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Professor Melvin R. Duvall- Complete Publications

  • Associate Professor (August, 1997 - Present) and Assistant Professor (January, 1994 - June 1997). Department of Biology, South Dakota State University.
  • Associate Scientist. March, 1993 - December 1993. Biotechnology Office, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow (National Science Foundation). Michael Clegg, collaborator. January, 1991 - February, 1993. Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside.
  • Visiting Scientist. Smithsonian Institution. Paul Peterson and Alan Christensen, collaborators. January - December, 1990. Botany, National Museum of Natural History
  • Visiting Assistant Professor. August, 1988 - December, 1989. Botany, Iowa State University, Ames. Lecturer.
  • Postdoctoral Assistant. January - July, 1988. Botany, University of Minnesota, St. Paul. John Doebley, collaborator.

CURRENT AND PENDING SUPPORT

  • National Science Foundation. Seeking the phylogenetic root of monocots: a study of paleoherb genomes. 1999-2001 ($155,540).
  • National Science Foundation. Kellogg, E., P.I. Phylogeny and development of the panicoid grasses. 1999. ($10,000 subcontract to M. Duvall).
  • USDA, NRI-CPG. Acquisition of an ABI PRISM 310 Genetic Analyzer. Pending. ($31,550) Recent Support
  • National Science Foundation/South Dakota EPSCoR Program. Seeking the phylogenetic root of monocots: a study of three genomes. 1998 - 1999. ($31,134).
  • National Science Foundation. Grass Phylogeny Working Group Travel Grant. 1998. ($1,333 for M. Duvall to support travel to Monocots II conference, Sydney, Australia).

PUBLICATIONS

Leseberg, C. H. and M. R. Duvall. 2009. The complete chloroplast genome of Coix lacryma-jobi and a comparative analysis of plastomes in cereals. Journal of Molecular Evolution. In press.

Duvall, M. R., C. H. Leseberg, C. P. Grennan and L. M. Morris. 2009. Molecular evolution and phylogenetics of complete chloroplast genomes in Poaceae. O. Seberg, G. Petersen, A.S. Barfod, and J.I. Davis, eds. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the Comparative Biology of the Monocotyledons and The Fifth International Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution. In press.

Dertien, J. R. and M. Duvall. 2009. Biogeography and divergence in a tropical hardwood (Guaiacum sanctum) revealed in chloroplast DNA: implications for conservation in the Florida Keys. Biotropica—The Journal of Tropical Biology and Conservation 41: 120-127, 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2008.00453.x.

Leseberg, C., C. Eissler, X. Wang, M. Johns, M. Duvall and L. Mao. 2008. Interaction study of MADS domain proteins in tomato. Journal of Experimental Botany 59: 2253-2265. 10.1093/jxb/ern094.

Christin, Pascal-Antoine, Guillaume Besnard, Emanuela Samaritani, Melvin R. Duvall, Trevor R. Hodkinson, Vincent Savolainen and Nicolas Salamin. 2008. Oligocene CO2 Decline Promoted C4 Photosynthesis in Grasses. Current Biology 18: 37-43 <www.current-biology.com>.

Duvall, M., J. W. Robinson, J. G. Mattson and A. Moore. 2008. Phylogenetic analyses of two mitochondrial metabolic genes sampled in parallel from angiosperms find fundamental interlocus incongruence. American Journal of Botany 95: 871-884.

Christin, Pascal-Antoine, Guillaume Besnard, Emanuela Samaritani, Melvin R. Duvall, Trevor R. Hodkinson, Vincent Savolainen and Nicolas Salamin. 2008.

Christin, Pascal-Antoine, Nicolas Salamin, Vincent Savolainen, Melvin Duvall and Guillaume Besnard. 2007. C4 Photosynthesis evolved in grasses via parallel adaptive genetic changes. Current Biology 17: 1241-1247.

Duvall, M., Davis, J. I., Clark, L. G., Noll, J. D., Goldman, D. H. and Sánchez Ken, J. G. 2007. Phylogeny of the grasses (Poaceae) revisited. Aliso 23: 237-247.

Leseberg C. H., A. Li, H. Kang, M. Duvall and L. Mao. 2006. Genome-wide analysis of the MADS-box gene family in Populus trichocarpa. Gene 378: 84-94.

Duvall, M., S. Mathews, N. Mohammad and T. Russell. 2006. Placing the monocots; conflicting signal from trigenomic analyses. Aliso 22: 77-88.

Duvall, M. and A. Ervin. 2004. 18S Gene Trees are positively misleading for monocot/dicot phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30(1):97-106.

