Publications
Preprints:
Elliott A, Bester SP, Klopper RR, Nelson EC, Pirie M (2024) Curating an online checklist for Erica L. (Ericaceae): contributing to and supporting global conservation through the World Flora Online. ARPHA Preprints 5: e121772. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e121772
Nelson EC, Pirie M, Bellstedt D (2024) Redefining the megagenus Erica L. (Ericaceae): the contributions of E. G. H. Oliver and I. M. Oliver (née Nitzsche) to taxonomy and nomenclature. ARPHA Preprints 5: e121861. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e121861
Musker SD, Pirie MD, Nürk NM (2023) The dynamics of species divergence in South Africa’s megadiverse Cape region. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.19.549682
Pirie, M., Bellstedt, D., Bouman, R., Fagúndez, J., Gehrke, B., Kandziora, M., Maitre, N.C.L., Musker, S., Newman, E., Nürk, N., Oliver, E.G.H., Pipins, S., Niet, T. van der, & Forest, F. 2024. Spatial decoupling of taxon richness, phylogenetic diversity, and threat status in the megagenus Erica. ARPHA Preprints 5: e124629. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e124629
Published:
60. Gehrke B, Pirie MD (2024) 11 Plants in a world of changing seasons. In: Bremer S, Wardekker A (Eds), Changing Seasonality: How Communities Are Revising Their Seasons. De Gruyter, 85–92. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111245591-011
59. Oliver EGH, Forshaw N, Oliver IM, Volk F, Schumann AWS, Dorr LJ, Hoekstra RD, Musker SD, Nürk NM, Pirie MD, Rebelo AG (2024) Genus Erica: An identification aid version 4.00. PhytoKeys 241: 143–154. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.241.117604
58. Nelson EC, Oliver EGH, Pirie MD (2023) Erica L. (Ericaceae): homonyms amongst published names for African species and proposed replacement names. PhytoKeys 236: 157–178. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.236.110498
57. Akinlabi FM, Pirie MD, Oskolski AA (2023) Fire, frost, and drought constrain the structural diversity of wood within southern African Erica (Ericaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 203: 370–389. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boad033
56. Strijk, J.S., Hinsinger, D.D., Roeder, M.M., Chatrou, L.W., Couvreur, T.L.P., Erkens, R.H.J., Sauquet, H., Pirie, M.D., Thomas, D.C., & Cao, K. 2022. The Soursop Genome (Annona muricata L., Annonaceae). Pp. 149–174 in: M.A. Chapman (ed.), Underutilised Crop Genomes. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_9
55. Kandziora, M., Gehrke, B., Popp, M., Gizaw, A., Brochmann, C., & Pirie, M.D. 2022. The enigmatic tropical alpine flora on the African sky islands is young, disturbed, and unsaturated. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119: e2112737119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2112737119
54. Pirie, M.D., Blackhall-Miles, R., Bourke, G., Crowley, D., Ebrahim, I., Forest, F., Knaack, M., Koopman, R., Lansdowne, A., Nürk, N.M., Osborne, J., Pearce, T.R., Rohrauer, D., Smit, M., & Wilman, V. 2022. Preventing species extinctions: A global conservation consortium for Erica. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET n/a. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10266
53. Nelson, E.C., & Pirie, M. 2022. Where have all the heathers gone? Sibbaldia: The International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture. https://doi.org/10.24823/Sibbaldia.2022.1887
52. Brochmann, C., Gizaw, A., Chala, D., Kandziora, M., Eilu, G., Popp, M., Pirie, M.D., & Gehrke, B. 2021. History and evolution of the afroalpine flora: in the footsteps of Olov Hedberg. Alp Botany. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00035-021-00256-9
51. Strijk, J.S., Hinsinger, D.D., Roeder, M.M., Chatrou, L.W., Couvreur, T.L.P., Erkens, R.H.J., Sauquet, H., Pirie, M.D., Thomas, D.C., & Cao, K. 2021. Chromosome‐level reference genome of the soursop (Annona muricata): a new resource for Magnoliid research and tropical pomology. Molecular Ecology Resources 1755–0998.13353. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13353
50. Nürk, N. M., Linder, H. P., Onstein, R. E., Larcombe, M. J., Hughes, C. E., Piñeiro Fernández, L., Schlüter, P. M., Valente, L., Beierkuhnlein, C., Cutts, V., Donoghue, M. J., Edwards, E. J., Field, R., Flantua, S. G. A., Higgins, S. I., Jentsch, A., Liede-Schumann, S., & Pirie, M. D. 2020. Diversification in evolutionary arenas-Assessment and synthesis. Ecol. Evol., 636803. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6313
