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"It's ok, we're not cousins by blood": the cousin marriage controversy in historical perspective

scientific article

A Theoretical Investigation of Speciation by Reinforcement

scientific article published in 1986

A census of mammalian imprinting.

scientific article

A chip off the old block: a model for the evolution of genomic imprinting via selection for parental similarity

scientific article

A model of optimal timing for a predictive adaptive response

Adaptive dynamics, game theory and evolutionary population genetics

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An asymmetric model of heterozygote advantage at major histocompatibility complex genes: degenerate pathogen recognition and intersection advantage

scientific article published on 3 February 2008

Application of palaeogenetic techniques to historic mollusc shells reveals phylogeographic structure in a New Zealand abalone

2022 scientific paper

Archival DNA reveals cryptic biodiversity within the Spotted Shag (Phalacrocorax punctatus) from New Zealand

scholarly article

Avoiding extinction under nonlinear environmental change: models of evolutionary rescue with plasticity

scientific article published in 2021

Beyond Equilibria: The Neglected Role of History in Ecology and Evolution

Biogeography off the tracks

scientific article

Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca

Case 3095. Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters, 1866, M. tuberculata Gray, 1843 and Vespertilio tuberculatus J.R. Forster, 1844 (currently C. tuberculatus) (Mammalia, Chiroptera): proposed conservation of usage of the names

article by Hamish Gordon Spencer & Daphne E. Lee published 1999 in Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature

Case 3706 — Trochus (Osilinus ?) Capillaceus Philippi, 1849 (currently Cantharidus capillaceus; Mollusca, Gastropoda, Trochoidea): proposed conservation of the specific name

scientific article

Catalogue of New Zealand land, freshwater and estuarine molluscan taxa named by Frederick Wollaston Hutton between 1879 and 1904

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Circumpolar dispersal by rafting in two subantarctic kelp-dwelling crustaceans

scholarly article

Cladogenesis as the result of long-distance rafting events in South Pacific topshells (Gastropoda, Trochidae).

scientific article

Classification of the cormorants of the world

scientific article published on 30 June 2014

Comments on some taxonomic changes affecting marine Bivalvia of the New Zealand region recently introduced in Huber'sCompendium of bivalves, with some additional taxonomic changes

scientific article published in February 2013

Comparative and meta-analytic insights into life extension via dietary restriction

scientific article

Comparison of population-genetic structuring in congeneric kelp- versus rock-associated snails: a test of a dispersal-by-rafting hypothesis

scientific article published on October 2011

Complex dynamics occur in a single-locus, multiallelic model of general frequency-dependent selection.

scientific article published on 9 October 2009

Contemporary habitat discontinuity and historic glacial ice drive genetic divergence in Chilean kelp

scientific article

Contrasting biogeographical patterns in Margarella (Gastropoda: Calliostomatidae: Margarellinae) across the Antarctic Polar Front

scientific article published on 10 December 2020

Contrasting population makeup of two intertidal gastropod species that differ in dispersal opportunities

scientific article published in 2011

Corrigendum to “The phylogenetic relationships of the extant pelicans inferred from DNA sequence data” [Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 66 (2013) 215–222]

scholarly article published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Cytoplasmic Incompatibility: Why is it Sexually Asymmetric?

scientific article published on 01 December 1995

Developmental Origins of Health and Disease across Generations – Theory, Observation, Experiment

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Developmental plasticity and human health

scientific article published in July 2004

Directly observed images through the shell-lenses of Onithochiton neglectus (Mollusca: Polyplacophora: Chitonidae)

Durvillaea poha sp. nov. (Fucales, Phaeophyceae): a buoyant southern bull-kelp species endemic to New Zealand

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Effects of Genetic Drift and Gene Flow on the Selective Maintenance of Genetic Variation

scientific article published on March 2, 2013

Effects of genomic imprinting on quantitative traits

scientific article published on 09 August 2008

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding reveals strong discrimination among diverse marine habitats connected by water movement