Duvall, M., D. Saar, W. S. Grayburn, and G. Holbrook. 2003. Complex transitions between C3 and C4 photosynthesis during the evolution of Paniceae: a phylogenetic case study emphasizing the position of Steinchisma hians (Poaceae), a C3 - C4 intermediate. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 164(6):949-958.

Duvall, M. R., J. Noll, and A. Minn. 2001. Phylogenetics of Paniceae (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany 88(11): 1988-1992.

Duvall, M. R. 2001. An anatomical study of anther development in Acorus L.: phylogenetic implications. Plant Systematics and Evolution, In press.

Grass Phylogeny Working Group (Alphabetically: Barker, N., Clark, L., Davis, J., Duvall, M. R., Guala, G., Hsiao, C., Kellogg, E., Linder, H.P., Mason-Gamer, R., Mathews, S., Soreng, R., and Spangler, R. 2001. Phylogeny and subfamilial classification of the grasses (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 88(3): In press.

Duvall, M., J. Noll, and G. Larson. 1999. Disjunct populations of Trifolium Beckwithii (Fabaceae) in eastern South Dakota: Vicariance or recent long-distance dispersal? A preliminary analysis. Madroño 46:199-204.

Terrell, E., P. Peterson, J. Reveal, and M. Duvall. 1997. Taxonomy of North American Zizania (Poaceae). SIDA 17: 533-549.

Duvall, M. and B. Morton. 1996. Molecular phylogenetics of Poaceae: an expanded analysis of rbcL sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 5: 352-358.

Mayfield, J. and M. Duvall. 1996. Anomalous phylogenies based on bacterial catalase gene sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution 42: 469-471.

Artiushin, S., M. Duvall, and F. C. Minion. 1995. Phylogenetic analysis of mycoplasma strain ISM1499 and its assignment as Acholeplasma oculi strain cluster. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 45: 104-109.

Published Abstracts

Duvall, M. R., Leseberg, C. H., Robinson, J. W. and Mathews, S. 2004. Lineage-specific differences in numbers of nucleotide substitutions in mitochondrial loci of basal monocots; impact on angiosperm phylogenetics. Botany 2004 Conference, Snowbird, Utah.

Dertien, J. R., Duvall, M. R., Beck, Hans T. 2004. Using molecular systematic techniques for taxonomic assessment and potential conservation of an endangered tree (Guaiacum spp.). Botany 2004 Conference, Snowbird, Utah

Duvall, M., Mathews, S., Mohammad, N. and Wolford, T. 2003. Placing monocots among paleoherbs; a robust trigenomic phylogeny. The third international conference on the comparative biology of the monocotyledons. Ontario, California.

Noll, J.D., Wallace, R.S., Duvall, M.R. 2003. Phylogenetics of Alooideae (Asphodelaceae). The third international conference on the comparative biology of the monocotyledons. Ontario, California.

Duvall, M.R., Davis, J.I., Clark, L.G., Noll, J.D., Sanchez-Ken, J.G. 2003. Phylogeny of the grasses (Poaceae) revisited. The fourth international symposium on grass systematics and evolution. Ontario, California.

Duvall, M. 2001. Screening a spurious synapomorphy: an ultrastructural study of "monocot" type anther wall development in Acorus (Acoraceae). Botany 2001 International Conference.

Duvall, M., J. Noll, and A. Minn. 2001. Phylogenetics of Paniceae (Poaceae). Botany 2001 International Conference.

Saar, Dayle and M. Duvall. 2001. Do nuclear and plastid loci in Asteraceae show substantial incongruence? A preliminary intertribal phylogenetic study of Heliantheae s. l. Botany 2001 International Conference.

Clark, L., N. Barker, J. Davis, M. R. Duvall, G. Guala, C. Hsiao, E. Kellogg, R. Mason-Gamer, S. Mathews, R. Soreng, and R. Spangler. 1998. Proposal for a subfamilial reclassification of grasses. Proceedings of the Monocots II and Grasses III Conference. CSIRO; Melbourne.

Davis, J., N. Barker, L. Clark, M. R. Duvall, G. Guala, C. Hsiao, E. Kellogg, R. Mason-Gamer, S. Mathews, R. Soreng, and R. Spangler. 1998. A phylogeny of the grass family (Poaceae), as inferred from eight character sets. Proceedings of the Monocots II and Grasses III Conference. CSIRO; Melbourne.

Duvall, M., S. Mathews, N. Mohammad and T. Russell.  2005.  Placing the monocots; conflicting signal from trigenomic analyses.  Aliso, Journal of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden 22: 77-88.

