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Research Report 2014 - Biological Sciences

Journal Article
Beatty, JA* and Troyer, RM* and Carver, S and Barrs, VR* and Espinasse, F* and Conradi, O* and Stutzman-Rodriguez, K* and Chan, CC* and Tasker, S* and Lappin, MR* and VandeWoude, S*, “Felis catus gammaherpesvirus 1; a widely endemic potential pathogen of domestic cats”, Virology, 460-461 pp. 100-107. doi:10.1016/j.virol.2014.05.007 ISSN 0042-6822 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Blackburn, D and Hamilton, M and Williams, D* and Harwood, C* and Potts, B, “Acoustic wave velocity as a selection trait in Eucalyptus nitens”, Forests, 5 (4) pp. 744-762. doi:10.3390/f5040744 ISSN 1999-4907 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Boden, SA* and Weiss, D* and Ross, JJ and Davies, NW and Trevaskis, B* and Chandler, PM* and Swain, SM*, “EARLY FLOWERING3 regulates flowering in spring barley by mediating gibberellin production and FLOWERING LOCUS T expression”, The Plant Cell, 26 (4) pp. 1557-1569. doi:10.1105/tpc.114.123794 ISSN 1040-4651 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Borzak, CL and Potts, BM and Davies, NW and O'Reilly-Wapstra, JM, “Population divergence in the ontogenetic trajectories of foliar terpenes of a Eucalyptus species”, Annals of Botany, 115 (1) pp. 159-170. doi:10.1093/aob/mcu222 ISSN 0305-7364 (2015) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Bowman, DMJS and Murphy, BP* and Neyland, DLJ and Williamson, GJ and Prior, LD, “Abrupt fire regime change may cause landscape-wide loss of mature obligate seeder forests”, Global Change Biology, 20 (3) pp. 1008-1015. doi:10.1111/gcb.12433 ISSN 1354-1013 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Burrows, RM and Magierowski, RH and Fellman, JB* and Clapcott, JE* and Munks, SA and Roberts, S and Davies, PE and Barmuta, LA, “Variation in stream organic matter processing among years and benthic habitats in response to forest clearfelling”, Forest Ecology and Management, 327 pp. 136-147. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2014.04.041 ISSN 0378-1127 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Cauvin, B* and Potts, BM and Potts, WC*, “Eucalyptus: hybridation artificielle - barrieres et heredite des caracteres”, Annales de Recherches Sylvicoles pp. 255-303. ISSN 0398-494X (1987) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
DeGabriel, JL* and Moore, BD* and Foley, WJ* and Johnson, CN, “Male-biased predation and its effect on paternity skew and life history in a population of common brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecula)”, PLoS One, 9 (11) Article e111746. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111746 ISSN 1932-6203 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Evans, E and Redd, K and Harasmow, SE* and Elvig, N* and Metz, N* and Koutoulis, A, “The influence of malt quality on malt brewing and barley quality on barley brewing with Ondea Pro, compared by small-scale analysis”, Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists, 72 (3) pp. 192-207. doi:10.1094/ASBCJ-2014-0630-01 ISSN 0361-0470 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Fletcher, M-S* and Wood, SW and Haberle, SG*, “A fire-driven shift from forest to non-forest: evidence for alternative stable states?”, Ecology, 95 (9) pp. 2504-2513. doi:10.1890/12-1766.1 ISSN 0012-9658 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Foo, E and Ferguson, BJ and Reid, JB, “The potential roles of strigolactones and brassinosteroids in the autoregulation of nodulation pathway”, Annals of Botany, 113 (6) pp. 1037-1045. doi:10.1093/aob/mcu030 ISSN 0305-7364 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Foo, E and Ferguson, BJ and Reid, JB, “Common and divergent roles of plant hormones in nodulation and arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses”, Plant Signalling and Behavior, 9 Article e29593. doi:10.4161/psb.29593 ISSN 1559-2316 (2014) [Contribution to Refereed Journal] [Full Text] [Detail]
