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Sherryn Ciavaglia

  • Name
    Sherryn Ciavaglia
  • Supervisor
    Paul Sunnucks
  • Location
    La Trobe University
  • Research Area
    Comparative phylogeography of log-dwelling invertebrates (flatworms)

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Images will open in a new windowImage of a velvet worm
Artioposthia s p. Image of a velvet worm
Caenoplana sp.
As a Genetics Society of Australia Summer student, Sherryn compared how genetic patterning of a fast-moving flatworm compares with that of a slower-moving species.

Sherryn's work with Mark Blacket has helped to demonstrate that flatworms are partitioned into distinct genetic forms with our 100 Km forest transect at Tallaganda & Badja, southern region NSW. The geographic zones revealed are very similar to and congruent with those detected in velvet worms and 'giant Collembola' (springtails). This is a rare if not unique study of multiple invertebrate terrestrial organisms occupying the same habitat.