Kathleen M. Pryer
Professor of Biology
Education
Ph.D., Duke University 1995
M.S., University of Guelph (Canada) 1981
B.S., McGill University (Canada) 1976
Argus, G. W., and K. M. Pryer. Rare vascular plants in Canada; our natural heritage. Ottawa, Ontario (Canada) Canadian Museum of Nature, Botany Division, 1990. Open Access Copy
Argus, George W. Atlas of the rare vascular plants of Ontario /. Botany Division, National Museum of Natural Sciences = Division de la botanique, Musée national des sciences naturelles, 1982. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.51429. Full Text Open Access Copy
Smith, A. R., K. M. Pryer, E. Schuettpelz, P. Korall, H. Schneider, and P. G. Wolf. “Fern classification.” In Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes, 417–67, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511541827.017. Full Text Open Access Copy
Schuettpelz, E., and K. M. Pryer. “Fern phylogeny.” In Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes, 395–416, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511541827.016. Full Text Open Access Copy
Pryer, K. M., H. Schneider, and S. Magallon. “The radiation of vascular plants.” edited by J. Cracraft and M. J. Donoghue, 138–53. OXFORD UNIV PRESS, 2004.
Schneider, H., K. M. Pryer, R. Cranfill, A. R. Smith, and P. G. Wolf. “Evolution of vascular plant body plans: a phylogenetic perspective,” 330–64. Taylor and Francis London, 2002. Open Access Copy
Wolf, Paul G., Kathleen M. Pryer, Alan R. Smith, and Mitsuyasu Hasebe. “Phylogenetic Studies of Extant Pteridophytes.” In Molecular Systematics of Plants II, 541–56. Springer US, 1998. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5419-6_19. Full Text
Pryer, Kathleen M., Carlo Tomasi, Xiaohan Wang, Emily K. Meineke, and Michael D. Windham. “Using computer vision on herbarium specimen images to discriminate among closely related horsetails (Equisetum).” Applications in Plant Sciences 8, no. 6 (June 2020): e11372. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11372. Full Text Open Access Copy
Meineke, Emily K., Carlo Tomasi, Song Yuan, and Kathleen M. Pryer. “Applying machine learning to investigate long-term insect-plant interactions preserved on digitized herbarium specimens.” Applications in Plant Sciences 8, no. 6 (June 2020): e11369. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11369. Full Text Open Access Copy
Windham, Michael D., Kathleen M. Pryer, Derick B. Poindexter, Fay-Wei Li, Carl J. Rothfels, and James B. Beck. “A step-by-step protocol for meiotic chromosome counts in flowering plants: A powerful and economical technique revisited.” Applications in Plant Sciences 8, no. 4 (April 23, 2020): e11342. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps3.11342. Full Text Open Access Copy
Kao, Tzu-Tong, Carl J. Rothfels, Alicia Melgoza-Castillo, Kathleen M. Pryer, and Michael D. Windham. “Infraspecific diversification of the star cloak fern (Notholaena standleyi) in the deserts of the United States and Mexico.” American Journal of Botany 107, no. 4 (April 7, 2020): 658–75. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1461. Full Text Open Access Copy
Kao, Tzu-Tong, Kathleen M. Pryer, Forrest D. Freund, Michael D. Windham, and Carl J. Rothfels. “Low-copy nuclear sequence data confirm complex patterns of farina evolution in notholaenid ferns (Pteridaceae).” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 138 (September 2019): 139–55. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.05.016. Full Text Open Access Copy
Sigel, Erin M., Joshua P. Der, Kathleen M. Pryer, and Michael D. Windham. “Expression Level Dominance and Homeolog Expression Bias in Recurrent Origins of the Allopolyploid Fern Polypodium hesperium.” American Fern Journal 109, no. 3 (September 2019): 224–47. https://doi.org/10.1640/0002-8444-109.3.224. Full Text Open Access Copy
George, Lisa O., Layne Huiet, Tzu-Tong Kao, Kathleen M. Pryer, and Michael D. Windham. “Baja: A New Monospecific Genus Segregated from Cheilanthes s. l. (Pteridaceae).” Systematic Botany 44, no. 3 (August 2019): 471–82. https://doi.org/10.1600/036364419x15620113920536. Full Text Open Access Copy
Eily, A. N., K. M. Pryer, and F. W. Li. “A first glimpse at genes important to the Azolla–Nostoc symbiosis.” Symbiosis 78, no. 2 (June 15, 2019): 149–62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-019-00599-2. Full Text Open Access Copy
Yang, Emily J., Chan Yul Yoo, Jiangxin Liu, He Wang, Jun Cao, Fay-Wei Li, Kathleen M. Pryer, et al. “NCP activates chloroplast transcription by controlling phytochrome-dependent dual nuclear and plastidial switches.” Nat Commun 10, no. 1 (June 14, 2019): 2630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10517-1. Full Text Open Access Copy
Yang, E. J., C. Y. Yoo, J. Liu, H. Wang, J. Cao, F. Li, K. M. Pryer, T. Sun, D. Weigel, and P. Zhou. “NCP activates chloroplast transcription by controlling phytochrome-dependent dual nuclear and plastidial switches.” Nature Communications 10, no. 1 (2019): 1–13. Open Access Copy
Pages
Larsson, A., C. J. Rothfels, L. Y. Kuo, E. Shuettpelz, K. Pryer, and P. Korall. “Var hör hällebräken, ekbräken och svartbräknar hemma?-Äntligen en fylogeni över Eupolypods II.” In Systematikdagarna, Göteborg, 22 23 November, 2010, 2010.
