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Publications 2008

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Alcorn, P.J., Bauhus, J., Smith, R.G.B., Thomas, D., James, R., Nicotra, A. 2008. Growth response following green crown pruning in plantation-grown Eucalyptus pilularis and Eucalyptus cloeziana. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 770-781.

Alcorn, P.J., Bauhus, J., Thomas, D.S., James, R.N., Smith, R.G.B., Nicotra, A.B. 2008. Photosynthetic response to green crown pruning in young plantation-grown Eucalyptus pilularis and E. cloeziana. Forest Ecology and Management 255: 3827-3838.

Barrett, L.G., Thrall, P.H., Burdon, J.J., Nicotra, A.B., Linde, C.C. 2008. Population structure and diversity in sexual and asexual populations of the pathogenic fungus Melampsora lini. Molecular Ecology 17: 3401-3415.

Barrett, L.G., Thrall, P.H., Burdon, J.J., Linde, C.C. 2008. Life history determines genetic structure and evolutionary potential of host-parasite interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23(12): 678-685.

Beck, N.R., Peakall, R., Heinsohn, R. 2008. Social constraint and an absence of sex-biased dispersal drive fine-scale genetic structure in white-winged choughs. Molecular Ecology 17: 4346-4358.

Bellwood, D.R., Fulton, C.J. 2008. Sediment-mediated suppression of herbivory on coral reefs: Decreasing resilience to rising sea levels and climate change? Limnology and Oceanography 53(6): 2695-2701.

Booksmythe, I., Detto, T., Backwell, P.R.Y. 2008. Female fiddler crabs settle for less: the travel costs of mate choice. Animal Behaviour 76: 1775-1781.

Bourne, M., Nicotra, A.B., Colloff, M.J., Cunningham, S.A. 2008. Effect of soil biota on growth and allocation by Eucalyptus microcarpa. Plant and Soil 305: 145-156.

Braby, M.F. 2008. Taxonomic review of Candalides absimilis (C. Felder, 1862) and C. margarita (Semper, 1879) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with descriptions of two new subspecies. The Beagle 24: 33-54.

Braby, M.F. 2008. Biogeography of butterflies in the Australian monsoon tropics. Australian Journal of Zoology 56: 41-56.

Braby, M.F., Douglas, F. 2008. The nomenclature, taxonomy and conservation status of Ogyris waterhouseri (Bethune-Baker, 1905) stat. nov. (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), a threatened butterfly from southern Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 47: 315-329.

Bradbury, H. 2008. Simple solution fights konzo. The Chemical Engineer 800: 24-25.

Bromham, L. 2008. Does nothing in evolution make sense except in the light of population genetics? Biology and Philosophy. DOI 10.1007/s10539-008-9146-6

Bradbury, J.H. 2008. Development of a sensitive picrate method to determine total cyanide and acetone cyanohydrin contents of gari from cassava. Food Chemistry 113: 1329-1333.

Bromham, L. 2008. Teaching evolutionary biology in schools to foster active learning. School Science Review 90(331): 57-63.

Bromham, L. 2008. Reading the story in DNA: a beginner's guide to molecular evolution. Oxford University Press.

Bromham, L. 2008. Molecular Evolution: Patterns and Rates. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester.

Bromham, L. 2008. Molecular Evolution: Rates. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester.

Bussière, L.F., Hunt, J., Stölting, K.N., Jennions, M.D., Brooks, R. 2008. Mate choice for genetic quality when environments vary: suggestions for empirical progress. Genetica 134: 69-78.

Byrne, P.G., Keogh, J.S. 2008. Extreme sequential polyandry insures against nest failure in a frog. Proc. R. Soc. B 276: 115-120.

Byrne, P.G., Rice, G.R., Rice, W.R. 2008. Effect of a refuge from persistent male courtship in the Drosophila laboratory environment. Integrative and Comparative Biology 48(2): e1.

