DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Faculty of Science and Engineering Annual report 2017 Welcome from the Head of Department 2017 – CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH, TEACHING AND SERVICE

The Department’s vision is to be a truly integrative Department of Biological Sciences that achieves excellence in research, teaching and service to the scientific and broader community. We value our inclusive and collegial culture and continue to strive to achieve high-quality DISTINGUISHED research that addresses the world’s significant challenges, provide an PROFESSOR inspiring student experience, and build productive partnerships with MICHELLE LEISHMAN researchers, industry, government and the wider community. Head of Department

Our research output and reputation continues to grow, with a strong focus on our areas of research excellence – animal behaviour, conservation biology, ecology and evolution. In 2017 our researchers published over 350 scientific papers, including three in Science, two in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and seven in Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Nature Microbiology, Nature Plants and Nature Ecology and Evolution. In 2017 we secured $8.8 million in external funding from a variety of sources, including the Australian Research Council, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, NSW Department of Primary Industries, and Horticulture Innovation Australia. Early in the year we launched the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Fruit Fly Biosecurity Innovation, which has resulted in an influx of new PhD students and researchers and a further strengthening of our research in insect biosecurity. Many of our researchers were recognised for their outstanding contributions: Emeritus Professor Mark Westoby received the inaugural Ralph Slatyer medal for outstanding biological research and was named one of the 44 new foreign honorary members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Emeritus Professor Dick Frankham received the MJD White Medal of the Genetics Society of Australasia for 2017; Dr Jemma Geoghegan was awarded the 2017 Genetics Society of Australasia Wilton Prize for early career researchers and the Young Tall Poppy Science Award; Professor Ian Wright was recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher; and the NSW Adaptation Hub Biodiversity Node won the national 2017 BHERT Award for Outstanding Collaboration for National (Non-Economic) Benefit. Many of our Masters and PhD students were also recognised for their outstanding research, receiving a number of awards and prizes.

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1. Biological Sciences Academic planning retreat November 2017. Photo: unknown.

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Our research output and reputation WELCOME FROM THE HEAD OF DEPARTMENT 2 continues to grow, with a strong focus RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 3 Research Funding in 2017 3 on our areas of research excellence – animal behaviour, conservation biology, LEARNING AND TEACHING 11 Undergraduate Offerings 11 ecology and evolution. Postgraduate Offerings 11 Learning and Teaching Initiatives 11 In 2017 we rolled out the second year of our revised curriculum, with two new integrated 200-level units replacing the previous Learning and Teaching Grants 11 animal and plant-focused units. This is an important curriculum Undergraduate Student Prizes 11 development that better aligns our teaching with modern Future Directions 11 approaches to biology. The renewal of our Bachelor of Advanced Science (Biology) has been very successful and the Master of AWARDS AND PRIZES 12 Research is being continually improved, reflected by ever-increasing enrolments and strong retention of students into our PhD program. Staff wardsA 12 Several exciting teaching initiatives were funded, including an app Undergraduate Prizes in Biological Sciences 13 to explore evolution along Wally’s Walk, and interactive resources HDR Student Awards and Grants 13 to help our ecology students in species identification in the field. Doctorate and Master of Research 14 The teaching excellence achieved in the Department was recognised Student Completions 2017 in the Vice-Chancellor’s Awards where three of our staff received awards (Associate Professor Jenny Donald, Dr Matthew Bulbert and OUTREACH ACTIVITIES 15 Associate Professor Michelle Power). Biology Outreach 15 The Department places a high priority on broader community engagement. We led or co-led two National Citizen Science projects Highlights in 2017 15 (Scoop a poop: Citizens tackle antibiotic resistance in the wild, led by Associate Professor Michelle Power and Professor Michael 2017 PUBLICATIONS 16 Gillings; and Citizen insights to the composition and risks of household dust, co-led by Professor Michael Gillings). Our 2017 Outreach program involved a large number of our staff and students – we visited over 25 schools and contributed to more than 20 school and public events, Including the sold-out Sydney Science Festival event Night of Illusions (run by Dr Matthew Bulbert, with over 700 attendees) and the Wild Science Race in collaboration with Taronga Zoo (run by Associate Professor Michelle Power with our Advanced Biology students). For the coming year, we have identified a number of strategic initiatives that I am particularly excited about. In addition to continuing to strengthen our research quality and impact, and our engagement with industry partners, we will focus on embedding industry and employability into our curriculum, enhancing the student experience, and taking even greater steps to embed the Department’s values of collegiality, equity and respect. We look forward to the completion of a new Biosciences building that will provide outstanding facilities for invertebrate research. It is a pleasure to work with such a talented and dedicated group of staff and students – I thank them all for their enthusiasm, cheerfulness and willingness to contribute, and I look forward to the year ahead.

DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR MICHELLE LEISHMAN Head of Department

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 3 Research highlights THE RESEARCH GENERATED BY STAFF AND STUDENTS GENERATES NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL IMPACT

We recognise that our research results in a range of different impacts with our stakeholders. Impacts may include media coverage, the uptake of methodology by industry or other researchers or the academic impact of research findings in the form of citations and downloads. Below are several examples of recent research produced by our staff and students, highlighted by the media.

MICROBIAL MASS MOVEMENTS GLOBAL CLIMATIC DRIVERS OF LEAF SIZE Zhu Y-G, Gillings M, Simonet P, Stekel D, Banwart S, Penuelas J, Wright IJ, Dong N, Maire V, Prentice IC, Westoby M, Díaz S, 2017. Microbial mass movements. Science 357: 1099–1100. Gallagher RV, Jacobs BF, Kooyman R, Law EA, Leishman MR, Niinemets Ü, Reich PB, Sack L, Villar R, Wang H, Wilf P, 2017. Global Human activities are dramatically reshaping microbial ecosystems, climatic drivers of leaf size. Science 357: 917–921. a team of researchers, including Macquarie University’s Michael Gillings, has argued in a perspective article in Science. A global team of researchers, including Professor Ian Wright, Professor Michelle Leishman, Professor Mark Westoby and Wastewater, ship ballast water, tourism and trade are moving Professor Colin Prentice from Macquarie University, has revealed microbes around the globe at an unprecedented scale. “Over 95 per the ecological drivers of the variation in leaf size around the world. cent of the poo in the world comes from humans and the animals In much of the world the key limiting factor for leaf size is night we farm. And our poo is travelling around the world with a billion temperature and the risk of frost damage to leaves, not water tourists, spreading microbes and antibiotic resistance genes,” limitation as had been previously thought. said Gillings. “The conventional explanation was that water availability and The researchers believe that this is driving antibiotic resistance overheating were the two major limits to leaf size. But the data and a loss of microbial diversity. It also threatens to jeopardise the didn’t fit,” Wright said. natural biogeochemical relationships that underpin vital ecosystem processes we take for granted, such as oxygen production, the With colleagues from Australia, the UK, Canada, Argentina, the carbon cycle and nitrogen fixing. As an example, the oxygen we USA, Estonia, Spain and China, the Macquarie team – led by Ian breathe is largely made by photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, Wright – analysed leaves of more than 7,600 species. From analyses and not by rainforests, as is commonly believed. “Microbes usually of this unique database they were able to predict the maximum perform their essential ecosystem services invisibly, but we ignore viable leaf size anywhere in the world based on the risk of daytime them at our peril,” said Gillings. overheating and night-time freezing. “Human activity is having the same effects on the otherwise The research team will use the findings to create more accurate invisible microbial world as it is on the world of larger organisms: vegetation models, which could be used by governments to predict increasing homogeneity, extinctions of endemic organisms and how vegetation will change locally and globally under climate change. instability in ecosystem processes,” the researchers said. The microbial world is such an important driver of global ecosystem 2 function that we need urgent measures to reduce the global mass disruption of microbial communities and more research to understand the impacts of human actions on this level of the ecosystem, the team stressed.

4 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES OPEN CUP NESTS EVOLVED FROM ROOFED NESTS GUT MICROBIOTA MODIFIES OLFACTORY-GUIDED MICROBIAL IN THE EARLY PASSERINES PREFERENCES AND FORAGING DECISIONS IN DROSOPHILA Price JJ, Griffith SC, 2017. Open cup nests evolved from roofed Wong AC-N, Wang Q-P, Morimoto J, Senior AM, Lihoreau M, Neely nests in the early passerines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: GG, Simpson SJ, Ponton F, 2017. Gut microbiota modifies olfactory- Biological Sciences 284: P20162708. guided microbial preferences and foraging decisions in Drosophila. Current Biology 27: 2397-2404. The most common bird nests found today had their birthplace in Australia, and these nests may be key to the success of many Dr Fleur Ponton and Dr Juliano Morimoto have used an birds, according to research published in Proceedings of the Royal experimental model to show how gut bacteria composition affects Society B, by Professor Simon Griffith of Macquarie University and nutritional choices of common fruit flies. Professor Jordan Price of St Mary’s College of Maryland. The discovery provides an exciting insight into how microbes in The researchers looked at the nests of passerines – common song the gut can influence host animals, which could be important for birds that include lyrebirds, fairy-wrens and magpies – and found understanding the effects of the gut microbiota on physiology and the ubiquitous ‘open’ cup nest evolved in Australia multiple times cognitive function in animals. more than 40 million years ago. “Among the passerine birds – which make up 60 per cent of the worlds birds – most species today build The study manipulated the type of bacteria individual flies were open cup-shaped nests, and only a minority build more elaborate exposed to, and examined their olfactory-guided preferences to roofed structures. The study shows that open cup nests evolved food microbes and nutrients. In addition to foraging for nutrients multiple times independently during early passerine evolution on to achieve a balanced diet, the researchers found that flies also the Australian continent, eventually becoming the most common forage for bacteria to populate a healthy gut flora. Responding to nest type across the world today,” said Griffith. smells associated with particular bacteria in foods, the flies showed a distinct preference for more beneficial types of bacteria over less- The birds that evolved from these open cup nesting lineages gave beneficial types or food lacking the bacteria. These responses were rise to many of the world’s birds today, and this study suggests that influenced by bacteria already present in the gut. the open nests were perhaps a key to their success – measured both in terms of how many species that developed, and how far they have “Beyond the biomedical significance of this research, there are spread around the world. potential interesting applications in the context of invasive and pest “This research really underlines the importance of Australia as the species control,” said Ponton. source of much of the world’s avian diversity – Australia was the birthplace for which many key features of birds started out and still DISTINCT SPINNING PATTERNS GAIN DIFFERENTIATED holds representatives of many of the ancient families,” concluded LOADING TOLERANCE OF SILK THREAD ANCHORAGES IN Professor Griffith. SPIDERS WITH DIFFERENT ECOLOGY Wolff JO, van der Meijden A, Herberstein ME, 2017. Distinct 3 spinning patterns gain differentiated loading tolerance of silk thread anchorages in spiders with different ecology. Proceedings B, Royal Society Publishing 284: 20171124. Building behaviour in animals extends biological functions beyond bodies. Many studies have emphasised the role of behavioural programs, physiology and extrinsic factors for the structure and function of buildings. Structure attachments associated with animal constructions offer yet unrealised research opportunities. Spiders build a variety of one- to three-dimensional structures from silk fibres. The evolution of economic web shapes as a key for ecological success in spiders has been related to the emergence of high performance silks and thread coating glues. However, the role of thread anchorages has been widely neglected in those models. Here, we show that orb-web (Araneidae) and hunting spiders (Sparassidae) use different silk application patterns that determine the structure and robustness of the joint in silk thread anchorages. Silk anchorages of orb-web spiders show a greater robustness against different loading situations, whereas the silk anchorages of hunting spiders have their highest pull-off resistance when loaded parallel to the substrate along the direction of dragline spinning. This suggests that the behavioural ‘printing’ of silk into attachment discs along with spinneret morphology was a prerequisite for the 2. Tree fern (Cyanthea australia) Katoomba, Blue Mountains. evolution of extended silk use in a three-dimensional space. This Photo: Muhammad Massod. highlights the ecological role of attachments in the evolution of 3. Baby Swallows in the nest Richmond NSW. Photo: Culum Brown. animal architectures.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 5 Research highlights

