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Institute of Molecular BioSciences, Massey University
   
 
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Phone: +64 6 356 9099
Ext 7053 / 2350

Fax No. +64 6 350 5626

Email:p.j.lockhart@massey.ac.nz

Address:
Allan Wilson Center for Molecular Ecology and Evolution,
Institute of Molecular
 BioSciences,
Massey University,
Private Bag 11222,
Palmerston North,
New Zealand

 
 
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Professor Peter Lockhart

 

  
   

Background

BSc (Hons) Sydney (1985);
PhD Sydney (1991);
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (1996);
Associate Editor: Molecular Biology and Evolution (http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/)

    
         
   

Research Interests

  • Plant Species Radiation (http://awcmee.massey.ac.nz/NZPRN/)
  • Pacific Biodiversity
  • Endosymbiosis and Organelle evolution
  • Evolutionary properties of DNA and Protein sequences
    
         
   
   
   

Selected Publications

    
   
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2007
  Whitfield, J. and Lockhart, P.J. (in Press May 2007). Rapid, Ancient Radiations: A Major Challenge for Phylogenetics. Trends in Ecology and Evolution    
  Morley, C.G., McLenachan, P.A. and Lockhart, P.J. (in Press) Evidence for the presence of a second species of mongoose in the Fiji Islands. Pacific Conservation    
2006
  Collins, L.J., and Lockhart, P.J. Evolutionary properties of sequences and ancestral state reconstruction, in Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction, D.A. Liberles, Editor. 2006, Oxford University Press. In Press.[Edited book chapter]    
  Heenan, P., Lockhart, P.J., Kirkam, N. and Havell, D. Relationships in the alpine Ranunculus haastii (Ranunculaceae) complex and recognition of R. piliferus and R. acraeus from southern New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 44, 425-441    
  Lehnebach, C., Asuncion, C., Monsalve, C., McLenachan, P.A., Hoerandl, E. and Lockhart, P.J (2006). Phylogenetic relationships of the giant Peruvian buttercup Plant Systematics and Evolution DOI 10.1007/s00606-006-0488-8    
  Lockhart, P.J, Novis, P., Milligan, B.G., Riden, J., Rambaut, A. and Larkum, A.W.D. (2006). Heterotachy and Tree Building: A Case Study with Plastids and Eubacteria Mol. Biol. Evol. 23, 40-45    
  McBreen, K. and Lockhart, P.J (2006). Reconstructing the evolutionary history of species radiations. Trends in Plant Science 11, 398-404    
  Zauner, S., Lockhart, P.J, Stoebe-Maier, B., Gilson, P., McFadden, G.I., and Maier, U.G. (2006). Differential Gene Transfers and Gene Duplications in Primary and Secondary Endosymbioses. BioMed Central 6, 38    
       
2005
  Lockhart, P.J. and M.A. Steel. (2005). A tale of two processes, Syst.Biol. 54(6), 948-951    
  Ovidiu, P., Lehnebach, C., Johansson, J.T., Lockhart, P.J. and Hörandl, E . (2005). Phylogenetic relationships and biogeography of Ranunculus and allied genera (Ranunculaceae) in the Mediterranean region and in the European Alpine System. Taxon 54, 911–930    
  Hörandl E, Paun O, Johansson JT, Lehnebach C, Armstrong T, Chen L and Lockhart, P.J. (2005) Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary traits in Ranunculus s.l. (Ranunculaceae) inferred from ITS sequence analysis. Mol Phyl Evol 36, 305-327    
  Huson D, Kloepper T, Lockhart, P.J., Steel MA. (2005). Reconstruction of Reticulate Networks from Gene Trees In Proceedings of the ninth international conference in computational molecular biology (RECOMB), 233-249    
  Knapp, M., Stöckler, K., Havell, D., Delsuc, F., Sebastiani, F. and Lockhart, P.J. (2005). Relaxed Molecular Clock Provides Evidence for Long-Distance Dispersal of Nothofagus (Southern Beech) PLoS Biology 3, 38-43
  
