Dr Andrea Taylor

Phone: + 61 3 9905 5623
Fax: + 61 3 9905 5613
E-mail: Andrea.Taylor@sci.monash.edu.au

The Molecular Ecology Research Group comprises the research groups of Paul Sunnucks and Andrea Taylor. We share facilities and procedures, have strongly overlapping research interests and group meetings.

• Social and genetic effects of habitat fragmentation on Australian mammals
• Conservation management of northern hairy-nosed wombats
• Barrier effect of roads on animal dispersal

• Charlton K, Taylor AC & McKechnie SW (2006) A note on divergent mtDNA lineages of “bottlenose” dolphins from coastal waters of southern Australia. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management In press, accepted July 7th, 2005.
• Walker FM, Sunnucks P & Taylor AC (2006) Genotyping of ‘captured’ hairs reveals burrow-use and ranging behavior of southern hairy-nosed wombats. Journal of Mammalogy In press, accepted January 19th 2006.
• Piggott MP, Banks SC, Stone N, Banffy C & Taylor AC (2006) Estimating population size of endangered brush-tailed rock-wallaby (Petrogale penicillata) colonies using faecal DNA. Molecular Ecology15: 81-91.
• Piggott MP, Banks SC and Taylor AC (2006) Genetic analysis of the population structure of Petrogale penicillata colonies in Wollemi National Park using faecal DNA, and implications for management. Molecular Ecology15: 93-105.
• Banks, S.C., Finlayson, G.R., Lawson, S.J., Lindenmayer, D.B., Paetkau, D., Ward, S.J. & Taylor, A.C. (2005) The effects of habitat fragmentation due to forestry plantation establishment on the demography and genetic variation in a marsupial carnivore, Antechinus agilis. Biological Conservation 122: 581-597.
• Banks, S.C., Lindenmayer, D.B., Ward, S.J. & Taylor AC (2005) The effects of habitat fragmentation via forestry plantation establishment on spatial genotypic structure in the small marsupial carnivore, Antechinus agilis Molecular Ecology 14: 1667-1680.
• Banks, S.C., Ward, S. J., Lindenmayer, D.B., Finlayson, G.R., Lawson, S.J. & Taylor, A.C. (2005) The effects of habitat fragmentation on the social kin structure and mating system of the agile antechinus, Antechinus agilis. Molecular Ecology 14: 1789-1801.
• Sutherland, D R., Spencer, P B. S., Singleton, Grant R and Taylor, A C (2005) Kin selection and changing social structure during a population outbreak of feral house mice. Molecular Ecology 14: 2803-2814.
• Hansen BD, Sunnucks P, Blackett M & Taylor AC (2005) A set of microsatellite markers for an endangered arboreal marsupial, Leadbeater’s possum. Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 796-799.