AN ECONOMICAL CUSTOM-BUILT DRONE FOR ASSESSING are used for navigation in dim light by night-active bull-ants in their WHALE HEALTH natural habitat. They found that the ants not only rely on visual Pirotta V, Smith A, Ostrowski M, Russell D, Jonsen ID, Grech A landmarks at night but also detect subtle modifications to their and Harcourt R, 2017. An Economical Custom-Built Drone for visual panorama, which are undetectable by current image matching Assessing Whale Health. Frontiers Marine Science 4: 2017425. algorithms. Small changes to their visual panorama triggered ants to re-learn their visual world. The researchers found that this re- Whale snot is that visible plume of spray rising from a whale’s learning is well-choreographed, where individual ants walk in an arc blowhole; it contains a wealth of biological health information such around the nest during which they repeatedly turn back to view the as DNA, hormones and bacteria. However, current methods of nest and the nest surrounds from multiple orientations. It is only collecting whale snot can be dangerous and invasive, as they require after mapping their new visual world over consecutive days that ants close boat approaches using poles fitted with collection devices. navigate successfully. In this study by Pirotta and colleagues, custom-built, waterproof drones with petri dishes were designed to fly through whale snot and collect bacteria from northward migrating humpback whales while they were off the coast of Sydney, Australia. Using next EFFECTS OF HABITAT DISTURBANCE ON TROPICAL generation sequencing, the researchers were able to describe FOREST BIODIVERSITY baseline microbial profiles from free swimming humpback whales. Alroy, J. 2017. Effects of habitat disturbance on tropical forest Similarities in bacterial taxa were also found with other whale biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, populations in the Northern Hemisphere. These findings can be USA 114:6056-6061. used to help inform the health of stranded or sick whales. Natural habitats are being destroyed around the world, and it stands to reason that many species will go extinct as a result. But how many? The best way to answer the question is to pool data based on SUBTLE CHANGES IN THE LANDMARK PANORAMA DISRUPTS ecological surveys from around the world. This study pulls together VISUAL NAVIGATION IN A NOCTURNAL BULL ANT 875 surveys focusing on plants and animals from tropical forests, Narendra A, Ramirez-Esquivel F, 2017. Subtle changes in the including everything from butterflies to birds to trees. Surveys landmark panorama disrupts visual navigation in a nocturnal representing disturbed habitats like forest fragments capture a bull ant. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 372: pool with 41% fewer species than the pool represented by pristine 20160068. forests. This figure was obtained by projecting global figures from Several insects active in bright light conditions use visual landmark the localised survey data using a new statistical method. Because information to travel to locations that are of significance to them. few undisturbed forests exist outside of protected areas and more The salience of these visual navigational cues decreases in low light and more forests are being cut down every year, it seems likely that conditions. The researchers investigated whether visual landmarks very many extinctions have already taken place.

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4. Humpback whales, drone ready to sample. Photo: Vanessa Pirotta.

6 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Table 1. Research funding in 2017. Project Title Funding Source Investigators Analysis of social networks in a disease context Georgetown University Stephen Leu, Simon Griffith Animating the study of visual communication ARC Future Fellowships Darrell Kemp Biodiversity and biogeography of benthic foraminifera Department of the Michael Gillings, Luke Strotz from the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area Environment and Energy Biodiversity Node of the NSW Adaptation Office of Environment and Lesley Hughes, Michelle Leishman, Research Hub Heritage, NSW Victoria Graham, Linda Beaumont, Rachael Gallagher, Nola Hancock, Kerrie Tomkins, Michael Chang, Emilie Ens, Tim Ralph, Leigh Staas Bio-inspired camouflage to prevent shark attacks ARC Linkage Projects, NSW Nathan Hart, SP Collin, C Huveneers, E Gennari, on surfers Department of Primary D Slip, V Peddemors Industries, Zoological Parks Board of NSW, Shark Mitigation Systems Pty Ltd Comprehending and modelling the workings of the ARC Future Fellowships Andrew Barron animal brain Developing Botrytis cinerea as a potent non-GM Australian Grape and Wine Steven Van Sluyter, Michael Gillings, enzyme producer for the removal of haze-forming Authority Rachel Self proteins under normal winemaking conditions Diatom lipids: the key to past sea-ice history in ARC Discovery Projects Simon George, Leanne Armand, S Belt, remote Antarctic regions P Heraud, C Bowler, J Beardall Drivers of landscape genetic patterns and Ecological Society Rachael Dudaniec, S Yadav environmental adaptation in generalist and specialist of Australia Australian grasshoppers Ecological impact of myrtle rust (Puccinia psidii) in NSW Department of Primary Michelle Leishman, L Fernandez native and managed ecosystems Industries Ecological impact of myrtle rust on native vegetation Environmental Trust NSW Michelle Leishman Ecological impacts of adaptation protection options - Office of Environment and Melanie Bishop, B Cooke, R Cox nourishment and seawalls Heritage, NSW Expanding gene-environment causality in ARC Discovery Projects Darrell Kemp, D Reznik evolutionary genetics Extreme reproductive conflict: sexual cannibalism, Hermon Slade Foundation Kate Barry female deception, and the evolution of male mate choice Facilitating community awareness of the values of Department of the Ross Peacock Gondwana Rainforests Environment and Energy Future Oyster CRCP, “Better Oysters” Subprogram: Australian Seafood David Raftos Identifying genetic markers for selective breeding in Industries Pty Limited Sydney rock oysters / Project 2016-802 Genetic solution or dilution: can selective breeding Australian Research Council Melanie Bishop, W O’Connor, David Raftos future-proof oysters? Goatfish as bio-indicators in coastal ecosystems: Holsworth Wildlife Research Jane Williamson, L Tosetto Understanding effects of human disturbance on Endowment behaviour and community structure Human-associated bacteria in Grey-headed Flying Holsworth Wildlife Research F McDougall, Michelle Power Foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) Endowment Identifying regions of high drought mortality risk for ARC Linkage Projects Linda Beaumont, Belinda Medlyn, D Tissue, tree species in NSW T Auld, B Evans, R Duursma, P Rymer, M Tjoelker Impacts of locust control pesticides ARC Linkage Projects Grant Hose, Kristine French, Christopher Bull on arid-zone fauna

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 7 Research highlights

Project Title Funding Source Investigators Information processing at its limits: from the dimmest ARC Future Fellowships Ajay Narendra habitats to the smallest sizes Integrative analysis of honey bee colony function United States Department of Andrew Barron, and performance (58-5342-3-004F: Developing the Agriculture W Meikle use of sensors to model bee colony dynamics and to monitor bee health, productivity and performance) Interactions of the Totten Glacier withthe Southern Australian Antarctic Division Leanne Armand, De Santis, E Domack, Ian Goodwin, Ocean through multiple glacial cycles A Leventer, P O’Brien, B Opdyke, A Post, C Escutia-Dotti ITTC for Fruit Fly Biosecurity Innovation (ARC) Australian Research Council Phil Taylor, Anthony Clarke, Markus Riegler, Darrell Kemp, Fleur Ponton, Stephen Cameron, Mark Schutze, James Cook, Alexie Papanicolaou, Bernie Dominiak, Andrew Jessup, Olivia Reynolds, Max Suckling, Ashraf El Sayad, Flore Mas, Jane Royer, Nancy Schellhorn, Sarina Macfadyen, Craig Wilson ITTC for Fruit Fly Biosecurity Innovation (RAAP) Department of Industry Phil Taylor, Anthony Clarke, Markus Riegler, Skills and Regional Darrell Kemp, Fleur Ponton, Stephen Cameron, Development Mark Schutze, James Cook, Alexie Papanicolaou, Bernie Dominiak, Andrew Jessup, Olivia Reynolds, Max Suckling, Ashraf El Sayad, Flore Mas, Jane Royer, Nancy Schellhorn, Sarina Macfadyen, Craig Wilson Larval diets for high-productivity Horticulture Innovation Fleur Ponton, Phil Taylor, Peter Crisp, mass-rearing of Queensland fruit fly for SIT Australia Ltd Andrew Jessup, Ian Jamie, Stella Chang, Benjamin Fanson, Markus Riegler, Polychronis Rempoulakis Life on the edge: how species interactions shape ARC DECRA Rachael Gallagher range boundaries Monitoring habitat complexity from space: a multi- Australian Museum Josh Madin, scale approach for quantifying ecological change Elizabeth Madin on coral reefs Movement, migration and social networks in wild ARC Linkage Projects Culum Brown, Tristan Guttridge, Joanna Day, shark populations Marlin Gregor, Nathan Knott Navigating brains: the neurobiology of spatial ARC Discovery Projects Ken Cheng, Jochen Zeil, Ajay Narendra, cognition Andrew Barron, Ruediger Wehner

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5. Achalinus niger. Photo: Ko-Huan Lee. 6. Seals, Antartica. Photo: Rob Harcourt.

