Dr Buz Wilson

Principal Research Scientist
B.A. (Zoology), M.Sc. (Oceanography), Ph.D. (Marine Biology)

Associate Editor (Asellota, Phreatoicidea), World List of Marine, Aquatic and Terrestrial Isopods. Names, taxonomic information, references and other information on all isopod crustaceans

Research interests

1. Isopod Systematics (suborders Asellota, Phreatoicidea)
2. Phylogenetic Research (Arthropoda, Crustacea)
3. Deep-Sea Biodiversity and Evolutionary History
4. Phylogenetic Methods

Address:
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Australian Museum
6 College Street
Sydney NSW 2010
Australia

Phone:
(+612) 9320 6287

Fax:
(+612) 9320 6042

Email:
Email George (Buz) Wilson

Website:
Buz Wilson's website

Deep-Sea Biodiversity Research

Antarctic Biodiversity: Previous "Insights" Overlooked. A reply to Brandt, Gooday et al. Nature 447: 307 (2007) ("Communications Arising" in NATURE):
Supplementary Material

Note 3. A few examples of errors or inconsistencies in Brandt, Gooday et al. (2007) and in "Supplementary Information" (doi: 10.1038/nature05827).
Note 6. Ad hoc list of references on the Southern Ocean and the deep sea
Note 9. Citations and methods for the evaluation of the data
Figure 1. E(S100) from Brandt, Gooday et al. and from previous studies for the entire Atlantic Ocean and the Weddell Sea (see note 9 for sources)

Research publications

Recent:

Wilson G. D. F. 1997. The Suborder Asellota. Section 1.3, in (pp. 59-109) "The Order Isopoda," by R. Wetzer, R. Brusca and G. Wilson. Atlas of the Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin, Volume 11, "The Crustacea, Part 2", J.A. Blake and P.H. Scott (series eds.), 278 pp. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History: Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Larsen K., Wilson G. D. F. 1998. Tanaidomorphan systematics - Is it Obsolete? Journal of Crustacean Biology 18(2): 346-362.

Wilson, G. D. F. 1998. Historical influences on deep-sea isopod diversity in the Atlantic Ocean. Deep-Sea Research Part II, Topical Studies in Oceanography 45(1-3):279-301. (In: C. R. Smith, L. S. Mullineaux and L. A. Levin (eds.), "Deep-sea biodiversity: a compilation of recent advances in honor of Robert R. Hessler"; Pergamon Press: Oxford, UK)

Paterson G.L.J., Wilson G. D. F., Cosson N., Lamont P.A. 1998. Hessler and Jumars (1974) revisited: abyssal polychaete assemblages from the Atlantic and Pacific. Deep-Sea Research Part II, Topical Studies in Oceanography 45(1-3):225-252. (In: C. R. Smith, L. S. Mullineaux and L. A. Levin (eds.), "Deep-sea biodiversity: a compilation of recent advances in honor of Robert R. Hessler"; Pergamon Press: Oxford, UK)

Colgan D. J., McLauchlan A., Wilson G. D. F. , Livingston S., Macaranas J., Edgecombe G. D., Cassis G., Gray M. R. 1998 (1999). Molecular phylogenetics of the Arthropoda: relationships based on histone H3 and U2 snRNA DNA sequences. Australian Journal of Zoology 46:419-437.

Wilson G. D. F., Fenwick G.D. 1999. Taxonomy and Ecology of Phreatoicus typicus Chilton, 1883 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Phreatoicidae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 29(1):41-64.

Serov P., Wilson G. D. F. 1999. A revision of the family Pseudojaniridae Wilson, 1986 and the superfamily Stenetrioidea Hansen, 1914. Invertebrate Taxonomy 13:67-113.

Wilson G. D. F., Keable S.J. 1999. A new genus of phreatoicidean isopod (Crustacea) from the North Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, London 126(1):51-79.

Wilson G. D. F., Johnson R. T. 1999. Ancient endemism among freshwater isopods (Crustacea, Phreatoicidea). In: "The Other 99%. The conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates," W.F. Ponder and D. Lunney, eds. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.