Byrne, M., Yeates, D.K., Joseph, L., Kearney, M., Bowler, J., Williams, M.A.J., Cooper, S., Donnellan, S.C., Keogh, J.S., Leys, R., Melville, J., Murphy, D.J., Porch, N., Wyrwoll, K-H. 2008. Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota. Molecular Ecology 17: 4398-4417.

Chappill, J.A., Wilkins, C.F., Crisp, M.D. 2008. Taxonomic revision of Gompholobium (Leguminosae: Mirbelieae). Australian Systematic Botany 21: 67-151.

Chapple, D.G., Hutchinson, M.N., Maryan, B., Plivelich, M., Moore, J.A., Keogh, J.S. 2008. Evolution and maintenance of colour pattern polymorphism in Liopholis (Squamata:Scincidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 56: 103-115.

Christian, R. 2008. Essay Review: Assessing and Managing Environmental Risks. Minerva 46: 275-283.

Clermont, O., Lescat, M., O'Brien, C.L., Gordon, D.M., Tenaillon O., Denamur, E. 2008. Evidence for a human-specific Escherichia coli clone. Environmental Microbiology 10(4): 1000-1006.

Cockburn, A. 2008. Cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wrens show no facultative manipulation of offspring sex ratio despite plausible benefits. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 681-688.

Cockburn, A., Osmond, H.L., Double, M.C. 2008. Swingin' in the rain: condition dependence and sexual selection in a capricious world. Proc. R. Soc. B 275: 605-612.

Cockburn, A., Osmond, H.L., Mulder, R.A., Double, M.C., Green, D.J. 2008. Demography of male reproductive queues in cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus. Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 297-304.

Cockburn, A., Sims, R.A., Osmond, H.L., Green, D.J., Double, M.C., Mulder, R.A. 2008. Can we measure the benefits of help in cooperatively breeding birds: the case of superb fairy-wrens Malurus cyaneus? Journal of Animal Ecology 77: 430-438.

Cocking, L.J., Double, M.C., Milburn, P.J., Brando, V.E. 2008. Seabird bycatch mitigation and blue-dyed bait: A spectral and experimental assessment. Biological Conservation 141: 1354-1364.

Cook, L.G., Gullan, P.J. 2008. Insect, not plant, determines gall morphology in the Apiomorpha pharetrata species-group (Hemiptera: Coccoidea). Australian Journal of Entomology 47: 51-57.

Cook, L.G., Morris, D.C., Edwards, R.D., Crisp, M.D. 2008. Reticulate evolution in the natural range of the invasive wetland tree species Melaleuca quinquenervia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 506-522.

Couper, P.J., Hamley, B., Hoskin, C.J. 2008. A new species of Phyllurus (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae) from the Kilkivan district of south-eastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52(2): 139-147.

Couper, P.J., Hoskin, C.J. 2008. Litho-refugia: the importance of rock landscapes for the long-term persistence of Australian rainforest fauna. Australian Zoologist 34(4): 554-560.

Dalziell, A.H., Cockburn, A. 2008. Dawn song in superb fairy-wrens: a bird that seeks extrapair copulations during the dawn chorus. Animal Behaviour 75: 489-500.

Davies, T.J., Fritz, S.A., Grenyer, R., Orme, C.D.L., Bielby, J., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Cardillo, M., Jones, K.E., Gittleman, J.L., Mace, G.M., Purvis, A. 2008. Phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversity. PNAS 105: 11556-11563.

DeGabriel, J.L., Wallis, I.R., Moore, B.D., Foley, W.J. 2008. A simple, integrative assay to quantify nutritional quality of browses for herbivores. Oecologia 156: 107-116.

Eastwood, R., Braby, M.F., Lohman, D.J., King, A. 2008. New ant-lycaenid associations and biological data for some Australian butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Australian Entomologist 35(1): 47-56.

Eastwood, R., Braby, M.F., Schmidt, D.J., Hughes, J.M. 2008. Taxonomy, ecology, genetics and conservation status of the pale imperial hairstreak (Jalmenus eubulus) (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae): a threatened butterfly from the Brigalow Belt, Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 407-423.

