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Journal articles
2018, 'Gender differences in individual variation in academic grades fail to fit expected patterns for STEM', Nature Communications, 9, pp. 3777, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06292-0
,2018, 'Meta-analysis of lamb birth weight as influenced by pregnancy nutrition of multiparous ewes', Journal of Animal Science, 96, pp. 1962 - 1977, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/sky072
,2018, 'Computer Animation Technology in Behavioral Sciences: A Sequential, Automatic, and High-Throughput Approach to Quantifying Personality in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)', Zebrafish, 15, pp. 206 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/zeb.2017.1532
,2018, 'Maternal Testosterone and Offspring Sex-Ratio in Birds and Mammals: A Meta-Analysis', Evolutionary Biology, 45, pp. 96 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11692-017-9432-9
,2018, 'Not all predators are equal: a continent-scale analysis of the effects of predator control on Australian mammals', Mammal Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mam.12115
,2018, 'The French press: A repeatable and high-throughput approach to exercising zebrafish (Danio rerio)', PeerJ, 2018, pp. e4292, http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4292
,2017, 'Divide and conquer? Size adjustment with allometry and intermediate outcomes', BMC Biology, 15, pp. 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0448-5
,2017, 'A narrative meta-review of a series of systematic and meta-analytic reviews on the intervention outcome for children with developmental co-ordination disorder', Child: Care, Health and Development, 43, pp. 733 - 742, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cch.12437
,2017, 'Does Urbanization Affect Predation of Bird Nests? A Meta-Analysis', Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2017.00029
,2017, 'Meta-evaluation of meta-analysis: Ten appraisal questions for biologists', BMC Biology, 15, pp. 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-017-0357-7
,2017, 'Metabolic rates, and not hormone levels, are a likely mediator of between-individual differences in behaviour: a meta-analysis', Functional Ecology, 31, pp. 685 - 696, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12779
,2017, 'Nonindependence and sensitivity analyses in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses', Molecular Ecology, 26, pp. 2410 - 2425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.14031
,2016, 'Heterogeneity in ecological and evolutionary meta-analyses: Its magnitude and implications', Ecology, 97, pp. 3293 - 3299, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy.1591
,2016, 'Effect of maternal diet on offspring coping styles in rodents: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Biological Reviews, 91, pp. 1065 - 1080, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12210
,2016, 'The effect of dietary restriction on reproduction: a meta-analytic perspective', BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0768-z
,2016, 'The effect of dietary restriction on reproduction: a meta-analytic perspective', BMC evolutionary biology, 16, pp. 199
,2016, 'Visualizing unbiased and biased unweighted meta-analyses', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 29, pp. 1914 - 1916, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12945
,2016, 'Sex differences in DNA methylation and expression in zebrafish brain: a test of an extended ‘male sex drive’ hypothesis', Gene, 590, pp. 307 - 316, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2016.05.042
,2016, 'Association of Amine-Receptor DNA Sequence Variants with Associative Learning in the Honeybee', Behavior Genetics, 46, pp. 242 - 251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10519-015-9749-z
,2016, 'Population differentiation and behavioural association of the two 'personality' genes DRD4 and SERT in dunnocks (Prunella modularis)', Molecular Ecology, 25, pp. 706 - 722, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.13514
,2015, 'Little appetite for obesity: Meta-analysis of the effects of maternal obesogenic diets on offspring food intake and body mass in rodents', International Journal of Obesity, 39, pp. 1669 - 1678, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2015.160
,2015, 'Conflict and cooperation over sex: The consequences of social and genetic polyandry for reproductive success in dunnocks', Journal of Animal Ecology, 84, pp. 1509 - 1519, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12432
,2015, 'Proteomic analysis of early-stage embryos: implications for egg quality in hapuku (Polyprion oxygeneios)', Fish Physiology and Biochemistry, 41, pp. 1403 - 1417, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10695-015-0095-0
,2015, 'Meta-analysis of variation: Ecological and evolutionary applications and beyond', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 6, pp. 143 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12309
,2014, 'Transgenerational effects of caloric restriction on appetite: A meta-analysis', Obesity Reviews, 15, pp. 294 - 309, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/obr.12138
,2013, 'Life extension after heat shock exposure: Assessing meta-analytic evidence for hormesis', Ageing Research Reviews, 12, pp. 653 - 660, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2013.03.005