49. Le Maitre, N. C., Pirie, M. D., & Bellstedt, D.U. 2019. Floral colour, anthocyanin synthesis gene expression and control in Cape Erica species. Frontiers in Plant Science. 28 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.01565
48. Le Maitre, N. C., Pirie, M. D., & Bellstedt, D. U. 2019. An approach to determining anthocyanin synthesis enzyme gene expression in an evolutionary context: an example from Erica plukenetii. Ann. Bot. 124 (1), 121–130. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcz046
47. Pirie, M. D., Kandziora, M., Nürk, N. M., Le Maitre, N. C., Mugrabi de Kuppler, A. L., Gehrke, B., Oliver, E. G. H., & Bellstedt, D. U. 2019. Leaps and bounds: geographical and ecological distance constrained the colonisation of the Afrotemperate by Erica. BMC Evol. Biol. 19: 222 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-019-1545-6
**Peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology (Meseguer 2018)**
46. Pirie, M. D., Maas, P. J. M., & Chatrou, L. W. 2018. A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical genus Cremastosperma (Annonaceae), including five new species. PhytoKeys 112: 1-141. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.112.24897
45. Pirie, M. D., Maas, P. J. M., Wilschut, R., Melchers-Sharrott, H., & Chatrou, L. 2018. Parallel diversifications of Cremastosperma and Mosannona (Annonaceae), tropical rainforest trees tracking Neogene upheaval of the South American continent. R Soc Open Sci., 5(1): 171561. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171561
**Also peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology (Sauquet 2017)**
44. Kadlec, M., Bellstedt, D. U., Le Maitre, N. C., & Pirie, M. D. 2017. Targeted NGS for species level phylogenomics: ‘made to measure’ or ‘one size fits all’? PeerJ, 5: e3569. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3569
43. Pirie, M. D., Oliver, E. G. H., Gehrke, B., Heringer, L., Mugrabi de Kuppler, A., Le Maitre, N. C., & Bellstedt, D. U. 2017. Underestimated regional species diversity in the Cape Floristic Region revealed by phylogenetic analysis of the Erica abietina/E. viscaria clade (Ericaceae). Bot. J. Linn. Soc., 184: 185–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/box021
42. Pirie, M. D. 2017. Inferring species trees given coalescence and reticulation. Habilitation. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Mainz, Germany. http://unibibliografie.ub.uni-mainz.de/opus/frontdoor.php?source_opus=56774 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5135359
41. Gehrke, B., Kandziora, M., & Pirie, M.D. (2016). The evolution of dwarf shrubs in alpine environments: a case study of Alchemilla in Africa. Ann. Bot. 117, 121-131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcv159
40. Kadereit, J.W., Albach, D.C., Ehrendorfer, F., Galbany-Casals, M., Garcia-Jacas, N., Gehrke, B., Kadereit, G., Kilian, N., Klein, J.T., Koch, M.A., Kropf, M., Oberprieler, C., Pirie, M.D., Ritz, C.M., Röser, M., Spalik, K., Susanna, A., Weigend, M., Welk, E., Wesche, K., Zhang, L.-B. & Dillenberger, M.S. (2016) Which changes are needed to render all genera of the German flora monophyletic? Willdenowia, 46, 39-91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3372/wi.46.46105
39. Lauterbach, M., van der Merwe, P.d.W., Keßler, L., Pirie, M.D., Bellstedt, D.U. & Kadereit, G. (2016) Evolution of leaf anatomy in arid environments–a case study in southern African Tetraena and Roepera (Zygophyllaceae). Molec. Phylogenet. Evol., 97, 129-144. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.01.002
38. Pirie, M.D., Oliver, E.G.H., Mugrabi de Kuppler, A., Gehrke, B., Le Maitre, N.C., Kandziora, M., & Bellstedt, D.U. (2016). The biodiversity hotspot as evolutionary hot-bed: spectacular radiation of Erica in the Cape Floristic Region. BMC Evol. Biol. 16, 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0764-3
37. Maree, H.J., Pirie, M.D., Oosthuizen, K., Bester, R., Rees, D.J.G., Burger, J.T. (2015). Phylogenomic analysis reveals deep divergence and recombination in an economically important grapevine virus. PLoS ONE 10:e0126819. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0126819