Edwards, D.L., Roberts, J.D., Keogh, J.S. 2008. Climatic fluctuations shape the phylogeography of a mesic direct-developing frog from the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Biogeography 35: 1803-1815.

Eliassen, S., Kokko, H. 2008. Current analyses do not resolve whether extra-pair paternity is male or female driven. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 1795-1804.

Fayed, S.A., Jennions, M.D., Backwell, P.R.Y. 2008. What factors contribute to an ownership advantage? Biology Letters 4: 143-145.

Fourment, M., Gibbs, M.J. 2008. The VirusBanker database uses a Java program to allow flexible searching through Bunyaviridae sequences. BMC Bioinformatics 9:83.

Fourment, M., Gibbs, A.J., Gibbs, M.J. 2008. SWeBLAST: A Sliding Window Web-based BLAST tool for recombinant analysis. Journal of Virological Methods 152: 98-101.

Gardner, J.L., Marsack, P.R., Blackmore, C.J. 2008. Timing and sequence of moult, and the trade-off with breeding, in the Speckled Warbler (Chthonicola sagittata). Emu 108: 90-96.

Garrick, R.C., Rowell, D.M., Simmons, C.S., Hillis, D.M., Sunnucks, P. 2008. Fine-scale phylogeographic congruence despite demographic incongruence in two low-mobility saproxylic springtails. Evolution 62(5): 1103-1118.

Gibbs, A.J., Ohshima, K., Phillips, M.J., Gibbs, M.J. 2008. The Prehistory of Potyviruses: Their Initial Radiation was during the Dawn of Agriculture. PLoS ONE 3(6): e2523.

Gibbs, A.J., Trueman, J.W.H., Gibbs, M.J. 2008. The bean common mosaic virus lineage of potyviruses: where did it arise and when? Archives of Virology 153: 2177-2187.

Gilbert, M.T.P., Drautz, D.I., Lesk, A.M., Ho, S.Y.W., Qi, J., Ratan, A., Hsu, C-H., Sher, A., Dalén, L., Götherström, A., Tomsho, L.P., Rendulic, S., Packard, M., Campos, P.F., Kuznetsova, T.V., Shidlovskiy, F., Tikhonov, A., Willerslev, E., Iacumin, P., Buigues, B., Ericson, P.G.P., Germonpré, M., Kosintsev, P., Nikolaev, V., Nowak-Kemp, M., Knight, J.R., Irzyk, G.P., Perbost, C.S., Fredrikson, K.M., Harkins, T.T., Sheridan, S., Miller, W., Schuster, S.C. 2008. Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes. PNAS 105(24): 8327-8332.

Gordon, D.M., Clermont, O., Tolley, H., Denamur, E. 2008. Assigning Escherichia coli strains to phylogenetic groups: multi-locus sequence typing versus the PCR triplex method. Environmental Microbiology 10(10): 2484-2496.

Greenslade, P. 2008. Distribution patterns and diversity of invertebrates of temperate rainforests in Tasmania with a focus on Pauropoda. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 65: 153-164.

Greenslade, P. 2008. Has survey effort of Australia's islands reflected conservation and biogeographical significance? An assessment using Collembola. European Journal of Soil Biology 44: 458-462.

Greenslade, P. 2008. Correction to the identification of a pioneer species of Collembola found on Anak Krakatau in 1931. Zootaxa 1846: 59-60.

Greenslade, P. 2008. Climate variability, biological control and an insect pest outbreak on Australia's Coral Sea islets: lessons for invertebrate conservation. Journal of Insect Conservation 12: 333-342.

Greenslade, P., Melbourne, B.A., Davies, K.F., Stevens, M.I. 2008. The status of two exotic terrestrial Crustacea on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Polar Record 44(228): 15-23.

Greenslade, P., Potapov, M. 2008. A new genus and species of Isotominae (Collembola: Isotomidae) from cushion plants on sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Kanunnah 2: 87-97.

Groenewald, M., Linde, C.C., Groenewald, J.Z., Crous, P.W. 2008. Indirect evidence for sexual reproduction in Cercospora beticola populations from sugar beet. Plant Pathology 57: 25-32.

