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Anna Sellas
PhD Candidate
Murdoch University Cetacean Research Unit (MUCRU)
Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research
Division of Science and Engineering
Murdoch University
South Street, Murdoch, 6150
Western Australia
Academic Record

MSc degree in Marine Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz (2002)

BSc degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona (1997)

Research Interests + -

In general, I am interested in the application of molecular information to understanding patterns of distribution in marine species and how, ultimately, this information can be used to:

  1. Better understand the ecology of a species
  2. Develop effective marine conservation policies.
Specific topics of current work include:
  • The use of molecular markers to investigate social structure in wild dolphin populations
  • The current population structure of bottlenose dolphins in southwestern Australia
  • Phylogeographic patterns of delphinid species and the historic geographic and/or ecologic processes which gave rise to these patterns
Publications + -

  • L.G.S. Lokugalappatti, KA Feldheim, AB Sellas and RCK Bowie (in press) Isolation and characterization of 10 tetranucleotide microsatellite loci from the yellow-streaked greenbul (Phyllastrephus flavostriatus) and cross-species amplification in four closely related taxa. Molecular Ecology Notes.

  • Sellas, A., Feldheim, K.A. and Bowie, R.C.K. 2007. Isolation and characterization of 10 tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in an enigmatic East African bird, the spot-throat (Modulatrix stictigula). Molecular Ecology Notes, in press.

  • Sellas, A., Wells, R. and Rosel, P. 2005. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analyses reveal fine scale geographic structure in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Gulf of Mexico. Conservation Genetics, 6, 715-728.
Manuscripts

  • Peery, Z., Beissinger, S.R., House, R.F., Bérubé, M., Hall, L., Sellas, A. and Palsbřll, P. (in review) Characterizing source-sink dynamics with genetic parentage assignments. Ecology.

  • Martien, K.M., Sellas, A.B., Rosel, P.E., Taylor, B. and Wells, R.S. (in prep) A new approach to defining management units for Gulf of Mexico bottlenose dolphins.

Theses

  • “Population structure and group relatedness of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the coastal Gulf of Mexico using mitochondrial and nuclear microsatellite markers” Submitted to the University of California, Santa Cruz, June 2002.

Conference Presentations

  • Bérubé, M., Best, P., Kamath, P., Rew, MB., Sellas, A., Reeb, D. and Palsbřll, P. (2007) Paternity in southern right whales – is there more bang in a particular buck? To be presented at: The 17th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals in Cape Town, South Africa.

  • Martien, K., Sellas, A., Rosel, P., Taylor, B. and Wells, R. Integration of Genetic and Behavioral Data for Bottlenose Dolphin Population Unit Definition. Presented at: The 15th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals in Greensboro, NC. Dec 15 – Dec 19, 2003.

  • Rosel, P., Hohn, A., Hansen, L., Sellas, A. and Wells, R. Genetic Analysis Reveals Complicated Population Structure for Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins in the Western North Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Presented at: The 15th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals in Greensboro, NC. Dec 15 – Dec 19, 2003.

  • Sellas, A., Rosel, P. and Wells, R. Genetic Differentiation Between Inshore and Coastal Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Gulf of Mexico Using Mitochondrial DNA Sequences. Presented at: The 14th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals in Vancouver, BC. Nov 28 – Dec 3, 2001.
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