36. Mugrabi de Kuppler, A.L., Fagúndez, J., Bellstedt, D.U., Oliver, E.G.H., Léon, J. & Pirie, M.D. (2015) Testing reticulate versus coalescent origins of Erica lusitanica using a species phylogeny of the northern heathers (Ericeae, Ericaceae). Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 88, 121-131 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2015.04.005
35. Pirie, M. D. (2015). Phylogenies from concatenated data: Is the end nigh? Taxon 64 (3), 421-423 http://dx.doi.org/10.12705/643.1
34. Pirie, M. D., Litsios, G., Bellstedt, D.U., Salamin, N. & Kissling, J. (2015). Back to Gondwanaland: Can ancient vicariance explain (some) Indian Ocean disjunct plant distributions? Biol. Lett. 11 (6), 20150086 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0086
33. Chatrou, L.W., Pirie, M.D., Reiner, H. & Maas, P.J.M. (2014). Annonaceae. pp 220-228 in Cat. Pl. Vasc. Bolivia, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 127 (eds. P.M. Jørgensen, M.H. Nee & S.G. Beck), Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis URL
32. Chatrou, L.W., Pirie, M. D., van Velzen, R., & Bakker, F. T. (2014). Annonaceae substitution rates: a codon model perspective. Revista Brasileira de Fruticultura 36 (SPE1), 108-117 URL
31. Kadereit, G., Lauterbach, M., Pirie, M. D., Arafeh, R., Freitag, H. (2014). When do different C4 leaf anatomies indicate independent C4 origins? Parallel evolution of C4 leaf types in Camphorosmeae (Chenopodiaceae). J. Ex. Bot., eru169 URL
30. Van der Niet, T., Pirie, M. D., Shuttleworth, A., Johnson, S. D. & Midgley J. J. (2014). Do pollinator distributions underlie the evolution of pollination ecotypes in the Cape shrub Erica plukenetii? Ann. Bot. 113, 301-316 URL
29. de Villiers, M. J., Pirie, M. D., Hughes, M., Möller, M., Edwards, T., & Bellstedt, D. U. (2013). An approach to identify putative hybrids in the ‘coalescent stochasticity zone’, as exemplified in the African plant genus Streptocarpus (Gesneriaceae). New Phytol. 198(1), 284-300 URL
28. Linder, H. P., Antonelli, A., Humphreys, A. M., Pirie, M. D., & Wüest, R. O. (2013). What determines biogeographical ranges? Historical wanderings and ecological constraints in the danthonioid grasses. J. Biogeogr. 40, 821-834 URL
27. Bellstedt, D.U., Galley, C., Pirie, M.D., and Linder, H.P. (2012). Migration of the paleaotropical arid flora: Zygophylloideae as an example. Syst. Bot. 37(4), 951-959 URL
26. Chatrou, L.W., Pirie, M.D., Erkens, R.H.J., Couvreur, T.L.P., Neubig, K.M., Abbott, J.R., Mols, J.B., Maas, J.W., Saunders, R.M.K., & Chase, M.W. (2012). A new higher-level classification of the pantropical flowering plant family Annonaceae informed by molecular phylogenetics. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 69, 5-40 URL
25. Kadereit, G., Ackerly, D., & Pirie, M.D. (2012). A broader model for C4 photosynthesis evolution in plants inferred from the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae s.s.). Proc. R. Soc. B. 279, 3304-3311 URL
24. Pirie, M.D., & Doyle, J.A. (2012). Dating clades with fossils and molecules: the case of Annonaceae. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 69, 84-116 URL
23. Pirie M.D., Humphreys A.M., Antonelli A., & Linder H.P. (2012). Model uncertainty in ancestral area reconstruction: a parsimonious solution? Taxon 61(3), 652-664. URL
22. Visser, J. C., Bellstedt, D. U., & Pirie, M. D. (2012). The recent recombinant evolution of a major crop pathogen, Potato Virus Y. PLoS ONE (11): e50631. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050631 URL
21. Couvreur, T.L.P., Pirie, M.D., Chatrou, L.W., Saunders, R.M.K., Su, Y.F., Richardson, J.E. & Erkens, R.H.J. (2011). Steady tropical diversification and boreotropical geodispersal during the early history of the flowering plant family Annonaceae. J. Biogeog. 38, 664-680 URL
20. Humphreys, A.M., Antonelli, A., Pirie, M.D. & Linder, H.P. (2011) Ecology and evolution of the diaspore 'burial syndrome'. Evolution 65, 1163-1180 URL
19. Pirie, M.D., Oliver, E.G.H. & Bellstedt, D.U. (2011) A densely sampled ITS phylogeny of the Cape flagship genus Erica L. suggests numerous shifts in floral macro-morphology. Molec. Phylo. Evol. 61, 593-601 URL