Duvall, M., Davis, J. I., Clark, L. G., Noll, J. D., Goldman, D. H. and Sánchez-Ken, J. G.  In press.  Phylogeny of the grasses (Poaceae) revisited.  Concurrent publication In: Aliso and J. T. Columbus, E. A. Friar, C. W. Hamilton, J. M. Porter, L. M. Prince, and M. G. Simpson [eds.], Grass Systematics and Evolution. Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Claremont, Ca.

Duvall, M. R., J. Noll, and A. Minn. Phylogenetics of Paniceae (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany.

Saar, D.E. and N.O. Polans, P.D. Sørensen, and M. R. Duvall. 2001. Angiosperm DNA contamination by endophytic fungi: Detection and methods of avoidance. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 19(3). In press.

Duvall, M. R. 2001. An anatomical study of anther development in Acorus L.: phylogenetic implications. Plant Systematics and Evolution, In press.

Grass Phylogeny Working Group (Alphabetically: Barker, N., Clark, L., Davis, J., Duvall, M. R., Guala, G., Hsiao, C., Kellogg, E., Linder, H.P., Mason-Gamer, R., Mathews, S., Soreng, R., and Spangler, R. 2001. Phylogeny and subfamilial classification of the grasses (Poaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 88(3): 373-457.

Terrell, E., P. Peterson, J. Reveal, and M. Duvall. 1997. Taxonomy of North American Zizania (Poaceae). SIDA 17: 533-549.

Duvall, M. and B. Morton. 1996. Molecular phylogenetics of Poaceae: an expanded analysis of rbcL sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 5: 352-358.

Mayfield, J. and M. Duvall. 1996. Anomalous phylogenies based on bacterial catalase gene sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution 42: 469-471.

Duvall, M., M. Chase, D. Soltis, and M. Clegg. 1995. A phylogeny of seed plants resulting from analysis of DNA sequence variation among the rbcL loci of 499 species with particular emphasis on alliances among monocotyledons. In: P. Hoch and A. Stephenson (eds.). Experimental and Molecular Approaches to Plant Biosystematics. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis. Pp. 27-40.

Artiushin, S., M. Duvall, and F. C. Minion. 1995. Phylogenetic analysis of mycoplasma strain ISM1499 and its assignment as Acholeplasma oculi strain cluster. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 45: 104-109.

Chase, M., M. Duvall, H. Hills, J. Conran, A. Cox, L. Eguiarte, J. Hartwell, M. Fay, L. Caddeick, K. Cameron, and S. Hoot. 1995. Molecular phylogenetics of Lilianae. In: Rudall, P., P. Cribb, D. Cutler, and C. Humphries (editors). Monocotyledons: Systematics and Evolution. Pp. 109-137.

Hackett, P., M. Dalton, D. Johnson, and M. Duvall. 1995. Visualization of open reading frames in mRNAs. In: Pickover, C. A. (editor). The Visual Display of Biological Information. World Publishing Co., Singapore. Eguiarte, L., M. Duvall, G. Learn, and M. Clegg. 1994. The systematic status of the Agavaceae and Nolinaceae and related Asparagales in the Monocotyledons: an analysis based on the rbcL gene sequence. Bolet’n de la Sociedad Bot‡nica de MŽxico 54: 35-36.

Duvall, M. 1994. Wild rice (Zizania palustris). In: J. Williams (ed.). Cereals and Pseudocereals. Chapman & Hall, New York. Pp. 261-271.

Duvall, M., P. Peterson, and A. Christensen. 1994. Alliances of Muhlenbergia (Poaceae) in New World Eragrostideae are identified by phylogenetic analysis of mapped restriction sites. American Journal of Botany 81: 622-629.

Clark, W. D., B. Gaut, M. Duvall, and M. Clegg. 1993. Phylogenetic relationships of the Bromeliiflorae-Commeliniflorae-Zingiberiflorae complex of monocots based on rbcLsequence comparisons. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 80: 987-998.

Clegg, M., B. Gaut, M. Duvall, and J. Davis. 1993. Inferring plant evolutionary history from molecular data. New Zealand Journal of Botany 31: 307-316.

Duvall, M. R., G. E. Learn, Jr., L. E. Eguiarte, and M. T. Clegg. 1993. Phylogenetic analysis of rbcL sequences identifies Acorus calamus as the primal extant monocotyledon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 90: 4641-4644.