Frank, ASK and Johnson, CN and Potts, JM* and Fisher, A* and Lawes, MJ* and Woinarski, JCZ* and Tuft, K* and Radford, IJ* and Gordon, IJ* and Collis, MA* and Legge, S*, “Experimental evidence that feral cats cause local extirpation of small mammals in Australia’s tropical savannas”, Journal of Applied Ecology, 51 (6) pp. 1486-1493. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12323 ISSN 0021-8901 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Ganswindt, SB* and Myburgh, JG* and Cameron, EZ and Ganswindt, A*, “Non-invasive assessment of adrenocortical function in captive Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)”, Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, 177 pp. 11-17. doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2014.07.013 ISSN 1095-6433 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Haley, NJ* and Carver, S and Hoon-Hanks, LL* and Henderson, DM* and Davenport, KA* and Bunting, E* and Gray, S* and Trindle, B* and Galeota, J* and LeVan, I* and Dubovos, T* and Shelton, P* and Hoover, EA*, “Detection of chronic wasting disease in the lymph nodes of free-ranging cervids by real-time quaking-induced conversion”, Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 52 (9) pp. 3237-3243. doi:10.1128/JCM.01258-14 ISSN 0095-1137 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Hamilton, MG and Blackburn, DP and McGavin, RL* and Bailleres, H* and Vega, M and Potts, BM, “Factors affecting log traits and green rotary-peeled veneer recovery from temperate eucalypt plantations”, Annals of Forest Science, 72 (3) pp. 357-365. doi:10.1007/s13595-014-0430-0 ISSN 1286-4560 (2015) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Harris, RL and Holland, BR and Cameron, EZ and Davies, NW and Nicol, SC, “Chemical signals in the echidna: differences between seasons, sexes, individuals and gland types”, Journal of Zoology, 293 (3) pp. 171-180. doi:10.1111/jzo.12133 ISSN 0952-8369 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Holz, A and Wood, SW and Veblen, TT* and Bowman, DMJS, “Effects of high-severity fire drove the population collapse of the subalpine Tasmanian endemic conifer Athrotaxis cupressoides”, Global Change Biology, 21 (1) pp. 445-458. doi:10.1111/gcb.12674 ISSN 1354-1013 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Jordan, GJ and Carpenter, RJ and Koutoulis, A and Price, A and Brodribb, TJ, “Environmental adaptation in stomatal size independent of the effects of genome size”, New Phytologist, 205 (2) pp. 608-617. doi:10.1111/nph.13076 ISSN 0028-646X (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Lam, HK and Harbard, JL and Koutoulis, A, “Tetraploid induction of Acacia crassicarpa using colchicine and oryzalin”, Journal of Tropical Forest Science, 26 (3) pp. 347-354. ISSN 0128-1283 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Luterman, H* and Cameron, EZ and Raihani, NJ* and Bennett, NC*, “Sex ratio variation in a eusocial mammal, the Damaraland mole-rat, Fukomys damarensis”, Journal of Zoology, 294 (2) pp. 139-145. doi:10.1111/jzo.12163 ISSN 0952-8369 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Mason, MG* and Ross, JJ and Babst, BA* and Wienclaw, BN* and Beveridge, CA*, “Sugar demand, not auxin, is the initial regulator of apical dominance”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of The United States of America., 111 (16) pp. 6092-6097. doi:10.1073/pnas.1322045111 ISSN 0027-8424 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
McAdam, EL and Vaillancourt, RE and Koutoulis, A and Whittock, SP, “Quantitative genetic parameters for yield, plant growth and cone chemical traits in hop (Humulus lupulus L.)”, BMC Genetics, 15 Article 22. doi:10.1186/1471-2156-15-22 ISSN 1471-2156 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