  Lockhart, P., et al. (2005) Dispersal or Drift? More to Plant Biodiversity Than Meets the Eye. PLoS Biol 3(1): e43.
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  Lockhart, P.J. and Penny D. (2005). The place of Amborella in the radiation of angiosperms. Trends in Plant Science 10, 201-202    
  Winkworth, R.C., Bryant, D., Lockhart, P.J., Havell, D., and Moulton, V. (2005). Biogeographic interpretation of split graphs: least squares optimization of branch lengths. Sys Biol 54: 56-65.    
  Winkworth, R.C., Wagstaff, S.J., Glenny, D. and Lockhart, P.J. (2005). Evolution of the New Zealand alpine flora: origins, diversification and dispersal. Org. Divers. Evol. 5, 237-247    
2004    
  Esser C, Ahmadinejad N, Wiegand C, Rotte C, Sebastiani F, Gelius-Dietrich G, Henze K, Kretschmann E, Richly E, Leister D, Bryant D, Steel MA, Lockhart, P.J., PennyD, and Martin W. (2004) A genome phylogeny for mitochondria among ?-proteobacteria and a predominantly eubacterial ancestry of yeast nuclear genes Mol Biol Evol 21, 1643-1660
   
  Holland, B R, Huber K T, Moulton V and Lockhart, P.J. (2004) Using consensus networks to visualize contradictory evidence for species phylogeny Mol Biol Evol 21, 1459-1461    
  Prechtl, J., Kneip, C., Lockhart, P.J., Wenderoth, K. and Maier, U.-G. (2004) Intracellular sphaeroid bodies of Rhopalodia gibba have nitrogen fixing apparatus of cyanobacterial origin. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21(8): 1477-1481
  
2003    
  Kleine, T., Lockhart, P.J. and Batschauer, A. (2003). An Arabidopsis protein closely related to Synechocystis cryptochrome is targeted to organelles. The Plant Journal. 35 (1): 93-103. Online Abstract  
  McBreen, K., Lockhart, P.J., McLenachan, P., Scheele, S., Robertson, A.W. (2003) The use of molecular techniques to resolve relationships among traditional weaving cultivars of Phormium. NZ J Bot. 41:301-310 Online Abstract  
  Perrie, L.R., Brownsey, P.J., Lockhart, P.J., Brown, E.A. and Large, M.F. (2003). Biogeography of temperate Australasian Polystichum ferns as inferred from chloroplast sequence and AFLP. Journal of Biogeography 30: 1729-1736 .
 Online Abstract  
 

Perrie, L.R., Brownsey, P.J., Lockhart, P.J. and Large, M.F. (2003). Evidence for an allopolyploid complex in New Zealand Polystichum (Dryopteridaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 41: 189-215.

 Online Abstract  
  Perrie, L.R., Brownsey, P.J., Lockhart, P.J. and Large, M.F. (2003). Morphological and genetic diversity in the New Zealand fern Polystichum vestitum (Dryopteridaceae), with special reference to the Chatham Islands. New Zealand Journal of Botany 41: 581-602.
 Online Abstract  
  Smissen R, Breitwieser I, Ward J, McLeanchan P and Lockhart, P.J. (2003). Use of ISSR profiles and ITS sequences to study the biogeography alpine cushion in the genus Roaulia. Plant Systematics and Evolution 239, 79-94    
2002    
 

Stöckler, K., Daniel, I.L., Lockhart, P.J. (2002) New Zealand Kauri (Agathis australis (D.Don) Lindl., Araucariaceae) Survives Oligocene Drowning Systematic Biology Volume: 51(5): 827-832

 Online Abstract  
 

Winkworth, R.C., Wagstaff, S., Glenny, D. and Lockhart, P.J. (2002) Plant dispersal N.E.W.S. from New Zealand. Trends in Ecol and Evol. 17: 514-520