LUPIA, R., M. NOWAK, H. SCHNEIDER, N. NAGALINGUM, and K. PRYER. “HETEROSPOROUS FERNS: PHYLOGENY, ORIGIN AND RADIATION.” In 2004 Denver Annual Meeting, 2004.
Pryer, K. M., E. Schuettpelz, R. C. Cranfill, P. G. Wolf, A. R. Smith, and H. Schneider. “Phylogeny of Early-Diverging Leptosporangiate Ferns Based on Morphology and Multiple Genes: rbcL, atpB, rps4, and 18S,” 2003.
Pryer, K. M., H. Schneider, A. R. Smith, and P. G. Wolf. “The Closest Living Relative to Seed Plants: Insights from Four Genes and Morphology,” 2001.
Pryer, K. M., H. Schneider, J. S. Hunt, P. G. Wolf, and A. R. Smith. “Basal Tracheophytes and the Phylogeny of" Pteridophyte" Lineages,” 1999.
Hunt, J. S., K. M. Pryer, A. Vaghani, A. R. Smith, and P. G. Wolf. “Fern DNA Database: Using Filemaker Pro to Coordinate DNA-Availability, DNA-Sequence Data, Vaoucher and Source Information for Large-Scale and Collaborative Phylogeny Studies,” 1999.
Pryer, K. M., and M. D. Windham. “A re-examination of Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman in North America.” In Amer. J. Bot, 75:142, 1988.
PRYER, K. M., G. W. ARGUS, and E. HABER. “THE CANADIAN RARE AND ENDANGERED PLANTS PROJECT - A BAKERS DECADE LATER.” In American Journal of Botany, 73:781–82. BOTANICAL SOC AMER INC, 1986.
Fauskee, Blake, Erin Sigel, Eric Schuettpelz, Kathleen Pryer, and Amanda Grusz. “"Could RNA editing explain phylogenetic rate heterogeneity in seed-free land plants? ",” n.d.
Pryer, K. M., and A. R. Smith. “Leptosporangiate ferns,” 1998.
Kathleen Pryer, Kathleen Pryer. “Azolla, a little fern with massive green potential.” Experiment, n.d. https://doi.org/10.18258/2619. Full Text
Pryer, K. M. “Phylogenetic relationships of extant ferns, with a special emphasis on the Marsileaceae.,” 1997.
Selected Grants
Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: The Pteridological Collections Consortium: An integrative approach to pteridophyte diversity over the last 420 million years awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Co-Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2021
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evolution and Function of Farina in the Desiccation-tolerant Notholaenid Ferns (Pteridaceae) awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2021
Oceans Apart: Assessing the roles of Vicariance and Long-distance Dispersal in the Widely Disjunct Fern Genus Cheilanthes (Pteridaceae) awarded by National Geographic Society (Principal Investigator). 2019
Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium: Accessing 150 Years of Specimen Data to Understand Changes in the Marine/Aquatic Environment awarded by University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2018
Identifying those Pesky Mustards: The Boechera Digitization Project awarded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2017
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Early Evolution of Fungi and the Transition to a Terrestrial Lifestyle: Marine Habitats, the New Frontier awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2013 to 2017
Collaborative Research: Exploring the Evolution of an Extreme Makeover in Ferns awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2016
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Assessing the Evolutionary Significance of Recurrent Horizontal Gene Transfer of a Chimeric Photoreceptor in Ferns awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2014 to 2016
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Untangling the Cystopteris fragilis Complex: An Investigation of the Effects of Polploidy on Diversification Rates awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2015
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Patterns of Gene Expression in Allopolyploid Taxa of Recurrent Origin: A Case Study of the Polypod Ferns awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2014