8 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Project Title Funding Source Investigators NSW Biodiversity Baseline Assessment – Stage 2 NSW Office of Environment David Nipperess and Hertiage Ocelli in walking insects: insights from day and night Hermon Slade Foundation Ajay Narendra, active bull ants Yuri Ogawa Kato Optimal photosynthetic traits ARC Discovery Projects Ian Wright, on ecological time-scales Iain Prentice Parasite diversity and disease risk in the little penguin, Sea World Rescue and Michelle Power, Rachael Gray, Carrie Rose, Eudyptula minor Research Foundation Inc Juliane Schaer, Gemma Carroll Plant Sure Decision Support Tool Nursery & Garden Industry Michelle Leishman, Lesley Hughes, Australian (NGINA), NSW Vanessa Adams, Nola Hancock, Office of Environment Linda Beaumont, Anthony Manea, and Hertiage Victoria Graham, Stephan Johnson, Kerinne Harvey, Hillary Cherry, Suzanne Dunford, Kristine French Protecting vulnerable Australian honey bees Lord Mayor’s Charitable Andrew Barron Foundation Raising Qfly Sterile Insect Technique Horticulture Innovation Phil Taylor, Darrell Kemp, Marie Herberstein, to World Standard Australia Ltd Michael Gillings, Linda Beaumont, Fleur Ponton, Polychronis Rempoulakis, Ian Jamie, Joanne Jamie, Christopher McRae, Soo Jean Park, Owain Edwards, John Oakeshott, Shannon Dillon, Monika Gulia-Nuss, Peter Campbell, Sarina Macfadyen, Gunjan Pandey, Matthew Taylor, Mingwei Zhou, Olivia Reynolds, Andrew Jessup, Solomon Balagawi, Bernie Dominiak, Toni Chapman, Jianhua Mo, Peter Gillespie, Ania Deutscher, Lloyd Kingham, Peter Crisp, Kelly Hill, Max Suckling, Ashraf El Sayad, Kye Chung Park, Flore Mas, Lloyd Stringer, Andrew Twidle, Chris Bloomfield, Mark Berlage Reproductive plasticity and climate change: insights ARC Future Fellowships Simon Griffith from a region of opportunistic birds Research on Cetacean Entanglement Hotspots and Department of the Robert Harcourt Mitigation Research Environment and Energy Resolving the warming East Australian Current’s ARC Linkage Projects; Ian Jonsen, Robert Harcourt, Iain Suthers, impact on a marine food web Zoological Parks Moninya Roughan, M. Doblin, David Slip, Martin Cox, Board of NSW Gemma Carroll Risk Assessment and Strategic Response - NSW Office of Environment Melanie Bishop, Brett Miller, Estuaries and Heritage, NSW William Glamore Saving our Species - Review of Species Allocated to NSW Office of Environment Rachael Gallagher, Richard Frankham, the Keep Watch Management Stream and Heritage Rachael Dudaniec, Elizabeth Madin, Benjamin Pitcher, Mark Eldridge, Tony Auld, David Watson, Maurizio Rossetto, Anne Kerle, Todd Soderquist, Bob Makinson, Ayesha IT Tulloch, Libby Rumpff, Joslin Moore Scoop a poop: citizens tackle antibiotic resistance in Department of Industry, Michelle Power, Michael Gillings, the wild Innovation and Science Clare McArthur Seals as Oceanographic Samplers Australian Antarctic Division Robert Harcourt, Benjamin Galton-Fenzi, Mark Hindell, Ian Jonsen, Kazuya Kushahara, Mary-Ann Lea, Clive McMahon, Stephen (Steve) Rintoul, Fabien Roquet, Takeshi Tamura, Guy Williams

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 9 Research highlights

Project Title Funding Source Investigators Searching for mechanisms of heat tolerance among Linnean Society Brian Atwell Australia’s arid-zone plant species of New South Wales Social complexity, learning and behavioural flexibility Australian Society Martin Whiting, in three Australian skinks of Herpetologists, Inc. Birgit Szabo Surveying evolutionary drift in heat tolerance genes Australian Plants Society Brian Atwell from Themeda triandra (Kangaroo Grass) relative to local Sydney populations The benefit of mates: How social relationships ARC DECRA Stephan Leu improve sheep productivity The challenge of growing in a hot climate ARC Discovery Projects Simon Griffith, Christine Cooper-Rompato, Pierre Deviche, Pat Monaghan The genetic adaption of the house sparrow to Birdlife Australia Simon Griffith, S Andrew, L Rollins Australian climate conditions Thermostable rubisco activase complexes Bayer CropScience NV Brian Atwell Unlocking the paradox of imperfect mimicry Australian Research Council Marie Herberstein, Gerasimos Cassis, Gonzalo Giribet, Mike Speed Using transcriptomic, proteomic and Fisheries Research and David Raftos, David Mills, Abigail Elizur, metabolomic tools to understand stress in the Development Corporation Kelly Murphy, Scott Cummins, Tianfang Wang silver-lip pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima, and its impact on pearl quality Waterborne pathogen carriage in grey headed Lake Macquarie City Council Michelle Power, Fiona McDougall, flying foxes Aparna Lal

10 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Learning and teaching THE SECOND-YEAR UNITS OF OUR REVISED CURRICULUM WERE DELIVERED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 2017

A key change in the second-year curriculum was to replace animal and plant-focused units with two new integrated 200-level units that focus on common processes and themes that unify the diversity of life. This is an important curriculum development that better aligns our teaching with modern approaches to biology.

UNDERGRADUATE OFFERINGS LEARNING AND TEACHING GRANTS The Department administers diverse undergraduate programs. Learning and Teaching grants help us to develop innovative Within the Bachelor of Science, the Department offers majors teaching materials within the Department. We are committed to in Biology, Human Biology and Palaeobiology. The Department embracing emerging technologies that enhance the student learning also manages the Bachelor of Medical Sciences, the Bachelor of experience. In 2017, Dr Linda Beaumont and Dr Katherine McClellan Biodiversity and Conservation, and the Bachelor of Marine Science. received a Learning and Teaching grant to develop a computer app for student-led learning of species identification in the natural POSTGRADUATE OFFERINGS sciences. Professor Michael Gillings received funding to develop a At the postgraduate level, the Department administers two computer app that will allow students to learn about the history of coursework Masters degrees: the Master of Marine Science life and the universe by walking along a virtual timeline that spans and Management, and the Master of Conservation Biology. the Macquarie University campus. A postgraduate certificate and postgraduate diploma level in UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PRIZES Conservation Biology are also offered. These programs provide ample opportunities for the development of applied knowledge Thirteen undergraduate prizes were awarded to students and skills. To help ensure that the skills acquired in the Master of undertaking units of study in Biological Sciences in the areas of Conservation Biology align with the needs of prospective employers, Plant Biology, Genetics, Palaeontology, and General Biological a comprehensive review of the program was undertaken in 2017. Sciences (Table 3). We are grateful to the many individuals and organisations that make these prizes possible. LEARNING AND TEACHING INITIATIVES FUTURE DIRECTIONS The Department is continuing the development of learning and The Department of Biological Sciences recognises that obtaining teaching initiatives with industry. For the second year running, our and incorporating student feedback is essential for effective Department has partnered with Taronga Conservation Society and learning and teaching. Starting in 2018, we aim to enhance student Taronga Zoo to deliver the Wild Science Race, a Sydney Science participation in the development of our learning and teaching Festival event. Under this program, Advanced Science students strategy by soliciting feedback from student representatives in all (BIOL188, BIOL388) provide scientific activities for school students to of our units and programs. complete in order to better understand the role of science in Taronga’s conservation activities. The race also provides opportunities for To further enhance opportunities for student work-integrated Advanced Science students to interact with Taronga’s scientists and learning, the Department will be compiling data on existing conservation managers. Starting in 2017, students in BIOL349 (a industry partnerships in all of our existing units. We will use these capstone and PACE unit for students in the Bachelor of Biodiversity data to help reinforce existing industry partnerships and to identify and Conservation) have partnered with North Sydney Council to new opportunities to incorporate work-integrated learning into the collect baseline biodiversity data on plants, birds and other wildlife units we offer. in and around the Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability at Balls Head Finally, in light of upcoming changes to the curriculum architecture Drive in Waverton. These baseline biodiversity data will be collected that will be implemented at Macquarie University starting in 2020, over a period of approximately five years. our Learning and Teaching Committee will be taking a fresh look at To help foster the use of innovative teaching methods in our units our existing units and programs to ensure that they are sustainable, and programs, we are now offering staff seminars on learning and and that they meet the future needs of our students entering teaching methods that have proven effective in enhancing student the workforce. Among the proposals to be considered is the engagement and learning outcomes. We plan to schedule two or development of vertical double degrees that would allow students three seminars annually, with speakers drawn from both inside and to obtain Bachelor- and Master-level qualifications as part of a single outside the University. four-year program.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 11 Awards and prizes OUR STAFF ARE REGULARLY THE RECIPIENTS OF PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS AND PRIZES

STAFF AWARDS Table 2. Staff wards.a Recipient Award STAFF HIGHLIGHTS Jemma Geoghegan Emeritus Professor MJD White Medal of the Genetics Dick Frankham Society of Australasia for 2017 Jemma’s research uses evolutionary analysis, statistical models and phylodynamic methods in order to infer the Emeritus Professor ANU Ralph Slatyer Medal dynamics of key viral infections affecting human and animal Mark Westoby health. Her work largely concentrates on infectious disease Emeritus Professor Honorary member of the American dynamics, revealing important insights into new and Mark Westoby Academy of Arts and Sciences emerging infections. Dr Jemma Geoghegan 2017 Genetics Society of This research has led to some major findings, for example: Australasia Wilton Prize i) discovered that biological features of viruses could Dr Jemma Geoghegan New South Wales Young Tall Poppy predict human-to-human transmissibility Science Award ii) revealed that while many viruses seem to co-diverge with their host species over evolutionary timescales, Dr Patricia Selkirk 2017 University of Sydney overall ‘host jumping’ plays a much greater role in Alumni Award for Professional shaping virus evolution than previously thought Achievement iii) applied new phylodynamic approaches that combine 7 genetic and epidemiological data to uncover important insights into the dynamics and spread of infectious disease within populations.

Dick Frankham Dick is a highly cited researcher and leading international figure in conservation genetics, the discipline concerned with genetic issues in threatened species. He is lead author of four textbooks, including two that are major reference books. For the last eight years, Dick has led an international team working on genetic management of fragmented populations, one the most important but largely unaddressed issues in conservation biology. Dick and his collaborators have substantially advanced the relevant science through a series of influential papers, and in 2017 they published the book 8 Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations (Oxford University Press). The research team are now working on a practical guide to this topic. Dick was the recipient of the MJD White Medal of the Genetics Society of Australasia (2017).

12 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Table 3. Undergraduate prizes. Recipient Prize Awarded for Christian Marando Brendan Searle Memorial Prize Proficiency in the unit BIOL206 Genetics Christian Marando 200 Level Biology Prize Best student overall in two or more 200 level BIOL units Brianne Lyall 300 Level Biology Prize Best student overall in three or more 300 level BIOL units Joanne Lucas Australian Federation of Graduate Proficiency by a female student in at least 2 units at 200-level Women NSW (North Shore Branch) Prize in Biological Sciences Daniel Aspinall Biology Prize Highest GPA for a finishing Biology major Christian Marando Milthorpe Memorial Prize Proficiency in a 300-level Plant Biology unit Yasmin Asar Mollie Thomson Prize Proficiency in two 100-level Biological Science units Timothy Ghaly MRes Research Biology Prize Best Biology student overall in the MRES Research year Ciaran Mathewson MRes Year 1 Biology Prize Best Biology student overall in the MRES coursework year Yvette Bauder Ralph Faulkner Prize for Evolutionary Proficiency in the unit BIOL381 Evolutionary Palaeontology Palaeontology Brianne Lyall GT Micropro Prize Most outstanding performance in 300-level units offered within certain Departments in the Faculty of Science (Biological Sciences, Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences, Chiropractic, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Environmental Sciences Christian Marando John Morris Scientific Prize Most outstanding performance in 200-level units offered within certain Departments in the Faculty of Science (Biological Sciences, Chemistry & Biomolecular Sciences, Chiropractic, Earth & Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science) Brianne Lyall Life Technologies Outstanding performance in a 300-level BIOL or CBMS unit

Table 4. HDR student awards and grants. Recipient Award Funding body Maria Vozzo Student travel award Australian Marine Sciences Association Samiya Tabassum Tony Price award Dept of Biological Sciences Kaja Wierucka Student travel award Society of Marine Mammalogy Juliana Kadar The 3 minute speed talk winner Australian Fisheries Society Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons Meeting winner for best student video Australian Fisheries Society Nicolette Armansin Student travel award International Society of Marine Mammalogy Vanessa Pirotta Student travel award International Society of Marine Mammalogy

9 7. Jemma Geoghegan. Photo: Jo Stephan. 8. Dick Frankham holding MJD White Medal of the Genetics Society of Australasia - 2017. Photo: unknown. 9. Jannalee Clark on Heron Island. Photo: Louise Tosetto.