    
  Winkworth, R. C., Robertson, A. W., Grau, J. and Lockhart, P.J. (2002) Biogeography of the cosmopolitan genus Myosotis (Boraginaceae). Mol Phy Evol 24: 180-193    
2001    
  Huber, K.T., Moulton, V., Lockhart, P.J. and Dress, A. (2001) Prunned Median Networks: A technique for studying plant speciations. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 19: 302-10.    
  Lockhart, P.J., McLenachan, P.A., Havell, D., Glenny, D., Huson, D., and Jensen, U. (2001) Phylogeny, dispersal and radiation of New Zealand alpine buttercups: molecular evidence under split decomposition. Ann Missouri Bot Gard 88: 458-477    
  Lockhart, P.J. and Cameron, S.A. (2001) Trees for Bees Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16: 84-88 Online Abstract  
2000    
  Hickson, RE, Slack KE and Lockhart, P.J. (2000) Phylogeny recapitulates geography: Why New Zealand has so many species of lizards. Biol J Linn Soc 70: 415-433    

 

 

Howe, C.J., Barbrook, A.C. and Lockhart, P.J. (2000) Organelle genes - do they jump or are they pushed? Trends in Genetics 16: 65-66

  Letter
Outlook
  Lockhart, P.J., Huson, D., Maier, U-G., Faunholz, M.J., Van de Peer, Y., Barbrook, A.C., Howe, C.J. and Steel, M.A. (2000) How molecules evolve in eubacteria. Mol Biol Evol 17: 835-838 Letter
to the
Editor
  McLenachan, P.A., Stoeckler, K., Winkworth, R.C., McBreen, K., Zauner, S., and Lockhart, P.J. (2000) Sequence specific markers derived from AFLP gels for plant ecology and evolution studies. Molecular Ecology 9: 1899-1903 Abstract
  Perrie, L.R., Lockhart, P.J., Brownsey, P.J., and Large, M.F. (2000) AFLP identifies two distinct species within the Polystichum richardii (Hook.) J. Smith complex. Plant Systematics and Evol 224: 97-107    
  Steel, M.A. , Huson, D. and Lockhart, P.J. (2000) Invariable site models and their use in phylogeny reconstruction Systematic Biology 49: 225-232 Online Abstract  
  Wägele, J.W., Erickson, T., Lockhart, P.J. and Misof, B. (2000) The Ecdysozoa: artifact or monophylum? Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 37: 211-233    
  Winkworth, R.C., Robertson, A.W., Ehrendorfer, F.J. and Lockhart, P.J. (2000) The importance of dispersal and recent speciation in the flora of New Zealand. J Biogeography 26: 1323-1325    
Prior to 2000    
  Hurr, K. E., Lockhart, P.J., Heenan, P.B. and Penny, D. (1999) Dispersal of Edwardsia section of Sophora (Leguminosae) around the Southern Oceans: Molecular evidence. J Biogeography 26: 565-577    
  Lockhart, P.J., Howe, C.J., Barbrook, A.C., Larkum, A.W.D., and Penny, D. (1999) Spectral analysis, systematic bias, and the evolution of chloroplasts Mol Biol Evol 16: 573-576    
  Barbrook, A.C., Lockhart, P.J. and Howe, C.J. (1998) Phylogenetic analysis of plastid origins based on secA sequences.Current Genetics 34(4): 336-341 Abstract
  Howe, C.J., Barbrook, A.C. and Lockhart, P.J. (1998) Origins of plastids, In Evolutionary relationships among Protozoa, Ed Coombs GH, Vickerman K, Sleigh MA and Warren A, Kluwer Academic Press    
 

Lockhart, P.J., Steel, M.A., Barbrook, A.C., Huson, D.H., and Howe, C.J. (1998) A covariotide model describes the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. Mol Biol Evol 15: 1183-1188

