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A biological and ecological review of the endemic New Zealand genus Alseuosmia (toropapa; Alseuosmiaceae)

article published 28 August 2019

A consistent taxonomic treatment for dimorphic variation in New Zealand Adiantum species

scientific article published 2019

A global phylogeny of Lycopodiaceae (Lycopodiales; lycophytes) with the description of a new genus, Brownseya , from Oceania ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

A molecular investigation into the origin and relationships of karaka/kōpi ( Corynocarpus laevigatus ) in New Zealand

scientific article published 2015

A molecular phylogeny for the New Zealand Blechnaceae ferns from analyses of chloroplasttrnL‐trnF DNA sequences

article

A non-destructive DNA sampling technique for herbarium specimens

scientific article

A review of genetic analyses of hybridisation in New Zealand

scientific article published in March 2009

A review of the fern genus Pellaea (Pteridaceae) in Australasia

scientific article

Additive Traits Lead to Feeding Advantage and Reproductive Isolation, Promoting Homoploid Hybrid Speciation

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

An expanded phylogeny of the Dennstaedtiaceae ferns: Oenotrichia falls within a non-monophyletic Dennstaedtia, and Saccoloma is polyphyletic

scientific article published 2015

Ancient DNA analyses reveal contrasting phylogeographic patterns amongst kiwi (Apteryx spp.) and a recently extinct lineage of spotted kiwi

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Ancient DNA analysis of an archaeological assemblage of Chondrichthyes vertebrae from South Auckland, New Zealand

scientific article

Ancient DNA and conservation: lessons from the endangered kiwi of New Zealand

scientific article published on 10 April 2008

Ancient DNA recovers the origins of Māori feather cloaks

scientific article

Ancient DNA reveals that the ‘extinct’ Hunter Island penguin (Tasidyptes hunteri) is not a distinct taxon

scientific article published in 2017

Ancient DNA studies of the New Zealand kiwi and wattlebirds : evolution, conservation and culture

2006 doctoral thesis by Lara Dawn Shepherd at Massey University

Asplenium xlucrosum nothosp. nov.: a sterile hybrid widely and erroneously cultivated as "Asplenium bulbiferum"

scientific article published in 31 January 2005

CSI – Cuttlefish Sepion Investigation: overview of cuttlebones found on Aotearoa New Zealand shores and analysis of predation and scavenging marks

Cheilolejeunea morganii Bever. & Glenny (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiopsida), a newly described species from lowland indigenous forest sites in New Zealand

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

Cheilolejeunea rodneyi Bever. & Glenny (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiopsida), a new species from lowland indigenous forests in New Zealand.

scientific article

Cheilolejeunea sicilicula S. Fish & Glenny (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiopsida), a newly described species from lowland forests of South Island, New Zealand

scientific article published in 2023

Chloroplast DNA sequences support the transfer of the New Caledonian endemic fernSphenomeris alutaceatoOdontosoria

scientific article published on 3 July 2014

Chloroplast phylogenies of Australasian Gleichenia ferns (Gleicheniaceae) reveal incongruence with current taxonomy, and frequent long-distance dispersal

scientific article published in 2022

Chloroplast phylogeography of New Zealand Sophora trees (Fabaceae): extensive hybridization and widespread Last Glacial Maximum survival

scientific article published 2017

Closing the gap: avian lineage splits at a young, narrow seaway imply a protracted history of mixed population response

scientific article

Commensal Rodents in 19th Century Australasia: Diversity, Invasion Routes and the China Connection

Comprehensive evidence for subspecies designations in Cook’s Petrel Pterodroma cookii with implications for conservation management

scientific article

Conflict amongst chloroplast DNA sequences obscures the phylogeny of a group of Asplenium ferns

scientific article

Correction to: High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins

scientific article published on 1 March 2020

DNA reveals the relationships of the extinct Scarlett’s Shearwater Puffinus spelaeus (Procellariiformes: Procellariidae)

scientific article published in 2016

DNA sequencing supports the reinstatement of Pycnolejeunea glauca from synonymy of Cheilolejeunea intertexta, as Cheilolejeunea glauca comb. nov. (Lejeuneaceae, Marchantiophyta)

scientific article

Do herbarium specimens collected by Banks and Solander during Cook's voyage around New Zealand in 1769-70 contain DNA? ⬇️

scholarly article

Evidence for Co-evolutionary History of Early Diverging Lycopodiaceae Plants With Fungi

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Evidence for both long-distance dispersal and isolation in the Southern Oceans: molecular phylogeny of Sophora sect Edwardsia (Fabaceae)

scientific article published 2017

Evidence for the recognition of Schoenus caespitans as a separate species from Schoenus apogon

scientific article

Evidence of a Strong Domestication Bottleneck in the Recently Cultivated New Zealand Endemic Root Crop, Arthropodium cirratum (Asparagaceae)

scientific article

Fire and ice: volcanic and glacial impacts on the phylogeography of the New Zealand forest fern Asplenium hookerianum

scientific article

First record of the fungus Battarrea phalloides (Agariacaceae) in New Zealand

article

Genetic analyses of herbarium material: Is more care required?

scientific article (publication date: 29 October 2014)

Genetic analyses reveal an unexpected refugial population of subantarctic snipe (Coenocorypha aucklandica)

scholarly article published in 2020

Genetic analysis identifies the missing parchment of New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Genetic and morphological identification of a recurrent Dicksonia tree fern hybrid in New Zealand.

