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
Sigel, Erin M., Eric Schuettpelz, Kathleen M. Pryer, and Joshua P. Der. “Overlapping Patterns of Gene Expression Between Gametophyte and Sporophyte Phases in the Fern Polypodium amorphum (Polypodiales)..” Frontiers in Plant Science 9 (January 2018). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01450. Full Text
Rothfels, Carl J., Kathleen M. Pryer, and Fay-Wei Li. “Next-generation polyploid phylogenetics: rapid resolution of hybrid polyploid complexes using PacBio single-molecule sequencing..” The New Phytologist 213, no. 1 (January 2017): 413–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14111. Full Text
Hirai, R. Y., E. Schuettpelz, L. Huiet, K. M. Pryer, A. R. Smith, and J. Prado. “Phylogeny and relationships of the neotropical Adiantum raddianum group (Pteridaceae).” Taxon 65, no. 6 (December 1, 2016): 1225–35. https://doi.org/10.12705/656.1. Full Text
Li, Fay-Wei, Li-Yaung Kuo, Kathleen M. Pryer, and Carl J. Rothfels. “Genes Translocated into the Plastid Inverted Repeat Show Decelerated Substitution Rates and Elevated GC Content..” Genome Biology and Evolution 8, no. 8 (August 25, 2016): 2452–58. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw167. Full Text
Schuettpelz, E., C. W. Chen, M. Kessler, J. B. Pinson, G. Johnson, A. Davila, A. T. Cochran, L. Huiet, and K. M. Pryer. “A revised generic classification of vittarioid ferns (Pteridaceae) based on molecular, micromorphological, and geographic data.” Taxon 65, no. 4 (August 1, 2016): 708–22. https://doi.org/10.12705/654.2. Full Text
Pryer, K. M., L. Huiet, F. W. Li, C. J. Rothfels, and E. Schuettpelz. “Maidenhair ferns, adiantum, are indeed monophyletic and sister to shoestring ferns, vittarioids (Pteridaceae).” Systematic Botany 41, no. 1 (January 1, 2016). https://doi.org/10.1600/036364416X690660. Full Text
Haufler, C. H., K. M. Pryer, E. Schuettpelz, E. B. Sessa, D. R. Farrar, R. Moran, J. J. Schneller, J. E. Watkins, and M. D. Windham. “Sex and the single gametophyte: Revising the homosporous vascular plant life cycle in light of contemporary research.” Bioscience 66, no. 11 (January 1, 2016): 928–37. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biw108. Full Text Open Access Copy
Grusz, Amanda L., and Kathleen M. Pryer. “Development of microsatellite markers for the apomictic triploid fern Myriopteris lindheimeri (Pteridaceae)..” Applications in Plant Sciences 3, no. 11 (November 10, 2015). https://doi.org/10.3732/apps.1500061. Full Text
Kao, T. T., K. M. Pryer, M. D. Turner, R. A. White, and P. Korall. “Origins of the endemic scaly tree ferns on the galápagos and Cocos Islands.” International Journal of Plant Sciences 176, no. 9 (November 1, 2015): 869–79. https://doi.org/10.1086/683303. Full Text
Wolf, Paul G., Emily B. Sessa, Daniel Blaine Marchant, Fay-Wei Li, Carl J. Rothfels, Erin M. Sigel, Matthew A. Gitzendanner, et al. “An Exploration into Fern Genome Space..” Genome Biology and Evolution 7, no. 9 (September 2015): 2533–44. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evv163. Full Text Open Access Copy
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Selected Grants
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Subsexual Processes and the Origin of Genetic Variation in Asexual Ferns awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2014
Collaborative Research: The Roles of Polyploidy and Apomixis in Shaping the Diversity and Distribution of Cheilanthoid F awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2007 to 2011
A plan to rehouse and reorganize the vascular plant herbarium and botanical library at Duke University (DUKE) awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2007 to 2011
Career: Reconciling patterns of phylogenetic rate heterogenity in ferns with morphology, ecology and life history awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2004 to 2010
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evolution and diversification of epiphytic ferns awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2004 to 2007
REU Site: Bioinformatic and Phylogenetic approaches to the study of plant and fungal biodiversity awarded by National Science Foundation (Co Investigator). 2004 to 2007
Collaborative Research: Using phylogeny to investigate the history of morphological evolution in heterosporous ferns awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2001 to 2005
(93-0602) Ontogeny and Phylogeny in the Aquatic Fern Family Marsileaceae awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 1993 to 1995