McGregor, HW and Legge, S* and Jones, ME and Johnson, CN, “Landscape management of fire and grazing regimes alters the fine-scale habitat utilisation by feral cats”, PLoS One, 9 (10) Article e109097. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0109097 ISSN 1932-6203 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Miller, PA and Elliott, NG* and Vaillancourt, RE and Koutoulis, A and Henshall, JM*, “Assignment of parentage in triploid species using microsatellite markers with null alleles, an example from Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas)”, Aquaculture Research, 47 (4) pp. 1288-1298. doi:10.1111/are.12588 ISSN 1355-557X (2016) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Miller, PA and Elliott, NG* and Vaillancourt, RE and Kube, PD* and Koutoulis, A, “Genetic diversity and pedigree assignment in tetraploid Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas)”, Aquaculture, 433 pp. 318-324. doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2014.06.025 ISSN 0044-8486 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Prior, LD and Bowman, DMJS, “Big eucalypts grow more slowly in a warm climate: evidence of an interaction between tree size and temperature”, Global Change Biology, 20 (9) pp. 2793-2799. doi:10.1111/gcb.12540 ISSN 1354-1013 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Prior, LD and Bowman, DMJS, “Across a macro-ecological gradient forest competition is strongest at the most productive sites”, Frontiers in Plant Science, 5 Article 260. doi:10.3389/fpls.2014.00260 ISSN 1664-462X (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Quittenden, LJ and McAdam, EL and Davies, NW and Ross, JJ, “Evidence that indole-3-acetic acid is not synthesized via the indole-3-acetamide pathway in pea roots”, Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 33 (4) pp. 831-836. doi:10.1007/s00344-014-9431-3 ISSN 0721-7595 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Ruiz Aravena, M and Gonzalez-Mendez, A* and Estay, SA* and Gaitan-Espitia, JD* and Barria-Oyarzo, I* and Bartheld, JL* and Bacigalupe, LD*, “Impact of global warming at the range margins: phenotypic plasticity and behavioral thermoregulation will buffer an endemic amphibian”, Ecology and Evolution, 4 (23) pp. 4467-4475. doi:10.1002/ece3.1315 ISSN 2045-7758 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Urquhart, S and Foo, E and Reid, JB, “The role of strigolactones in photomorphogenesis of pea is limited to adventitious rooting”, Physiologia Plantarum, 153 (3) pp. 392-402. doi:10.1111/ppl.12246 ISSN 0031-9317 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Vining, KJ* and Romanel, E* and Jones, RC and Klocko, A* and Alves-Ferreira, M* and Hefer, CA* and Amarasinghe, V* and Dharmawardhana, P* and Naithani, S* and Ranik, M* and Wesley-Smith, J* and Solomon, L* and Jaiswal, P* and Myburg, AA* and Strauss, SH*, “The floral transcriptome of Eucalyptus grandis”, New Phytologist, 206 (4) pp. 1406-1422. doi:10.1111/nph.13077 ISSN 0028-646X (2015) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Waltrick, D* and Jones, SM and Simpfendorfer, CA* and Awruch, CA, “Endocrine control of embryonic diapause in the Australian sharpnose shark Rhizoprionodon taylori”, PLoS One, 9 (7) Article e101234. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101234 ISSN 1932-6203 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Warfe, DM and Hardie, SA and Uytendaal, AR* and Bobbi, CJ* and Barmuta, LA, “The ecology of rivers with contrasting flow regimes: identifying indicators for setting environmental flows”, Freshwater Biology, 59 (10) pp. 2064-2080. doi:10.1111/fwb.12407 ISSN 0046-5070 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
