Lana Austin

Monash University (Australia)

Mitonuclear interactions have been proposed as evolutionary drivers of sexual reproduction, sexual selection, adaptation, and speciation. We investigated the role of pre-mating isolation in maintaining functional mitonuclear interactions in a wild population with divergent sets of proposed co-adapted mitonuclear genotypes. Two lineages have been id...

Identifying sex-linked markers in genomic datasets is important because their presence in supposedly neutral autosomal datasets can result in incorrect estimates of genetic diversity, population structure and parentage. However, detecting sex-linked loci can be challenging, and available scripts neglect some categories of sex-linked variation. Here...

Identifying sex-linked markers in genomic datasets is important, because their analyses can reveal sex-specific biology, and their presence in supposedly neutral autosomal datasets can result in incorrect estimates of genetic diversity, population structure and parentage. But detecting sex-linked loci can be challenging, and available scripts negle...

How new species evolve is one of the most fundamental questions in biology. Population divergence, which may lead to speciation, may be occurring in the Eastern Yellow Robin, a common passerine that lives along the eastern coast of Australia. This species is composed of two parapatric lineages that have highly divergent mitochondrial DNA; however,...

Native aquatic wildlife species are declining within their natural range worldwide. Simultaneously, invasive species now dominate many aquatic landscapes in most parts of the world. Both groups require effective and accurate monitoring to guide management actions. This chapter offers background information on the issues surrounding monitoring of th...