Hardy, N.B., Gullan, P.J., Henderson, R.C., Cook, L.G. 2008. Relationships among felt scale insects (Hemiptera:Coccoidea:Eriococcidae) of southern beech, Nothofagus (Nothofagaceae), with the first descriptions of Australian species of the Nothofagus -feeding genus Madarococcus Hoy. Invertebrate Systematics 22: 365-405.

Head, M.L., Doughty, P., Blomberg, S.P., Keogh, J.S. 2008. Chemical mediation of reciprocal mother-offspring recognition in the Southern Water Skink (Eulamprus heatwolei). Austral Ecology 33: 20-28.

Henery, M.L., Henson, M., Wallis, I.R., Stone, C., Foley, W.J. 2008. Predicting crown damage to Eucalyptus grandis by Paropsis atomaria with direct and indirect measures of leaf composition. Forest Ecology and Management 255: 3642-3651.

Henery, M.L., Wallis, I.R., Stone, C., Foley, W.J. 2008. Methyl jasmonate does not induce changes in Eucalyptus grandis leaves that alter the effect of constitutive defences on larvae of a specialist herbivore. Oecologia 156: 847-859.

Ho, S.Y.W., Endicott, P. 2008. The Crucial Role of Calibration in Molecular Date Estimates for the Peopling of the Americas. The American Journal of Human Genetics 83: 142-146.

Ho, S.Y.W., Larson, G., Edwards, C.J., Heupink, T.H., Lakin, K.E., Holland, P.W.H., Shapiro, B. 2008. Correlating Bayesian date estimates with climatic events and domestication using a bovine case study. Biology Letters 4: 370-374.

Hoskin, C., Hero, J.M. 2008. Rainforest Frogs of the Wet Tropics, north-east Australia. 89p

Hoskin, C.J., Higgie, M. 2008. A new species of velvet gecko (Diplodactylidae: Oedura ) from north-east Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 1788: 21-36.

Howard, C., Gilmore, S., Robertson, J., Peakall, R. 2008. Developmental Validation of a Cannabis sativa STR Multiplex System for Forensic Analysis. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53(5): 1061-1067.

Isaac, J.L., De Gabriel, J.L., Goodman, B.A. 2008. Microclimate of daytime den sites in a tropical possum: implications for the conservation of tropical arboreal marsupials. Animal Conservation 11: 281-287.

Jenkins, D.J., Allen, L., Goullet, M. 2008. Encroachment of Echinococcus granulosus into urban areas in eastern Queensland, Australia. Australian Veterinary Journal 86(8): 294-300.

Johansen, J.L., Bellwood, D.R., Fulton, C.J. 2008. Coral reef fishes exploit flow refuges in high-flow habitats. Marine Ecology Progress Series 360: 219-226.

Jones, M.E., Cockburn, A., Hamede, R., Hawkins, C., Hesterman, H., Lachish, S., Mann, D., McCallum, H., Pemberton, D. 2008. Life-history change in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations. PNAS 105(29): 10023-10027.

Kain, J.M. 2008. Winter favours growth and survival of Ralfsia verrucosa (Phaeophyceae) in high intertidal rockpools in southeast Australia. Phycologia 47(5): 498-509.

Kelly, C.D. 2008. Identifying a causal agent of sexual selection on weaponry in an insect. Behavioral Ecology 19: 184-192.

Kelly, C.D. 2008. Sperm investment in relation to weapon size in a male trimorphic insect? Behavioral Ecology 19: 1018-1024.

Kelly, C.D. 2008. The interrelationships between resource-holding potential, resource-value and reproductive success in territorial males: How much variation can we explain? Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 855-871.

Kelly, C.D. 2008. Why Do Male Tree Weta Aggressively Evict Females from Galleries After Mating? Ethology 114: 203-208.

Kelly, C.D., Bussiere, L.F., Gwynne, D.T. 2008. Sexual Selection for Male Mobility in a Giant Insect with Female-Biased Size Dimorphism. The American Naturalist 172(3): 417-423.

