes

    Eric Schuettpelz;Kathleen M. Pryer

  • Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses

    Fay Wei Li;Fay Wei Li;Paul Brouwer;Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet;Shifeng Cheng

  • Evidence for a Cenozoic radiation of ferns in an angiosperm-dominated canopy

    Eric Schuettpelz;Kathleen M. Pryer

  • Fern phylogeny based on rbcL nucleotide sequences

    Mitsuyasu Hasebe;Paul G Wolf;Kathleen M. Pryer;Kunihiko Ueda

  • Phylogenetic relationships of extant ferns based on evidence from morphology and rbcL sequences

    Kathleen M. Pryer;Alan R. Smith;Judith E. Skog

  • A molecular phylogeny of the fern family Pteridaceae: Assessing overall relationships and the affinities of previously unsampled genera

    Eric Schuettpelz;Harald Schneider;Layne Huiet;Michael D. Windham;Michael D. Windham

  • A revised family–level classification for eupolypod II ferns (Polypodiidae: Polypodiales)

    Carl J. Rothfels;Michael A. Sundue;Li-Yaung Kuo;Anders Larsson

  • The evolutionary history of ferns inferred from 25 low-copy nuclear genes

    Carl J. Rothfels;Fay Wei Li;Erin M. Sigel;Layne Huiet

  • Phytochrome diversity in green plants and the origin of canonical plant phytochromes

    Fay Wei Li;Michael Melkonian;Carl J. Rothfels;Juan Carlos Villarreal

  • Tree ferns: monophyletic groups and their relationships as revealed by four protein-coding plastid loci.

    Petra Korall;Kathleen M. Pryer;Jordan S. Metzgar;Harald Schneider

  • Horizontal transfer of an adaptive chimeric photoreceptor from bryophytes to ferns

    Fay-Wei Li;Juan Carlos Villarreal;Steven Kelly;Carl J. Rothfels

  • Overcoming Deep Roots, Fast Rates, and Short Internodes to Resolve the Ancient Rapid Radiation of Eupolypod II Ferns

    Carl J. Rothfels;Anders Larsson;Li-Yaung Kuo;Petra Korall

  • Phylogenetic Relationships and Evolution of Extant Horsetails, Equisetum, Based on Chloroplast DNA Sequence Data (rbcL and trnL‐F)

    David L. Des Marais;Alan R. Smith;Donald M. Britton;Kathleen M. Pryer

  • A molecular phylogeny of scaly tree ferns (Cyatheaceae)

    Petra Korall;David S. Conant;Jordan S. Metzgar;Harald Schneider

  • Plastid atpA data provide improved support for deep relationships among ferns

    Eric Schuettpelz;Petra Korall;Petra Korall;Kathleen M. Pryer

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Schuettpelz
Eric Schuettpelz National Museum of Natural History
Fay-Wei Li
Fay-Wei Li Cornell University
Harald Schneider
Harald Schneider Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Paul G. Wolf
Paul G. Wolf University of Alabama in Huntsville
Douglas E. Soltis
Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida
Gane Ka-Shu Wong
Gane Ka-Shu Wong University of Alberta
Sean W. Graham
Sean W. Graham University of British Columbia
Dennis W. Stevenson
Dennis W. Stevenson New York Botanical Garden
Pamela S. Soltis
Pamela S. Soltis University of Florida
Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Mitsuyasu Hasebe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

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