David Cantrill

Gleichenia nagalingumiae sp. nov., a remarkably well-preserved fossil species with in situ spores from the Miocene of Australia

DJ Cantrill, D Ohlsen, MR McCurry, M Frese

Journal article  |  2023  |  Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

There are few well-documented members of the Gleicheniaceae from the Cenozoic. Most records are confined to Australia and New Zeal..

A box on the river: The phylogenetics and phylogeography of Eucalyptus baueriana (Eucalyptus sect. Adnataria ser. Heterophloiae)

Patrick S Fahey, Frank Udovicic, David J Cantrill, Michael J Bayly

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLOS ONE

We present a phylogeographic study of the tree species Eucalyptus baueriana Schauer, which occurs in disjunct areas on the near co..

A phylogenetic investigation of the taxonomically problematic

Patrick S Fahey, Frank Udovicic, David J Cantrill, Dean Nicolle, Todd GB McLay, Michael J Bayly

Journal article  |  2022  |  Australian Systematic Botany

To investigate the relationships among species in the taxonomically problematic Eucalyptus odorata species complex, we generated m..

A genome resource for Acacia, Australia's largest plant genus

Todd GB McLay, Daniel J Murphy, Gareth D Holmes, Sarah Mathews, Gillian K Brown, David J Cantrill, Frank Udovicic, Theodore R Allnutt, Chris J Jackson

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLOS ONE

Acacia (Leguminosae, Caesalpinioideae, mimosoid clade) is the largest and most widespread genus of plants in the Australian flora,..

LEAVES IN IRON OXIDE: REMARKABLE PRESERVATION OF A NEOGENE FLORA FROM NEW CALEDONIA

ER LOCATELLI, DEG BRIGGS, A Leslie, J Munzinger, P Grandcolas, PP LOWRY, DJ CANTRILL, P Maurizot, D Cluzel, N Folcher, R Garrouste, A Nel

Journal article  |  2022  |  Palaios

A Neogene hematite-goethite concretionary 'ironstone' horizon in laterized fluvial sediments in the Massif du Sud of New Caledonia..

A Lagerstätte from Australia provides insight into the nature of Miocene mesic ecosystems.

Matthew R McCurry, David J Cantrill, Patrick M Smith, Robert Beattie, Mary Dettmann, Viktor Baranov, Charles Magee, Jacqueline MT Nguyen, Marnie A Forster, Jack Hinde, Ross Pogson, Helen Wang, Christopher E Marjo, Paulo Vasconcelos, Michael Frese

Journal article  |  2022  |  Sci Adv

Reduced precipitation in the Miocene triggered the geographic contraction of rainforest ecosystems around the world. In Australia,..

Use of plastid genome sequences in phylogeographic studies of tree species can be misleading without comprehensive sampling of co-occurring, related species

Patrick S Fahey, Rachael M Fowler, Frank Udovicic, David J Cantrill, Michael J Bayly

Journal article  |  2021  |  TREE GENETICS & GENOMES

We aimed to test the extent to which plastid DNA gives incongruent phylogeographic patterns to nuclear DNA in a species of eucalyp..

New fossil discoveries illustrate the diversity of past terrestrial ecosystems in New Caledonia

Romain Garrouste, Jerome Munzinger, Andrew Leslie, Jessica Fisher, Nicolas Folcher, Emma Locatelli, Wyndy Foy, Thibault Chaillon, David J Cantrill, Pierre Maurizot, Dominique Cluzel, Porter PIIII Lowry, Peter Crane, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Pierre Voinchet, Herve Jourdan, Philippe Grandcolas, Andre Nel

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

New Caledonia was, until recently, considered an old continental island harbouring a rich biota with outstanding Gondwanan relicts..

Paleocene high-latitude leaf flora of Antarctica Part 1: entire-margined angiosperms

Anne-Marie P Tosolini, David J Cantrill, Jane E Francis

Journal article  |  2021  |  REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Paleocene leaf floras are rare in high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere, where studies have shown higher taxonomic diversity c..

Long-read assemblies reveal structural diversity in genomes of organelles - an example with Acacia pycnantha.

Anna E Syme, Todd GB McLay, Frank Udovicic, David J Cantrill, Daniel J Murphy

Journal article  |  2021  |  GigaByte

Organelle genomes are typically represented as single, static, circular molecules. However, there is evidence that the chloroplast..