Nathalie Nagalingum
Position
Systematic Botanist
Branch
Science and Public Programs
Section
Plant Diversity
Phone
+61 2 9231 8135
Fax
+61 2 9241 3892
Email
nathalie.nagalingum [at] rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au
Research experience
- The University of Melbourne, Ph.D.
- Duke University, Postdoctoral research associate.
- Harvard University, Postdoctoral research associate.
- University of California, Berkeley, Postdoctoral research associate.
Current research projects
- Phylodiversity of Australian ferns
- Diversification patterns and processes in Australian ferns
- Species relationships within the semi-aquatic fern Marsilea
- Species delimitation of Australian cycads
- Phylogeny and diversification of the cycads
- Patterns of evolution of fossil cycads
- Paleobiological patterns in fern and angiosperm diversity
Research interests
- Evolution, diversification and phylogenetics of ferns
- Evolution, species delimitation and biogeography of cycads
- Patterns of extinction and speciation during the radiation of angiosperms
Keywords
- Ferns, cycads, gymnosperms, paleobotany, fossils, molecular dating, phylogenetics, diversity
Key publications
- Nagalingum, N. S., Marshall, C. R., Quental, T. B., Rai, H. S., Little D. P. and Mathews S., 2011. Recent synchronous radiation of a living fossil. Science 334: 796-799.
See also Perspective: S. S. Renner, 2011. Living fossil younger than thought. Science 334: 766-767.
See also Editor Summary in This week in Science: Young for their age. Science 334: 737.
- Whitten, W.M., Jacono C.C. and Nagalingum, N.S., in press. An expanded plastid phylogeny of Marsilea with emphasis on North American species. American Fern Journal.
- Nagalingum, N. and Cantrill, D., in revision. The Albian fern flora of Alexander Island, Antarctica. Cretaceous Research.
- Beilstein, M., Nagalingum, N., Clements, M., Manchester, S. and Mathews, S. 2010. Dated molecular phylogenies indicate a Miocene origin for Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (43): 18724-18728.
- Nagalingum, N., Nowak, M. and Pryer, K., 2008. Assessing phylogenetic relationships in extant heterosporous ferns (Salviniales), with a focus on Salvinia and Pilularia. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 157: 673-685.
- Nagalingum, N., Schneider, H. and Pryer, K., 2007. Molecular phylogenetic relationships and morphological evolution in the heterosporous fern genus Marsilea. Systematic Botany 32: 16-25.
- Nagalingum, N., 2007. Marsileaceaephyllum, a new genus for marsileaceous macrofossils: leaf remains from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of southern Gondwana. Plant Systematics and Evolution 264: 41–55.
- Nagalingum, N. and Cantrill, D., 2006. Early Cretaceous Gleicheniaceae and Matoniaceae (Gleicheniales) from Alexander Island, Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 138: 73-93.
- Nagalingum, N., Schneider, H. and Pryer, K., 2006. Comparative morphology of reproductive structures in heterosporous water ferns and a re-evaluation of the sporocarp. International Journal of Plant Sciences 167: 805-815.
- Nagalingum, N., Drinnan, A. and McLoughlin, S., 2005. A new Neocomian conifer species, Bellarinea richardsii, from the lower Cretaceous of Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 117: 295-306.
- Cantrill, D. and Nagalingum, N., 2005. Pteridophytes from the Cretaceous of Alexander Island, Antarctica: implications for Cretaceous phytogeography of the Southern Hemisphere. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 137: 83-103.
- Nagalingum, N., Drinnan, A., Lupia, R. and McLoughlin, S., 2002. Fern spore diversity and abundance in the Cretaceous of Australia. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 119: 69-92.
- McLoughlin, S., Tosolini, A-M., Nagalingum, N., Drinnan, A., 2002. An Early Cretaceous (Neocomian) flora and fauna of the lower Strzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin, Victoria. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 26: 1-144.
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