,2013, 'You are where you live: Parasitic nematode mitochondrial genome size is associated with the thermal environment generated by hosts', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 26, pp. 683 - 690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12068
,2012, 'The effect of resveratrol on longevity across species: A meta-analysis', Biology Letters, 8, pp. 790 - 793, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0316
,2012, 'The long and the short of avian W chromosomes: No evidence for gradual W shortening', Biology Letters, 8, pp. 636 - 638, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0083
,2012, 'Comparative and meta-analytic insights into life extension via dietary restriction', Aging Cell, 11, pp. 401 - 409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1474-9726.2012.00798.x
,2012, 'Two distinct genomic regions, harbouring the period and fruitless genes, affect male courtship song in Drosophila montana', Heredity, 108, pp. 602 - 608, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2011.129
,2012, 'Spatial Dynamic Factors Affecting Population-Level Risk Assessment for a Terrestrial Arthropod: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach', Human and Ecological Risk Assessment, 18, pp. 168 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10807039.2012.632292
,2011, 'Living in a jar: Genetic variation and differentiation among laboratory strains of the red flour beetle', Journal of Applied Entomology, 135, pp. 682 - 692, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0418.2010.01593.x
,2010, 'Genetic population structure of the ground beetle, pterostichus oblongopunctatus, inhabiting a fragmented and polluted landscape: Evidence for sex-biased dispersal', Journal of Insect Science, 10, pp. 105 - 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.010.10501
,2010, 'A cost-effective, simple and high-throughput method for DNA extraction from insects', Insect Science, 17, pp. 465 - 470, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-7917.2010.01318.x
,2010, 'Time matters: delayed toxicity of pirimiphos-methyl on Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) and its effects on efficacy estimation of residual treatments', Journal of Stored Products Research, 46, pp. 161 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jspr.2010.02.003
,2010, 'The development of PCR-based markers for molecular sex identification in the model insect species Tribolium castaneum', Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 134, pp. 50 - 59, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00935.x
,2008, 'Changes in morphology of the ground beetle Pterostichus oblongopunctatus F. (Coleoptera; Carabidae) from vicinities of a zinc and lead smelter', Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 27, pp. 1744 - 1747, http://dx.doi.org/10.1897/07-661.1
,2008, 'Evidence for between-generation effects in carabids exposed to heavy metals pollution', Ecotoxicology, 17, pp. 59 - 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10646-007-0176-7
,2007, 'Susceptibility of a carabid beetle, Pterostichus oblongopunctatus Fab., from a gradient of heavy metal pollution to additional stressors', Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 79, pp. 504 - 507, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00128-007-9248-x
,2005, 'Metal kinetics and respiration rates in F
2004, 'Microsatellite DNA markers for the ground beetle Pterostichus oblongopunctatus F.', Molecular Ecology Notes, 4, pp. 113 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8286.2004.00586.x
,2002, 'Population parameters of the beetle Pterostichus oblongopunctatus F. from metal contaminated and reference areas', Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 69, pp. 243 - 249, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00128-002-0053-2
,2002, 'Respiratory metabolism in Pterostichus oblongopunctatus originating from metal contaminated and references areas', Fresenius Environmental Bulletin, 11, pp. 74 - 77
,Conference Abstracts
2015, 'Meta review of systematic and meta-analytic reviews on the intervention outcome for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder', in Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity, presented at 11th International Conference on Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD11), http://dx.doi.org/10.15256/joc.2015.5.52
,Reports
2022, TARA background information report 2015 - 2022. An evidence update.
,2022, Appraising health precinct audit tools: Rapid systematic review of evidence, Healthy Urban Environments Collaboratory, Liverpool, NSW, http://dx.doi.org/10.52708/HPAT5154, https://uploads.strikinglycdn.com/files/43a2c5ae-5684-4bd1-8ef2-da2f576807ad/Appraising%20health%20precinct%20audit%20tools.pdf?id=3925334
,2022, Finance & Investment Rapid Review: Identification and measurement of circular assets and risks for the finance and investment sector in the transition to a circular economy, Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM), UNSW Sydney., http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28471, https://www.ceem.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/NSW-Circular-Finance-Investment-Rapid-Review-2022.pdf
,2019, International best practice on financing models for low carbon / energy efficient buildings – rapid systematic overview of evidence, http://dx.doi.org/10.25916/27zp-z550, https://apo.org.au/node/309686
,2019, Policy and program options for improving energy efficiency in low income households - Rapid systematic review of evidence, http://dx.doi.org/10.25916/hpzd-0d12, https://apo.org.au/node/309687
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