Arthur Georges Professor
Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra, ACT 2601 AustraliaCurrent
- Distinguished Professor, Institute for Applied Ecology, UC
- Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Zoology
- Member TFTSG Steering Committee and IUCN Red List Authority
- Chair, ACT Scientific Committee
- Board Member, Piku Biodiversity Network Inc.
- Member, Centre for Biodiversity Analysis
Former
- Foundation Director, IAE
- Dean, Faculty of Applied Science, UC
- Board Member, Invasive Animals CRC
- President, Australasian Wildife Management Society
- President, Australian Society for Herpetologists
Latest from the Blog
SNPs Breathe New Life into Species Delimitation of a difficult Taxon
In a recent paper in Molecular Ecology on species delimitation, we invoke the age-old criterion of diagnosability to identify lineages that are candidates as name-bearing taxa. For SNP markers, fixed allelic differences between populations or metapopulations provide diagnosability. We apply these markers to a case study of a freshwater turtle, Emyduro macquorii, whose systematics has so far defied resolution, to bring to light a dynamic system of substantive allopatric lineages diverging on independent evolutionary trajectories, but held back in the process of speciation by low level and episodic exchange of alleles across drainage divides on various timescales.
Research
- Reptile genomics and evolution
- Sex determination in reptiles
- Phylogenomics and phylogeography
- Chelonian ecology, evolution, systematics
- Applications of NextGen sequencing
