Speciation, biodiversity and hybridization

Many of these publications are open access or otherwise readily available on the internet for example via ResearchGate.

However, if you would like papers to which you do not have access

please email Paul.Sunnucks@monash.edu /  Alexandra.Pavlova@monash.edu

Speciation, biodiversity and hybridization - Papers:

Byrne M, Steane D, Joseph L, Yeates D, Jordan G, Crayn D, Sniderman JMK, Aplin K, Cantrill D, Cook LG, Crisp MD, Keogh JS, Melville J, Moritz C, Porch N, Sunnucks P, Weston P. (2011) Decline of a biome: contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota. Journal of Biogeography. 38:1635.

Birds

Lamb AM, Gonçalves Da Silva A, Joseph L, Sunnucks P, Pavlova A. (2019) Pleistocene-dated biogeographic barriers drove divergence within the Australo-Papuan region in a sex-specific way: an example in a widespread Australian songbird. Heredity 123:608–621.

Morales HE, Pavlova A, Amos JN, Major R, Kilian A, Greening C and Sunnucks P  (2018) Concordant divergence of mitogenomes and a mitonuclear gene cluster in bird lineages inhabiting different climates.  Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, 1258–1267  earlier version pre-print   Commentary on this paper

Lamb AM, Gan HM, Greening C, Joseph L, Lee YP, Morán-Ordóñez A, Sunnucks P, Pavlova A. (2018) Climate-driven mitochondrial selection: a test in Australian songbirds. Molecular Ecology 27, 898–918.

Krzemińska U, Morales HE, Greening C, Nyari AS, Wilson R, Song BK, Austin CM, Sunnucks P, Pavlova A, Rahman S. (2018) Population mitogenomics provides insights into evolutionary history, source of invasions and diversifying selection in the House Crow (Corvus splendens). Heredity 120:296-309.

Morales HE, Sunnucks P, Joseph L, Pavlova A. (2017) Perpendicular axes of differentiation generated by mitochondrial introgression Molecular Ecology 26, 3241–3255.

Balasubramaniam S, Mulder RA, Sunnucks P, Pavlova A, Melville J. (2017) MHC class II β exon 2 variation in pardalotes (Pardalotidae) is shaped by selection, recombination and gene conversion.  Immunogenetics 69, 101-111

Balasubramaniam S, Bray RD, Mulder RA, Sunnucks P, Pavlova A, Melville J (2016) New data from basal Australian songbird lineages show that complex mammal-like structure of MHC class II β genes has early evolutionary origins within passerines.  BMC Evolutionary Biology 16:112

Sitters H, Di Stefano J, Christie F, Sunnucks P and York A. 2015  Bird diversity increases after patchy prescribed fire: implications from a before-after control-impact study.   International Journal of Wildland Fire,  24: 690-701

Morales HE, Pavlova A, Joseph L, Sunnucks P (2015) Positive and purifying selection in mitochondrial genomes of a bird with mitonuclear discordance. Molecular Ecology 24, 2820–2837.

Pavlova A, Selwood P, Harrisson KA, Murray N, Quin B, Menkhorst P, Smales I and Sunnucks P.  (2014) Integrating phylogeography and morphometrics to assess conservation merits and inform conservation strategies for an endangered subspecies of a common species. Biological Conservation, 174, 136–146

Pavlova A, Amos JN, Joseph L, Loynes K, Austin JJ, Keogh JS, Stone GN, Nicholls JA and Sunnucks P (2013).  Perched at the mito-nuclear crossroads: divergent mitochondrial lineages correlate with environment in the face of ongoing nuclear gene flow in an Australian bird. Evolution, 67, 3412–3428.

Fish

Pavlova A, Gan HM, Lee YP, Austin CM, Gilligan D, Lintermans M, Sunnucks P. (2017) Purifying selection and drift shaped Pleistocene evolution of mitochondrial genome in an endangered Australian freshwater fish. Heredity 118, 466-476.

Harrisson KA, Amish S, Pavlova A, Narum S, Telonis-Scott M, Rourke ML, Lyon J, Tonkin Z, Gilligan D, Ingram B, Lintermans M, Gan HM, Austin CM, Luikart G, Sunnucks P (2017). Signatures of polygenic adaptation associated with climate across the range of a threatened fish species with high genetic connectivity.  Molecular Ecology 26, 6253-6269.

