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Peter J. Lockhart

Peter J. Lockhart

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Biology and Biochemistry

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59
Citations
12269
World Ranking
12551
National Ranking
34

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Peter J. Lockhart is affiliated with Massey University in New Zealand. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions to Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broad areas, their subfields of study include Genetics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Agronomy and Crop Science.

The scientist's main research topics encompass genetic diversity and population structure, genomics and phylogenetic studies, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, plant pathogens and resistance, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, genetics and plant breeding, as well as ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology.

Frequent co-authors in their work are:

  • Patricia A. McLenachan
  • Richard C. Winkworth
  • Zhenhua Dang
  • Yunyun Tian
  • Stanley E. Bellgard

Peter J. Lockhart has published in a number of scientific venues, with multiple publications in PLoS ONE, Genes, and Frontiers in Conservation Science. Other publication venues include Ecology and Evolution and the Journal of Systematics and Evolution.

Selected recent papers demonstrate the range of their research interests:

  • Evolutionary origins of taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Southeast Asia, 2020, Ecology and Evolution
  • Correlations among oligonucleotide repeats, nucleotide substitutions, and insertion-deletion mutations in chloroplast genomes of plant family Malvaceae, 2020, Journal of Systematics and Evolution
  • A LAMP at the end of the tunnel: A rapid, field deployable assay for the kauri dieback pathogen, Phytophthora agathidicida, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Emerging advances in biosecurity to underpin human, animal, plant, and ecosystem health, 2023, iScience
  • Polyphosphate synthesis is an evolutionarily ancient phosphorus storage strategy in microalgae, 2023, Algal Research

Peter J. Lockhart was awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Recovering evolutionary trees under a more realistic model of sequence evolution.

    Peter J. Lockhart;Michael A. Steel;Michael D. Hendy;David Penny

  • Two Nonrecombining Sympatric Forms of the Human Malaria Parasite Plasmodium ovale Occur Globally

    Colin J. Sutherland;Naowarat Tanomsing;Debbie Nolder;Mary Oguike

  • Deciphering ancient rapid radiations

    James B. Whitfield;Peter J. Lockhart

  • A statistical approach for distinguishing hybridization and incomplete lineage sorting.

    Simon Joly;Patricia A. McLenachan;Peter J. Lockhart

  • A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among alpha-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes.

    Christian Esser;Nahal Ahmadinejad;Christian Wiegand;Carmen Rotte

  • Endosymbiotic origin and differential loss of eukaryotic genes

    Chuan Ku;Shijulal Nelson-Sathi;Mayo Roettger;Filipa L. Sousa

  • An Arabidopsis protein closely related to Synechocystis cryptochrome is targeted to organelles.

    Tatjana Kleine;Peter Lockhart;Alfred Batschauer

  • Relaxed Molecular Clock Provides Evidence for Long-Distance Dispersal of Nothofagus (Southern Beech)

    Michael Knapp;Karen Stöckler;David Havell;David Havell;Frédéric Delsuc;Frédéric Delsuc

  • Nitrogen fixation in eukaryotes – New models for symbiosis

    Christoph Kneip;Christoph Kneip;Peter Lockhart;Christine Voß;Uwe-G Maier

  • Plant dispersal N.E.W.S from New Zealand

    Richard C. Winkworth;Steven J. Wagstaff;David Glenny;Peter J. Lockhart

  • Evolution of chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll: the problem of invariant sites in sequence analysis.

    Peter J. Lockhart;Anthony W. D. Larkum;Michael A. Steel;Peter J. Waddell

  • Genomes of Stigonematalean cyanobacteria (subsection V) and the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis from prokaryotes to plastids.

    Tal Dagan;Mayo Roettger;Karina Stucken;Giddy Landan

  • Confidence in evolutionary trees from biological sequence data

    M. A. Steel;P. J. Lockhart;D. Penny

  • A framework for incorporating evolutionary genomics into biodiversity conservation and management

    Ary Anthony Hoffmann;Philippa C Griffin;Shannon Dillon;Renee A Catullo

  • Substitutional bias confounds inference of cyanelle origins from sequence data

    P. J. Lockhart;C. J. Howe;Donald Ashley Bryant;T. J. Beanland

  • Using Consensus Networks to Visualize Contradictory Evidence for Species Phylogeny

    Barbara R. Holland;Katharina T. Huber;Vincent Moulton;Peter J. Lockhart

  • Shopping for plastids.

    Anthony W.D. Larkum;Peter J. Lockhart;Christopher J. Howe

  • Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary traits in Ranunculus s.l. (Ranunculaceae) inferred from ITS sequence analysis.

    Elvira Hörandl;Ovidiu Paun;Jan T. Johansson;Carlos Lehnebach

  • The origin of plastids

    C.J Howe;A.C Barbrook;R.E.R Nisbet;P.J Lockhart

  • a Predominantly Eubacterial Ancestry of Yeast Nuclear Genes

    Christian Esser;Nahal Ahmadinejad;Christian Wiegand;Carmen Rotte

Frequent Co-Authors

David Penny
David Penny Massey University
Mike Steel
Mike Steel University of Canterbury
Anthony W. D. Larkum
Anthony W. D. Larkum University of Sydney
Christopher J. Howe
Christopher J. Howe University of Cambridge
William Martin
William Martin Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Daniel H. Huson
Daniel H. Huson University of Tübingen
Vincent Moulton
Vincent Moulton University of East Anglia
Uwe G. Maier
Uwe G. Maier Philipp University of Marburg
Elvira Hörandl
Elvira Hörandl University of Göttingen
Alastair W. Robertson
Alastair W. Robertson Massey University

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