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Table 5. Doctorate and Master of Research students completions in 2017. Name Thesis title Humayra Akter, PhD Raspberry ketone as a promising pre-release supplement for the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) of Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) (Diptera: Tephritidae) Samuel Andrew, PhD Exploring adaptation in the introduced house sparrow to Australian climates and environments Daniel Bateman, PhD Direct and Indirect Impacts of a Non-Native Predator: Foraging by Carcinus maenas on Native Bivalves of South-East Australian Estuaries Peri Bolton, PhD Colourful conservation: genetic incompatibility and conservation genetics in the wild Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae) Alexander Burton, MRes Mimicry in the ant attended leafhopper species Eurymela rubrolimbata Amelie Cabirol, PhD Experience-dependent plasticity in brain structure and olfactory learning capacities in honey bees (Apis mellifera) Gemma Carroll, PhD Foraging Dynamics of Little Penguins in a Hotspot of Ocean Warming Peterson Coates, MPhil The Antifungal Defences of Australian Acacia Thrips Anthony Corrigan, MRes Fire Regimes and Fauna in Montane Forests in the Northern Australian Alps Sourav Das, PhD Identifying Climate Refugia for Australian Rainforest Plant Species: from the Last Glacial Maximum to 2070 Michelle Demers, MRes A reverse-genetics approach to low-oxygen tolerance in arabidopsis Emma Gray, PhD Growth Rates and Functional Traits of Tropical Rainforest and Savanna Species Lisa-Marie Katarina New approaches to modelling drivers of species distribution and abundance in the Southern Ocean Harrison, PhD Annika Herbert, PhD Pollen-based quantitative climate reconstructions for Australia, Last Glacial Maximum to present Laura Hurley, PhD Sperm production, quality, and post-copulatory performance in Australian Estrildid finches Julianna Kadar, MRes Discovering Behaviours in Captive Port Jackson Sharks (Heterodontus portusjacksoni) Using Accelerometers Monique Ladds, PhD Modelling Energetics of Fur Seals and Sea Lions Kiara L'Herpiniere, MRes Temperature, Humidity, and Vegetation Density Affect Eggshell Pigmentation Across a Continent Samantha Lynch, MRes Environmental Predictive Models for Shark Attacks in Australian Waters Kelly-Anne Lynch, MRes Responses of periphyton to current velocities in the Nepean River, NSW Ciaran Mathewson, MRes Biostratigraphy and Chemostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian Normanville Group, South Australia Donald McLean, MRes Explaining Imperfect Ant Mimicry Nicole O'Donnell, PhD What is Relationship between Diet, Aging and Longevity: A Case Study Using the Orb-Web Spider Benjamin Ofori, PhD Impacts of climate change on Cunningham’s skink (Egernia cunninghami) Samuel O'Neill, MRes Revisiting the Foundations of Animal Personality Klaudia Perkins, MRes Role of Carbon on the Diversity and Physiology of Groundwater Fungi Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons, PhD Top Shelf Bottom Feeders - Food Provisioning in Stingrays Vincenzo Repaci, PhD The place of functional genetics and population genomics within conservation genetics Julia Riley, PhD Social Environment Impacts Behavioural Development of a Family-Living Lizard Yanan Sun, PhD Taxonomy, Barcoding and Phylogeny of Hydroides (Serpulidae, Annelida), the Largest Genus of Notorious Fouling and Invading Calcareous Tubeworms Amy Tims, MRes Diversity, Interrelationships and Extinction Risk Correlates of Australian Freshwater Fishes Hilal Varinli, PhD The Epigenome of Human Adipocytes Grant Webster, MRes Geographic Variation in the Frog, Pseudophryne bibronii

14 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Outreach activities THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ACTIVELY PARTICIPATES IN MANY OUTREACH ACTIVITIES AT LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL

BIOLOGY OUTREACH The course applies an inquiry-based approach, in which teachers Biology made significant inroads towards developing an outreach are trained by active researchers from Macquarie University to framework that increases student experience and opportunities undertake and practice investigations that can be taken back to for professional development from undergraduate to early career their school. It directly addresses the 2018 HSC syllabus, providing academics. The attempt at creating a fully integrated program has approaches that help students appreciate the gravity of the led to the development of some great initiatives that range in goals biological challenges in the 21st century: climate change, health from better informing schools and the wider community about global threats and food security, to name a few. Ultimately, this course challenges and employability to including them in citizen science tackles the question of: What role can biotechnology and genetic initiatives to address some of these issues. We have also sought to technologies play in addressing these challenges? And: How do we increase our profile in large science festival events and creating large- even start to ask the right questions? scale curriculum value-adding citizen science programs. The Department also opened a dialogue with the NSW Science The outreach committee grew considerably in 2017 leading to Teachers’ Association, with Department staff working as consultants a substantial increase in contributions and design of student and providing advice on directions to take regarding certain recruitment and community engagement initiatives. The committee syllabus points relevant to university curricula. included Matthew Bulbert (Chair, Lecturer), Katherine McClellan (Lecturer, School liaison officer), Jenny Ghabache (departmental SCOOP A POOP outreach administrator), Ajay Narendra (Lecturer), Chris Reid ‘Scoop a Poop’ is a citizen science project coordinated by scientists (ECR Lecturer), Jemma Geoghegan (Lecturer), Kerstin Bilgmann from Macquarie University, in collaboration with Taronga Zoo and (ECR Lecturer), Alex Carthey (MQ Postdoctoral Fellow), Julian May the University of Sydney. The aim of the project is to examine the (Administration, program developer for PD). poop from common wildlife species (brushtail and ringtail possums) in order to understand how and where antibiotic resistant bacteria During 2017 the committee coordinated and contributed to over are moving from humans to wildlife. Researchers visit schools and 20 large official events. The Department as a whole contributed to community groups to provide education about the global health another 120+ engagements from primary k-3 to community (Figure 1) issue of antibiotic resistance (including resistance in wildlife), involving 65 separate institutions here and abroad. The Department and to teach participants how to collect possum scats from their is committed to increasing meaningful engagement with schools backyards using a specially designed kit. Participants will be able and the wider community. Equally, we design the engagements with to access the antibiotic resistance test results for their own sample the aim of providing opportunities for enhancing university student and provide feedback on their experience. Each year a number of experience and professional development for the Department’s students will come to Macquarie to learn about the DNA methods undergraduates, higher degree research students, postdoctoral used to test samples for resistance. fellows and early career academics. In 2017 we created opportunities for many undergraduates and 30+ HDR students, postdocs and ECR 10 academics to fulfil service and showcase research to approximately 15k students and community members. Apart from contributions to the student recruitment events throughout the year, the Department created and drove a number of major science festival events and facilitated the delivery of large citizen science initiatives. HIGHLIGHTS IN 2017 PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR SCHOOL TEACHERS The Department of Biological Sciences created a professional development workshop entitled: Genetic Technologies: Solving Global Challenges. The workshop is a NSW Education Standards Authority-Registered professional development course. Completing this course contributes 10 hours of NESA Registered professional development, addressing sections 3.2.2, 6.2.2, 6.3.2 of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher 10. Carlingford High School students collect possum poo samples for Scoop a Accreditation in NSW. Poop under instruction of Dr Koa Webster. Photo: unknown.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 15 2017 publications THE DEPARTMENT CONTINUES TO SUPPORT AND FOSTER IMPACTFUL PUBLICATIONS BY ALL RESEARCH STAFF AND STUDENTS

This list of publications may include papers that were not reported in the 2018 HERDC. Please note that in our discipline it is internationally recognised common practice for research team leaders to be named as last author on peer-reviewed publications, with mentored PhD students or research fellows as first named author.

JOURNAL ARTICLES Andrew SC, Hurley LL, Mariette MM, Griffith SC, 2017. Higher Adams HD, Zeppel MJB, Anderegg WRL, Hartmann H, Landhäusser temperatures during development reduce body size in the zebra SM, Tissue DT, Huxman TE, Hudson PJ, Franz TE, Allen CD, finch in the laboratory and in the wild. Journal of Evolutionary Anderegg LDL, Barron-Gafford GA, Beerling DJ, Breshears DD, Biology 30: 2156–2164. Brodribb TJ, Bugmann H, Cobb RC, Collins AD, Dickman LT, Duan H, Ewers BE, Galiano L, Galvez DA, Garcia-Forner N, Gaylord ML, Andrew SC, Hurley LL, Mariette MM, Griffith SC, 2017. Higher Germino MJ, Gessler A, Hacke UG, Hakamada R, Hector A, Jenkins temperatures during development reduce body size in the zebra MW, Kane JM, Kolb TE, Law DJ, Lewis JD, Limousin J-M, Love DM, finch in the laboratory and in the wild. Journal of evolutionary Macalady AK, Martínez-Vilalta J, Mencuccini M, Mitchell PJ, Muss biology 30: 2156–2164. JD, O'Brien MJ, O'Grady AP, Pangle RE, Pinkard EA, Piper FI, Plaut JA, Pockman WT, Quirk J, Reinhardt K, Ripullone F, Ryan MG, Sala Arif R, Akram F, Jamil T, Mukhtar H, Lee SF, Saleem M, 2017. Genetic A, Sevanto S, Sperry JS, Vargas R, Vennetier M, Way DA, Xu C, Yepez Variation and Its Reflection on Posttranslational Modifications in EA, McDowell NG, 2017. A multi-species synthesis of physiological Frequency Clock and Mating Type a-1 Proteins in Sordaria fimicola. mechanisms in drought-induced tree mortality. Nature Ecology and BioMed Research International 2017. Evolution 1: 1285–1291. Armbrecht LH, Eriksen R, Leventer A, Armand LK, 2017. First Agbaje OBA, Wirth R, Morales LFG, Shirai K, Kosnik M, Watanabe T, observations of living sea-ice diatom agglomeration to tintinnid Jacob DE, 2017. Architecture of crossed-lamellar bivalve shells: The loricae in East Antarctica. Journal of Plankton Research 39: southern giant clam (Tridacna derasa, Röding, 1798) Royal Society 795–802. Open Science 4: 9. Attuquayefio DK, Owusu EH, Ofori BY, 2017. Impact of mining and Akter H, Adnan S, Morelli R, Rempoulakis P, Taylor PW, 2017. forest regeneration on small mammal biodiversity in the Western Suppression of cuelure attraction in male Queensland fruit flies Region of Ghana. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 189: 5. provided raspberry ketone supplements as immature adults. PLoS ONE 12: 8. Atwood TB, Connolly RM, Almahasheer H, Carnell PE, Duarte CM, Lewis CJE, Irigoien X, Kelleway JJ, Lavery PS, Macreadie PI, Serrano Akter H, Mendez V, Morelli R, Pérez J, Taylor PW, 2017. Raspberry O, Sanders CJ, Santos I, Steven ADL, Lovelock CE, 2017. Global ketone supplement promotes early sexual maturation in male patterns in mangrove soil carbon stocks and losses. Nature Climate Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Diptera: Tephritidae). Pest Change 7: 523–528. Management Science 73–8: 1764–1770. Auger-Méthé M, Albertsen CM, Jonsen ID, Derocher AE, Lidgard Alam MB, Bajpai VK, Lee J, Zhao P, Byeon J-H, Ra J-S, Majumder R, Lee JS, Yoon J-I, Rather IA, Park Y-H, Kim K, Na M, Lee S-H, 2017. DC, Studholme KR, Bowen WD, Crossin GT, Flemming JM, 2017. Inhibition of melanogenesis by jineol from Scolopendra subspinipes Spatiotemporal modelling of marine movement data using Template mutilans via MAP-Kinase mediated MITF downregulation and the Model Builder (TMB). Marine Ecology Progress Series 565: 237–249. proteasomal degradation of tyrosinase. Scientific Reports 7. Badiane A, Matos C, Santos X, 2017. Uncovering environmental, Alroy J, 2017. Effects of habitat disturbance on tropical forest land-use and fire effects on the distribution of a low-dispersal biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the species, the Hermann's tortoise Testudo hermanni. Amphibia United States of America 114: 6056–6061. Reptilia 38: 67–77.