Harrisson KA, Yen JDL, Pavlova A, Rourke ML, Gilligan D, Ingram BA, Lyon J, Tonkin Z, Sunnucks P (2016) Identifying environmental correlates of intra-specific genetic variation. Heredity 117, 155-164

Harrisson KA, Pavlova A, Gan HM, Lee YP, Austin CM and Sunnucks P (2016) Pleistocene divergence across a mountain range and the influence of selection on mitogenome evolution in threatened Australian freshwater cod species. Heredity 116, 506 – 515.

Bracamonte SE, Smith S, Hammer M, Pavey S, Sunnucks P, Beheregaray LB. (2015) Characterization of MHC class IIB for four endangered Australian freshwater fishes obtained from ecologically divergent populations.  Fish & Shellfish Immunology 46, 468-476

Beheregaray LB, Briscoe DA & Sunnucks P (2002) A rapid fish radiation associated with the last sea level changes in southern Brazil: the silverside Odontesthes perugiae complex. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B., 269, 65-73

Beheregaray LB & Sunnucks P (2001) Fine-scale genetic structure, estuarine colonisation and incipient speciation in the marine fish Odontesthes argentinensis. Molecular Ecology, 10: 2849-2866.

Freshwater invertebrates

Davis J, Sim L, Thompson RM, Pinder A, Murphy N, Brim Box J, Sheldon F, Morán-Ordóñez A, Sunnucks P  (2018) Patterns and drivers of aquatic invertebrate diversity across an arid biome. Ecography 41: 375-387. 

Razeng E, Smith AE, Harrisson KA, Pavlova A, Nguyen TTT, Pinder A, Suter P, Webb J, Brim Box J, Thompson R, Davis JA, Sunnucks P. (2017) Evolutionary divergence in freshwater insects with contrasting dispersal capacity, across a sea of desert.  Freshwater Biology  6 July 2017 62:1443–1459.

Morán-Ordóñez A, Pavlova A, Pinder M, Sim L, Sunnucks P, Thompson RM, and Davis J (2015) Aquatic communities in arid landscapes: local conditions, dispersal traits and landscape configuration determine local biodiversity.  Diversity and Distributions 21, 1230-1241.

Davis J, Sunnucks P, Thompson RM, Sim L, Pavlova A, Morán-Ordóñez A, Brim Box J, McBurnie G, Pinder A, Choy S, McNeil D, Hughes J, Sheldon F & Timms B (2013) Climate change adaptation guidelines for arid zone aquatic ecosystems and freshwater biodiversity. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, 51 pp.  ISBN: 978-1-925039-83-2

Davis J, Sunnucks P, Thompson RM, Sim L, Pavlova A, Morán-Ordóñez A, Brim Box J, McBurnie G, Pinder A, Choy S, McNeil D, Hughes J, Sheldon F & Timms B (2013) Building the climate resilience of arid zone freshwater biota. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility, Gold Coast, 30 pp.  ISBN: 978-1-925039-82-5

Davis J, Pavlova A, Thompson R, Sunnucks P (2013) Evolutionary refugia and ecological refuges: key concepts for conserving arid zone freshwater biodiversity under climate change. Global Change Biology. 19, 1970–1984

Terrestrial invertebrates

Roitman M, Gardner MG, New TR, Nguyen TTT, Roycroft EJ, Sunnucks P, Yen AL, Harrisson KA. (2017) Assessing the scope for genetic rescue of an endangered butterfly: the case of the Eltham copper. Insect Conservation and Diversity 10, 399–414

Bull JK and Sunnucks P (2014) Strong genetic structuring without assortative mating or reduced hybrid survival in an onychophoran in the Tallaganda State Forest region, Australia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 111, 589–602

Bull JK*, Sands CJ*, Garrick RC, Gardner M, Tait NN, Briscoe DA, Rowell DM, Sunnucks P (2013) Environmental complexity and biodiversity: the multi-layered evolutionary history of a log-dwelling velvet worm in montane temperate Australia. PLoS ONE. 8(12): e84559. *these authors contributed equally to the work