While, GM and Uller, T*, “Quo vadis amphibia? Global warming and breeding phenology in frogs, toads and salamanders”, Ecography, 37 (10) pp. 921-929. doi:10.1111/ecog.00521 ISSN 0906-7590 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Wong, ACS and Hecht, VFG and Picard, K* and Diwadkar, P* and Laurie, RE* and Wen, J* and Mysore, K* and Macknight, RC* and Weller, JL, “Isolation and functional analysis of CONSTANS-LIKE genes suggests that a central role for CONSTANS in flowering time control is not evolutionarily conserved in Medicago truncatula”, Frontiers in Plant Science, 5 Article 486. doi:10.3389/fpls.2014.00486 ISSN 1664-462X (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Wooliver, R* and Senior, J and Schweitzer, JA* and O'Reilly-Wapstra, JM and Langley, JA* and Chapman, SK* and Bailey, JK*, “Evolutionary history and novel biotic interactions determine plant responses to elevated CO2 and nitrogen fertilization”, PLoS ONE, 9 (12) Article e114596. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114596 ISSN 1932-6203 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Worth, JRP and Harrison, PA and Williamson, GJ and Jordan, GJ, “Whole range and regional-based ecological niche models predict differing exposure to 21st century climate change in the key cool temperate rainforest tree southern beech (Nothofagus cunninghamii)”, Austral Ecology, 40 (2) pp. 126-138. doi:10.1111/aec.12184 ISSN 1442-9985 (2015) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Worth, JRP and Yokogawa, M* and Isagi, Y*, “Outcrossing rates and organelle inheritance estimated from two natural populations of the Japanese endemic conifer Sciadopitys verticillata”, Journal of Plant Research, 127 (5) pp. 617-626. doi:10.1007/s10265-014-0646-y ISSN 0918-9440 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Worth, JRP and Williamson, GJ and Sakaguchi, S* and Nevill, PG* and Jordan, GJ, “Environmental niche modelling fails to predict Last Glacial Maximum refugia: niche shifts, microrefugia or incorrect palaeoclimate estimates?”, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23 (11) pp. 1186-1197. doi:10.1111/geb.12239 ISSN 1466-822X (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Worth, JRP and Yokogawa, M* and Perez-Figueroa, A* and Tsumura, Y* and Tomaru, N* and Janes, JK* and Isagi, Y*, “Conflict in outcomes for conservation based on population genetic diversity and genetic divergence approaches: a case study in the Japanese relictual conifer Sciadopitys verticillata (Sciadopityaceae)”, Conservation Genetics, 15 (5) pp. 1243-1257. doi:10.1007/s10592-014-0615-y ISSN 1566-0621 (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Zhang, ZY and Cashins, S* and Philips, A* and Burridge, CP, “Significant population genetic structuring but a lack of phylogeographic structuring in the endemic Tasmanian tree frog (Litoria burrowsae)”, Australian Journal of Zoology, 62 (3) pp. 238-245. doi:10.1071/ZO14028 ISSN 0004-959X (2014) [Refereed Article] [Full Text] [Detail]
Chapter in Book
McEvoy, J and While, G and Wapstra, E, “Mammals of Tasmania's Alpine Zones”, The Abels: A Comprehensive Guide to Tasmania's Mountains over 1100m High, Volume 2, Tasmanian Outdoors Collection, B Wilkinson (ed), Australia, pp. 34-39. ISBN 9780646554303 (2011) [Other Book Chapter] [Full Text] [Detail]
Nicol, SC, “Mammals”, The Library at the End of the World: Natural Science and its Illustrators, The Royal Society of Tasmania, A Hansen, M Davies (ed), Hobart, TAS, pp. 186-199. ISBN 9780992516215 (2014) [Other Book Chapter] [Full Text] [Detail]
Wapstra, E and While, G, “Reptiles of Tasmania's Alpine Zones”, The Abels: A Comprehensive Guide to Tasmania's Mountains over 1100m High, Volume 2, Tasmanian Outdoors Collection, B Wilkinson (ed), Australia, pp. 28-33. ISBN 9780646554303 (2011) [Other Book Chapter] [Full Text] [Detail]
Conference Publication
McEvoy, J and While, GM and Wapstra, E, “The interplay between environment, aggression and fitness in a free living vertebrate”, Book of abstracts for the Ecological Society of Australia 2014 Annual Conference, 28 September - 3 October 2014, Alice Springs, Australia (2014) [Conference Extract] [Full Text] [Detail]
McEvoy, J and While, GM and Sinn, DL and Wapstra, E, “Intrasexual male competition in a social lizard”, Behaviour Conference 2011: The 48th Animal Behavior Society Meeting, 27-30 July 2011, Indiana, USA (2011) [Conference Extract] [Full Text] [Detail]
Contract Report, Consultant's Report
