Moss, Stephen P., Domino A. Joyce, Stuart Humphries, Katherine J. Tindall and David H. Lunt (2011) Comparative analysis of teleost genome sequences reveals an ancient intron size expansion in the zebrafish lineage. Genome Biology and Evolution doi: 10.1093/gbe/evr090, (PDF) We have developed a bioinformatics pipeline for the comparative evolutionary...
Whiteley, N.M., S.P.S. Rastrick, D.H. Lunt, J. Rock (2011) Latitudinal variations in the physiology of marine gammarid amphipods J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 400: 70-77 (PDF) doi:10.1016/j.jembe.2011.02.027 In order to examine the physiological capabilities of marine invertebrates in their natural environment, a series of physiological measurements...
Joyce DA, Lunt DH, Genner MJ, Turner GF, Bills R, Seehausen O. (2011) Repeated colonization and hybridization in Lake Malawi cichlids. Current Biology 2011 Feb 8;21(3):R108-9. PMID: 21300271 doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.11.029 (PDF) Through adaptive radiation, ancestral species rapidly diversify into multiple species with different ecological adaptations. The haplochromine...
Bik HM, WK Thomas, DH Lunt and PJD Lambshead (2010) Low endemism, continued deep-shallow interchanges, and evidence for cosmopolitan distributions in free-living marine nematodes (order Enoplida). BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:389 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-389 (PDF) Background: Nematodes represent the most abundant benthic metazoa in one of the largest...
Bik H.M., PJD Lambshead, W.K. Thomas and D.H. Lunt (2010) Moving towards a complete molecular framework of the Nematoda: a focus on the Enoplida and early-branching clades. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10:353 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-353 (PDF) Background: The subclass Enoplia (Phylum Nematoda) is purported to be the earliest branching...
Costa FO, Henzler CM, Lunt DH, Whiteley NM, Rock J (2009) Probing marine Gammarus (Amphipoda) taxonomy with DNA barcodes. SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY 7(4):365-379 (PDF) DOI:10.1017/S1477200009990120 The genus Gammarus (Amphipoda) is one of the most speciose genera of Crustacea, yet much uncertainty remains concerning taxonomy and systematic...
Lunt DH and SCP Renn. Copious copies keep out the cold (Adaptive genomic changes in Antarctic fish). Heredity (2009) 103 (4):281-2 PDF doi:10.1038/hdy.2009.59, Podcast ...
Rock J, J.L. Magnay, S. Beech, A.J. El Haj, G. Goldspink, D.H. Lunt, N.M. Whiteley (2009) Linking functional molecular variation with environmental gradients: Myosin gene diversity in a crustacean broadly distributed across variable thermal environments. Gene 437:60-70. PDF doi:10.1016/j.gene.2009.02.008 To investigate the molecular basis of temperature...
Lunt, D.H. (2008) Genetic tests of ancient asexuality in Root Knot Nematodes reveal recent hybrid origins. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:194 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-194 (PDF) Abstract Background The existence of "ancient asexuals", taxa that have persisted for long periods of evolutionary history without sexual recombination, is both controversial and important...
Hughes, R. N., A. Gomez, P. J. Wright, H. I. Moyano, J. M. Cancino, G. R. Carvalho, and D. H. Lunt (2008) Molecular phylogeny supports division of the 'cosmopolitan' taxon Celleporella (Bryozoa; Cheilostomata) into four major clades. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46:369-374. PDF doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2007.08.014 ...