Keogh, J.S., Edwards, D.L., Fisher, R.N., Harlow, P.S. 2008. Molecular and morphological analysis of the critically endangered Fijian iguanas reveals cryptic diversity and a complex biogeographic history. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 363: 3413-3426.

Keszei, A., Brubaker, C.L., Foley, W.J. 2008. A molecular perspective on terpene variation in Australian Myrtaceae. Australian Journal of Botany 56: 197-213.

Kim, I-K., La Salle, J. 2008. A new genus and species of Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) inducing galls in seed capsules of Eucalyptus. Zootaxa 1745: 63-68.

Kim, I-K., Mendel, Z., Protasov, A., Blumberg, D., La Salle, J. 2008. Taxonomy, biology, and efficacy of two Australian parasitoids of the eucalyptus gall wasp, Leptocybe invasa Fisher & La Salle. Zootaxa 1910: 1-20.

Koenig, W.D., Schaefer, D.J., Mambelli, S., Dawson, T.E. 2008. Acorns, insects, and the diet of adult versus nestling Acorn Woodpeckers. Journal of Field Ornithology 79(3): 280-285.

Kokko, H. 2008. Human parental age difference and offspring count: and we still do not know what men or women want. Biology Letters 4: 259-260.

Kokko, H., Heubel, K. 2008. Condition-dependence, genotype-by-environment interactions and the lek paradox. Genetica 132: 209-216.

Kokko, H., Heubel, K.U., Rankin, D.J. 2008. How populations persist when asexuality requires sex: the spatial dynamics of coping with sperm parasites. Proc. R. Soc. B 275: 817-825.

Kokko, H., Jennions, M.D. 2008. Parental investment, sexual selection and sex ratios. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 919-948.

Kokko, H., Jennions, M.D. 2008. Sexual Conflict: The Battle of the Sexes Reversed. Current Biology 18(3): R121-R123.

Lanfear, R., Bromham, L. 2008. Statistical Tests between Competing Hypotheses of Hox Cluster Evolution. Systematic Biology 57(5): 708-718.

Langmore, N.E., Maurer, G., Adcock, G.J., Kilner, R.M. 2008. Socially acquired host-specific mimicry and the evolution of host races in Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo Chalcites basalis. Evolution 62(7): 1689-1699.

Legge, S., Murphy, S., Heathcote, J., Flaxman, E., Augusteyn, J., Crossman, M. 2008. The short-term effects of an extensive and high-intensity fire on vertebrates in the tropical savannas of the central Kimberley, northern Australia. Wildlife Research 35: 33-43.

Liu, L., Chen, J.-X., Greenslade, P. 2008. A new species of the genus Lepidocyrtoides (Collembola: Entomobryidae) from Australia. Zootaxa 1745: 55-62.

Lukoschek, V., Waycott, M., Keogh, J.S. 2008. Relative information content of polymorphic microsatellites and mitochondrial DNA for inferring dispersal and population genetic structure in the olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis. Molecular Ecology 17: 3062-3077.

Maher-Sturgess, S.L., Forrester, N.L., Wayper, P.J., Gould, E.A., Hall, R.A., Barnard, R.T., Gibbs, M.J. 2008. Universal primers that amplify RNA from all three flavivirus subgroups. Virology Journal 5:16.

Maurer, G. 2008. Who Cares? Males Provide Most Parental Care in a Monogamous Nesting Cuckoo. Ethology 114: 540-547.

Maurer, G., Smith, C., Süsser, M., Magrath, R.D. 2008. Solo and duet calling in the pheasant coucal: sex and individual call differences in a nesting cuckoo with reversed size dimorphism. Australian Journal of Zoology 56: 143-149.

Milner, R.N.C., Jennions, M.D., Backwell, P.R.Y. 2008. Does the environmental context of a signalling male influence his attractiveness? Animal Behaviour 76: 1565-1570.

Mokany, K., Ash, J., Roxburgh, S. 2008. Effects of spatial aggregation on competition, complementarity and resource use. Austral Ecology 33: 261-270.

