Australian Museum Evolutionary Biology Unit

Evolutionary Biology Unit Publications

Refereed

• COLGAN, D.J. 1988. Hormonal effects on the developmental variation of the glucose-metabolizing isoenzymes of the grasshopper Caledia captiva (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Entomologia Generalis 13, 21-27.
• COLGAN, D.J. and P.D. CHRISTIAN. 1988. A putative reoviral genome contaminating mitochondrial preparations from the grasshopper, Caledia captiva. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 52, 474-476.
• COLGAN, D.J. 1988. Cloning of homologous sequences after filter hybridization. Nucl. Acids Res. 16, 10360.
• COLGAN, D.J. 1989. Developmental variation and allozymic polymorphism in the enzymes of glycolysis in grasshoppers. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2, 141-151.
• RUDMAN, W.B and AVERN, G.J. 1989. The genus Rostanga Bergh, 1879 (Nudibranchia: Dorididae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 96, 281-338.
• COLGAN, D.J. 1990. Systematic evidence from gene duplication and regulation. pp. 145-157 in (P. Y. Ladiges and L. W. Martinelli, Eds) "Plant Systematics in the Age of Molecular Biology" CSIRO, Melbourne.
• PONDER, W.F., D.J. COLGAN and G.A. CLARK. 1991. The morphology, taxonomy and genetic structure of Tatea, estuarine snails from temperate Australia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Aust. J. Zool. 39, 447-497.
• HUNT, G.S. 1990. Hickmanoxyomma, a new genus of cavernicolous harvestment from Tasmania (Opiliones: Triaenonychidae). Rec. Aust. Mus. 42, 45-68.
• COLGAN, D.J. 1991. Phylogenetic studies of acridoid grasshoppers comparing 2n2- and 4-base recognising endonucleases. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 4, 575-592.
• COLGAN, D.J. 1992. Glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase variation in insects. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 47, 37-47.
• COLGAN, D. J. 1992. Interspecific isozymic substitution is not random. Heredity 69, 150-159.
• COLGAN, D. J. and T. F. FLANNERY. 1992. Biochemical systematic studies in the genus Petaurus (Marsupialia: Petauridae). Aust. J. Zool. 40, 245-256.
• COLGAN, D. J. and GRAY, M. R. 1992. The genetic structure of the Badumna candida group of species (Araneae, Amaurobioidea). Bull. Br. Arachnol. Soc. 9, 86-94.
• FLANNERY, T.F. and D.J. COLGAN. 1993. A new species and two new subspecies of Hipposideros (Chiroptera) from western Papua New Guinea. Rec. Aust. Mus. 45, 43-58.
• COLGAN, D. J. 1993. The spectrophotometric quantitation of formazans in molecular biology. Appli. Theoret. Electrophoresis. 3, 219-222.
• COLGAN, D. J., FLANNERY, T. F., TRIMBLE, J., and APLIN, K. 1993. Electrophoretic analysis of the systematics of the Phalanger orientalis (Marsupialia) species complex in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Aust. J. Zool. 41, 355-378.
• COLGAN, D. J. 1993. DNA regeneration in the polymerase chain reaction. J. Theoret. Biol. 162, 289-307.
• LEUNG, L. K.-P., DICKMAN, C.R. and MOORE, L.A. 1993. Genetic variation in fragmented populations of an Australian rainforest rodent, Melomys cervinipes. Pacific Conservation Biology 1, 58-65.
• WORSFOLD, T.M., AVERN, G., and PONDER, W.F. 1993. Shallow water rissoiform gastropods from Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic Ocean with records of species from Gough Island. Zool. Scripta 22, 153-166.
• SADLIER, R. A., COLGAN, D. J. and SHEA, G. M. 1994. Taxonomy and distribution of the Australian scincid lizard Saproscincus challengeri and related species in south-eastern Australia. Mem. Q. Mus. 34, 139-158
• FLANNERY, T. F., COLGAN, D. J. and TRIMBLE, J. 1994. A new species of Melomys from Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, with notes on the systematics of the M. rufescens complex (Muridae: Rodentia). J. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 114, 29-43.
• COLGAN, D.J. and PONDER, W.F. 1994. The evolutionary consequences of restrictions on gene flow: examples from hydrobiid snails. Nautilus, Suppl. 2, 25-43
• PONDER W.F., COLGAN, D.J. CLARK G.A., MILLER, A.C and T. TERZIS. 1994. Microgeographic genetic and morphological differentiation of freshwater snails - a study on the Hydrobiidae of Wilsons Promontory, Victoria, southeastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 42, 557-678.
• COLGAN, D. J. and FLANNERY, T. F. 1995. An rDNA-based phylogeny of the Indo-West Pacific Megachiroptera. Syst. Biol. 44, 209-220.
• PONDER, W.F., COLGAN, D.J., TERZIS, T, CLARK, S.A. and MILLER A.C. 1996. Three new genetically determined species of hydrobiid gastropods from Dalhousie Springs, northern South Australia, with the description of a new genus. Journal of Molluscan Research 17, 49-110.
• PONDER, W.F., EGGLER, P.E. and COLGAN, D.J. 1996. Genetic differentiation of aquatic snails (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae) from artesian springs in arid Australia. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 56, 553-596.
• COLGAN, D.J. 1997. Electrophoretic variation in the Green and Golden Bell Frog, Litoria aurea. Australian Zoologist 30, 170-177.
• COLGAN, D.J. and PAXTON, J.R. 1997. Biochemical systematics and recognition of a western stock of the common gemfish, Rexea solandri (Scombroidea: Gempylidae), in Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 48, 103-118.
• COLGAN, D.J. 1997. Estimating selective coefficients of allelic substitutions from patterns of inter-specific allozymic mobility difference. Heredity 78: 655-664.
• COLGAN, D.J. and DA COSTA, P. 1997. Genetic discrimination between Brachylophus vitiensis and Brachylophus fasciatus. Journal of Herpetology 31: 389-391.
• HUMPHREY, M., ROSE, H.E. and COLGAN, D.J. 1998 Electrophoretic studies of the cockroaches of the Australian endemic subfamily Geoscapheinae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 124, 209-234.
• COLGAN, D. J. Phylogenetic studies of marsupials based on phosphoglycerate kinase DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 11: 13-26
• COLGAN, D.J. MCLAUCHLAN, A WILSON, G. D. F., LIVINGSTON, S. MACARANAS, J., EDGECOMBE, G. D., CASSIS, G. and GRAY, M. R. 1998. Molecular phylogenetics of the Arthropoda: relationships based on histone H3 and U2 snRNA DNA sequences. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 419-437.
• COLGAN, D. J., PONDER, W.F. and EGGLER, P.E. In press. Gastropod evolutionary rates and phylogenetic relationships assessed using partial 28S rDNA and histone H3 sequences. Zoologica Scripta 29: 29-63.
• SADLIER, R. A., BAUER, A. M. and COLGAN, D.J. 1999. The scincid lizard genus Caledoniscincus from New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific. I) Description of six new species from closed forest habitat in Province Nord. Records of the Australian Museum 51: 57-82.
• BROWN, S., ROUSE, G. HUTCHINGS, P. and COLGAN, D.J. 1999. Testing polychaete relationships using DNA sequence data from histone H3, U2 snRNA and 28S rDNA. Australian Journal of Zoology 47: 419-516.
• Belov, K., Hellman, L and Cooper, D.W. (2002) Characterisation of immunoglobulin gamma 1 from a monotreme, Tachyglossus aculeatus . Immunogenetics 53(12);1065-71.
• Belov, K., Hellman, L. and Cooper, D.W. (2002) Characterisation of echidna IgM provides insights into the time of divergence of extant mammals. Developmental and Comparative Immunology - 26; 831-839.
• Belov, K. and Hellman, L. (2003) Platypus immunoglobulin M and the divergence of the two monotreme lineages. Australian Mammalogy 25:87-94.
• Belov, K. and Hellman, L. (2003) Immunoglobulin genetics of Ornithorhynchus anatinus (platypus) and Tachyglossus aculeatus (short-beaked echidna). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A. DOI: 10.1016/S1095-6433(03)00165-X
• Belov, K., Lam, M.K.P., Hellman, L., Colgan, D.J. (2003) Evolution of the major histocompatibility complex: Isolation of class II beta cDNAs from two monotremes, the platypus and the short-beaked echidna - Immunogenetics - in press.

