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A NEW SPECIES OF CTENOPHORUS (LACERTILIA: AGAMIDAE) FROM LAKE DISAPPOINTMENT, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

scholarly article published in 2007

A New Species of Ctenophorus (Lacertilia: Agamidae) from Lake Disappointment, Western Australia

scientific article published in March 2007

A complex biogeographic history of diversification in Neotropical lancehead pitvipers (Serpentes, Viperidae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2019

A complex history of introgression and vicariance in a threatened montane skink (Pseudemoia cryodroma) across an Australian sky island system

A molecular phylogenetic study of ecological diversification in the Australian lizard genus Ctenophorus

scientific article published in December 2001

A molecular study of phylogenetic relationships and evolution of antipredator strategies in Australian Diplodactylus geckos, subgenus Strophurus

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A new species of Diporiphora from the Goneaway Tablelands of Western Queensland ⬇️

scientific article published on 20 November 2012

A new species of Velvet Gecko (Oedura: Diplodactylidae) from the limestone ranges of the southern Kimberley, Western Australia

scientific article (publication date: 14 October 2014)

A return-on-investment approach for prioritization of rigorous taxonomic research needed to inform responses to the biodiversity crisis

An Integrative Approach Using Phylogenomics and High-Resolution X-Ray Computed Tomography for Species Delimitation in Cryptic Taxa

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Animal population decline and recovery after severe fire: Relating ecological and life history traits with expert estimates of population impacts from the Australian 2019-20 megafires

scientific article published in 2023

Ant diversity in relation to time since fire in a mallee landscape of South‐Eastern Australia

scientific article published in 2023

Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota.

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Competition and character displacement in two species of scincid lizards

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Concordance in phylogeography and ecological niche modelling identify dispersal corridors for reptiles in arid Australia

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Conservation genetics and species status of an endangered Australian dragon, Tympanocryptis pinguicolla (Reptilia: Agamidae)

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Conservation genetics of eastern Australian herpetofauna in a rapidly changing landscape: a perspective on conservation management and policy implementation

Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk

scientific article published on 20 April 2021

Daily and Seasonal Activity Patterns in Two Species of High Altitude Skink, Niveoscincus microlepidotus and N. metallicus, from Tasmania ⬇️

scientific article published in March 1997

Decline of a biome: evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota

scholarly article published in 2011

Diversification patterns of pebble-mimic dragons are consistent with historical disruption of important habitat corridors in arid Australia

scientific article

Diversity and phylogenetic relationships of haemosporidian and hemogregarine parasites in Australian lizards

scholarly article published in 2022

Diversity in Australia’s tropical savannas: An integrative taxonomic revision of agamid lizards from the genera Amphibolurus and Lophognathus (Lacertilia: Agamidae)

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Ecological Divergence, Adaptive Diversification, and the Evolution of Social Signaling Traits: An Empirical Study in Arid Australian Lizards.

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Evidence of constrained phenotypic evolution in a cryptic species complex of agamid lizards

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Evolutionary correlations between escape behaviour and performance ability in eight species of snow skinks (Niveoscincus: Lygosominae) from Tasmania

article published in 2003

Evolutionary correlations between microhabitat specialisation and locomotor capabilities in the lizard genus Niveoscincus

scientific article published in 2007

Evolutionary origins and diversification of dragon lizards in Australia's tropical savannas.

scientific article

Evolutionary relationships between morphology, performance and habitat openness in the lizard genus Niveoscincus (Scincidae: Lygosominae)

scientific article published in August 2000

Expression of a hindlimb-determining factor Pitx1 in the forelimb of the lizard Pogona vitticeps during morphogenesis

scientific article

Extensive Phylogeographic and Morphological Diversity in Diporiphora nobbi (Agamidae) Leads to a Taxonomic Review and a New Species Description

scientific article published in 2011

Factors shaping the evolution of colour patterns in Australian agamid lizards (Agamidae): a comparative study

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Genetic erosion and escalating extinction risk in frogs with increasing wildfire frequency

scholarly article by Dominique A Potvin et al published 15 November 2016 in Journal of Applied Ecology

Genetic structure and diversity of the endangered growling grass frog in a rapidly urbanizing region

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Geographic and taxonomic patterns of extinction risk in Australian squamates

Geographic variation in hybridization and ecological differentiation between three syntopic, morphologically similar species of montane lizards.