Mokany, K., Ash, J. 2008. Are traits measured on pot grown plants representative of those in natural communities? Journal of Vegetation Science 19: 119-126.

Mokany, A., Wood, J.T., Cunningham, S.A. 2008. Effect of shade and shading history on species abundances and ecosystem processes in temporary ponds. Freshwater Biology 53: 1917-1928.

Mokany, K., Ash, J., Roxburgh, S. 2008. Functional identity is more important than diversity in influencing ecosystem processes in a temperate native grassland. Journal of Ecology 96: 884-893.

Morgan, M.J., Byrne, P.G., Hayes, C.M., Keogh, J.S. 2008. Microsatellite markers in the endangered Australian northern corroboree frog, Pseudophryne pengilleyi (Anura: Myobatrachidae) and amplification in other Pseudophryne species. Conservation Genetics 9: 1315-1317.

Morgan, M.J., Hunter, D., Pietsch, R., Osborne, W., Keogh, J.S. 2008. Assessment of genetic diversity in the critically endangered Australian corroboree frogs, Pseudophryne corroboree and Pseudophryne pengilleyi, identifies four evolutionarily significant units for conservation. Molecular Ecology 17: 3448-3463.

Morgan-Richards, M., Trewick, S.A., Bartosch-Härlid, A., Kardailsky, O., Phillips, M.J., McLenachan, P.A., Penny, D. 2008. Bird evolution: testing the Metaves clade with six new mitochondrial genomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:20.

Nhassico, D., Muquingue, H., Cliff, J., Cumbana, A., Bradbury, J.H. 2008. Rising African cassava production, diseases due to high cyanide intake and control measures. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 88: 2043-2049.

Nicotra, A.B., Cosgrove, M.J., Cowling, A., Schlichting, C.D., Jones, C.S. 2008. Leaf shape linked to photosynthetic rates and temperature optima in South African Pelargonium species. Oecologia 154: 625-635.

Omland, K.E., Cook, L.G., Crisp, M.D. 2008. Tree thinking for all biology: the problem with reading phylogenies as ladders of progress. BioEssays 30: 854-867.

Östrand, F., Wallis, I.R., Davies, N.W., Matsuki, M., Steinbauer, M.J. 2008. Causes and Consequences of Host Expansion by Mnesampela privata. Journal of Chemical Ecology 34: 153-167.

Palmer, C.M., Siebke, K. 2008. Cold hardiness of Apteropanorpa tasmanica Carpenter (Mecoptera: Apteropanorpidae). Journal of Insect Physiology 54: 1148-1156.

Penny, D., White, W.T., Hendy, M.D., Phillips, M.J. 2008. A Bias in ML Estimates of Branch Lengths in the Presence of Multiple Signals. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25(2): 239-242.

Pepper, M., Doughty, P., Arculus, R., Keogh, J.S. 2008. Landforms predict phylogenetic structure on one of the world's most ancient surfaces. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:152.

Pfeil, B.E., Crisp, M.D. 2008. The age and biogeography of Citrus and the orange subfamily (Rutaceae: Aurantioideae) in Australasia and New Caledonia. American Journal of Botany 95(12): 1621-1631.

Phillips, M.J., Pratt, R.C. 2008. Family-level relationships among the Australasian marsupial "herbivores" (Diprotodontia: Koala, wombats, kangaroos and possums). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46: 594-605.

Pickup, M., Young, A.G. 2008. Population size, self-incompatibility and genetic rescue in diploid and tetraploid races of Rutidosis leptorrhynchoides (Asteraceae). Heredity 100: 268-274.

Poldy, J., Peakall, R., Barrow, R.A. 2008. Pheromones and analogs from Neozeleboria wasps and the orchids that seduce them: a versatile synthesis of 2,5-dialkylated 1,3-cyclohexanediones. Tetrahedron Letters 49: 2446-2449.

