Michael Francis Fay (born 1960), British geneticist and botanist.

IPNI standard form: M.F.Fay

Taxon names authored

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• 16 taxon names authored by Michael Francis Fay

Publications

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• Fay, M.F., Swensen, S.M. & Chase, M.W. 1997. Taxonomic affinities of Medusagyne oppositifolia (Medusagynaceae). Kew Bulletin 52: 111–120. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Meerow, A.W., Fay, M.F., Guy, C.L., Li, Q.-B., Zaman, F.Q. & Chase, M.W. 1999. Systematics of Amaryllidaceae based on cladistic analysis of plastid rbcL and trnL-F sequence data. American Journal of Botany 86(9): 1325–1345. DOI: 10.2307/2656780 Reference page. 
• Reeves, G., Chase, M.W., Goldblatt, P., Rudall, P.J., Fay, M.F., Cox, A.V., Lejeune, B. & Souza-Chies, T.T. de 2001. Molecular systematics of Iridaceae: Evidence from four plastid DNA regions. American Journal of Botany 88(11): 2074–2087. DOI: 10.2307/3558433 . JSTOR Reference page. 
• Lledó, M.D., Davis, A.P., Crespo, M.B., Chase, M.W. & Fay, M.F. 2004. Phylogenetic analysis of Leucojum and Galanthus (Amaryllidaceae) based on plastid mat K and nuclear ribosomal spacer (ITS) DNA sequences and morphology. Plant Systematics and Evolution 246(3–4): 223–243. DOI: 10.1007/s00606-004-0152-0 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Manning, J.C., Goldblatt, P. & Fay, M.F. 2004. A revised generic synopsis of Hyacintheaceae in sub-Saharan Africa, based on molecular evidence, including new combinations and the new tribe Pseudoprospereae. Edinburgh Journal of Botany 60(3): 533–568. DOI: 10.1017/S0960428603000404 Reference page. 
• Lledó, M.D., Crespo, M.B., Fay, M.F., & Chase, M.W. 2005. Molecular phylogenetics of Limonium and related genera (Plumbaginaceae): biogeographical and systematic implications. American Journal of Botany 92(7): 1189–1198. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.92.7.1189 Reference page. 
• Davis, A.P., Chester, M., Maurin, O. & Fay, M.F. 2007. Searching for the relatives of Coffea (Rubiaceae, Ixoroideae): the circumscription and phylogeny of Coffeeae based on plastid sequence data and morphology. American Journal of Botany 94(3): 313–329. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.94.3.313 Reference page. 
• Christenhusz, M.J.M., Chase, M.W., Fay, M.F., Lumbsch, H.T., Monro, A.K., Vorontsova, M.S. & Zhang, Z.-Q. 2009. A new international journal for rapid publication of botanical taxonomy. Phytotaxa 1: 1–2. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.1.1.1 Reference page. 
• Chase, M.W., Reveal, J.L. & Fay, M.F. 2009. A subfamilial classification for the expanded asparagalean families Amaryllidaceae, Asparagaceae and Xanthorrhoeaceae, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 161(2): 132–136. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00999.x Reference page. 
• Manning, J.C., Forest, F., Devey, D.S., Fay, M.F. & Goldblatt, P. 2009. A molecular phylogeny and a revised classification of Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on an analysis of four plastid DNA regions. Taxon 58(1): 77–107. DOI: 10.1002/tax.581011 JSTOR Reference page. 
• Martínez-Azorín, M., Crespo, M.B., Juan, A. & Fay, M.F. 2011. Molecular phylogenetics of subfamily Ornithogaloideae (Hyacinthaceae) based on nuclear and plastid DNA regions, including a new taxonomic arrangement. Annals of Botany 107(1): 1–37. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq207 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Christenhusz, M.J.M., Govaerts, R.H.A., David, J.C., Hall, T., , Roberts, P.S., Tuomisto, A., Buerki, S., Chase, M.W. & Fay, M.F. 2013. Tiptoe through the tulips - cultural history, molecular phylogenetics and classification of Tulipa (Liliaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 172(3): 280–328. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12061 Reference page: 
• Chase, M.W., Thijs, K.W., Kamau, P. & Fay, M.F. 2013. Dorstenia christenhuszii (Moraceae), a new species from the Taita Hills, Kenya. Phytotaxa 81(2): 45–48. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.81.2.1 Reference page. 
• Schneider, J.V., Bissiengou, P., Amaral, M.C.E., Ali, T., Fay, M.F., Thines, M., Sosef, M.S.M., Zizka, G. & Chatrou, L.W. 2014. Phylogenetics, ancestral state reconstruction, and a new infrafamilial classification of the pantropical Ochnaceae (Medusagynaceae, Ochnaceae s.str., Quiinaceae) based on five DNA regions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 78: 199–214. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.05.018 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Pellicer, J., Hidalgo, O., Walker, J., Chase, M.W., Christenhusz, M.J.M., Shackelford, G., Leitch, I.J. & Fay, M.F. 2017. Genome size dynamics in tribe Gilliesieae (Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae) in the context of polyploidy and unusual incidence of Robertsonian translocations. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 184(1): 16–31. DOI: 10.1093/botlinnean/box016 Reference page. 
• Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Byng, J.W. (eds). 2018. The Global Flora, Vol. 4: Special Edition, GLOVAP Nomenclature Part 1. Plant Gateway Ltd., Bradford. ISBN 978-0-9929993-5-3 PDFReference page. 
• Christenhusz, M.J.M., Bangiolo, L., Chase, M.W., Fay, M.F., Husby, C.E., Witkus, M. & Viruel, J. 2019. Phylogenetics, classification and typification of extant horsetails (Equisetum, Equisetaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 189(4): 311–352. DOI: 10.1093/botlinnean/boz002 . Reference page.