Genetics

Research leader:

Jennie Chaplin

Research team:

Bryn Farmer, Glenn Moore


Key research

  • Richard Hoddell and Ertug Sezmis - Population structure and evolutionary history of Leptatherina wallacei (Swan River hardyhead) and Portunus pelagicus (blue swimmer crab).
  • Bryn Farmer - Population structure of mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus)
  • Glenn Moore - Genetics of Arripids (Australian herring and Australian salmon)

Related publications

Chaplin, J. 2001. Genetic (microsatellite) determination of the stock structure of the blue swimmer crab in Australia. FRDC Final Report (1998/118).
Chaplin, J.A., Baudains, G.A., Gill, H.S., McCulloch, R. and Potter, I.C. 1998. Are the assemblages of black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri) in different estuaries genetically distinct? International Journal of Salt Lake Research 6, 303-321.
Prince, J.D., Ivanstoff, W. and Potter, I.C. 1982. Atherinosoma wallacei, a new species of estuarine and inland water silverside (Teleostei, Atherinidiae) from the Swan-Avon and Murray rivers, Western Australia. Australian Zoology 21, 63-74.
Yap, E.S., Sezmis, E., Chaplin, J.A., Potter, I.C. and Spencer, P.B.S. 2002. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Portunus pelagicus (Crustacea, Portunidae). Molecular Ecology Notes 2, 30-32.
Yap, E.S., Spencer, P.B.S., Chaplin, J.A. and Potter, I.C. 2000. The estuarine teleost, Acanthopagrus butcheri (Sparidae), shows low levels of polymorphism at five microsatellite loci. Molecular Ecology 9, 2225-2226.