Area of research
Genetics · Cancer Research
Research interest
Research interests include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Amphibian and Reptile Biology.
The effect of placentation type, litter size, lactation and gestation length on cancer risk in mammals
The tumour is in the detail: Local phylogenetic, population and epidemiological dynamics of a transmissible cancer in Tasmanian devils
Effect of <scp>MHC</scp> and inbreeding on disassortative reproduction: A data revisit, extension and inclusion of fertilization in sand lizards
Cancer Susceptibility as a Cost of Reproduction and Contributor to Life History Evolution
Cancer risk across mammals
Darwin, the devil, and the management of transmissible cancers
Genetic rescue restores long-term viability of an isolated population of adders (Vipera berus)
Long term effects of outbreeding: experimental founding of island population eliminates malformations and improves hatching success in sand lizards
Extreme Competence: Keystone Hosts of Infections
Tracing the rise of malignant cell lines: Distribution, epidemiology and evolutionary interactions of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils
Can postfertile life stages evolve as an anticancer mechanism?
Multiple paternity and precocial breeding in wild Tasmanian devils, Sarcophilus harrisii (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae)
Oncogenesis as a Selective Force: Adaptive Evolution in the Face of a Transmissible Cancer
Genetic diversity, inbreeding and cancer
MHC diversity and female age underpin reproductive success in an Australian icon; the Tasmanian Devil
Active migration is associated with specific and consistent changes to gut microbiota in <i>Calidris</i> shorebirds
Cancer Prevalence and Etiology in Wild and Captive Animals
Gut microbiota of a long‐distance migrant demonstrates resistance against environmental microbe incursions
Changes in diet associated with cancer: An evolutionary perspective
No signs of Na<sup>+</sup>/K<sup>+</sup>‐<scp>ATP</scp>ase adaptations to an invasive exotic toxic prey in native squamate predators
Curvilinear telomere length dynamics in a squamate reptile
Immunoglubolin dynamics and cancer prevalence in Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii)
Widespread convergence in toxin resistance by predictable molecular evolution
Floods and famine: climate‐induced collapse of a tropical predator‐prey community
Diet fatty acid profile, membrane composition and lifespan: An experimental study using the blowfly (Calliphora stygia)
Population demography of frillneck lizards (<scp><i>C</i></scp><i>hlamydosaurus kingii</i>, <scp>G</scp>ray 1825) in the wet‐dry tropics of Australia
Invader impact clarifies the roles of top‐down and bottom‐up effects on tropical snake populations
Anthropogenic selection enhances cancer evolution in <scp>T</scp>asmanian devil tumours
Queensland northern quolls are not immune to cane toad toxin
ISOLATION BREEDS NAIVETY: ISLAND LIVING ROBS AUSTRALIAN VARANID LIZARDS OF TOAD-TOXIN IMMUNITY VIA FOUR-BASE-PAIR MUTATION