Andrew SC, Awasthy M, Griffith AD, Nakagawa S, Griffith SC, 2017. Badiane A, Pérez i de Lanuza G, García-Custodio MDC, Carazo Clinal variation in avian body size is better explained by summer P, Font E, 2017. Colour patch size and measurement error using maximum temperatures during development than by cold winter reflectance spectrophotometry. Methods in Ecology and Evolution temperatures. Auk 135: 206–217. 8: 1585–1593.

16 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Bajpai VK, Alam MB, Quan KT, Kwon K-R, Ju M-K, Choi H-J, Lee Boucaud ICA, Perez EC, Ramos LS, Griffith SC, Vignal C, 2017. JS, Yoon J-I, Majumder R, Rather IA, Kim K, Lee S-H, Na M, 2017. Acoustic communication in zebra finches signals when mates will Antioxidant efficacy and the upregulation of Nrf2-mediated HO-1 take turns with parental duties. Behavioral Ecology 28: 645–656. expression by (+)-lariciresinol, a lignan isolated from Rubia philippinensis, through the activation of p38. Scientific Reports 7. Briggs MT, Ho YY, Kaur G, Oehler MK, Everest-Dass AV, Packer NH, Hoffmann P, 2017. N-Glycan matrix-assisted laser desorption/ Bass NC, Mourier J, Knott NA, Day J, Guttridge T, Brown C, 2017. ionization mass spectrometry imaging protocol for formalin- Long-term migration patterns and bisexual philopatry in a benthic fixed paraffin-embedded tissues. Rapid Communications in Mass shark species. Marine and Freshwater Research 68: 1414–1421. Spectrometry 31: 825–841. Bateman DC, Bishop MJ, 2017. The environmental context and traits of habitat-forming bivalves influence the magnitude of their Brook BW, Alroy J, 2017. Pattern, process, inference and prediction ecosystem engineering. Marine Ecology Progress Series 563: 95–110. in extinction biology. Biology Letters 13: 1.

Baxter-Gilbert J, Mühlenhaupt M, Whiting MJ, 2017. Comparability Brown CJ, Jupiter SD, Albert S, Klein CJ, Mangubhai S, Maina JM, and repeatability of three commonly used methods for measuring Mumby P, Olley J, Stewart-Koster B, Tulloch V, Wenger A, 2017. endurance capacity. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Tracing the influence of land-use change on water quality and coral Ecological and Integrative Physiology 327: 583–591. reefs using a Bayesian model. Scientific Reports 7.

Baylis AMM, Orben RA, Costa DP, Tierney M, Brickle P, Staniland Brown CJ, Jupiter SD, Lin H-Y, Albert S, Klein C, Maina JM, Tulloch IJ, 2017. Habitat use and spatial fidelity of male South American VJD, Wenger AS, Mumby PJ, 2017. Habitat change mediates the sea lions during the nonbreeding period. Ecology and Evolution 7: response of coral reef fish populations to terrestrial run-off. Marine 3992–4002. Ecology Progress Series 576: 55–68. Beaumont LJ, Duursma D, Kemp DJ, Wilson PD, Evans JP, 2017. Bryson M, Ferrari R, Figueira W, Pizarro O, Madin J, Williams S, Potential impacts of a future persistent El Niño or La Niña on three subspecies of Australian butterflies. Biotropica 49: 110–116. Byrne M, 2017. Characterization of measurement errors using structure-from-motion and photogrammetry to measure marine Bell RC, Webster GN, Whiting MJ, 2017. Breeding biology and the habitat structural complexity. Ecology and Evolution 7: 5669–5681. evolution of dynamic sexual dichromatism in frogs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 2104–2115. Cabirol A, Brooks R, Groh C, Barron AB, Devaud J-M, 2017. Experience during early adulthood shapes the learning capacities Benelli M, Marchetti E, Dindo ML, 2017. Effects of storage at and the number of synaptic boutons in the mushroom bodies of suboptimal temperatures on the in vitro-reared parasitoid exorista honey bees (Apis mellifera). Learning and Memory 24: 557–562. larvarum (diptera: Tachinidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 110: 1476–1482. Caddy-Retalic S, Andersen AN, Aspinwall MJ, Breed MF, Byrne Ben-Yosef M, Zaada DSY, Dudaniec RY, Pasternak Z, Jurkevitch M, Christmas MJ, Dong N, Evans BJ, Fordham DA, Guerin GR, E, Smith RJ, Causton CE, Lincango MP, Tobe SS, Mitchell JG, Hoffmann AA, Hughes AC, van Leeuwen SJ, McInerney FA, Prober Kleindorfer S, Yuval B, 2017. Host-specific associations affect the SM, Rossetto M, Rymer PD, Steane DA, Wardle GM, Lowe AJ, 2017. microbiome of Philornis downsi, an introduced parasite to the Bioclimatic transect networks: Powerful observatories of ecological Galápagos Islands. Molecular Ecology 26: 4644–4656. change. Ecology and Evolution 7: 4607–4619.

Bernhardt P, Edens-Meier R, Grimm W, Ren Z-X, Towle B, 2017. Carroll G, Cox M, Harcourt R, Pitcher BJ, Slip D, Jonsen I, 2017. Global collaborative research on the pollination biology of rare and Hierarchical influences of prey distribution on patterns of prey threatened orchid species (orchidaceae). Annals of the Missouri capture by a marine predator. Functional Ecology 31: 1750–1760. Botanical Garden 102: 364–376. Carthey AJR, Bucknall MP, Wierucka K, Banks PB, 2017. Novel Blount C, O'Donnell P, Reeds K, Taylor MD, Boyd S, Van derWalt B, predators emit novel cues: A mechanism for prey naivety towards McPhee DP, Lincoln Smith M, 2017. Tools and criteria for ensuring alien predators. Scientific Reports 7. estuarine stock enhancement programs maximise benefits and minimise impacts. Fisheries Research 186: 413–425. Chakroun S, Rempoulakis P, Lebdi-Grissa K, Vreysen MJB, Bokhorst S, Kardol P, Bellingham PJ, Kooyman RM, Richardson 2017. Gamma irradiation of the carob or date moth Ectomyelois SJ, Schmidt S, Wardle DA, 2017. Responses of communities of soil ceratoniae: dose-response effects on egg hatch, fecundity, and organisms and plants to soil aging at two contrasting long-term survival. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 164: 257–268. chronosequences. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 106: 69–79. Chan NR, 2017. Morphospaces of functionally analogous traits show Bolton PE, Rollins LA, Brazill-Boast J, Kim K-W, Burke T, Griffith ecological separation between birds and pterosaurs. Proceedings of SC, 2017. The colour of paternity: extra-pair paternity in the the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: 1865. wild Gouldian finch does not appear to be driven by genetic incompatibility between morphs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology Chan NR, 2017. Phylogenetic variation in hind-limb bone scaling of 30: 174–190. flightless theropods. Paleobiology 43: 129–143.

MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ANNUAL REPORT 2017 17 2017 publications

Chen L, Watson C, Morsch M, Cole NJ, Chung RS, Saunders DN, De Kauwe MG, Medlyn BE, Walker AP, Zaehle S, Asao S, Guenet B, Yerbury JJ, Vine KL, 2017. Improving the delivery of SOD1 antisense Harper AB, Hickler T, Jain AK, Luo Y, Lu X, Luus K, Parton WJ, Shu S, oligonucleotides to motor neurons using calcium phosphate-lipid Wang Y-P, Werner C, Xia J, Pendall E, Morgan JA, Ryan EM, Carrillo nanoparticle. Frontiers in Neuroscience 11. Y, Dijkstra FA, Zelikova TJ, Norby RJ, 2017. Challenging terrestrial biosphere models with data from the long-term multifactor Prairie Chen Q-L, An X-L, Zhu Y-G, Su J-Q, Gillings MR, Ye Z-L, Cui L, Heating and CO2 Enrichment experiment. Global Change Biology 2017. Application of Struvite Alters the Antibiotic Resistome in 23: 3623–3645. Soil, Rhizosphere, and Phyllosphere. Environmental Science and De Oliveira DMP, Hartley-Tassell L, Everest-Dass A, Day CJ, Dabbs Technology 51: 8149–8157. RA, Ve T, Kobe B, Nizet V, Packer NH, Walker MJ, Jennings MP, Chessa S, Micheli A, Pucci R, Hunter J, Carroll G, Harcourt R, 2017. Sanderson-Smith ML, 2017. Blood group antigen recognition via the A Comparative Analysis of SVM and IDNN for Identifying Penguin group a streptococcal m protein mediates host colonization. Activities. Applied Artificial Intelligence 31: 453–471. MBio 8–1. Deventer SA, Herberstein ME, Mayntz D, O'Hanlon JC, Schneider Clausius E, McMahon CR, Harcourt R, Hindell MA, 2017. Effect of JM, 2017. Female fecundity and offspring survival are not increased climate variability on weaning mass in a declining population of through sexual cannibalism in the spider Larinioides sclopetarius. southern elephant seals Mirounga leonine. Marine Ecology Progress Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 2146–2155. Series 568: 249–260. Di Marco M, Butt N, Possingham HP, Kearney S, Watson JEM, Coates PJ, Stow A, Turnbull C, Beattie A, Hammill CF, Chapman TW, 2017. Changing trends and persisting biases in three decades of 2017. High density brood of Australian gall-inducing Acacia thrips conservation science. Global Ecology and Conservation 10: 32–42. aid in fungal control. Evolutionary Ecology 31: 119–130. Dias PJ, Fotedar S, Munoz J, Hewitt MJ, Lukehurst S, Hourston Connolly DM, Desvignes T, Williamson JE, 2017. Influence of body M, Wellington C, Duggan R, Bridgwood S, Massam M, Aitken size on tube feet morphology and attachment capacity in the sea V, de Lestang P, McKirdy S, Willan R, Kirkendale L, Giannetta urchin Holopneustes purpurascens (Temnopleuridae). Marine J, Corsini-Foka M, Pothoven S, Gower F, Viard F, Buschbaum C, Biology 164: 12. Scarcella G, Strafella P, Bishop MJ, Sullivan T, Buttino I, Madduppa H, Huhn M, Zabin CJ, Bacela-Spychalska K, Wójcik-Fudalewska D, Crino OL, Buchanan KL, Fanson BG, Hurley LL, Smiley KO, Markert A, Maximov A, Kautsky L, Jaspers C, Kotta J, Pärnoja M, Griffith SC, 2017. Divorce in the socially monogamous zebra finch: Robledo D, Tsiamis K, Küpper FC, Žuljevi? A, McDonald JI, Snow Hormonal mechanisms and reproductive consequences. Hormones M, 2017. Establishment of a taxonomic and molecular reference and Behavior 87: 155–163. collection to support the identification of species regulated by the Western Australian Prevention List for Introduced Marine Pests. Crino OL, Buchanan KL, Trompf L, Mainwaring MC, Griffith SC, Management of Biological Invasions 8: 215–225. 2017. Stress reactivity, condition, and foraging behavior in zebra finches: effects on boldness, exploration, and sociality. General and Dong N, Colin Prentice I, Evans BJ, Caddy-Retalic S, Lowe AJ, Wright IJ, 2017. Leaf nitrogen from first principles: Field evidence for Comparative Endocrinology 244: 101–107. adaptive variation with climate. Biogeosciences 14: 481–495. Davis TW, Prentice IC, Stocker BD, Thomas RT, Whitley RJ, Wang Dong N, Prentice IC, Harrison SP, Song QH, Zhang YP, 2017. H, Evans BJ, Gallego-Sala AV, Sykes MT, Cramer W, 2017. Simple Biophysical homoeostasis of leaf temperature: A neglected process process-led algorithms for simulating habitats (SPLASH v.1.0): for vegetation and land-surface modelling. Global Ecology and Robust indices of radiation, evapotranspiration and plant-available Biogeography 26: 998–1007. moisture. Geoscientific Model Development 10: 689–708. Dornelas M, Madin JS, Baird AH, Connolly SR, 2017. Allometric Davy CM, Mastromonaco GF, Riley JL, Baxter-Gilbert JH, Mayberry growth in reef-building corals. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: H, Willis CKR, 2017. Conservation implications of physiological Biological Sciences 284: 1851. carry-over effects in bats recovering from white-nose syndrome. Conservation Biology 31: 615–624. Duan H, Wu J, Huang G, Zhou S, Liu W, Liao Y, Yang X, Xiao Z, Fan H, 2017. Individual and interactive effects of drought and heat on Dayananda B, Ibargüengoytía N, Whiting MJ, Webb JK, 2017. Effects leaf physiology of seedlings in an economically important crop. AoB of pregnancy on body temperature and locomotor performance of PLANTS 9–1. velvet geckos. Journal of Thermal Biology 64-68 De Fraga R, Lima Dunning LT, Liabot A-L, Olofsson JK, Smith EK, Vorontsova MS, AP, Magnusson WE, Ferrão M, Stow AJ, 2017. Contrasting Patterns Besnard G, Simpson KJ, Lundgren MR, Addicott E, Gallagher RV, of Gene Flow for Amazonian Snakes That Actively Forage and Those Chu Y, Pennington RT, Christin P-A, Lehmann CER, 2017. The recent That Wait in Ambush. Journal of Heredity 65: 524–534. and rapid spread of Themeda triandra. Botany Letters 164: 327–337.