Qiu, D., Wilson, I.W., Gan, S., Washusen, R., Moran, G.F., Southerton, S.G. 2008. Gene expression in Eucalyptus branch wood with marked variation in cellulose microfibril orientation and lacking G-layers. New Phytologist 179: 94-103.

Rai, H.S., Reeves, P.A., Peakall, R., Olmstead, R.G., Graham, S.W. 2008. Inference of higher-order conifer relationships from a multi-locus plastid data set. Botany 86: 658-669.

Reaney, L.T. 2008. Female preference for male phenotypic traits in a fiddler crab: do females use absolute or comparative evaluation? Animal Behaviour 77: 139-143.

Reaney, L.T., Milner, R.N.C., Detto, T., Backwell, P.R.Y. 2008. The effects of claw regeneration on territory ownership and mating success in the fiddler crab Uca mjoebergi. Animal Behaviour 75: 1473-1478.

Reaney, L.T., Sims, R.A., Sims, S.W.M., Jennions, M.D., Backwell, P.R.Y. 2008. Experiments with robots explain synchronized courtship in fiddler crabs. Current Biology 18(2): R62-R63.

Robins, J.H., McLenachan, P.A., Phillips, M.J., Craig, L., Ross, H.A., Matisoo-Smith, E. 2008. Dating of divergences within the Rattus genus phylogeny using whole mitochondrial genomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49: 460-466.

Roshier, D.A., Doerr, V.A.J., Doerr, E.D. 2008. Animal movement in dynamic landscapes: interaction between behavioural strategies and resource distributions. Oecologia 156: 465-477.

Russell, A.F., Langmore, N.E., Gardner, J.L., Kilner, R.M. 2008. Maternal investment tactics in superb fairy-wrens. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 275: 29-36.

Sanders, K.L., Lee, M.S.Y., Leys, R., Foster, R., Keogh, J.S. 2008. Molecular phylogeny and divergence dates for Australasian elapids and sea snakes (hydrophiinae): evidence from seven genes for rapid evolutionary radiations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 682-695.

Shi, W.F., Gibbs, M.J., Zhang, Y.Z., Zhang, Z., Zhao, X.M., Jin, X., Zhu, C.D., Yang, M.F., Yang, N.N., Cui, Y.J., Ji, L. 2008. Genetic analysis of four porcine avian influenza viruses isolated from Shandong, China. Archives of Virology 153: 211-217.

Shi, W.F., Gibbs, M.J., Zhang, Y.Z., Zhuang, D.M., Dun, A.S., Yu, G.F., Yang, N.N., Murphy, R.W., Zhu, C.D. 2008. The variable codons of H5N1 avian influenza A virus haemagglutinin genes. Science in China Series C: Life Sciences 51: 987-993.

Slatyer, R.A., Fok, E.S.Y., Hocking, R., Backwell, P.R.Y. 2008. Why do fiddler crabs build chimneys? Biology Letters 4: 616-618.

Smouse, P.E., Peakall, R., Gonzales, E. 2008. A heterogeneity test for fine-scale genetic structure. Molecular Ecology 17: 3389-3400.

Stapley, J. 2008. Female mountain log skinks are more likely to mate with males that court more, not males that are dominant. Animal Behaviour 75: 529-538.

Stewardson, C.L., Prvan, T., Meÿer, M.A., Ritchie, R.J. 2008. Age Determination and Growth in the Male South African Fur Seal Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus (Pinnipedia: Otariidae) Based upon Skull Material. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 129: 207-252.

Symula, R., Keogh, J.S., Cannatella, D.C. 2008. Ancient phylogeographic divergence in southeastern Australia among populations of the widespread common froglet, Crinia signifera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 569-580.

Thornhill, A.H., Harper, I.S., Hallam, N.D. 2008. The development of the digestive glands and enzymes in the pitchers of three Nepenthes species: N. alata , N. tobaica , and N. ventricosa (Nepenthaceae). International Journal of Plant Science 169(5): 615-624.

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Welch, J.J., Bininda-Emonds, O.R.P., Bromham, L. 2008. Correlates of substitution rate variation in mammalian protein-coding sequences. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8: 53.

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