Duvall, M., M. Clegg, M. Chase, W. D. Clark, W. J. Kress, H. Hills, L. Eguiarte, J. Smith, B. Gaut, E. Zimmer, and G. Learn. 1993. Phylogenetic hypotheses for the Monocotyledons constructed from rbcL sequence data. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 80: 607-619.

Duvall, M., P. Peterson, E. Terrell, and A. Christensen. 1993. Phylogeny of the oryzoid grasses of temperate North America as construed from plastid DNA restriction site maps. American Journal of Botany 80: 83-88.

Chase, M., Soltis, D., Olmstead, R., Morgan, D., Les, D., Mishler, B., Duvall, M., Price, R., Hills, H., Qiu, Y.-L., Kron, K., Rettig, J., Conti, E., Palmer, J., Manhart, J., Sytsma, K., Michaels, H., Kress, W. J., Donoghue, M., Clark, W. D., Hedren, M., Gaut, B., Jansen, R., Kim, K.-J., Wimpee, C., Smith, J., Furnier, G., Straus, S., Xiang, Q.-Y., Plunkett, G., Soltis, P., Swensen, S., Eguiarte, L., Learn, G., Jr., Barrett, S., Graham, S., Dayanandan, S., & Albert, V. 1993. Phylogenetics of seed plants: an analysis of nucleotide sequences from the plastid gene rbcL. 1993. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 80: 528-580.

Peterson, P., M. Duvall, and A. Christensen. 1993. Allozyme differentiation among Bealia mexicana, Muhlenbergia argentea, and M. lucida (Poaceae: Eragrostideae). Madro–o 40: 148-160.

Wilson, H., J. Doebley, and M. Duvall. 1992. Chloroplast DNA diversity among wild and cultivated members of Cucurbita (Cucurbitaceae). Theoretical and Applied Genetics 84: 859-865.

Duvall, M. and J. Doebley. 1990. Restriction site variation in the chloroplast genome of Sorghum (Poaceae). Systematic Botany 15: 472-480.

Duvall, M. and D. Biesboer. 1989. Isoelectric protein profiles and their systematic implications in North American Zizania. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 17: 39-43.

Duvall, M. and D. Biesboer. 1988. Anatomical distinctions between the pistillate spikelets of species of wild-rice (Zizania, Poaceae). American Journal of Botany 75: 157-159.

Duvall, M. and D. Biesboer. 1988. Nonreciprocal hybridization failure in crosses between annual wild- rice species (Zizania palustris X Z. aquatica; Poaceae). Systematic Botany 13: 229-334.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES AND PRESENTED PAPERS

Barker, N., L. Clark, J. Davis, M. R. Duvall, G. Guala, C. Hsiao, E. Kellogg, H. P. Linder, R. Mason-Gamer, S. Mathews, R. Soreng, and R. Spangler 2000. A phylogeny of the grass family (Poaceae) as inferred from eight character sets. Pp. 3-7 In: Proceedings of the Monocots II and Grasses III Conference. CSIRO; Melbourne.

Galloway, E.M., and Duvall, M. R. In press. Extraction and analysis of DNA from recalcitrant plant leaf tissue. Ed. K. Higgins. Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Sciences.

Duvall, M. R. In press. Seeking the dicot sister group of the monocots. Eds. K. Wilson and D. Morrison. Proceedings of the Monocots II and Grasses III Conference. CSIRO; Melbourne.  Monocots II and Grasses III, Systematics and Evolution, Sydney, Australia 1998.

Clark, L., N. Barker, J. Davis, M. R. Duvall, G. Guala, C. Hsiao, E. Kellogg, R. Mason-Gamer, S. Mathews, R. Soreng, and R. Spangler. Proposal for a subfamilial reclassification of grasses.

Davis, J., N. Barker, L. Clark, M. R. Duvall, G. Guala, C. Hsiao, E. Kellogg, R. Mason-Gamer, S. Mathews, R. Soreng, and R. Spangler. A phylogeny of the grass family (Poaceae), as inferred from eight character sets.

American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Meetings 1985 - 1996.