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Environmental influences during development and their later consequences for health and disease: implications for the interpretation of empirical studies

scientific article

Epigenetic induction may speed up or slow down speciation with gene flow

Evolution of fitnesses and allele frequencies in a population with spatially heterogeneous selection pressures

scientific article published on 18 October 2007

Evolution of fitnesses in structured populations with correlated environments

scientific article published on 18 June 2008

Evolutionary consequences of microhabitat: population-genetic structuring in kelp- vs. rock-associated chitons

scientific article published on 26 October 2011

Evolutionary genetic models of the ovarian time bomb hypothesis for the evolution of genomic imprinting

scientific article

Exploring epiallele stability in a population-epigenetic model

scientific article published on 5 October 2012

Failure of imprinting at Igf-2: two models of mutation-selection balance

scientific article published on February 1995

Following the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: patterns and processes in the biogeography of the limpet Nacella (Mollusca: Patellogastropoda) across the Southern Ocean

scholarly article by Claudio A. González-Wevar et al published 27 December 2016 in Journal of Biogeography

For Host's Sake: The Pluses of Parasite Preservation

scientific article published on 19 March 2016

Frequency-dependent selection and the maintenance of genetic variation: exploring the parameter space of the multiallelic pairwise interaction model

scientific article published on 4 May 2007

Frequency-dependent selection with dominance: a window onto the behavior of the mean fitness

scientific article

Further properties of Gavrilets' one-locus two-allele model of maternal selection.

scientific article

GENETIC AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF THE SOUTHERN BULL KELP DURVILLAEA ANTARCTICA (PHAEOPHYCEAE: DURVILLAEALES) IN NEW ZEALAND REVEAL CRYPTIC SPECIES(1).

scientific article

Genetic affinities between trans-oceanic populations of non-buoyant macroalgae in the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere

scientific article published on 22 July 2013

Genetic and morphological evidence for two species ofLeucocarboshag (Aves, Pelecaniformes, Phalacrocoracidae) from southern South Island of New Zealand

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Genetic conflicts and the evolutionary origin of genomic imprinting

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Genetic conflicts, multiple paternity and the evolution of genomic imprinting.

scientific article

Genetic drift on networks: Ploidy and the time to fixation

scientific article published on 04 September 2008

Genetic variation and prevalence of blood parasites do not correlate among bird species

Genomic imprinting leads to less selectively maintained polymorphism on X chromosomes

scientific article

Genomic imprinting: theories and data

scientific article

Glacial oceanographic contrasts explain phylogeography of Australian bull kelp

scientific article published on 23 April 2009

Graph-structured populations and the Hill-Robertson effect

Haliotis virginea Gmelin, 1791 and a new abalone from Aotearoa New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Haliotidae)

Paper describing a new species of pāua, 2024

Haminoea, Haminaea or Haminea (Mollusca, Gastropoda): notes and comments on the spelling and authorship of the generic name, and a proposed Commission ruling

Hop, step and gape: do the social displays of the Pelecaniformes reflect phylogeny?

scholarly article by MARTYN KENNEDY et al published February 1996 in Animal Behaviour

Host and ecology both play a role in shaping distribution of digenean parasites of New Zealand whelks (Gastropoda: Buccinidae: Cominella).

scientific article published on 9 June 2016

Host specificity and molecular phylogeny of larval Digenea isolated from New Zealand and Australian topshells (Gastropoda: Trochidae).

scientific article

How stable 'should' epigenetic modifications be? Insights from adaptive plasticity and bet hedging

scientific article published on 20 December 2013

Identifying cliques of convergent characters: concerted evolution in the cormorants and shags

scientific article published on 14 May 2010

Imprinting: Evolution

Imprinting: Evolution

In Memoriam

Influence of mom and dad: quantitative genetic models for maternal effects and genomic imprinting

scientific article

Intragenomic Conflict

Kelp genes reveal effects of subantarctic sea ice during the Last Glacial Maximum

scholarly article

Killing the Behavioral Zombie: Genes, Evolution, and Why Behavior Isn’t Special

Measuring mating preferences: the use of Manly's beta

scientific article published on April 1, 1988

Metapopulation Structure Favors Plasticity over Local Adaptation

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

Metazoan parasite species richness and genetic variation among freshwater fish species: cause or consequence?

article

Models of frequency-dependent selection with mutation from parental alleles

scientific article published on 12 July 2013

Molecular systematics of the marine gastropod families Trochidae and Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Superfamily Trochoidea)

scientific article

Multigene phylogeny of the southern bull-kelp genus Durvillaea (Phaeophyceae: Fucales)

scientific article published on October 28, 2010

Mutation-Selection Balance

Mutation-Selection Balance Under Genomic Imprinting at an Autosomal Locus

scientific article published on September 1, 1997

Mutation-selection balance at a modifier-of-imprinting locus

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New Zealand screw shellsMaoricolpus roseus(Gastropoda: Turritellidae): two species, two subspecies or a single variable species?