De Kauwe MG, Medlyn BE, Knauer J, Williams CA, 2017. Ideas and Eldridge MDB, Miller EJ, Neaves LE, Zenger KR, Herbert CA, 2017. perspectives: How coupled is the vegetation to the boundary layer? Extensive genetic differentiation detected within a model marsupial, Biogeosciences 14: 4435–4453. the tammar wallaby (Notamacropus eugenii). PLoS ONE 12: 3.

18 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Falster DS, Brännström A, Westoby M, Dieckmann U, 2017. Ghimire B, Riley WJ, Koven CD, Kattge J, Rogers A, Reich PB, Wright Multitrait successional forest dynamics enable diverse competitive IJ, 2017. A global trait-based approach to estimate leaf nitrogen coexistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the functional allocation from observations. Ecological Applications 27: United States of America 114: E2719–E2728. 1421–1434 .

Fanson KV, Best EC, Bunce A, Fanson BG, Hogan LA, Keeley T, Gillings MR, 2017. Lateral gene transfer, bacterial genome evolution, Narayan EJ, Palme R, Parrott ML, Sharp TM, Skogvold K, Tuthill L, and the Anthropocene. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Webster KN, Bashaw M, 2017. One size does not fit all: Monitoring 1389: 20–36. faecal glucocorticoid metabolites in marsupials. General and Gillings MR, Paulsen IT, Tetu SG, 2017. Genomics and the evolution Comparative Endocrinology 244: 146–156. of antibiotic resistance. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Filippov AÉ, Wolff JO, Seiter M, Gorb SN, 2017. Numerical 1388: 92–107. simulation of colloidal self-assembly of super-hydrophobic arachnid Goll DS, Winkler AJ, Raddatz T, Dong N, Colin Prentice I, Ciais cerotegument structures. Journal of Theoretical Biology 430: 1–8. P, Brovkin V, 2017. Carbon-nitrogen interactions in idealized Forsatkar MN, Nematollahi MA, Brown C, 2017. Male Siamese simulations with JSBACH (version 3.10). Geoscientific Model fighting fish use gill flaring as the first display towards territorial Development 10: 2009–2030. intruders. Journal of Ethology 35: 51–59. Goncalves P, Jones DB, Thompson EL, Parker LM, Ross PM, Raftos DA, 2017. Transcriptomic profiling of adaptive responses to ocean Freas CA, Cheng K, 2017. Learning and time-dependent cue choice acidification. Molecular Ecology 26: 5974–5988. in the desert ant, Melophorus bagoti. Ethology 123: 503–515. Goncalves P, Thompson EL, Raftos DA, 2017. Contrasting impacts of Freas CA, Narendra A, Cheng K, 2017. Compass cues used by a ocean acidification and warming on the molecular responses of CO2- nocturnal bull ant, Myrmecia midas. Journal of Experimental resilient oysters. BMC Genomics 18: 1. Biology 220: 1578–1585. Goñi MFS, Desprat S, Daniau A-L, Bassinot FC, Polanco-Martínez Freas CA, Narendra A, Lemesle C, Cheng K, 2017. Polarized light JM, Harrison SP, Allen JRM, Scott Anderson R, Behling H, Bonnefille use in the nocturnal bull ant, Myrmecia midas. Royal Society Open R, Burjachs F, Carrión JS, Cheddadi R, Clark JS, Combourieu-Nebout Science 4–8. N, Mustaphi CJC, Debusk GH, Dupont LM, Finch JM, Fletcher WJ, Freas CA, Whyte C, Cheng K, 2017. Skyline retention and retroactive Giardini M, González C, Gosling WD, Grigg LD, Grimm EC, Hayashi interference in the navigating Australian desert ant, Melophorus R, Helmens K, Heusser LE, Hill T, Hope G, Huntley B, Igarashi Y, Irino T, Jacobs B, Jiménez-Moreno G, Kawai S, Peter Kershaw A, bagoti. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Kumon F, Lawson IT, Ledru M-P, Lézine A-M, Mei Liew P, Magri Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 203: 353–367. D, Marchant R, Margari V, Mayle FE, Merna Mckenzie G, Moss P, Gallagher AJ, Shiffman DS, Byrnes EE, Hammerschlag-Peyer CM, Müller S, Müller UC, Naughton F, Newnham RM, Oba T, Pérez-Obiol Hammerschlag N, 2017. Patterns of resource use and isotopic niche R, Pini R, Ravazzi C, Roucoux KH, Rucina SM, Scott L, Takahara H, overlap among three species of sharks occurring within a protected Tzedakis PC, Urrego DH, Van Geel B, Guido Valencia B, Vandergoes subtropical estuary. Aquatic Ecology 51: 435–448. MJ, Vincens A, Whitlock CL, Willard DA, Yamamoto M, 2017. The ACER pollen and charcoal database: A global resource to document Gallop SL, Harley MD, Brander RW, Simmons JA, Splinter KD, vegetation and fire response to abrupt climate changes during the Turner IL, 2017. Assessing cross-shore and alongshore variation last glacial period. Earth System Science Data 9: 679–695. in beach morphology due to wave climate storms to decades. Oceanography 30: 120–125. Griffith SC, Crino OL, Andrew SC, Nomano FY, Adkins-Regan E, Alonso-Alvarez C, Bailey IE, Bittner SS, Bolton PE, Boner W, Boogert Garnier E, Stahl U, Laporte M-A, Kattge J, Mougenot I, Kïhn N, Boucaud ICA, Briga M, Buchanan KL, Caspers BA, Cicho? M, I, Laporte B, Amiaud B, Ahrestani FS, Bnisch G, Bunker DE, Clayton DF, Derïgnaucourt S, Forstmeier W, Guillette LM, Hartley Cornelissen JHC, Diaz S, Enquist BJ, Gachet S, Jaureguiberry P, IR, Healy SD, Hill DL, Holveck M-J, Hurley LL, Ihle M, Tobias Krause Kleyer M, Lavorel S, Maicher L, Pïrez-Harguindeguy N, Poorter E, Mainwaring MC, Marasco V, Mariette MM, Martin-Wintle MS, H, Schildhauer M, Shipley B, Violle C, Weiher E, Wirth C, Wright McCowan LSC, McMahon M, Monaghan P, Nager RG, Naguib M, IJ, Klotz S, 2017. Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an Nord A, Potvin DA, Prior NH, Riebel K, Romero-Haro AA, Royle NJ, ecological contribution. Journal of Ecology 105: 298–309. Rutkowska J, Schuett W, Swaddle JP, Tobler M, Trompf L, Varian- Ramos CW, Vignal C, Villain AS, Williams TD, 2017. Variation in Geoghegan JL, Holmes EC, 2017. Predicting virus emergence amid Reproductive Success Across Captive Populations: Methodological evolutionary noise. Open Biology 7–10. Differences, Potential Biases and Opportunities. Ethology 123: 1–29.

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Gruber J, Brown G, Whiting MJ, Shine R, 2017. Geographic Heerah K, Hindell M, Andrew-Goff V, Field I, McMahon CR, divergence in dispersal-related behaviour in cane toads from Charrassin J-B, 2017. Contrasting behavior between two populations range-front versus range-core populations in Australia. Behavioral of an ice-obligate predator in East Antarctica. Ecology and Ecology and Sociobiology 71: 2. Evolution 7: 606–618.

Gruber J, Brown G, Whiting MJ, Shine R, 2017. Is the behavioural Higdon R, Kala J, Wilkins D, Yan JF, Sethi MK, Lin L, Liu S, Montague divergence between range-core and range-edge populations E, Janko I, Choiniere J, Kolker N, Hancock WS, Kolker E, Fanayan S, of cane toads (Rhinella marina) due to evolutionary change or 2017. Integrated proteomic and transcriptomic-based approaches developmental plasticity? Royal Society Open Science 4–10. to identifying signature biomarkers and pathways for elucidation of Daoy and UW228 subtypes. Proteomes 5:1. Gruber J, Whiting MJ, Brown G, Shine R, 2017. The loneliness of the long-distance toad: Invasion history and social attraction in cane Hindell MA, Sumner M, Bestley S, Wotherspoon S, Harcourt RG, toads (Rhinella marina). Biology Letters 13. Lea M-A, Alderman R, McMahon CR, 2017. Decadal changes in habitat characteristics influence population trajectories of southern Hageer Y, Esperón-Rodríguez M, Baumgartner JB, Beaumont LJ, elephant seals. Global Change Biology 23: 5136–5150. 2017. Climate, soil or both? Which variables are better predictors of the distributions of Australian shrub species? PeerJ 2017. Hocking DP, Ladds MA, Slip DJ, Fitzgerald EMG, Evans AR, 2017. Chew, shake, and tear: Prey processing in Australian sea lions Halupka L, Wierucka K, Sztwiertnia H, Klimczuk E, 2017. Conditions (Neophoca cinerea). Marine Mammal Science 33: 541–557. at autumn stopover sites affect survival of a migratory passerine. Journal of Ornithology 158: 979–988. Hoops D, Ullmann JFP, Janke AL, Vidal-Garcia M, Stait-Gardner T, Dwihapsari Y, Merkling T, Price WS, Endler JA, Whiting MJ, Keogh Haque MM, Nipperess DA, Gallagher RV, Beaumont LJ, 2017. How JS, 2017. Sexual selection predicts brain structure in dragon lizards. well documented is Australia's flora? Understanding spatial bias in Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: 244–256. vouchered plant specimens. Austral Ecology 42: 690–699.

