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Dr Carla Sgro

Research Fellow

PhD 1996 La Trobe University, Melbourne

Telephone: +61 3 9902 0332
Fax: +61 3 9905 5613
E-mail: carla.sgro@sci.monash.edu.au

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Publication List
  • Kellermann, V.M, Hoffmann, A.A. and. Sgrò, C.M. 2007. Hsp90 Inhibition and the expression of phenotypic variability in rainforest species Drosophila birchii. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society in press
  • Rako, L., Anderson, A.R, Sgrò, C.M., Stocker, A.J. and Hoffmann, A.A. (2006). The association between the inversion In(3R)Payne and clinally varying traits in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica 128: 373-384
  • Kellermann, V.M, van Heerwaarden, B, Hoffmann, A.A. and Sgrò, C.M. (2006). Very low additive genetic variance and evolutionary potential in multiple populations of two rainforest Drosophila species. Evolution 60(5): 1104-1108
  • Sgrò, C.M., Magiafoglou,A., Faine, L. and Hoffmann, A.A.. (2006). Absence of clinal variation in virgin retention capacity in Australian Drosophila melanogaster. Evolutionary Ecology 20: 407-413
  • Sgrò C.M. and Hoffmann A.A. (2004). Genetic correlations, tradeoffs and environmental variation Heredity 93 (3): 241-248
  • Hoffmann A.A., Sgrò C.M. and Weeks A.R. (2004). Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms and adaptation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19 (9): 482-488
  • Sgrò C.M., Blows M.W. (2004). The genetic covariance among clinal environments after adaptation to an environmental gradient in Drosophila serrata Genetics 167 (3): 1281-1291
  • Mair W, Sgrò C.M., Johnson AP, and Partridge, L. (2004). Lifespan extension by dietary restriction in female Drosophila melanogaster is not caused by a reduction in vitellogenesis or ovarian activity Experimental Gerontology 39 (7): 1011-1019
  • Sgrò C.M., Blows M.W. (2003). Evolution of additive and nonadditive genetic variance in development time along a cline in Drosophila serrata. Evolution 57 (8): 1846-1851.
  • Woods, R., C. M. Sgrò, M. Hercus and A. A. Hoffmann. 2002. Fluctuating asymmetry, fecundity and development time in Drosophila: is there an association under optimal and stress conditions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 15: 146-158.
  • Sgrò, C.M. and L. Partridge. 2001. Laboratory adaptation of life history in Drosophila. American Naturalist 158: 657-658.
  • Sgrò, C.M., G. Geddes, K. Fowler and L. Partridge. 2000. Remating frequency as a correlated response to selection for lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 54: 2152-2155.
  • Sgrò, C.M and L. Partridge. 2000. Evolutionary response of the life history of wild-caught Drosophila melanogaster to two standard methods of laboratory culture. American Naturalist 156 (4): 341-353.
  • Woods, R.E., Sgrò, C.M., Hercus, M.J. and A.A. Hoffmann. 1999. The association between fluctuating asymmetry, trait variability, trait heritability and stress: a multiply-replicated experiment on combined stress in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 53: 493-505.
  • Sgrò, C.M and L. Partridge. 1999. A delayed wave of death from reproduction in Drosophila. Science 286: 2521-2524.
  • Sgrò, C.M., Chapman, T. and L. Partridge. 1998. Sex-specific selection on time to remate in Drosophila melanogaster. Animal Behaviour 56: 1267-1278.
  • Sgrò, C.M., and A.A. Hoffmann. 1998. Effects of stress combinations on the expression of additive genetic variation for fecundity in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetical Research 72: 13-18.
  • Sgrò, C.M., and A. A. Hoffmann. 1998. Heritable variation for fecundity in field-collected D. melanogaster and their offspring reared under different environmental temperatures. Evolution 52: 134-143.
  • Sgrò, C.M., and A. A. Hoffmann. 1998. Effects of temperature extremes on genetic variances for life history traits in Drosophila melanogaster as determined from parent-offspring comparisons. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 11: 1-20
  • Partridge, L. and C.M. Sgrò. 1998. Behavioural genetics: molecular genetics meets feeding ecology. Current Biology 8: R23-R24.
  • Jenkins, N.L., Sgrò C.M. and A.A. Hoffmann. 1997. Environmental stress and the expression of genetic variation. Pp 79-96. In Environmental Stress, adaptation and evolution. Eds. R. Bijlsma and V. Loeschcke. Birkhäuser, Basel. 1997.
  • Hoffmann, A.A., Sgrò C.M., and S.H. Lawler. 1995. Ecological population genetics: the interface between genes and the environment. Annual Review of Genetics 29: 349-370.