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Non-conflict theories for the evolution of genomic imprinting.

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On the proposed conservation of usage of the names Mystacina Gray, 1843, Chalinolobus Peters, 1866, M. tuberculata Gray, 1843 and C. tuberculatus (JR Forster, 1844) (Mammalia, Chiroptera)

scientific article published in 2000

Onward and upward

Passive rafting is a powerful driver of transoceanic gene flow

scientific article published on 7 November 2012

Patch choice with competitive asymmetries and perceptual limits: the importance of history

scholarly article

Phylogenetic relationships elucidate colonization patterns in the intertidal grazers Osilinus Philippi, 1847 and Phorcus Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda: Trochidae) in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

scientific article published on 14 September 2011

Phylogenies of the Frigatebirds (Fregatidae) and Tropicbirds (Phaethonidae), two divergent groups of the traditional order Pelecaniformes, inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences

scientific article

Phylogeny of the microcormorants, with the description of a new genus

scientific article published in 2023

Phylogeographic patterns in New Zealand and temperate Australian cantharidines (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae: Cantharidinae): Trans-Tasman divergences are ancient

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Phylogeographical disjunction in abundant high-dispersal littoral gastropods

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Phylogeography of Kauri Snails and their allies from Northland, New Zealand (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Rhytididae: Paryphantinae)

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Phylogeography of the intertidal marine bivalve Lasaea hinemoa (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in New Zealand

Phylogeography of the whelk genusCominella(Gastropoda: Buccinidae) suggests long-distance counter-current dispersal of a direct developer

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Polymorphic microsatellite DNA markers in the mudflat topshell Diloma subrostrata (Gastropoda, Trochidae)

scientific article published in 2006

Population genetics and evolution of genomic imprinting

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Population models of genomic imprinting. I. Differential viability in the sexes and the analogy with genetic dominance

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Population models of genomic imprinting. II. Maternal and fertility selection

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Population structure of the New Zealand whelk, Cominella glandiformis (Gastropoda: Buccinidae), suggests sporadic dispersal of a direct developer

Population-epigenetic models of selection

scientific article published on August 9, 2011

Population-genetic models of sex-limited genomic imprinting.

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

Predictive adaptive responses and human evolution

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Predictive adaptive responses in perspective

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Quantifying the Effect of Predation Risk on Foraging Bullies: No Need to Assume an IFD

scientific article published in 1994

Quantitative Genetics of Genomic Imprinting: A Comparison of Simple Variance Derivations, the Effects of Inbreeding, and Response to Selection

scientific article published on July 1, 2011

Random genetic drift and selection in a triallelic locus: a continuous diffusion model

scientific article published on February 1, 1992

Rapid radiation of Southern Ocean shags in response to receding sea ice

scientific article published in 2022

Reef formation versus solitariness in two New Zealand serpulids does not involve cryptic species

article

Reply from H.G. Spencer, A.G. Clark and M.W. Feldman

scientific article published on 01 September 1999

Seven snail species hidden in one: Biogeographic diversity in an apparently widespread periwinkle in the Southern Ocean

scientific article published in 2022

Simultaneous polyphenism and cryptic species in an intertidal limpet from New Zealand

scientific article

Single-locus polymorphism in a heterogeneous two-deme model

scientific article published on 4 May 2007

Skeletal carbonate mineralogy of New Zealand bryozoans

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Skeletal mineralogy of scaphopods: an unusual uniformity

scholarly article by Abigail M. Smith & Hamish Gordon Spencer published 6 December 2015 in Journal of Molluscan Studies

Sorting out the Snakebirds: The species status, phylogeny, and biogeography of the Darters (Aves: Anhingidae)

scientific article published in 2019

Speciation, range contraction and extinction in the endemic New Zealand King Shag complex

scientific article

Species assignation amongst morphologically cryptic larval Digenea isolated from New Zealand topshells (Gastropoda: Trochidae).

scientific article published on 7 March 2007

Species-level biodiversity assessment using marine environmental DNA metabarcoding requires protocol optimization and standardization

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Strong phylogeographic structure in a sedentary seabird, the Stewart Island Shag (Leucocarbo chalconotus)

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Structured Populations and the Maintenance of Sex

Systematic revision of Nacella (Patellogastropoda: Nacellidae) based on a complete phylogeny of the genus, with the description of a new species from the southern tip of South America

article by Claudio González-Wevar et al published 13 December 2018 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

