Dr Don Colgan
Principal Research Scientist
Address
Evolutionary Biology Unit
The Australian Museum
6 College St
Sydney 2010
Phone: (+612) 9320 6030 or 6175
Fax: (+612) 9320 6020
Email Donald Colgan
Academic Qualifications
- B.Sc. (Hons) Australian National University 1976
- B.Ec. ANU 1986
- Ph.D. University of Melbourne 1980
Academic appointments
- 1976-1977: Demonstrator, School of Biological Sciences, University of Newcastle, N.S.W
- 1980-1982: Postdoctoral Research Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney
- 1982-1985: Postdoctoral fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences, ANU
- 1986-1988: Research fellow, Research School of Biological Sciences, ANU
- 1988-present Research Scientist (Principal, 1998), Australian Museum
Current research interests
Molecular phylogeny of invertebrates, particularly higher-level studies of gastropods, arthropods and polychaetes. Molecular phylogenetics of marsupials. Population genetics and speciation processes of grasshoppers, mussels and hydrobiid freshwater snails.
Recent Publications
Colgan, D.J., Ponder, W.F. and Eggler, P.E. 2000. Gastropod evolutionary rates and phylogenetic relationships assessed using partial 28S rDNA and histone H3 sequences. Zoologica Scripta. 29, 29-65
Edgecombe, G.D., Wilson , G.D.F., Colgan, D.J., Gray M.R. and Cassis, G. 2000. Arthropod cladistics: combined analysis of histone H3 and U2 snRNA sequences and morphology. Cladistics 16, 155-203
Colgan, D. J., Zhang, C.-G., and Paxton, J.R. 2000. Phylogenetic studies of the Stephanoberyciformes and Beryciformes, particularly whalefishes (Euteleostei: Cetomimidae), based on partial 12S rDNA and 16S rDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 17, 15-25.
Colgan, D. J. and Ponder W. F. 2000. Incipient speciation in aquatic snails in an arid-zone spring complex. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 71, 625-41.
Maxaranas, J. M., Colgan, D.J., Major, R.E., Cassis, G. and Gray, M.R. 2001. Species discrimination And population differentiation In ants using microsatellites. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 29, 125-136.
Colgan, D.J., Hutchings, P. A. and Brown, S. Phylogenetic relationships within the Terebellomorpha. Jounral of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 81, 763-773.
Colgan, D. J. and Ponder W. F. 2002. Genetic Discrimination of morphologically-similar, sympatric species of pearl oysters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pinctada ) in eastern Australia . Marine and Freshwater Research 53, 607-709.
Colgan, D. J. and da Costa, P. 2002. Megachiropteran evolution studied with 12s rDNA and c -Mos DNA Sequences. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 9, 3-22.
Colgan, D.J., Brown, S., Major, R.E., Christie, F., Gray, M.R. and Cassis, G. 2002. Populations genetics of wolf spiders of fragmented habitats in the wheat belt of New South Wales . Molecular Ecology 11, 2295-2306.
Ponder, W. F., and Colgan, D. J. 2002. What makes a narrow-range taxon? - Insights from Australian freshwater snails. Invertebrate Systematics 16, 571-582.
Colgan, D.J., Cassis, G., & Beacham, E. 2002. Setting the molecular phylogenetic framework for the Dermaptera. Insect Systematics and Evolution 34: 65-80.
Belov, K., Lam, M. K. P., Hellman, L., and Colgan, D. J. 2003. Evolution of the major histocompatibility comlppex: Isolation of class II â cDNAs from two montremes, the platypus and the short-beaked echidna. Imunogenetics 55: 402-411.
Colgan, D.J., Ponder, W. F., Beacham, E., and Macaranas, J.M. 2003 Molecular phylogenetic studies of Gastropoda based on six gene segments representing coding or non-coding and mitochondrial or nuclear DNA. Molluscan Research I23 : 123-148
Ingleby, S and Colgan, D.J. 2003 Electrophoretic studies of the systematic and biogeographic relationships of Fijian bats. Australian Mammalogy 25: 13-30.
Macaranas, J. M., Colgan, D. and Ingleby, S. 2003 Electrophoretic characterization of Solomon Islands populations of Nyctimene and Rousettus amplexicaudatus (Chiroptera : Pteropodidae). Australian Mammalogy 25: 41-50.
Ponder, W.F., Colgan, D. J., Gleeson, D. M., and Sherley, G. 2003. The relationships of Placostylus from Lord Howe Island . Molluscan Research 23:159-178.
Colgan, D. J. and O'Meally, D. in press. Molecular systematics: Implications for phylogeny, biogeography and conservation. Invited, refereed chapter in Australian Vertebrate Biogeography, Evolution and Conservation (ed. J. Merrick et al. ). Accepted 5/8/02
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