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Journal articles
2016, 'What are we missing about marine invasions? Filling in the gaps with evolutionary genomics', Marine Biology, 163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00227-016-2961-4
,2016, 'Colour polymorphism is likely to be disadvantageous to some populations and species due to genetic architecture and morph interactions', Molecular ecology, 25, pp. 2713 - 2718, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.13632
,2016, 'Selection on mitochondrial variants occurs between and within individuals in an expanding invasion', Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33, pp. 995 - 1007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msv343
,2016, 'Assessing the economic benefits of starling detection and control to Western Australia', Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 23, pp. 81 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14486563.2015.1028486
,2016, 'Extra-pair paternity in the long-tailed finch Poephila acuticauda', PeerJ, 2016, pp. e1550, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1550
,2016, 'The relative importance of spatial proximity, kin selection and potential ‘greenbeard’ signals on provisioning behaviour among helpers in a cooperative bird', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70, pp. 133 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-2032-8
,2016, 'The relative importance of spatial proximity, kin selection and potential ‘greenbeard’ signals on provisioning behaviour among helpers in a cooperative bird', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70, pp. 133 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s0026
,2016, 'The relative importance of spatial proximity, kin selection and potential ‘greenbeard’ signals on provisioning behaviour among helpers in a cooperative bird', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70, pp. 133 - 143, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s0026
,2015, 'Sequential polyandry through divorce and re-pairing in a cooperatively breeding bird reduces helper-offspring relatedness', Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 69, pp. 1311 - 1321, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-1944-7
,2015, 'Expected Shannon entropy and Shannon differentiation between subpopulations for neutral genes under the finite island model', PLoS ONE, 10, pp. e0125471, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125471
,2015, 'Progress and challenges in genetics and invasion', Current Zoology, 61, pp. 454 - 455, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/czoolo/61.3.454
,2015, 'Retracted to Experimental evidence that maternal corticosterone controls adaptive offspring sex ratios[Journal of Computational Chemistry, 29, 6, (2015), 1723] DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12232', Functional Ecology, 29, pp. 861, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12497
,2015, 'The danger within: The role of genetic, behavioural and ecological factors in population persistence of colour polymorphic species', Molecular Ecology, 24, pp. 2907 - 2915, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.13201
,2015, 'A genetic perspective on rapid evolution in cane toads (Rhinella marina)', Molecular Ecology, 24, pp. 2264 - 2276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.13184
,2015, 'Unrelated helpers neither signal contributions nor suffer retribution in chestnut-crowed babblers', Behavioral Ecology, 26, pp. 986 - 995, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arv023
,2015, 'Is there evidence of selection in the dopamine receptor D4 gene in Australian invasive starling populations.', Current Zoology, 61, pp. 505 - 519
,2014, 'Personality in captivity: More exploratory males reproduce better in an aviary population', Behavioural Processes, 107, pp. 150 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2014.08.020
,2014, 'Causes of male sexual trait divergence in introduced populations of guppies', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 27, pp. 437 - 448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12313
,2014, 'Experimental evidence that maternal corticosterone controls adaptive offspring sex ratios', Functional Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12232
,2014, 'All signals are not equal: Acoustic signalling of individuality, sex and breeding status in a cooperative breeder', Animal Behaviour, 93, pp. 249 - 260, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.05.007
,2013, 'Genetic monogamy despite variable ecological conditions and social environment in the cooperatively breeding apostlebird', Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 4669 - 4682, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.844
,2013, 'High genetic diversity is not essential for successful introduction', Ecology and Evolution, 3, pp. 4501 - 4517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.824
,2013, 'Isolation and characterisation of polymorphic microsatellite loci for Noisy Miners Manorina melanocephala, with successful cross-amplification in Bell Miners M. melanophrys', Conservation Genetics Resources, 5, pp. 39 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12686-012-9727-1
,2013, 'Feeding nestlings does not function as a signal of social prestige incooperatively breeding chestnut-crowned babblers', Animal Behaviour, 86, pp. 277 - 289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.05.015
,2012, 'Mothers adjust offspring sex to match the quality of the rearing environment', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, pp. 4051 - 4057, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1351
,2012, 'The role of the Ord Arid Intrusion in the historical and contemporary genetic division of long-tailed finch subspecies in northern Australia', Ecology and Evolution, 2, pp. 1208 - 1219, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.259
,2012, 'Building genetic networks using relatedness information: a novel approach for the estimation of dispersal and characterization of group structure in social animals', Molecular Ecology, 21, pp. 1727 - 1740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05492.x
,2012, 'Kin selection, not group augmentation, predicts helping in an obligate cooperatively breeding bird', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences, 279, pp. 3861 - 3869, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1080
,2011, 'Context-dependent sex allocation: Constraints on the expression and evolution of maternal effects', Evolution, 65, pp. 2792 - 2799, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01391.x
,2011, 'Maternal stress to partner quality is linked to adaptive offspring sex ratio adjustment', Behavioral Ecology, 22, pp. 717 - 722, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arr040
,2011, 'Parental care in wild and captive zebra finches: Measuring food delivery to quantify parental effort', Animal Behaviour, 81, pp. 289 - 295, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.10.020
,2011, 'Mitochondrial DNA offers unique insights into invasion history of the common starling', Molecular Ecology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05101.x
,2010, 'Isolation and characterization of 12 polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the apostlebird (Struthidea cinerea)', Conservation Genetics Resources, 2, pp. 229 - 231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12686-009-9149-x
,2010, 'Females use multiple mating and genetically loaded sperm competition to target compatible genes', Science, 329, pp. 964 - 967, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1192407
,2009, 'Invasive species can`t cover their tracks: Using microsatellites to assist management of starling (Sturnus vulgaris) populations in Western Australia', Molecular Ecology, 18, pp. 1560 - 1573, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04132.x
,2006, 'Population genetic tools for pest management: a review', Wildlife Research, 33, pp. 251 - 261
,2005, 'Single and interacting QTLs for cholesterol gallstones revealed in an intercross between mouse strains NZB and SM', Mammalian Genome, 16, pp. 152 - 163
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