Margaret Byrne
University of Western Australia
276 Papers
2.3K Citations
Margaret Byrne is an academic researcher from University of Western Australia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Genetic diversity. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 249 publications. Previous affiliations of Margaret Byrne include Curtin University & Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
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Papers
Evidence for convergent evolution among phylogenetically distant rare species of Tetratheca (Elaeocarpaceae, formerly Tremandraceae) from Western Australia
TL;DR: Cladistic analysis of nrDNA internal transcribed spacer and cpDNA trnL-trnF sequences from a range of Tetratheca species indicates that T. aphylla, T. harperi and T. paynterae belong to three separate evolutionary lineages and that the endemism displayed among these taxa to small, disjunct ranges within the same geographic area, is a result of in situ speciation due to historical fragmentation.
Genetic connectivity and diversity in inselberg populations of Acacia woodmaniorum, a rare endemic of the Yilgarn Craton banded iron formations
TL;DR: Phylogeographic and genetic structure, a signal of isolation by distance and a lack of evidence of recent genetic bottlenecks suggest long-term stability of contemporary population distributions and population sizes.
Genetic diversity in the cycad Macrozamia riedlei
Margaret Byrne,S H James +1 more
TL;DR: The cycad, Macrozamia riedlei, is a significant component of the native flora of southern Western Australia and displays evolutionary conservatism not only in terms of its primitive morphology but also in the fact that only a single taxonomic species is recognized in this area.
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Little Genetic Differentiation Within the Dominant Forest Tree, Eucalyptus marginata (Myrtaceae) of South-Western Australia
TL;DR: The lack of genetic structure and low population differentiation in Eucalyptus marginata indicates that collection of germplasm for rehabilitation of forest sites following mining or Phythophthora cinnamomi infection, may be made at a regional scale.
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Persistence and stochasticity are key determinants of genetic diversity in plants associated with banded iron formation inselbergs.
Margaret Byrne,Margaret Byrne,Siegfried L. Krauss,Melissa A. Millar,Carole P. Elliott,David J. Coates,Colin J. Yates,Rachel M. Binks,Paul G. Nevill,Heidi Nistelberger,Grant Wardell-Johnson,Todd Robinson,Ryonen Butcher,Matthew D. Barrett,Neil Gibson +14 more
TL;DR: It is found that persistence and stochasticity are key determinants of genetic diversity and its spatial structure within BIF‐associated plant species, and that these are key evolutionary processes that should be considered in understanding the biogeography of inselbergs worldwide.
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