Kathleen M. Pryer
Professor in the Department of Biology
Education
Ph.D., Duke University 1995
M.S., University of Guelph (Canada) 1981
B.S., McGill University (Canada) 1976
Smith, AR, Pryer, KM, Schuettpelz, E, Korall, P, Schneider, H, and Wolf, PG. "Fern classification." In Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes, 417-467. January 1, 2008. Full Text
Schuettpelz, E, and Pryer, KM. "Fern phylogeny." In Biology and Evolution of Ferns and Lycophytes, 395-416. January 1, 2008. Full Text
Dijkhuizen, LW, Brouwer, P, Bolhuis, H, Reichart, G-J, Koppers, N, Huettel, B, Bolger, AM, Li, F-W, Cheng, S, Liu, X, Wong, GK-S, Pryer, K, Weber, A, Bräutigam, A, and Schluepmann, H. "Is there foul play in the leaf pocket? The metagenome of floating fern Azolla reveals endophytes that do not fix N2 but may denitrify." The New phytologist 217, no. 1 (January 2018): 453-466. Full Text
Song, M, Kuo, L-Y, Huiet, L, Pryer, KM, Rothfels, CJ, and Li, F-W. "A novel chloroplast gene reported for flagellate plants." American journal of botany 105, no. 1 (January 2018): 117-121. Full Text
Rothfels, CJ, Pryer, KM, and Li, F-W. "Next-generation polyploid phylogenetics: rapid resolution of hybrid polyploid complexes using PacBio single-molecule sequencing." The New phytologist 213, no. 1 (January 2017): 413-429. Full Text
Hirai, R, Schuettpelz, E, Huiet, L, Pryer, K, Smith, A, and Prado, J. "Phylogeny and relationships of the neotropical Adiantum raddianum group (Pteridaceae)." Taxon 65, no. 6 (December 1, 2016): 1225-1235. Full Text
Haufler, CH, Pryer, KM, Schuettpelz, E, Sessa, EB, Farrar, DR, Moran, R, Schneller, JJ, Watkins, JE, and Windham, MD. "Sex and the Single Gametophyte: Revising the Homosporous Vascular Plant Life Cycle in Light of Contemporary Research." BioScience 66, no. 11 (November 1, 2016): 928-937. Full Text
Schuettpelz, E, Chen, C-W, Kessler, M, Pinson, JB, Johnson, G, Davila, A, Cochran, AT, Huiet, L, and Pryer, KM. "A revised generic classification of vittarioid ferns (Pteridaceae) based on molecular, micromorphological, and geographic data." Taxon 65, no. 4 (August 30, 2016): 708-722. Full Text
Li, F-W, Kuo, L-Y, Pryer, KM, and Rothfels, CJ. "Genes Translocated into the Plastid Inverted Repeat Show Decelerated Substitution Rates and Elevated GC Content." Genome Biology and Evolution 8, no. 8 (August 2016): 2452-2458. Full Text
Pryer, KM, Huiet, L, Li, F-W, Rothfels, CJ, and Schuettpelz, E. "Maidenhair Ferns, Adiantum , are Indeed Monophyletic and Sister to Shoestring Ferns, Vittarioids (Pteridaceae)." Systematic Botany 41, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 17-23. Full Text
Grusz, AL, and Pryer, KM. "Development of microsatellite markers for the apomictic triploid fern Myriopteris lindheimeri (Pteridaceae)." Applications in plant sciences 3, no. 11 (November 10, 2015). Full Text
Kao, T-T, Pryer, KM, Turner, MD, White, RA, and Korall, P. "Origins of the Endemic Scaly Tree Ferns on the Galápagos and Cocos Islands." International Journal of Plant Sciences 176, no. 9 (November 2015): 869-879. Full Text
Pages
Windham, MD, Huiet, L, Schuettpelz, E, Grusz, AL, Rothfels, C, Beck, J, Yatskievych, G, and Pryer, KM. "Using Plastid and Nuclear DNA Sequences to Redraw Generic Boundaries and Demystif Species Complexes in Cheilanthoid Ferns." 2009.
Pryer, KM, Schneider, H, and Magallon, S. "The radiation of vascular plants." 2004.
Selected Grants
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
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Evolution and Function of Farina in the Desiccation-tolerant Notholaenid Ferns (Pteridaceae) awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2019
Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium: 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 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 Phot 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 Div 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 Polypo awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2014
DISSERTATION RESEARCH: Subsexual Processes and the Origin of Genetic Variation in Asexual Ferns awarded by National Science Foundation (Principal Investigator). 2011 to 2014