Cullen, B* and Eckard, R* and Johnson, I* and Lodge, G* and Walker, R* and Rawnsley, R and Dassanayake, K* and Christie, K and McCaskill, M* and Clark, S* and Sanford, P* and Browne, N* and Sinclair, K* and Chapman, D* and Leiffering, M* and Snow, V* and Hovenden, M and Perring, M, Climate change impacts on Australian grazing systems addendum: whole farm systems analysis and tools for the Australian and New Zealand grazing industries project report, Meat and Livestock Australia (2009) [Contract Report] [Full Text] [Detail]
Cullen, B* and Eckard, R* and Johnson, I* and Lodge, G* and Walker, R* and Rawnsley, R and Dassanayake, K* and Christie, K and McCaskill, M* and Clark, S* and Sanford, P* and Browne, N* and Sinclair, K* and Chapman, D* and Leiffering, M* and Snow, V* and Hovenden, M and Perring, M, Climate change impacts on Australian grazing systems: whole farm systems analysis and tools for the Australian and New Zealand grazing industries project report, Meat and Livestock Australia (2008) [Contract Report] [Full Text] [Detail]
Davies, PE and Cook, LSJ and Sloane, TR, Copper Mines of Tasmania, Stream Biota Monitoring Program 2009 Report, Copper Mines of Tasmania Pty Ltd (2009) [Consultants Report] [Detail]
Hovenden, MJ, The potential impacts of elevated CO2 on Australia's native biodiversity, Australian Federal Department of Climate Change (2008) [Contract Report] [Detail]
Jones, R, To visit centres of Eucalyptus research to learn techniques for the analysis of the Eucalyptus genome sequence, The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia (2010) [Contract Report] [Full Text] [Detail]
Kerr, RJ* and Dutkowski, GW* and McRae, TA* and Pilbeam, DJ* and Powell, MB* and Cameron, AI* and Hunter, S* and Breidahl, R* and Potts, BM and Jones, R, Genetic gain optimisation in tree breeding (MATEPLAN) and deployment (SEEDPLAN), Forest and Wood Products Australia, PN07.4025 (2008) [Contract Report] [Full Text] [Detail]
Perring, M and Hovenden, M, Carbon dioxide and climate change: impacts upon Australian grasslands, Australian Federal Department of Climate Change (2009) [Contract Report] [Detail]
Prior, L and Bowman, DMJS, Shifting fire regimes of Australia, USA and the Brazilian Amazon, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (2014) [Contract Report] [Full Text] [Detail]
Richards, R* and Ferguson, S* and Cornish, K* and Whight, S* and Williamson, G, Bushfire in Tasmania: a new approach to reducing our Statewide relative risk, State Fire Management Council, Tasmania, Australia (2014) [Consultants Report] [Full Text] [Detail]
Thesis
McEvoy, J, “Aggression as a personality trait in Egernia whitii mechanisms and outcomes” (2013) [PhD] [Full Text] [Detail]
Other Public Output
Byrne, M* and Prober, S* and McLean, E* and Steane, D and Stock, W* and Potts, BM and Vaillancourt, RE, “Adaptation to climate in widespread eucalypt species”, National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Australia (2013) [Government or Industry Research] [Full Text] [Detail]
Potts, B and Tilyard, PA and O'Reilly-Wapstra, JM, “Leaf oil chemistry of Eucalyptus nitens and the Tasmanian native eucalypts”, BioBuzz, CRC for Forestry, Australia, 11, pp. 1-9. (2011) [Internal Newsletter] [Full Text] [Detail]
Whitham, T* and O'Neill, G* and Fortuna, MA* and Shuster, S* and Ellison, AM* and Penuelas, J* and Gehring, C* and Michalet, R* and Hughes, R* and Potts, B and Allan, G* and Loustau, ML* and van der Putten, WH* and Hjort, NL* and Lau, MK*, “Workshop on 'The genetics of foundation species as drivers of ecological processes'”, Forest Ecosystem Genomics Research: Supporting Transatlantic Cooperation, pp. 1-41. (2011) [Report Other] [Full Text] [Detail]
Wiggins, NL and O'Reilly-Wapstra, JM and Paterson, SM* and Potts, BM, “Do all possums show the same aversion for genetically resistant seeding stock?”, Tasmanian Community Forest Agreement Committee, Australia, report 177, pp. 1-19. (2008) [Report Other] [Full Text] [Detail]

* This author is not affiliated with the University of Tasmania.