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List of works by Peter J. Unmack

A multigene molecular assessment of cryptic biodiversity in the iconic freshwater blackfishes (Teleostei: Percichthyidae:Gadopsis) of south-eastern Australia

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A phylogenetic analysis of pygmy perches (Teleostei: Percichthyidae) with an assessment of the major historical influences on aquatic biogeography in southern Australia

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A rethink on Retropinna: conservation implications of new taxa and significant genetic sub-structure in Australian smelts (Pisces:Retropinnidae)

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A revision of the bioregionalisation of freshwater fish communities in the Australian Monsoonal Tropics

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Accurate systematic frameworks are vital to advance ecological and evolutionary studies, with an example from Australian freshwater fish (Hypseleotris)

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Alternative conservation outcomes from aquatic fauna translocations: Losing and saving the Running River rainbowfish

scientific article published on 16 October 2023

Aridification‐driven evolution of a migratory fish revealed by niche modelling and coalescence simulations

scientific article published in 2022

Assessing biodiversity and endemism using phylogenetic methods across multiple taxonomic groups

scientific article published in 2015

Barriers to hybridisation and their conservation implications for a highly threatened Australian fish species

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Biogeography of Australian freshwater fishes

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Biogeography of the genus Craterocephalus (Teleostei: Atherinidae) in Australia.

scientific article published on 19 February 2010

Broadscale phylogeographic structure of five freshwater fishes across the Australian Monsoonal Tropics

Catchment-scale conservation units identified for the threatened Yarra pygmy perch (Nannoperca obscura) in highly modified river systems

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Characterization of the karyotype and accumulation of repetitive sequences in Australian Darling hardyhead Craterocephalus amniculus (Atheriniformes, Teleostei)

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Comparative ecological transcriptomics and the contribution of gene expression to the evolutionary potential of a threatened fish

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Comparison of genetic structure in co-occurring freshwater eleotrids (Actinopterygii: Philypnodon) reveals cryptic species, likely translocation and regional conservation hotspots

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Contemporary genetic structure of an endemic freshwater turtle reflects Miocene orogenesis of New Guinea

Convergence of Differentially Invaded Systems toward Invader-dominance: Time-lagged Invasions as a Predictor in Desert Fish Communities

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Cryptic biodiversity in the freshwater fishes of the Kimberley endemism hotspot, northwestern Australia

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DIGITIZED MAP OF BIOTIC COMMUNITIES FOR PLOTTING AND COMPARING DISTRIBUTIONS OF NORTH AMERICAN ANIMALS

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Deciphering the Evolutionary History of Arowana Fishes (Teleostei, Osteoglossiformes, Osteoglossidae): Insight from Comparative Cytogenomics ⬇️

scientific article published on 02 September 2019

Did common disjunct populations of freshwater fishes in northern Australia form from the same biogeographic events?

scholarly article by Benjamin D. Cook et al published March 2014 in Freshwater Science

Different processes lead to similar patterns: a test of codivergence and the role of sea level and climate changes in shaping a southern temperate freshwater assemblage

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Ecological disturbance influences adaptive divergence despite high gene flow in golden perch (Macquaria ambigua): implications for management and resilience to climate change

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Evidence for a multi-peak adaptive landscape in the evolution of trophic morphology in terapontid fishes

scientific article published on 29 August 2014

Evidence of Interspecific Chromosomal Diversification in Rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae, Teleostei)

scientific article published on 18 July 2020

Fish persistence and fluvial geomorphology in central Australia

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Freshwater Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Biogeographic Units for Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation

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Freshwater fishes of northern Australia

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Genome-wide SNP markers breathe new life into phylogeography and species delimitation for the problematic short-necked turtles (Chelidae: Emydura) of eastern Australia

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Genome-wide SNPs resolve a key conflict between sequence and allozyme data to confirm another threatened candidate species of river blackfishes (Teleostei: Percichthyidae: Gadopsis).

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Genome-wide data delimits multiple climate-determined species ranges in a widespread Australian fish, the golden perch (Macquaria ambigua).

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Genomewide SNP markers breathe new life into phylogeography and species delimitation for the problematic short‐necked turtles (Chelidae: Emydura ) of eastern Australia

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Genomics outperforms genetics to manage mistakes in fisheries stocking of threatened species

scientific article published in 2022

Going, going, gone? Loss of genetic diversity in two critically endangered Australian freshwater fishes,Scaturiginichthys vermeilipinnisandChlamydogobius squamigenus, from Great Artesian Basin springs at Edgbaston, Queensland, Australia

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Herbivory Promotes Dental Disparification and Macroevolutionary Dynamics in Grunters (Teleostei: Terapontidae), a Freshwater Adaptive Radiation

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High diversity of metazoan parasites in carp gudgeons (Eleotridae: Hypseleotris spp.) from Eastern Australia

scientific article published on 05 May 2020

Impact of ocean barriers, topography, and glaciation on the phylogeography of the catfish Trichomycterus areolatus (Teleostei: Trichomycteridae) in Chile

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Increased energy promotes size-based niche availability in marine mollusks

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

Influence of introgression and geological processes on phylogenetic relationships of Western North American mountain suckers (Pantosteus, Catostomidae)

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

It's a family matter: molecular phylogenetics of Atheriniformes and the polyphyly of the surf silversides (family: Notocheiridae).