Wilson, G. D. F. (2000) Some Of The Deep-Sea Fauna Is Ancient. In: Jan H. Stock Memorial Symposium: "Crustacean Biodiversity in Subterranean, Ancient/Deep Lakes and Deep-Sea Habitats," D. L. Danielopol & K. Martens, eds. Crustaceana 72(6): in press.

Edgecombe G. D., Wilson G. D. F., Colgan D. J., Gray M. R., Cassis G. (2000) Arthropod Cladistics: Combined Analysis of Histone H3 and U2 snRNA Sequences and Morphology. Cladistics (in press)

Wilson G. D. F., Edgecombe G.D. 2003. The Triassic isopod Protamphisopus wianamattensis (Chilton) and comparison with extant taxa (Crustacea, Phreatoicidea) Journal of Paleontology 77(3): 454-470.

Wilson G. D. F. 2003. A new genus of Tainisopidae fam. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda) from the Pilbara, Western Australia. Zootaxa 245: 1-20.

Edgecombe G. D., Richter S. and Wilson, G. D. F. 2003. The mandibular gnathal edges: homologous structures throughout Mandibulata? In: Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Myriapodology, M. Hamer, ed. African Invertebrates 44: 115-135.

Cunha M. R., Wilson G. D. F. 2003. Haplomunnidae (Isopoda, Asellota) reviewed, with a description of an intact specimen of Thylakogaster Wilson & Hessler, 1974. Zootaxa 323:1-16.

Wilson G. D. F., Keable, S. J. 2004. A new family and genus of Phreatoicidea (Crustacea, Isopoda) from artesian springs in southwestern Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49(2): 741-759.

Just J., Wilson G. D. F. 2004. Paramunnidae (Isopoda: Asellota): the Paramunna complex. Invertebrate Systematics 18: 377-466.

McLaughlin P.A., Camp D.K, Angel M.V., Bousfield E. L., Brunel P., Brusca R.C., Cadien D., Cohen A.C., Conlan K., Eldredge L.G., Felder D.L., Goy J.W., Haney T., Hann B., Heard R.W., Hendrycks E.A., Hobbs H.H., Holsinger J.R., Kensley B.K., Laubitz D.R., LeCroy S.E., Lemaitre R., Maddocks R.F., Martin J.W., Mikkelsen P., Nelson E., Newman W.A., Overstreet R.M., Poly W.J., Price W.W., Reid J.W., Robertson A., Rogers D.C., Ross A., Schotte M., Schram F.R., Shih C-T., Watling L., Wilson G.D.F., Turgeon D.D. 2005. Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Crustaceans. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 31, 533 pp. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, Maryland. (with CD-ROM)

Guinot D., Wilson G. D. F., Schram F. R. 2005. A Jurassic Isopod from Ranville, Normandy, France. Journal of Paleontology 79(5): 954-960. (errata G.D.F. Wilson)

Just J., Wilson G.D.F. 2006. Revision of southern hemisphere Austronanus Hodgson, 1910, with two new genera and five new species (Isopoda: Asellota: Paramunnidae). Zootaxa 1111: 21-58 (20 Jan. 2006) 19 plates

Keable S.J. Wilson G.D.F. 2006. New species of Pygolabis Wilson (Isopoda, Tainisopidae) from Western Australia. Zootaxa 1116: 1-27 (27 Jan. 2006) 13 plates

Kavanagh, F.A., Wilson G.D.F., Power A.M. 2006. Heterochrony in Haplomesus (Crustacea, Isopoda, Ischnomesidae): revision of two species and description of two new species. Zootaxa 1120: 1-33 (2 Feb. 2006) 15 plates

Cunha M., Wilson G.D.F. 2006. Revision of the deep-sea genus Heteromesus Richardson (Isopoda, Ischnomesidae). Zootaxa 1192: 1-76 (4 May 2006) 33 plates

Just J., Wilson G. D. F. 2007. Revision of Austrosignum Hodgson and Munnogonium George & Stromberg (Paramunnidae) with descriptions of eight new genera and two new species, (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota). Zootaxa 1515: 1-29 (25 Jun. 2007) 11 plates

The Lot:
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