O'Leary N, Lu-Irving P, Moroni P, Siedo S. 2016. Taxonomic revision of Aloysia (Verbenaceae, Lantaneae) in South America. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 101: 568–609. doi 10.3417/2013015
Lu-Irving P, O’Leary N, O’Brien A, Olmstead RG. 2014. Resolving the genera Aloysia and Acantholippia within tribe Lantaneae (Verbenaceae), using chloroplast and nuclear sequences. Systematic Botany 34: 644-655. doi 10.1600/036364414X680816
Lu-Irving P, Olmstead RG. 2013. Investigating the evolution of Lantaneae (Verbenaceae) using multiple loci. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 103-119. doi 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2012.01305.x
O’Leary N, Calviño CI, Martinez S, Lu-Irving P, Olmstead RG, Múlgura ME. 2012. Evolution of morphological traits in Verbenaceae. American Journal of Botany 99: 1778-1792. doi 10.3732/ajb.1200123
Wang Y, Boyd E, Crane S, Lu-Irving P, Krabbenhoft D, King S, Dighton J, Geesey G, Barkay T. 2011. Environmental conditions constrain the distribution and diversity of archaeal merA in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Microbial Ecology 62: 739-752. doi 10.1007/s00248-011-9890-z
Marx HE, O’Leary N, Yuan Y-W, Lu-Irving P, Tank DC, Múlgura ME, Olmstead RG. 2010. A molecular phylogeny and classification of Verbenaceae. American Journal of Botany 97: 1647-1663. doi 10.3732/ajb.1000144
Henwood MJ, Lu-Irving P, Perkins AJ. 2010. Can molecular systematics provide insights into aspects of the reproductive biology of Trachymene Rudge (Araliaceae)? Plant Diversity and Evolution 128: 85-110. doi 10.1127/1869-6155/2010/0128-0004
Wang Y, Freedman Z, Lu-Irving P, Kaletsky R, Barkay T. 2009. An initial characterization of the mercury resistance (mer) system of the thermophilic bacterium Thermus thermophilus HB27. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 67: 118- 129. doi 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00603.x
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Lu-Irving P, Marx HE, Dlugosch KM. In prep. Leveraging species invasions to improve understanding of morphological trait evolution. In prep.
Lu-Irving P, Salimena FR, Silva TRS, Viccini LF, Bitencourt C, Olmstead RG. In prep. Phylogeny, fruit evolution, and diversification rates in Lantana and Lippia (Verbenaceae). In prep.
Fitzpatrick C*, Lu-Irving P*, Copeland J, Guttman D, Wang P, Baltrus DA, Dlugosch KM, Johnson M. In prep. Chloroplast sequence variation across the plant phylogeny and the effectiveness of PNAs for blocking host amplification in plant microbiome studies. *Equal contributors. In prep.
Lu-Irving P, Harenčár J, Sounart H, Welles SR, Swope SM, Baltrus DA, Dlugosch KM. Escape from bacterial diversity: potential enemy release in invading yellow starthistle (Centaurea solstitialis) microbiomes. Submitted to New Phytologist. Preprint doi 10.1101/119917