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List of works by Steven J.B. Cooper

A highly modified stygobiont diving beetle of the genus Copelatus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae): taxonomy and cladistic analysis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

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A molecular and morphological investigation of species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships in Australian free-tailed bats Mormopterus (Chiroptera : Molossidae)

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

A new genus, Perplexacara , and new generic placements of species of Australian marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology and molecular genetic data

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Across the Indian Ocean: A remarkable example of trans-oceanic dispersal in an austral mygalomorph spider

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An extension to the known distribution of the squirrel glider Petaurus norfolcensis in Australia.

scientific article published in 2006

Assessment of prey overlap between a native (Polistes humilis) and an introduced (Vespula germanica) social wasp using morphology and phylogenetic analyses of 16S rDNA.

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Biogeographic barriers in north-western Australia: an overview and standardisation of nomenclature

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Biogeographic history of subterranean isopods from groundwater calcrete islands in Western Australia

scientific article published in 2017

Brazilian cave heritage under siege

scientific article published on 18 March 2022

Burrow use by bilbies in temperate South Australia

scientific article published on 22 September 2021

Characterization of nine microsatellite loci from the endangered southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus) using 454 pyrosequencing

Chromosomal Speciation Revisited: Modes of Diversification in Australian Morabine Grasshoppers (Vandiemenella, viatica Species Group)

scientific article published on 18 March 2011

Comparative Population Genetic Structure of the Endangered Southern Brown Bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus, in Fragmented Landscapes of Southern Australia

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Comparative analysis of morabine grasshopper genomes reveals highly abundant transposable elements and rapidly proliferating satellite DNA repeats

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Conservation systematics of the shield-backed trapdoor spiders of the nigrum-group (Mygalomorphae, Idiopidae, Idiosoma): integrative taxonomy reveals a diverse and threatened fauna from south-western Australia

scientific article published in 2018

Corrigendum to : Cryptic diversity down under: defining species in the subterranean amphipod genus Nedsia Barnard & Williams, 1995 (Hadzioidea: Eriopisidae) from the Pilbara, Western Australia

Cryptic diversity down under: defining species in the subterranean amphipod genus

scientific article published on 18 February 2022

Cryptic grey-bellied dunnart (Sminthopsis griseoventer) discovered in South Australia: genetic, morphological and subfossil analyses show the value of collecting voucher material

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Cutaneous respiration by diving beetles from underground aquifers of Western Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scientific article published on 04 April 2019

DNA barcoding of microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) using high-throughput methods more than doubles the number of species known for Australia

scientific article published on 23 May 2018

DNA barcoding of stygofauna uncovers cryptic amphipod diversity in a calcrete aquifer in Western Australia's arid zone

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Deep phylogeographic structuring of populations of the trapdoor spider Moggridgea tingle (Migidae) from southwestern Australia: evidence for long-term refugia within refugia

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Delineation of conservation units in an endangered marsupial, the southern brown bandicoot (Isoodon obesulus obesulus), in South Australia/western Victoria, Australia

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Desert Springs: Deep Phylogeographic Structure in an Ancient Endemic Crustacean (Phreatomerus latipes)

scientific article published on July 17, 2012

Development and evaluation of a custom bait design based on 469 single-copy protein-coding genes for exon capture of isopods (Philosciidae: Haloniscus)

scientific article published on 17 September 2021

Development of 16 microsatellite loci for the endangered sandhill dunnart (Sminthopsis psammophila)

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Development of a multiplex panel of microsatellite markers for two species of gliding marsupials, Petaurus breviceps and Petaurus norfolcensis

scientific article published in 2013

Difficulties barcoding in the dark: the case of crustacean stygofauna from eastern Australia

scholarly article by Maria G. Asmyhr published in 2012

Divergent molecular lineages and not-so-cryptic species: the first descriptions of stygobitic chiltoniid amphipods (Talitroidea: Chiltoniidae) from Western Australia

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Diversity and distribution of groundwater fauna in a calcrete aquifer: does sampling method influence the story?

