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

• Pavlova A, Walker F, van der Ree R & Taylor AC (2010) Threatened populations of the Australian squirrel glider (Petaurus norfolcensis) show evidence of evolutionary distinctiveness on a Late Pleistocene timescale. Conservation Genetics accepted 11/8/10
• Lada H, Neville C, Lacey B, Mac Nally R, Lake PS & Taylor AC (2010) Historic and current genetic population structure in two aquatic macroinvertebrates in massively altered woodland landscapes in central Victoria, Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research accepted 7/7/10
• Rourke M, McPartlan H, Ingram B & Taylor AC (2010) Biogeography and life history ameliorate the potentially negative genetic effects of stocking on Murray cod (Maccullochella peelli peelii). Marine and Freshwater Research accepted 21/5/10
• Lake PS, Thomson JR Lada H, Mac Nally R, Reid D, Stanaway J & Taylor AC (2010) Diversity and distribution of macroinvertebrates in lentic habitats in massively altered landscapes in south-eastern Australia. Diversity and Distributions 16, 713-724.
• Simmons JM, Sunnucks P, Taylor AC, van der Ree R (2010) Beyond road-kill, radiotracking, recapture and FST – a review of some genetic methods to improve understanding of the influence of roads on wildlife. Ecology and Society 15 (1):9 (online). URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss1/art9/
• Marks CA, Gigliotti F, McPhee S, Piggott MP, Taylor AC & Glen AS (2009) DNA genotypes reveal red fox (Vulpes vulpes) abundance in a comparison of survey techniques. Wildlife Research 36, 647-658.
• Lancaster M, Cooper S, Carthew S & Taylor AC (2009) Microsatellite markers for the Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) and their amplification in other Pseudocheirids. Molecular Ecology Resources 9, 1535-1537.
• Lada H & Taylor AC (2009) Polymorphic nuclear markers for aquatic macroinvertebrates Anisops hackeri, Micronecta gracilis and Necterosoma wollastoni. Conservation Genetics 10, 1625-1627.
• Rourke M, McPartlan H, Ingram B & Taylor AC (2009) Polygamy and low effective population size in a captive Murray cod (Maccullochella peelii peelii) population: genetic implications for wild restocking programs. Marine & Freshwater Research 60: 873-883.
• Hansen B, Harley D, Lindenmayer D & Taylor AC (2009) Population genetic analysis reveals a long-term decline of a threatened endemic Australian marsupial. Molecular Ecology 18: 3346-3362.
• Mac Nally R, Horrocks G, Lada H, Lake PS, Thomson JR & Taylor AC (2009) Distribution and status of anuran amphibians in massively altered landscapes in south-eastern Australia. Global Ecology and Biogeography 18: 575-585.
• Walker FM, Horsup A & Taylor AC (2009) Leader of the pack: faecal pellet deposition order impacts PCR amplification in wombats. Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 720-724.
• Piggott M, Wilson R, Marks CA, Banks SC, Gigliotti F & Taylor AC (2008) Evaluating exotic predator control programs using non-invasive genetic tagging. Wildlife Research 35: 617-624.
• Lada H, Thomson J, Mac Nally R, & Taylor AC (2008) Impacts of massive landscape change on a carnivorous marsupial in south-eastern Australia: inferences from landscape genetics analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology 45: 1732-1741.
• Hansen B & Taylor AC (2008) Isolated remnant or recent introduction? Estimating the provenance of Yellingbo Leadbeater’s possums by genetic analysis and bottleneck simulation. Molecular Ecology 17: 4039-4052.
• Lada H, Mac Nally R, & Taylor AC (2008) Phenotype and gene flow in a marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) in contrasting habitats. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94: 303-314.
• Lada H, Mac Nally R, & Taylor AC (2008) Distinguishing past from present gene flow along and across a river: the case of the carnivorous marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) on southern Australian floodplains. Conservation Genetics 9: 569-580.
• Lada H, Mac Nally R, & Taylor AC (2008) Responses of a carnivorous marsupial (Antechinus flavipes) to local habitat factors in two types of forests. Journal of Mammalogy 89: 398-407.
• Walker FM, Sunnucks P & Taylor AC (2008) Evidence for habitat fragmentation altering within-population processes in wombats. Molecular Ecology 17: 1674-1684.
• Walker FM, Taylor AC & Sunnucks P (2008) Female dispersal and male kinship-based association in southern hairy-nosed wombats (Lasiorhinus latifrons). Molecular Ecology 17: 1361–1374.