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Herpetofaunal diversity changes with climate: evidence from the Quaternary of McEachern’s Deathtrap Cave, southeastern Australia

scientific article published in 2022

Historical biogeography, phylogenetic relationships and intraspecific diversity of agamid lizards in the Central Asian deserts of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

scientific article published on 19 May 2009

Human-induced versus historical habitat shifts: identifying the processes that shaped the genetic structure of the threatened grassland legless lizard, Delma impar

Identifying hybridization and admixture using SNPs: application of the DArTseq platform in phylogeographic research on vertebrates

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Incorporating historical museum specimens into molecular systematic and conservation genetics research

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Integrating phylogeography and high-resolution X-ray CT reveals five new cryptic species and multiple hybrid zones among Australian earless dragons

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Intercontinental community convergence of ecology and morphology in desert lizards

scientific article published in March 2006

Introducing the Australian Journal of Taxonomy, a new, fully-online, fully open-access journal for the rapid publication of new Australian species and other taxa

scientific article published on 11 May 2022

Isolation and characterization of microsatellite markers for the Litoria ewingii complex and their use in conservation and hybridization studies

Lead exposure of mainland Australia's top avian predator

scientific article published in September 2023

Length variation in the N-terminal domain of the recombination-activating gene 1 (RAG1) across squamates

scientific article

Lineage diversity within a widespread endemic Australian skink to better inform conservation in response to regional-scale disturbance

scientific article published on 14 March 2022

MHC class II β exon 2 variation in pardalotes (Pardalotidae) is shaped by selection, recombination and gene conversion

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Microsatellite loci for the endangered growling grass frog (Litoria raniformis), with cross amplification in other Australian frog species

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Mitochondrial DNA-Sequence Based Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Snow Skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Niveoscincus) of Tasmania

scientific article published in 2000

Molecular patterns of introgression in a classic hybrid zone between the Australian tree frogs, Litoria ewingii and L. paraewingi: evidence of a tension zone

scientific article

Molecular phylogenetic evidence for ancient divergence of lizard taxa on either side of Wallace's Line

scientific article (publication date: 22 March 2003)

Mountain barriers and river conduits: phylogeographical structure in a large, mobile lizard (Varanidae:Varanus varius) from eastern Australia

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New data from basal Australian songbird lineages show that complex structure of MHC class II β genes has early evolutionary origins within passerines

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Opening a box of cryptic taxa - the first review of the North African desert lizards in the Trapelus mutabilis Merrem, 1820 complex (Squamata: Agamidae) with descriptions of new taxa

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Phylogenetic evidence of historic mitochondrial introgression and cryptic diversity in the genus Pseudemoia (Squamata: Scincidae).

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Phylogenetic relationships of the heath dragons (Rankinia adelaidensis and R. parviceps) from the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot

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Phylogeographic analysis detects congruent biogeographic patterns between a woodland agamid and Australian wet tropics taxa despite disparate evolutionary trajectories

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Phylogeographic evidence links the threatened ‘Grampians’ Mountain Dragon (Rankinia diemensis Grampians) with Tasmanian populations: conservation implications in south-eastern Australia

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Polymorphic microsatellite markers in the painted dragon lizard, Ctenophorus pictus

scientific article published in 2006

Prevalence and diversity of avian haematozoa in three species of Australian passerine

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Reptiles on the brink: identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction

scientific article published in 2021

Revision of the Western Australian pebble-mimic dragon species-group (Tympanocryptis cephalus: Reptilia: Agamidae) ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 3 November 2015)

Sex‐specific shifts in morphology and colour pattern polymorphism during range expansion of an invasive lizard

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

Spatial Separation in Two Sympatric Skinks, Niveoscincus microlepidotus and N. metallicus, from Tasmania

Spatio-temporal changes in the structure of an Australian frog hybrid zone: a 40-year perspective

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Structure and fragmentation of growling grass frog metapopulations

scholarly article by Joshua M. Hale et al published 23 November 2012 in Conservation Genetics

Systematic assessment of the brown tree frog (Anura: Pelodryadidae: Litoria ewingii) reveals two endemic species in South Australia

scientific article published in 2024

Taxonomic assessment of Diporiphora (Reptilia: Agamidae) dragon lizards from the western arid zone of Australia ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 October 2012

Taxonomic revision of dragon lizards in the genus Diporiphora (Reptilia: Agamidae) from the Australian monsoonal tropics

Taxonomy and conservation of grassland earless dragons: new species and an assessment of the first possible extinction of a reptile on mainland Australia.

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

scientific article published on 02 March 2022

The role of geography and ecological opportunity in the diversification of day geckos (Phelsuma).

scientific article published on August 2008

The role of integrative taxonomy in the conservation management of cryptic species: the taxonomic status of endangered earless dragons (Agamidae: Tympanocryptis) in the grasslands of Queensland, Australia

scientific article

Tree Thinking: An Introduction to Phylogenetic Biology D.A. Baum and S.D. Smith . 2013. Roberts and Company Publishers. ISBN 9781936221165. 496 p. $75 (hardcover).

scientific article published on 30 December 2013

Value and impacts of collecting vertebrate voucher specimens, with guidelines for ethical collection

scientific article

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