Diversity patterns of subterranean invertebrate fauna in calcretes of the Yilgarn Region, Western Australia

scientific article published in 2018

Effects of landscape matrix on population connectivity of an arboreal mammal, Petaurus breviceps

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Evidence for population fragmentation within a subterranean aquatic habitat in the Western Australian desert

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Evidence for speciation underground in diving beetles (Dytiscidae) from a subterranean archipelago

scientific article published on 21 November 2020

Evolution in caves: Darwin's 'wrecks of ancient life' in the molecular era.

scientific article published on September 2010

Evolution of blind beetles in isolated aquifers: a test of alternative modes of speciation

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Evolution of subterranean diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporini, Bidessini) in the arid zone of Australia

scientific article published in December 2003

Evolutionary history of the Australasian Scirtinae (Scirtidae; Coleoptera) inferred from ultraconserved elements

Evolutionary transition from surface to subterranean living in Australian water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) through adaptive and relaxed selection

scientific article published on 19 October 2023

Explosive radiation of the genus Schizopera on a small subterranean island in Western Australia (Copepoda:Harpacticoida): unravelling the cases of cryptic speciation, size differentiation and multiple invasions

scientific article published in 2012

Extreme genetic diversity among springtails (Collembola) in subterranean calcretes of arid Australia

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Fine-scale comparative phylogeography of a sympatric sister species triplet of subterranean diving beetles from a single calcrete aquifer in Western Australia

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Fundamental research questions in subterranean biology

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

Genetic analysis of a chromosomal hybrid zone in the Australian morabine grasshoppers (Vandiemenella, viatica species group).

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Genetic elucidation of cryptic and ancient diversity in a group of Australian diplodactyline geckos: the Diplodactylus vittatus complex.

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Genetic structure of the western pygmy possum, Cercartetus concinnus Gould (Marsupialia: Burramyidae) based on mitochondrial DNA

scientific article published in 2007

Groundwater estuaries of salt lakes: buried pools of endemic biodiversity on the western plateau, Australia

scientific article published on 28 February 2009

Groundwater is a hidden global keystone ecosystem

scientific article published in 2023

Habitat connectivity, more than species’ biology, influences genetic differentiation in a habitat specialist, the short-eared rock-wallaby (Petrogale brachyotis)

Habitat use, population dynamics and species identification of mulgara, Dasycercus blythi and D. cristicauda, in a zone of sympatry in central Australia

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High levels of genetic monogamy in the group-living Australian lizard Egernia stokesii.

scientific article published in September 2002

How blind are they? Phototactic responses in stygobiont diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from calcrete aquifers of Western Australia

scientific article published in 2018

Hybrid capture data unravel a rapid radiation of pimpliform parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Pimpliformes)

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Identification of trophic niches of subterranean diving beetles in a calcrete aquifer by DNA and stable isotope analyses

scholarly article by Tessa M. Bradford published in January 2014

Intragenomic internal transcribed spacer 2 variation in a genus of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): implications for accurate species delimitation and phylogenetic analysis

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Islands under the desert: molecular systematics and evolutionary origins of stygobitic water beetles (Coleoptera : Dytiscidae) from central Western Australia

Limited ecological connectivity of an arboreal marsupial across a forest/plantation landscape despite apparent resilience to fragmentation

scientific article published on April 20, 2011

Linkage of the beta-like omega-globin gene to alpha-like globin genes in an Australian marsupial supports the chromosome duplication model for separation of globin gene clusters

scientific article published in June 2004

Massive Parallel Regression: A Précis of Genetic Mechanisms for Vision Loss in Diving Beetles

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Microsatellite markers for the Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) and their amplification in other Pseudocheirids

scientific article published on June 10, 2009

Mitochondrial DNA analyses reveal widespread tardigrade diversity in Antarctica

article published in 2015

Molecular evolution of the carboxy terminal region of the zona pellucida 3 glycoprotein in murine rodents

scientific article published in April 2007

Molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal a new southern hemisphere oniscidean family (Crustacea : Isopoda) with a unique water transport system

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Molecular phylogenetic, morphological and biogeographic evidence for a new genus of parabathynellid crustaceans (Syncarida : Bathynellacea) from groundwater in an ancient southern Australian landscape

scientific article published in 2013

Molecular phylogenetics of allodapine bees, with implications for the evolution of sociality and progressive rearing