Garrick RC, Rowell DM and Sunnucks P (2012) Phylogeography of saproxylic and forest floor invertebrates from Tallaganda, South-eastern Australia. Insects 3, 270-294

Hering L, Henze MJ, Kohler M, Kelber A, Bleidorn C, Leschke M, Nickel B, Meyer M, Kircher M, Sunnucks P, Mayer G. (2012) Opsins in Onychophora (velvet worms) suggest a single origin and subsequent diversification of visual pigments in arthropods. Molecular Biology & Evolution. 29:3451.

Beavis AS, Sunnucks P, Rowell DM (2011) Microhabitat preferences drive phylogeographic disparities in two Australian funnel web spiders. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 104, 805–819.

Blaxter M & Sunnucks P. (2011) Velvet worms. Current Biology, 21:R238.

Mayer G, Whitington P, Sunnucks P, Pflüger HJ. (2010) A revision of brain composition in Onychophora (velvet worms) suggests that the tritocerebrum evolved in arthropods. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10:255.

Norgate M, Chamings J, Pavlova A, Bull J, Murray N and Sunnucks P. (2009) Mitochondrial DNA indicates late Pleistocene divergence of isolated populations of Heteronympha merope, an emerging model in environmental change biology. PLoS ONE, 4:e7950.

Garrick RC, Rowell DM, Simmons CS, Hillis DM, Sunnucks P (2008) Fine-scale phylogeographic congruence despite demographic incongruence in two low-mobility saproxylic springtails. Evolution, 62, 1103-1118.

Garrick RC, Sands CJ, Rowell DM, Hillis DM, Sunnucks P (2007). Catchments catch all: long-term population history of a giant springtail from the southeast Australian highlands – a multigene approach. Molecular Ecology, 16, 1865-1882.

Sunnucks P, Blacket MJ, Taylor JM, Sands CJ, Ciavaglia SA, Garrick RC, Tait NN, Rowell DM & Pavlova A (2006) A tale of two flatties: different responses of two terrestrial flatworms to past environmental climatic fluctuations at Tallaganda in montane south-eastern Australia. Molecular Ecology, 15, 4513-4531.

Garrick RC, Sands CJ, Rowell DM, Tait NN, Greenslade P and Sunnucks P (2004) Phylogeography recapitulates topography: very fine-scale local endemism of a saproxylic ‘giant’ springtail at Tallaganda in the Great Dividing Range of south-east Australia. Molecular Ecology. 13, 3329-3344.

Stevens MI, Greenslade P, Hogg ID, Sunnucks P (2006) Examining Southern Hemisphere springtails: could any have survived glaciation of Antarctica? Molecular Biology & Evolution 23, 874-882.

Sunnucks P, Curach N, Young A, French J, Cameron R, Briscoe DA & Tait NN (2000) Reproductive biology of the onychophoran Euperipatoides rowelli. Journal of Zoology 250: 447-460.

Curach N & Sunnucks P (1999) ‘Molecular anatomy’ of an onychophoran: compartmentalized sperm storage and heterogeneous paternity. Molecular Ecology 8: 1375-1386.

Seals

Lancaster ML, Goldsworthy SD, Sunnucks P (2010) Two behavioural traits promote fine-scale species segregation and moderate hybridisation in a recovering sympatric fur seal population. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10:143.

Lancaster ML, Goldsworthy SD, Sunnucks P (2007) Multiple mating strategies explain unexpected genetic mixing of New Zealand fur seals with two congenerics in a recently recolonised population. Molecular Ecology, 16, 5267-5276.

Lancaster ML, Bradshaw CJA, Goldsworthy SD, Sunnucks P (2007) Lower reproductive success in hybrid fur seal males indicates fitness costs to hybridization. Molecular Ecology, 16, 3187-3197.

Lancaster M, Gemmell NJ, Negro S, Sunnucks P & Goldsworthy S (2006). Ménage à trois on Macquarie Island: Hybridisation among three species of fur seal (Arctocephalus spp.) following historical population extinction. Molecular Ecology, 15, 3681-3692.