 Honours student
Research Project
Comparative population genetic structure analyses of eleven tropical elasmobranch species in Indo-Australian Archipelago
(Supervisors: Lanyon & Ovenden)
This project examined the pattern of genetic subdivision within a range of shark and ray populations in the Indo-Australian Archipelago (Northern Australia and Indonesia) using mtDNA phylogeny. This project tested the hypothesis that species with low vagility (demersal lifestyles) are more genetically subdivided than ones with high vagility and pelagic lifestyles, and examined population structure in terms of bathymetry, past geological events, and microevolutionary processes.
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