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Genetic identification informs on the distributions of vagrant Royal (Eudyptes schlegeli) and Macaroni (Eudyptes chrysolophus) Penguins

scientific article published 2021

Genetic identification of historic Sophora (Fabaceae) specimens suggests toromiro (S. toromiro) from Rapa Nui/Easter Island may have been in cultivation in Europe in the 1700s

scientific article

Genetic structuring of the coastal herb Arthropodium cirratum (Asparagaceae) is shaped by low gene flow, hybridization and prehistoric translocation

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Genetic variation and phylogeography of the Australian and New Zealand fern Asplenium flabellifolium (Aspleniaceae)

article by Daniel J. Ohlsen et al published 2020 in Australian Systematic Botany

Genomic analyses of fairy and fulmar prions (Procellariidae: Pachyptila spp.) reveals parallel evolution of bill morphology, and multiple species

scientific article published 2022

Gleichenia inclusisora, a new and uncommon tangle fern from New Zealand

scientific article published in December 2012

High-coverage genomes to elucidate the evolution of penguins

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Hiya distans (Dennstaedtiaceae), a new combination for an Australasian fern previously classified in Hypolepis

scientific article published on 2 October 2018

Hybridisation in kiwi (Apteryx; Apterygidae) requires taxonomic revision for the Great Spotted Kiwi ⬇️

article published in May 2021

Hymenophyllum pluviatile, a new and uncommon fern from New Zealand

scientific article published in December 2013

Identification of Mammal Skins Present in an Ngoni Garment from Malawi Using Mitochondrial DNA Analysis

scientific article

Identification of late Holocene kōwhai ( Sophora , Leguminosae) seeds from Central Otago dry rock shelters using nuclear DNA markers

scientific article published on 18 August 2022

Insights into Aotearoa New Zealand’s biogeographic history provided by the study of natural hybrid zones

scientific article published 2022

Investigation of species boundaries and relationships in the Asplenium paleaceum complex (Aspleniaceae) using AFLP fingerprinting and chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences

article

Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci from Arthropodium cirratum (Asparagaceae)

scientific article

Lastreopsis abscondita (Dryopteridaceae), a new fern species endemic to New Caledonia

scientific article

Leopard Seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) in New Zealand Waters Predating on Chondrichthyans

scientific article published on 16 December 2021

Lomatia fraseri (Proteaceae), an Australian tree newly documented as naturalised in New Zealand ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Low-copy nuclear DNA sequences reveal a predominance of allopolyploids in a New Zealand Asplenium fern complex

scientific article

Microevolution and mega-icebergs in the Antarctic

scientific article

Microsatellite DNA analyses of a highly disjunct New Zealand tree reveal strong differentiation and imply a formerly more continuous distribution ⬇️

scientific article published on February 25, 2011

Microsatellite characterisation of the extinct Sophora toromiro (Fabaceae) and confirmation of the identities of Allan Herbarium specimens and the fabled Christchurch ‘Victoria Park toromiro’

scientific article published on 9 December 2021

Microsatellite evolution and population genetics of ancient and living Adélie penguins in Antarctica

2001 master's thesis by Lara Dawn Shepherd at Massey University

Microsatellite markers for Pseudopanax trees and their cross-species amplification in the Araliaceae

scientific article published 2008

Mid-Holocene coprolites from southern New Zealand provide new insights into the diet and ecology of the extinct little bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis)

scientific article

Mitochondrial DNA structuring of Antarctic prions (Pachyptila desolata, Procellariidae) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2024

Mitogenomes uncover extinct penguin taxa and reveal island formation as a key driver of speciation ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Molecular and morphological evidence support the reinstatement of Cheilolejeunea comitans from synonymy of C. krakakammae.

scientific article

Molecular biology: Protect the DNA of museum specimens

scientific article published on 25 April 2012

Molecular data, based on an exhaustive species sampling of the fern genus Rumohra (Dryopteridaceae), reveal a biogeographical history mostly shaped by dispersal and several cryptic species in the widely distributed Rumohra adiantiformis

scholarly article by Lucie Bauret et al published 14 November 2017 in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of Punctoidea (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora) ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 June 2020

Molecular phylogenetics and generic taxonomy of Blechnaceae ferns

scientific article (publication date: 28 August 2014)

Morphological and genetic evidence for the separation of Phlegmariurus billardierei from P. varius (Lycopodiaceae)

scholarly article published in 2019

Multiple colonizations of a remote oceanic archipelago by one species: how common is long-distance dispersal?