Systematics and phylogeny of a new cryptic species of Diloma Philippi (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae) from a novel habitat, the bull kelp holdfast communities of southern New Zealand

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Taxonomic consistency and nomenclatural rules within oysters: Comment on Li et al. (2021)

scientific article published in May 2022

Taxonomy and nomenclature of black nerites (Gastropoda�:�Neritimorpha�:�Nerita) from the South Pacific

The Evolution of Genomic Imprinting via Variance Minimization: An Evolutionary Genetic Model

scientific article published on 27 April 2021

The Evolution of Genomic Imprinting: Two Modifier-Locus Models

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

The Evolution of Sex-Specific Dominance in Response to Sexually Antagonistic Selection

scientific article published on 22 March 2016

The Maintenance of Single-Locus Polymorphism. II. The Evolution of Fitnesses and Allele Frequencies

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The Phylogenetic Relationships of the Shags and Cormorants: Can Sequence Data Resolve a Disagreement between Behavior and Morphology?

scientific article (publication date: December 2000)

The Selective Maintenance of Allelic Variation Under Generalized Dominance

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The adaptive invasion of epialleles in a heterogeneous environment

scientific article published on May 18, 2013

The correlation between relatives on the supposition of genomic imprinting

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The effect of genetic conflict on genomic imprinting and modification of expression at a sex-linked locus

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The evolution of epigenetically mediated adaptive transgenerational plasticity in a subdivided population

article by Philip B. Greenspoon & Hamish Gordon Spencer published 21 October 2018 in Evolution

The evolution of epigenetically-mediated adaptive transgenerational plasticity in a subdivided population

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The evolution of genomic imprinting via variance minimization: an evolutionary genetic model

scientific article published on September 2003

The evolutionary construction of molecular polymorphisms

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The evolutionary potential of paramutation: a population-epigenetic model.

scientific article published on 7 June 2013

The failure of a scientific critique: David Heron, Karl Pearson and Mendelian eugenics

scientific article published in December 1998

The generation and maintenance of genetic variation by frequency-dependent selection: constructing polymorphisms under the pairwise interaction model

scientific article published on 14 September 2008

The hidden science of eugenics

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The long and short of it: branch lengths and the problem of placing the New Zealand short-tailed bat, Mystacina

scientific article published in November 1999

The maintenance of single-locus polymorphism by maternal selection

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The marine fauna of New Zealand: Index to the fauna. 3. Mollusca

article by Hamish Gordon Spencer & Richard C. Willan published 1995 in New Zealand Oceanographic Institute memoir

The phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic Indian Cormorant, Phalacrocorax fuscicollis (Phalacrocoracidae)

scholarly article by Martyn Kennedy et al published 25 October 2018 in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

The phylogenetic placement of the enigmatic Indian Cormorant, Phalacrocorax fuscicollis (Phalacrocoracidae)

The phylogenetic position of the Galápagos Cormorant

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The phylogenetic relationships of the extant pelicans inferred from DNA sequence data

scientific article published on October 8, 2012

The phylogeny and taxonomy of New Zealand Notoacmea and Patelloida species (Mollusca: Patellogastropoda: Lottiidae) inferred from DNA sequences

scholarly article by Tomoyuki Nakano et al published 2009 in Molluscan Research

The phylogeny and taxonomy of austral monodontine topshells (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae), inferred from DNA sequences

scientific article published on 3 June 2005

The two faces of Robert Fitzroy, Captain of HMS Beagle and governor of New Zealand

scientific article

Trans-Tasman genetic connectivity in the intertidal air-breathing slug Onchidella nigricans

scientific article published in 2016

Transoceanic genetic similarities of kelp-associated sea slug populations: long-distance dispersal via rafting?

scholarly article

Unexpected absence of island endemics: Long-distance dispersal in higher latitude sub-Antarctic Siphonaria (Gastropoda: Euthyneura) species

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Untangling long branches: identifying conflicting phylogenetic signals using spectral analysis, neighbor-net, and consensus networks

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Valve microstructure and phylomineralogy of New Zealand chitons.

scientific article published on 8 December 2016

Water stratification in the marine biome restricts vertical environmental DNA (eDNA) signal dispersal

scientific article published on 13 November 2019

Complete distribution of the genus Laevilitorina (Littorinimorpha, Littorinidae) in the Southern Hemisphere: remarks and natural history

scientific article published on 2 November 2022