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Molecular phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: A-T bias and heterogeneous substitution parameters

scientific article published on July 2004

Molecular phylogenetics of the exoneurine allodapine bees reveal an ancient and puzzling dispersal from Africa to Australia

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Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of the large carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article (publication date: 4 October 2002)

Molecular phylogeny of the small carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Ceratinini) indicates early and rapid global dispersal

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Molecular systematics and biodiversity of oniscidean isopods in the groundwater calcretes of central Western Australia

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Molecular systematics and evolutionary origins of the genus Petaurus (Marsupialia: Petauridae) in Australia and New Guinea

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Molecular systematics of Australian rhinolophid bats (Chiroptera : Rhinolophidae)

scholarly article by S. J. B. Cooper et al published 1998 in Australian Journal of Zoology

Monogamy in an Australian arboreal marsupial, the yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis)

scholarly article

Morphological and molecular study of the genus Nitokra (Crustacea, Copepoda, Harpacticoida) in a small palaeochannel in Western Australia

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

Multiple biogeographical barriers identified across the monsoon tropics of northern Australia: phylogeographic analysis of the brachyotis group of rock-wallabies

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Naming species with no morphological indicators: species status of Galeolaria caespitosa (Annelida:Serpulidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and morphology

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New genera, species and combinations in the Pseudomicrocara Armstrong group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology supported by mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

New species of Australian microgastrine parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) documented through the ‘Bush Blitz’ surveys of national reserves

scientific article published on 26 February 2019

Opsin transcripts of predatory diving beetles: a comparison of surface and subterranean photic niches

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Patterns of population genetic variation in sympatric chiltoniid amphipods within a calcrete aquifer reveal a dynamic subterranean environment

scientific article published on 3 April 2013

Phylogenetic divergence of the Australian allodapine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article published on May 1, 2003

Phylogenetic placement and description of Ngaliadessus humphreysi gen. et sp. nov., Watts & Villastrigo (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), a subterranean diving beetle from the Ngalia Basin in central Australia

scientific article published in August 2023

Phylogenetic relationships in the lizard genus Diplodactylus Gray and resurrection of Lucasium Wermuth (Gekkota, Diplodactylidae)

scholarly article by Paul M. Oliver et al published 2007 in Australian Journal of Zoology

Phylogenetic relationships of Australian Scirtidae (Coleoptera) based on mitochondrial and nuclear sequences

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Phylogenetic relationships of rock-wallabies, Petrogale (Marsupialia: Macropodidae) and their biogeographic history within Australia.

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Phylogenetics of Australian Acacia thrips: the evolution of behaviour and ecology

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Phylogeography of the Australian sugar glider (Petaurus breviceps): evidence for a new divergent lineage in eastern Australia

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Phylogeography of the ancient Parabathynellidae (Crustacea:Bathynellacea) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia

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Platypus globin genes and flanking loci suggest a new insertional model for beta-globin evolution in birds and mammals

scientific article (publication date: 25 July 2008)

Plio-Pleistocene diversification and biogeographic barriers in southern Australia reflected in the phylogeography of a widespread and common lizard species

scientific article published on 13 December 2018

Population genomic diversity and structure in the golden bandicoot: a history of isolation, extirpation, and conservation

scientific article published in 2023

Post-Eocene climate change across continental Australia and the diversification of Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae).

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Rainfall as a trigger of ecological cascade effects in an Australian groundwater ecosystem

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Re-examination of a proposed case of stasipatric speciation: phylogeography of the Australian morabine grasshoppers (Vandiemenella viatica species group).

scientific article published on 16 July 2009

Reassessment of the subspecific status of the Australian Wet Tropics yellow-bellied glider, Petaurus australis

scientific article published on 11 January 2023

Refining trophic dynamics through multi-factor Bayesian mixing models: A case study of subterranean beetles

scientific article published on 20 July 2020

Refugia within refugia: in situ speciation and conservation of threatened Bertmainius (Araneae : Migidae), a new genus of relictual trapdoor spiders endemic to the mesic zone of south-western Australia