Harris CJ, Manea A, Moles AT, Murray BR, Leishman MR, 2017. Hoops D, Vidal-García M, Ullmann JFP, Janke AL, Stait-Gardner T, Differences in life-cycle stage components between native and Duchêne DA, Price WS, Whiting MJ, Keogh JS, 2017. Evidence for introduced ranges of five woody Fabaceae species. Austral Ecology Concerted and Mosaic Brain Evolution in Dragon Lizards. Brain, 42: 404-–413. Behavior and Evolution 90: 211–223.

Harvey PJ, Taylor MP, Handley HK, Foster S, Gillings MR, Asher Hose GC, Fryirs KA, Bailey J, Ashby N, White T, Stumpp C, 2017. AJ, 2017. Chemical, biological, and DNA markers for tracing Different depths, different fauna: habitat influences on the slaughterhouse effluent. Environmental Research 156: 534–541. distribution of groundwater invertebrates. Hydrobiologia 797: 145–157. Hasan MT, Sun A, Mirzaei M, Te'o J, Hobba G, Sunna A, Nevalainen H, 2017. A comprehensive assessment of the biosynthetic pathways Hurley LL, Fanson KV, Griffith SC, 2017. Variation in the number of of ascorbate, a-tocopherol and free amino acids in Euglena gracilis sperm trapped on the perivitelline layer of the egg in three species var. saccharophila. Algal Research 27: 140–151. of estrildid finch. Auk 134: 832–841.

Hassan KA, Pederick VG, Elbourne LDH, Paulsen IT, Paton JC, Huveneers C, Stehfest KM, Simpfendorfer CA, Semmens J, Hobday McDevitt CA, Eijkelkamp BA, 2017. Zinc stress induces copper AJ, Pederson H, Stieglitz T, Vallee R, Webber D, Heupel MR, depletion in Acinetobacter baumannii. BMC Microbiology 17. Harcourt R, 2017. Application of the Acoustic Propagation Model to a deep-water cross-shelf curtain. Methods in Ecology and Evolution Hata T, Madin JS, Cumbo VR, Denny M, Figueiredo J, Harii S, 8: 1305–1308. Thomas CJ, Baird AH, 2017. Coral larvae are poor swimmers and require fine-scale reef structure to settle. Scientific Reports 7. Jacquet SM, Brougham T, Skovsted CB, Jago JB, Laurie JR, Betts MJ, Topper TP, Brock GA, 2017. Watsonella crosbyi from the lower He XJ, Zhou LB, Pan QZ, Barron AB, Yan WY, Zeng ZJ, 2017. Making Cambrian (Terreneuvian, Stage 2) Normanville Group in South a queen: an epigenetic analysis of the robustness of the honeybee Australia. Geological Magazine 154: 1088–1104. (Apis mellifera) queen developmental pathway. Molecular Ecology 26: 1598–1607. Jayaweera A, Barry KL, 2017. Male antenna morphology and its effect on scramble competition in false garden mantids. Die HedayatiRad M, Nematollahi MA, Forsatkar MN, Brown C, 2017. Naturwissenschaften 104: 75. Prozac impacts lateralization of aggression in male Siamese fighting fish. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety 140: 84–88. Jerry M, Brown C, 2017. Fitness Costs of Sexual Harassment-The Price of Persuasion. Ethology 123: 242–250. Heepe L, Petersen DS, Tïlle L, Wolff JO, Gorb SN, 2017. Sexual dimorphism in the attachment ability of the ladybird beetle Kamhi JF, Arganda S, Moreau CS, Traniello JFA, 2017. Origins of Coccinella septempunctata on soft substrates. Applied Physics A: aminergic regulation of behavior in complex insect social systems. Materials Science and Processing 123. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 11.

20 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Kar F, Whiting MJ, Noble DWA, 2017. Dominance and sial Ladds MA, Slip DJ, Harcourt RG, 2017. Intrinsic and extrinsic information use in a lizard. Animal Cognition 20: 805–812. influences on standard metabolic rates of three species of Australian otariid. Conservation Physiology 5:1. Kelley JL, Taylor I, Hart NS, Partridge JC, 2017. Aquatic prey use countershading camouflage to match the visual background. Ladds MA, Slip DJ, Harcourt RG, 2017. Swimming metabolic Behavioral Ecology 28: 1314–1322. rates vary by sex and development stage, but not by species, in three species of Australian otariid seals. Journal of Comparative Kemp DJ, Thomson FE, Edwards W, Iturbe-Ormaetxe I, 2017. Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology Incomplete offspring sex bias in Australian populations of the 187: 503–516. butterfly Eurema hecabe. Heredity 118: 284–292. Ladds MA, Thompson AP, Kadar J-P, Slip D, Hocking D, Harcourt Kim K-W, Bennison C, Hemmings N, Brookes L, Hurley LL, Griffith R, 2017. Super machine learning: Improving accuracy and reducing SC, Burke T, Birkhead TR, Slate J, 2017. A sex-linked supergene variance of behaviour classification from accelerometry. Animal controls sperm morphology and swimming speed in a songbird. Biotelemetry 5:1. Nature Ecology and Evolution 1: 1168–1176. Lamb AD, Watkins-Colwell GJ, Moore JA, Warren DL, Iglesias Klein S, Pasquaretta C, Barron AB, Devaud J-M, Lihoreau M, 2017. TL, Brandley MC, Dornburg A, 2017. Endolymphatic sac use and Inter-individual variability in the foraging behaviour of traplining reproductive activity in the lesser antilles endemic gecko Gonatodes bumblebees. Scientific Reports 7. antillensis (Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae). Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 58: 17–29. Knief U, Schielzeth H, Backström N, Hemmrich-Stanisak G, Wittig Lancaster LT, Dudaniec RY, Hansson B, Svensson EI, 2017. Do group M, Franke A, Griffith SC, Ellegren H, Kempenaers B, Forstmeier dynamics affect colour morph clines during a range shift? Journal of W, 2017. Association mapping of morphological traits in wild and Evolutionary Biology 30: 728–737. captive zebra finches: reliable within, but not between populations. Molecular Ecology 26: 1285–1305. Lanfear R, Frandsen PB, Wright AM, Senfeld T, Calcott B, 2017. Partitionfinder 2: New methods for selecting partitioned models of Kooyman RM, Laffan SW, Westoby M, 2017. The incidence of low evolution for molecular and morphological phylogenetic analyses. phosphorus soils in Australia. Plant and Soil 412: 143–150. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34: 772–773.

Korbel K, Chariton A, Stephenson S, Greenfield P, Hose GC, 2017. Larsen H, Cronin G, Smith CL, Hemsworth P, Rault J-L, 2017. Wells provide a distorted view of life in the aquifer: Implications for Behaviour of free-range laying hens in distinct outdoor sampling, monitoring and assessment of groundwater ecosystems. environments. Animal Welfare 26: 255–264. Scientific Reports 7. Larsen H, Cronin GM, Gebhardt-Henrich SG, Smith CL, Hemsworth Korbel KL, Hose GC, 2017. The weighted groundwater health PH, Rault J-L, 2017. Individual ranging behaviour patterns in index: Improving the monitoring and management of groundwater commercial free-range layers as observed through RFID tracking. resources. Ecological Indicators 75: 164–181. Animals 7: 3.

Kosnik MA, Hua Q, Kaufman DS, Kowalewski M, Whitacre K, Lavender JT, Dafforn KA, Bishop MJ, Johnston EL, 2017. An empirical 2017. Radiocarbon-calibrated amino acid racemization ages examination of consumer effects across twenty degrees of latitude. from Holocene sand dollars (Peronella peronii). Quaternary Ecology 98: 2391–2400. Geochronology 39: 174–188. Lavender JT, Dafforn KA, Bishop MJ, Johnston EL, 2017. Small-scale Labrousse S, Salleé J-B, Fraser AD, Massom RA, Reid P, Hobbs W, habitat complexity of artificial turf influences the development Guinet C, Harcourt R, McMahon C, Authier M, Bailleul F, Hindell of associated invertebrate assemblages. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 98: 105–112. MA, Charrassin J-B, 2017. Variability in sea ice cover and climate elicit sex specific responses in an Antarctic predator. Scientific Lawson JR, Fryirs KA, Leishman MR, 2017. Interactive effects of Reports 7. waterlogging and atmospheric CO2 concentration on gas exchange, growth and functional traits of Australian riparian tree seedlings. Labrousse S, Sallée J-B, Fraser AD, Massom RA, Reid P, Sumner Ecohydrology 10: 3. M, Guinet C, Harcourt R, McMahon C, Bailleul F, Hindell MA, Charrassin J-B, 2017. Under the sea ice: Exploring the relationship Lay A, Graham I, Cohen D, Privat K, González-Jiménez JM, Belousova between sea ice and the foraging behaviour of southern elephant E, Barnes S-J, 2017. Ophiolitic chromitites of Timor Leste: Their seals in East Antarctica. Progress in Oceanography 156: 17–40. composition, platinum group element geochemistry, mineralogy, and evolution. Canadian Mineralogist 55: 875–908. Ladds MA, Rosen DA, Slip DJ, Harcourt RG, 2017. The utility of accelerometers to predict stroke rate in captive fur seals and sea Lee A, Rayner SL, De Luca A, Gwee SSL, Morsch M, Sundaramoorthy lions. Biology Open 6: 1396–1400. V, Shahheydari H, Ragagnin A, Shi B, Yang S, Williams KL, Don EK, Walker AK, Zhang KY, Yerbury JJ, Cole NJ, Atkin JD, Blair IP, Molloy Ladds MA, Rosen DAS, Slip DJ, Harcourt RG, 2017. Proxies of energy MP, Chung RS, 2017. Casein kinase II phosphorylation of cyclin F at expenditure for marine mammals: An experimental test of "the time serine 621 regulates the Lys48-ubiquitylation E3 ligase activity of trap" Scientific Reports7. the SCF(cyclin F) complex. Open Biology 7: 10.

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Lee KA, Huveneers C, Duong T, Harcourt RG, 2017. The ocean has Masood M, Herberstein ME, Raftos DA, Nair SV, 2017. Double depth: Two- versus threedimensional space use estimators in a stranded RNA is processed differently in two oyster species. demersal reef fish. Marine Ecology Progress Series 572: 223–241. Developmental and Comparative Immunology 76: 285–291.

