Extrapair paternity and egg hatchability in tree swallows: evidence for the genetic compatibility hypothesis?
- B. Kempenaers, B. Congdon, P. Boag, R. J. Robertson
- Biology
- 1 May 1999
Using microsatellite DNA fingerprinting, extrapair paternity in relation to nesting success and male, female, and offspring characteristics is studied in tree swallows to find evidence that females have control over who fathers their offspring.
Intron variation in marbled murrelets detected using analyses of single‐stranded conformational polymorphisms
- V. Friesen, B. Congdon, H. E. Walsh, T. Birt
- BiologyMolecular Ecology
- 1 November 1997
Results of analyses for murrelets support earlier evidence that North American and Asiatic subspecies represent reproductively isolated species, and that genetic differences exist among murrelet from different sites within North America.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers for the amplification of five nuclear introns in vertebrates
- V. Friesen, B. Congdon, M. G. Kidd, T. Birt
- BiologyMolecular Ecology
- 1 December 1999
This work has designed 30 general PCR primers for nuclear introns for vertebrates that have been demonstrated to have broad taxonomic utility and to have less general or uncertain utilities.
Reconciling historical processes and population structure in the sooty tern Sterna fuscata
- D. R. Peck, B. Congdon
- Environmental Science
- 1 July 2004
It is suggested that ice sheets linked to major glacial events not only impact genetic structuring in temperate seabirds, but that sea level changes in the tropics associated with these same events have also significantly impacted contemporary geneticStructuring in tropical seabird species.
MECHANISMS OF POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION IN MARBLED MURRELETS: HISTORICAL VERSUS CONTEMPORARY PROCESSES
- B. Congdon, J. Piatt, K. Martin, V. Friesen
- Biology, Environmental ScienceEvolution; international journal of organic…
- 1 June 2000
Analysis of molecular variance, as well as estimates of gene flow derived using coalescent theory, indicate that population genetic structure is best explained by peripheral isolation of murrelets in the Aleutian Islands, rather than by selection associated with different nesting habitats.
Sensitivity of tropical seabirds to El Niño precursors.
- Carol A. Devney, M. Short, B. Congdon
- Environmental ScienceEcology
- 1 May 2009
It is shown that pelagic seabird breeding participation is directly and independently related to changes in both surface chlorophyll concentration and thermocline depth that occur well in advance of El Niño generated sea-surface temperature anomalies.
Seasonal resource availability and use by an endangered tropical mycophagous marsupial
- S. Abell, P. Gadek, C. Pearce, B. Congdon
- Environmental Science
- 1 October 2006
Observed and predicted effects of climate on Australian seabirds
- L. Chambers, Carol A. Devney, B. Congdon, N. Dunlop, E. Woehler, P. Dann
- Environmental Science
- 1 September 2011
Assessment of the vulnerability of Australian seabirds to variation and change in climate and identifying which species and ecosystems may be more resilient to future climate warming are reviewed.
Molecular evidence that fireweed (Senecio madagascariensis, Asteraceae) is of South African origin
- L. Scott, B. Congdon, J. Playford
- Environmental SciencePlant Systematics and Evolution
- 2004
Fireweed is part of the South African S. inaequidens complex, and the infestation in Australia originated from South Africa as opposed to Madagascar, which will facilitate a resumption of biological control efforts in Australia and will direct surveys for control agents to South Africa.
The hookworm Ancylostoma ceylanicum: An emerging public health risk in Australian tropical rainforests and Indigenous communities
- F. Smout, L. Skerratt, J. Butler, Christopher N. Johnson, B. Congdon, R. Thompson
- Political ScienceOne Health
- 26 April 2017
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