Non-refereed publications by unit staff

• RUDMAN, B., and AVERN, G. 1988. Molluscan Dentistry, The tales that teeth tell. Australian Natural History 22, 388-393.
• AVERN, G. 1990. High resolution computer imaging. Proc. Of Future Dircetions Conference Australian Museum: 2-7
• AVERN, G. 1990. Scan your way to fame and fortune. Proc. Of the 6th Inter. Stereoscan User Conference Leica, Cambribge, U.K.: 6-7
• AVERN, G. 1990. Take your SEM for a walk to the museum. Australian E.M. Newsletter 27,4
• AVERN, G. 1990. S120 stars amongst museum pieces. Stereoscan News Review Leica, Cambridge, U.K. 2,11
• PONDER, W.F. and COLGAN, D.J. 1992. Conservation of aquatic invertebrates with restricted distributions with special reference to hydrobiid gastropods. For ANPWS. pp. 334.
• PAXTON, J. and COLGAN, D.J. 1993. Biochemical genetics and stock assessment of common gemfish and ocean perch. FRDC project 91/35, final report. pp. 74.
• COLGAN, D.J. and PONDER, W.F. 1994. Pinctada radiata species complex: report on status of species on Australia. For Barrier Pearls. pp. 20.
• COLGAN, D.J. 1994 (interim) and 1995 (final). Genetics of the green and golden bellfrog Litoria aurea. Report to the NPWS Endangered Species Unit. pp. 14
• COLGAN, D.J. 1995. (Book Review of) Chironomids: From Genes to Ecosystems. Ed. by P. Cranston. Australian Zoologist
• COLGAN, D.J. 1995. (Book Review of) Physical Approaches to Biological Evolution by V. Volkenstein. Aust. and New Zealand Physicist 32, 96-97.

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