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Regressive evolution of an eye pigment gene in independently evolved eyeless subterranean diving beetles

scientific article published in December 2005

Review of Australian <i>Scirtes</i> Illiger, Ora Clark and <i>Exochomoscirtes</i> Pic Coleoptera: Scirtidae) including descriptions of new species, new groups and a multi-gene molecular phylogeny of Australian and non-Australian species

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Scratching the surface of subterranean biodiversity: Molecular analysis reveals a diverse and previously unknown fauna of Parabathynellidae (Crustacea: Bathynellacea) from the Pilbara, Western Australia

scientific article published on 14 October 2019

Small marsupial, big dispersal? Broad- and fine-scale genetic structure of an endangered marsupial from the Australian arid zone

scientific article published on 21 February 2019

Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales

scientific article

Species Phylogeny of the Bee Genus Exoneurella Michener (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Allodapini): Evidence from Molecular and Morphological Data Sets

scientific article published in January 1999

Species diversity and genetic differentiation of stygofauna (Syncarida:Bathynellacea) across an alluvial aquifer in north-eastern Australia

scientific article published in 2012

Stressed out underground?: Illuminating the genomic response to heat stress in surface and subterranean predaceous diving beetles

scientific article published in 2022

Strong Population Genetic Structure for the Endangered Micro-Trapdoor Spider Moggridgea rainbowi (Mygalomorphae, Migidae) in Unburnt Habitat after Catastrophic Bushfires

scientific article published in 2023

Subterranean archipelago in the Australian arid zone: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of amphipods from central Western Australia

scientific article published in April 2007

Subterranean archipelago: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of stygobitic isopods (Oniscidea:Haloniscus) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia

scholarly article by Andrew D. Austin published in 2008

Systematic affinities of island and mainland populations of the Dunnart Sminthopsis griseoventer in Western Australia: data from allozymes and mitochondrial DNA

scientific article published on 26 May 2016

Systematics and Evolution of the Dasyurid Marsupial Genus Sminthopsis: II. The Murina Species Group

Systematics of Haloniscus Chilton, 1920 (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Philosciidae), with description of four new species from threatened Great Artesian Basin springs in South Australia

scientific article published in 2019

Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae): revealing a remarkable radiation of mygalomorph spiders from the Western Australian arid zone

scholarly article by Robert J. Raven published in 2018

Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape

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Taxonomy of Paraplatyarthrus Javidkar and King (Isopoda: Oniscidea: Paraplatyarthridae) with description of five new species from Western Australia, and comments on Australian Trichorhina Budde-Lunde, 1908 (Platyarthridae)

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Taxonomy of rock-wallabies, Petrogale (Marsupialia: Macropodidae). IV. Multifaceted study of the brachyotis group identifies additional taxa

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The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level

article by Rix et al., published in 2017

The Dogma of Dingoes—Taxonomic status of the dingo: A reply to Smith et al

scientific article published on 4 March 2019

The Evolution of Epigean and Stygobitic Species of Koonunga Sayce, 1907 (Syncarida: Anaspidacea) in Southern Australia, with the Description of Three New Species

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The alpha-globin gene family of an Australian marsupial, Macropus eugenii: the long evolutionary history of the theta-globin gene and its functional status in mammals

scientific article published in May 2005

The egg coat zona pellucida 3 glycoprotein - evolution of its putative sperm-binding region in Old World murine rodents (Rodentia: Muridae).

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The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting

scientific article (publication date: 23 April 2011)

The mammalian alphaD-globin gene lineage and a new model for the molecular evolution of alpha-globin gene clusters at the stem of the mammalian radiation

scientific article published on 15 July 2005

Third Genus Of Parastenocaridid Copepods From Australia Supported By Molecular Evidence (Copepoda, Harpacticoida)

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Tracking down carbon inputs underground from an arid zone Australian calcrete

scientific article published on 28 August 2020

Trapped in desert springs: phylogeography of Australian desert spring snails

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VIEWPOINT. Is the Australian subterranean fauna uniquely diverse?

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What lies beneath: molecular phylogenetics and ancestral state reconstruction of the ancient subterranean Australian Parabathynellidae (Syncarida, Crustacea).

scientific article published on 29 March 2012