scientific article published 2009

Neo- and Paleopolyploidy contribute to the species diversity ofAsplenium-the most species-rich genus of ferns ⬇️

scientific article published in July 2017

New insights into the evolution of the fern family dennstaedtiaceae from an expanded molecular phylogeny and morphological analysis

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

New records of fern species from New Caledonia in the genera Davallia , Dicranopteris , Dryopteris , Pteris , and Trichomanes

scientific article published 2022

New species and phylogeny of landhoppers in the genus Waematau Duncan, 1994 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Talitridae) from northern New Zealand

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Nuclear microsatellite DNA markers for New Zealand kiwi (Apteryx spp.)

scientific article published 2006

Obituary - Barbara Jean Mitcalfe née Fougère 25 November 1928 – 7 January 2017 ⬇️

obituary published in March 2017

Origins of beach-cast Sophora seeds from the Kermadec and Chatham Islands

scientific article published 2017

Parallel polyploid speciation: distinct sympatric gene-pools of recurrently derived allo-octoploid Asplenium ferns

scientific article

Phylogenetic affinities of the Fregetta storm-petrels are not black and white

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Phylogenetic affinities of the Whenua Hou Diving Petrel: implications for conservation

scientific article

Phylogenetic relationships of New Zealand Lycopodiaceae

scientific article published 2016

Phylogenomic analyses reveal a history of hybridisation and introgression between Sophora sect. Edwardsia (Fabaceae) species in New Zealand

scientific article

Phylogeny of the fern family Aspleniaceae in Australasia and the south-western Pacific

scholarly article by Daniel J. Ohlsen et al published 2014 in Australian Systematic Botany

Phylogeny of the fern family Aspleniaceae in Australasia and the south-western Pacific

scientific article published in 2014

Phylogeography of the endemic New Zealand tree Entelea arborescens (whau; Malvaceae)

scientific article published 2019

Phylogeography of the widespread New Zealand tree lancewood/horoeka ( Pseudopanax crassifolius ; Araliaceae)

scientific article published 2022

Primitive eusociality in a land plant?

scientific article

Pyrrosia serpens (G.Forst.) Ching a new record for the fern flora of the Kermadec Islands

scientific article

Recent evolution of extreme sexual dimorphism in the huia (Heteralocha acutirostris; Callaeidae)

article published in October 2022

Recent extinctions among Little Spotted Kiwi (Apteryx owenii) and the origin of extant populations

Reconstructing the species phylogeny of Pseudopanax (Araliaceae), a genus of hybridising trees

scientific article

Rediscovery and reinstatement of the New Caledonian endemic filmy fern Hymenophyllum pumilio Rosenst

scientific article published 2016

Reinstatement of the New Caledonian endemic fern Blechnum deplanchei as distinct from B. opacum (Blechnaceae)

scientific article

Review and phylogeny of the New Zealand hagfishes (Myxiniformes: Myxinidae), with a description of three new species

article

Serial population bottlenecks and genetic variation: Translocated populations of the New Zealand Saddleback (Philesturnus carunculatus rufusater)

article

Subsistence practices, past biodiversity, and anthropogenic impacts revealed by New Zealand-wide ancient DNA survey

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Tasmanian and Victorian populations of the fern Asplenium hookerianum result from independent dispersals from New Zealand

article

Taxonomic Placement of Unassigned Species of Lastreopsid Ferns (Dryopteridaceae) Using Phylogeny

scientific article

Taxonomic status and distribution of the critically endangered Christmas Island spleenwort (Asplenium listeri, Aspleniaceae): it is not as rare as we thought

article by Daniel J. Ohlsen et al published 2014 in Australian Systematic Botany

The diet of weasels ( Mustela nivalis vulgaris ) from Purerua Peninsula, Bay of Islands, New Zealand

scientific article published 2017

The ectoparasites of hybrid ducks in New Zealand (Mallard x Grey Duck)

article

The importance and prevalence of allopolyploidy in Aotearoa New Zealand

scientific article published 2019

The introduction and diversity of commensal rodents in 19th century Australasia

scientific article published in 2022

The molecular ecology of the extinct New Zealand Huia

scientific article

The relationships and origins of the New Zealand wattlebirds (Passeriformes, Callaeatidae) from DNA sequence analyses

scientific article

Towards a phylogenetic classification of the climbing fern genus Arthropteris

scientific article (publication date: 21 August 2013)

Two micro-scale protocols for the isolation of DNA from polysaccharide-rich plant tissue

scientific article published on 07 October 2010

Using ancient DNA to enhance museum collections: a case study of rare kiwi (<i>Apteryx</i>spp.) specimens

scientific article published on 05 December 2012

Using ancient DNA to quantify losses of genetic and species diversity in seabirds: a case study of Pterodroma petrels from a Pacific island

scientific article

Whole genome sequencing of enriched chloroplast DNA using the Illumina GAII platform

scientific article published on 28 September 2010

Worldwide relationships in the fern genus Pteridium (bracken) based on nuclear genome markers

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

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