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Landscape genetics informs mesohabitat preference and conservation priorities for a surrogate indicator species in a highly fragmented river system.

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Low Genetic Diversity in Diplomystes camposensis, an Endemic and Endangered Catfish from South Chile

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

Marine-freshwater transitions are associated with the evolution of dietary diversification in terapontid grunters (Teleostei: Terapontidae).

scientific article published on 23 April 2012

Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the Australian freshwater fish genus Galaxiella, with an emphasis on dwarf galaxias (G. pusilla)

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Molecular systematics and historical biogeography of the Nocomis biguttatus species group (Teleostei: Cyprinidae): nuclear and mitochondrial introgression and a cryptic Ozark species.

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Multi-locus fossil-calibrated phylogeny of Atheriniformes (Teleostei, Ovalentaria).

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

Nuclear gene-inferred phylogenies resolve the relationships of the enigmatic Pygmy Sunfishes, Elassoma (Teleostei: Percomorpha).

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On the roles of landscape heterogeneity and environmental variation in determining population genomic structure in a dendritic system

scientific article published on 03 August 2018

Ontogenetic development of intestinal length and relationships to diet in an Australasian fish family (Terapontidae)

scientific article (publication date: 25 February 2013)

PIT POP! Bursting the bubble on home-range bias with fine-scale PIT telemetry

scientific article published on 26 July 2022

Perspectives on the clonal persistence of presumed 'ghost' genomes in unisexual or allopolyploid taxa arising via hybridization

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

Phylogenomic history of enigmatic pygmy perches: implications for biogeography, taxonomy and conservation.

scientific article published on 13 June 2018

Phylogeny and biogeography of rainbowfishes (Melanotaeniidae) from Australia and New Guinea

scientific article published on 8 January 2013

Phylogeny and biogeography of the eleotrid genus Hypseleotris (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Eleotridae), with redescription of H. cyprinoides ⬇️

scholarly article by Christine Thacker & Peter J. Unmack published 2005 in Records of the Australian Museum

Phylogeographic structure in the threatened Yarra pygmy perch Nannoperca obscura (Teleostei: Percichthyidae) has major implications for declining populations

Phylogeography of Philypnodon species (Teleostei: Eleotridae) across south-eastern Australia: testing patterns of connectivity across drainage divides and among coastal rivers

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Phylogeography of the ancient catfish family Diplomystidae: biogeographic, systematic, and conservation implications.

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Phylogeography of the catfish Hatcheria macraei reveals a negligible role of drainage divides in structuring populations.

scientific article published on 29 December 2011

Plio‐Pleistocene sea‐level changes drive speciation of freshwater fishes in north‐western Australia

scientific article published in 2020

Population genetics of a widely distributed small freshwater fish with varying conservation concerns: the southern purple-spotted gudgeon, Mogurnda adspersa

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Range-wide fragmentation in a threatened fish associated with post-European settlement modification in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

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Recognition and Redescription of a Distinctive Stoneroller from the Southern Interior Highlands

scientific article published on 20 May 2010

Regional extinction, rediscovery and rescue of a freshwater fish from a highly modified environment: The need for rapid response

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Reproductive ecology of a critically endangered alpine galaxiid

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Resolution of the enigmatic phylogenetic relationship of the critically endangered Western Swamp Tortoise Pseudemydura umbrina (Pleurodira: Chelidae) using a complete mitochondrial genome

scientific article published on 25 July 2017

Resolving the taxonomy, range and ecology of biogeographically isolated and critically endangered populations of an Australian freshwater galaxiid, Galaxias truttaceus

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Revision of the Australian Wet Tropics endemic rainbowfish genus Cairnsichthys (Atheriniformes: Melanotaeniidae), with description of a new species

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The role of continental shelf width in determining freshwater phylogeographic patterns in south-eastern Australian pygmy perches (Teleostei: Percichthyidae).

scientific article published on 11 February 2013

Transport pathways shape the biogeography of alien freshwater fishes in Australia

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Two new species of dwarf rainbowfishes (Atheriniformes: Melanotaeniidae) from northern Australia and southern New Guinea

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

Use of congeneric assessment to reveal the linked genetic histories of two threatened fishes in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

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Using survival analysis to study translocation success in the Gila topminnow (Poeciliopsis occidentalis).

scientific article published on October 2006

Who's your mama? Riverine hybridisation of threatened freshwater Trout Cod and Murray Cod.

scientific article published on 27 October 2016

Who’s your mama? Riverine hybridisation of threatened freshwater Trout Cod and Murray Cod

Who’s your mama? Riverine hybridisation of threatened freshwater Trout Cod and Murray Cod

dartR: an R package to facilitate analysis of SNP data generated from reduced representation genome sequencing

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

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