  • Gaut, B., B. Morton, M. Duvall, and M. Clegg. 1996. Phylogenetic analysis of Adh sequences from Poaceae.
  • Duvall, M. and B. Morton. 1995. Molecular phylogenetics of early branching events in Poaceae: an analysis of rbcL sequence data.
  • Chase, M., A. Cox, J. Hartwell, S. Hoot, L. Caddick, M. Fay, K. Cameron, and M. Duvall. 1994. Molecular systematics of Asparagales and Liliales (Lilianae).
  • Duvall, M., G. Learn, L. Eguiarte, and M. Clegg. 1992. A problematic genus is identified as the most basal lineage of monocotyledons by phylogenetic analysis of DNA sequences from the plastid locus, rbcL.
  • Peterson, P., M. Duvall, and A. Christensen. 1992. Allozyme differentiation among Bealia mexicana, Muhlenbergia argentea, and M. lucida (Poaceae: Eragrostideae).
  • Duvall, M., M. Chase, W. D. Clark, M. Clegg, and H. Hills. 1991. DNA sequence analysis and the phylogeny of the Monocotyledons.
  • Duvall, M., P. Peterson, E. Terrell, and A. Christensen. 1991. Phylogeny of the oryzoid grasses inferred from restriction site maps of the plastid genome.
  • Chase, M., M. Duvall, M. Clegg, and H. Hills. 1991. Interfamilial relationships of the Orchidaceae and other lilioid monocots: evidence from phylogenetic analysis of sequence variation of the chloroplast gene rbcL.
  • Peterson, P., M. Duvall, and A. Christensen. 1991. A phylogenetic analysis of chloroplast DNA restriction site variation in the Eragrostideae (Poaceae).
  • Duvall, M. and J. Doebley. 1990. Restriction site variation in the plastid genome of Sorghum (Poaceae).
  • Peterson, P., M. Duvall, and A. Christensen. 1990. Systematics of Chaboissaea (Poaceae: Eragrostideae).
  • Duvall, M. and D. Biesboer. 1986. Electrophoretic profiles and crossability barriers in the wild-rice genus, Zizania (Poaceae).
  • Duvall, M. and D. Biesboer. 1985. A systematic evaluation of Zizania (Poaceae). Monocot Systematics and Evolution, Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, 1993.
  • Duvall, M., M. Chase, and M. Clegg. DNA sequences and phylogeny of the Monocots. Poster. Epiphyte Symposium, Selby Botanic Gardens, 1991.
  • Chase, M., M. Duvall, H. Hills, M. Clegg, and V. Albert. DNA sequences and phylogenetics of the Orchidaceae and other Lilioid Monocots. Symposium on Grass Systematics and Evolution. Washington, D.C., 1986. Duvall, M. Storage proteins and their systematic implications in Zizania (Poaceae). Poster.

PRESENTATIONS BY INVITATION:

  • Deciphering plant evolution: studies of three genomes. Northern Illinois University, DeKalb. Department of Biology seminar series, Mar., 1999. Reading DNA to decipher a botanical saga. Sewrey Colloquium. South Dakota State University, Mar., 1999.
  • Deciphering the saga of monocot evolution. University of Akron. Department of Biology seminar series, Feb., 1999.
  • Deciphering the saga of monocot evolution. Kansas State University, Manhattan. Division of Biology seminar series, Jan., 1999. Seeking the sister group of the monocots. Monocots II and Grasses III International Conference, Sydney, Australia, 1998.
  • Exploring plant evolution using DNA. 1996. Augustana College Biology Seminar Series, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
  • Phylogenetic reconstructions of monocots based on rbcL data: applications and limitations. 1993. Washington State University, Pullman.
  • A phylogeny of seed plants resulting from analysis of DNA sequence variation among the rbcL loci of 475 species with particular emphasis on alliances among monocotyledons. International Organization of Plant Biosystematists 1992 Symposium, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • Molecular phylogenetics of the Monocotyledons: an analysis of rbcL loci from 110 species. 1992. University of Connecticut, Storrs.
  • DNA sequence analysis and the phylogenetics of the monocotyledons. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden 1992 Seminar Series, Claremont, California.
  • Phylogenetic reconstructions in higher plants as inferred from studies of the plastid genome. Department of Nematology 1992 Seminar Series, University of California, Riverside.
  • Restriction site variation in the plastid genome of Sorghum. Department of Botany and Plant Sciences 1991 Seminar Series, University of California, Riverside.
  • The use of plastid DNA in phylogenetic reconstructions. Department of Biology 1990 Seminar Series, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. A systematic study of wild-rice, the genus Zizania (Poaceae). Department of Botany 1988 Seminar Series, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

RECENT SERVICE:

Ad hoc reviewer, Papers and Proposals:

  • American Journal of Botany
  • Australian Systematic botany
  • Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society
    Canadian Journal of Botany
  • Evolution
  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Genome
  • International Journal of Plant Sciences
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Monocots II Symposium volume
  • PNAS USA
  • Systematic Botany
  • Systematic and Population Biology
  • Theoretical and Applied Genetics National Science Foundation.

Professional Memberships:

  • American Society of Plant Taxonomists
  • Botanical Society of America
  • Sigma Xi