 Abstract
  Lockhart, P.J. and McLenachan, P.A. (1997) Isolating polymorphic plant DNA fragments identified using AFLP Focus 19: 70-71    
  Lockhart, P.J. and McLenachan PA. (1997). Isolating polymorphic plant DNA fragments identified using AFLP Focus 19, 70-71    
  Sivakumaran, S., Lockhart, P.J. and Jarvis, B.D.W. (1997) Identification of soil bacteria expressing a symbiotic plasmid from Rhizobium leguminosum bv. Trifolii Can J Microbiol 43: 164-177 Online Abstract  
  Lockhart, P.J., Larkum AWD Steel MA, Waddell PJ and Penny D . (1996). Evolution of chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll: The problem of invariant sites in sequence analysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93, 1930-1934    
  Lockhart, P.J. Steel MA and Larkum AWD. (1996). Gene Duplication and the Evolution of Photosynthetic Reaction Centers, FEBS Letts 385: 193-196    
  Penny, D Steel, MA, Lockhart, P.J. and Hendy, MD. (1996). Corrected parsimony, minimum evolution and Hadamard conjugations, Systematic Biology 45(4):596-696.    
  McLenachan PA, Lockhart, P.J. Faber HR and Mansfield BC. (1996). Evolutionary analysis of the multigency prgnancy specific B1 glycoprotein family: separation of historical and nonhistorical signals. J Mol Evol 42, 273-280    
  Leung E, Print CG, Parry AD, Closey DN, Lockhart, P.J., Skinner SJM, Batchelor DC and Krissansen GW. (1996). Cloning of novel kinectin splice variants with alternative C-termini: structure, distribution and evolution of mouse kinectin. Immunol Cell Biol 74(5):421-33.    
  Steel MA, Lockhart, P.J. and Penny D. (1995). A frequency-dependent significance test for parsimony. Mol Phyl and Evol 4, 64-71    
  Lockhart, P.J., Meyer AE and Penny D. (1995). Testing the phylogeny of Swordtail fishes using Split Decomposition and Spectral Analysis. J Mol Evol 41, 666-674    
  Lockhart, P.J., Steel MA, Hendy MD and Penny D. (1994). Recovering the correct evolutionary tree under a more realistic model of sequence evolution. Mol Biol Evol 11, 605-612    
  Penny D, Lockhart, P.J., Steel MA and Hendy MD. (1993). The role of models in reconstructing evolutionary trees, in “Models in Phylogeny”, Oxford University Press 52, 211-230    
  Penny D, Watson EE, Hickson RE and Lockhart, P.J.. (1993). Some recent progress with methods for evolutionary trees. NZ J Bot 31, 275-288    
  Howe CJ, Beanland TJ, Larkum AWD and Lockhart, P.J.(1993). Plastid Origins TREE 7, 378-383    
  Lockhart, P.J., Penny D, Hendy MD and Larkum AWD. (1993). Is Prochlorothrix hollandica the best choice as a prokaryotic model for higher plant chl a/b photosynthesis? Photosynthesis Research 37, 61-68    
  Steel MA, Lockhart, P.J. and Penny D. (1993). Confidence in evolutionary trees from biological sequence data. Nature 364, 440-442    
  Lockhart, P.J., Beanland TJ, Howe CJ and Larkum AWD. (1992). Substitutional bias confounds inference of cyanelle origins from sequence data. J Mol Evol 34, 153-162    
  Lockhart, P.J., Beanland TJ, Howe CJ and Larkum AWD. (1992). Sequence of Prochloron didemni atpBE and inference of chloroplast origins. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89, 2742-2746    
  Lockhart, P.J., Penny D, Hendy MD, Howe CJ, Beanland TJ and Larkum AWD. (1992). Controversy on chloroplast origins. FEBS Lett 301, 127-131    
  Lockhart, P.J. and Penny D. (1992). The problem of GC content, Research in Photosynthesis III, 499-505    
  Lockhart, P.J., Beanland TJ, Howe CJ and Larkum AWD. (1989). Isolation of high molecular mass DNA from the prochlorophyte Prochloron didemni. FEBS Letts 248, 127-130
    
   
         
         
   
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