18. Bellstedt, D.U., Pirie, M.D., Visser, J.C., de Villiers, M.J. & Gehrke, B. (2010) A rapid and inexpensive method for the direct PCR amplification of DNA from plants. Amer. J. Bot.97, e65-e68 URL
17. Humphreys, A.M., Pirie, M.D. & Linder, H.P. (2010) A plastid tree can bring order to the chaotic generic taxonomy of Rytidosperma Steud. s.l. (Poaceae). Molec. Phylog. Evol., 55, 911-928 URL
16. Linder, H.P., Baeza, M., Barker, N.P., Galley, C., Humphreys, A.M. Lloyd, K., Orlovich, D., Pirie, M.D., Simon, B.K., Walsh, N. & Verboom, G.A. (2010) A generic classification of the Danthonioideae (Poaceae). Ann. Miss. Bot. Gard. 97, 306-364 URL
15. Pirie, M.D., Lloyd, K.M., Lee, W.G. & Linder, H.P. (2010) Diversification of Chionochloa (Poaceae) and biogeographic history of the New Zealand Southern Alps. J. Biogeog., 37, 379-392 URL PDF (accepted version)
14. Pirie, M.D., Humphreys, A.M., Barker, N.P. & Linder, H.P. (2009) Reticulation, data combination and inferring evolutionary history: an example from Danthonioideae. Syst. Biol., 58, 612-628 URL PDF
13. Pirie, M.D., Klitgaard, B.B. & Pennington, R.T. (2009) Revision and Biogeography of Centrolobium (Leguminosae - Papilionoideae). Syst. Bot., 34, 345-359 URL
12. Pirie, M.D., Humphreys, A.M., Galley, C., Barker, N.P., Verboom, G.A., Orlovich, D., Draffin, S.J., Lloyd, K., Baeza, C.M., Negritto, M., Ruiz, E., Cota Sanchez, J.H., Reimer, E. & Linder, H.P. (2008) A novel supermatrix approach improves resolution of phylogenetic relationships in a comprehensive sample of danthonioid grasses. Molec. Phylog. Evol., 48, 1106-1119 URL
11. Erkens, R.H.J., Chatrou, L.W., Maas, J.W., & Pirie, M.D. (2007). Phylogenetic relationships, saturation and marker-use in the Long Branch Clade of Annonaceae. Pages 25-41 in From morphological nightmare to molecular conundrum. Phylogenetic, evolutionary and taxonomic studies on Guatteria (Annonaceae). Erkens, R.H.J., PhD thesis, Utrecht University, Utrecht. ISBN: 978-90-9021525-9, URL
10. Pirie, M.D., Vargas, M.P.B., Botermans, M., Bakker, F.T. & Chatrou, L.W. (2007) Ancient paralogy in the cpDNA trnL-F region in Annonaceae: implications for plant molecular systematics. Amer. J. Bot., 94, 1003-1016 URL
9. Pirie, M.D., Chatrou, L.W., Mols, J.B., Erkens, R.H.J. & Oosterhof, J. (2006) 'Andean-centred' genera in the short-branch clade of Annonaceae: Testing biogeographic hypotheses using phylogeny reconstruction and molecular dating. J. Biogeog., 33, 31-46 URL
8. Chatrou, L.W. & Pirie, M.D. (2005) Three new rarely collected or endangered species of Annonaceae from Venezuela. Blumea, 50, 33-40 URL PDF
7. Pirie, M.D. (2005) Cremastosperma (and other evolutionary digressions): Molecular phylogenetic, biogeographic, and taxonomic studies in Neotropical Annonaceae. Ph.D. thesis. Utrecht University, the Netherlands. ISBN: 90-393-39538, URL (includes a provisional taxonomic revision of Cremastosperma [29 species] with illustrations and identification keys)
6. Pirie, M.D. (2005) New species of Cremastosperma (Annonaceae) from Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama. Blumea, 50, 41-60 URL PDF
5. Pirie, M.D., Chatrou, L.W., Erkens, R.H.J., Maas, J.W., Van der Niet, T., Mols, J.B. & Richardson, J.E. (2005) Phylogeny reconstruction and molecular dating in four Neotropical genera of Annonaceae: the effect of taxon sampling in age estimations. Plant species-level systematics: new perspectives on pattern and process (ed. by F.T. Bakker, L.W. Chatrou, B. Gravendeel and P.B. Pelser), pp. 149-174. Regnum Vegetabile 143, A. R. G. Gantner Verlag, Liechtenstein URL
4. Mols, J.B., Gravendeel, B., Chatrou, L.W., Pirie, M.D., Bygrave, P.C., Chase, M.W. & Kessler, P.J.A. (2004) Identifying clades in Asian Annonaceae: monophyletic genera in the polyphyletic Miliuseae. Amer. J. Bot., 91, 590-600 URL
3. Pirie, M.D. & Zapata C., M. (2004) Three new endemic species of Cremastosperma (Annonaceae) from the Río Marañon basin, Amazonas, Peru. Arnaldoa, 11(2), 7-20 URL PDF
2. Richardson, J.E., Chatrou, L.W., Mols, J.B., Erkens, R.H.J. & Pirie, M.D. (2004) Historical biogeography of two cosmopolitan families of flowering plants: Annonaceae and Rhamnaceae. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B, 359, 1495-1508 URL
1. Chatrou, L.W. & Pirie, M.D. (2003) Two new species of Annonaceae from Bolivia. Rev. Soc. Bol. Bot., 4, 25-30 PDF