Li G, Gerhart LM, Harrison SP, Ward JK, Harris JM, Prentice IC, Maute K, French K, Story P, Bull CM, Hose GC, 2017. Short and 2017. Changes in biomass allocation buffer low CO 2 effects on tree long-term impacts of ultra-low-volume pesticide and biopesticide growth during the last glaciation. Scientific Reports 7. applications for locust control on non-target arid zone arthropods. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 240: 233–243. Littleford-Colquhoun BL, Clemente C, Whiting MJ, Ortiz-Barrientos D, Frère CH, 2017. Archipelagos of the Anthropocene: rapid and Maute K, Story P, Hose GC, Bull CM, French K, 2017. Applications of fipronil (Adonis 3UL) and Metarhizium acridum for use against extensive differentiation of native terrestrial vertebrates in a single locusts have minimal effect on litter decomposition and microbial metropolis. Molecular Ecology 26: 2466–2481. functional diversity in Australian arid grassland. 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22 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Morimoto J, Ponton F, Tychsen I, Cassar J, Wigby S, 2017. Nevatte RJ, Wueringer BE, Jacob DE, Park JM, Williamson JE, 2017. Interactions between the developmental and adult social First insights into the function of the sawshark rostrum through environments mediate group dynamics and offspring traits in examination of rostral tooth microwear. Journal of Fish Biology 91: Drosophila melanogaster. Scientific Reports 7. 1582–1602.

Morimoto J, Simpson SJ, Ponton F, 2017. Direct and trans- Nguyen VM, Brooks JL, Young N, Lennox RJ, Haddaway N, generational effects of male and female gut microbiota in Drosophila Whoriskey FG, Harcourt R, Cooke SJ, 2017. To share or not to share melanogaster. Biology Letters 13: 7. in the emerging era of big data: Perspectives from fish telemetry researchers on data sharing. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Mourier J, Bass NC, Guttridge TL, Day J, Brown C, 2017. Does Aquatic Sciences 74: 1260–1274. detection range matter for inferring social networks in a benthic shark using acoustic telemetry? Royal Society Open Science 4: 9. Nicastro A, Lee K-M, Bishop MJ, 2017. Assimilation of organic matter by two benthic consumers across gradients of latitude and nutrient Mourier J, Brown C, Planes S, 2017. Learning and robustness to catch- enrichment. Marine and Freshwater Research 68: 840–850. Andrelease fishing in a shark social network. Biology Letters 13: 3. Nkrumah EE, Badu EK, Baldwin HJ, Anti P, Klose SM, Vallo P, Muschett G, Umbers KDL, Herberstein ME, 2017. Within-season Drosten C, Kalko EKV, Oppong SK, Tschapka M, 2017. Flight Activity variability of fighting behaviour in an Australian alpine grasshopper. of Noack's Round-Leaf Bat (Hipposideros cf. ruber) at Two Caves in PLoS ONE 12: 4. Central Ghana, West Africa. Acta Chiropterologica 19: 347–355.

Myun Park J, Nam Kwak S, Huh S-H, Han I-S, 2017. Diets and niche Nooten SS, Hughes L, 2017. The power of the transplant: direct overlap among nine co-occurring demersal fishes in the southern assessment of climate change impacts. Climatic Change 144: continental shelf of East/Japan Sea, Korea. Deep-Sea Research Part 237–255. II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 143: 100–109. Ofori BY, Beaumont LJ, Stow AJ, 2017. Cunningham's skinks show Nagloo N, Hart NS, Collin SP, 2017. Ontogenetic changes in spectral low genetic connectivity and signatures of divergent selection sensitivity and retinal topography in the retina of the yellowtail across its distribution. Ecology and Evolution 7: 48–57. kingfish (Seriola lalandi): Implications for the global Seriola aquaculture industry. Aquaculture 474: 130–137. Ofori BY, Stow AJ, Baumgartner JB, Beaumont LJ, 2017. Combining dispersal, landscape connectivity and habitat suitability to assess Najeeb U, Sarwar M, Atwell BJ, Bange MP, Tan DKY, 2017. climate-induced changes in the distribution of Cunningham's skink, Endogenous ethylene concentration is not a major determinant of Egernia cunninghami. PLoS ONE 12: 9. fruit abscission in heat-stressed cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Frontiers in Plant Science 8. Ofori BY, Stow AJ, Baumgartner JB, Beaumont LJ, 2017. Influence of adaptive capacity on the outcome of climate change vulnerability Narendra A, Ramirez-Esquivel F, 2017. Subtle changes in the assessment. Scientific Reports 12. landmark panorama disrupt visual navigation in a nocturnal bull ant. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Ogawa Y, Ribi W, Zeil J, Hemmi JM, 2017. Regional differences in the Sciences 372: 1717. preferred e-vector orientation of honeybee ocellar photoreceptors. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 1701–1708. Narendra A, Ribi WA, 2017. Ocellar structure is driven by the mode of locomotion and activity time in Myrmecia ants. Journal of Onoda Y, Wright IJ, Evans JR, Hikosaka K, Kitajima K, Niinemets Ü, Experimental Biology 220: 4383–4390. Poorter H, Tosens T, Westoby M, 2017. Physiological and structural tradeoffs underlying the leaf economics spectrum. New Phytologist Nauser T, Gebicki JM, 2017. Physiological concentrations of 214: 1447–1463. ascorbate cannot prevent the potentially damaging reactions of protein radicals in humans. Chemical Research in Toxicology 30: Park JM, Gaston TF, Williamson JE, 2017. Resource partitioning in 1702–1710 gurnard species using trophic analyses: The importance of temporal resolution. Fisheries Research 186: 301–310. Nauser T, Gebicki JM, 2017. Reaction rates of glutathione and ascorbate with alkyl radicals are too slow for protection against Park JM, Huh S-H, 2017. Dietary habits and feeding strategy of protein peroxidation in vivo. Archives of Biochemistry and the fivespot flounder, Pseudorhombus pentophthalmus in the Biophysics 633: 118–123. southeastern coast of Korea. Research 64: 93–103.

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Nevatte RJ, Williamson JE, Vella NGF, Raoult V, Wueringer BE, 2017. Paxton H, Arias A, 2017. Unveiling a surprising diversity of the genus Morphometry and microanatomy of the barbels of the common Diopatra Audouin & Milne Edwards, 1833 (Annelida: Onuphidae) sawshark Pristiophorus cirratus (Pristiophoridae): implications for in the Macaronesian region (eastern North Atlantic) with the pristiophorid behaviour. Journal of Fish Biology 90: 1906–1925. description of four new species. Zootaxa 4300: 505–535.

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Paxton H, Wiklund H, Alexander F, Taboada S, 2017. Is the Antarctic Queiroz N, Vila-Pouca C, Couto A, Southall EJ, Mucientes G, Ophryotrocha orensanzi (Annelida: Dorvilleidae) a circumpolar Humphries NE, Sims DW, 2017. Convergent foraging tactics non-specialized opportunist? Systematics and Biodiversity 15: of marine predators with different feeding strategies across 105–114. heterogeneous ocean environments. Frontiers in Marine Science 4.

Peckmezian T, Taylor PW, 2017. Place avoidance learning and Rabin SS, Melton JR, Lasslop G, Bachelet D, Forrest M, Hantson S, memory in a jumping spider. Animal Cognition 20: 275–284. Kaplan JO, Li F, Mangeon S, Ward DS, Yue C, Arora VK, Hickler T, Kloster S, Knorr W, Nieradzik L, Spessa A, Folberth GA, Sheehan Pekár S, Petráková L, Bulbert MW, Whiting MJ, Herberstein ME, T, Voulgarakis A, Kelley DI, Colin Prentice I, Sitch S, Harrison 2017. The golden mimicry complex uses a wide spectrum of defence S, Arneth A, 2017. The Fire Modeling Intercomparison Project to deter a community of predatorse. eLife 2017 6: e22089. (FireMIP), phase 1: Experimental and analytical protocols with detailed model descriptions. Geoscientific Model Development 10: Peters KJ, Myers SA, Dudaniec RY, O'Connor JA, Kleindorfer S, 2017. 1175–1197. Females drive asymmetrical introgression from rare to common species in Darwin's tree finches. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 30: Ramirez-Esquivel F, Leitner NE, Zeil J, Narendra A, 2017. The 1940–1952. sensory arrays of the ant, Temnothorax rugatulus. Arthropod Structure and Development 46: 552–563. Peters RS, Krogmann L, Mayer C, Donath A, Gunkel S, Meusemann K, Kozlov A, Podsiadlowski L, Petersen M, Lanfear R, Diez PA, Ramirez-Esquivel F, Ribi WA, Narendra A, 2017. Techniques for Heraty J, Kjer KM, Klopfstein S, Meier R, Polidori C, Schmitt T, Liu investigating the anatomy of the ant visual system. Journal of S, Zhou X, Wappler T, Rust J, Misof B, Niehuis O, 2017. Evolutionary Visualized Experiments 2017. History of the Hymenoptera. Current Biology 27: 1013–1018. Rane RV, Oakeshott JG, Nguyen T, Hoffmann AA, Lee SF, 2017. Pineda-Munoz S, Lazagabaster IA, Alroy J, Evans AR, 2017. Inferring Orthonome - a new pipeline for predicting high quality orthologue diet from dental morphology in terrestrial mammals. Methods in gene sets applicable to complete and draft genomes. BMC Genomics Ecology and Evolution 8: 481–491. 18: 1.

Pirotta V, Smith A, Ostrowski M, Russell D, Jonsen ID, Grech A, Raoult V, Peddemors V, Williamson JE, 2017. Biology of angel sharks Harcourt R, 2017. An economical Custom-Built drone for assessing (Squatina sp.) and sawsharks (Pristiophorus sp.) caught in south- whale health. Frontiers in Marine Science 4. eastern Australian trawl fisheries and the New South Wales shark- meshing (bather-protection) program. Marine and Freshwater Pitcher BJ, Briefer EF, Baciadonna L, McElligott AG, 2017. Cross- Research 68: 207–212. modal recognition of familiar conspecifics in goats. Royal Society Open Science 4. Raoult V, Trompf L, Williamson JE, Brown C, 2017. Stress profile influences learning approach in a marine fish. PeerJ 2017. Plath JA, Entler BV, Kirkerud NH, Schlegel U, Galizia CG, Barron AB, 2017. Different roles for honey bee mushroom bodies and Read GB, ten Hove HA, Sun Y, Kupriyanova EK, 2017. Hydroides central complex in visual learning of colored lights in an aversive Gunnerus, 1768 (Annelida, Serpulidae) is feminine: A nomenclatural conditioning assay. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 11. checklist of updated names. ZooKeys 2017: 1–52.

Precoda K, Allen AP, Grant L, Madin JS, 2017. Using traits to assess Redeckas K, Voiciuk V, Zigmantas D, Hiller RG, Vengris M, 2017. nontransitivity of interactions among coral species. American Unveiling the excited state energy transfer pathways in peridinin- Naturalist 190: 420–429. chlorophyll a-protein by ultrafast multi-pulse transient absorption spectroscopy. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics 1858: Prentice IC, Cleator SF, Huang YH, Harrison SP, Roulstone I, 2017. 297–307. Reconstructing ice-age palaeoclimates: Quantifying low-CO2 effects on plants. Global and Planetary Change 149: 166–176. Rigual-Hernández AS, Colmenero-Hidalgo E, Martrat B, Bárcena MA, de Vernal A, Sierro FJ, Flores JA, Grimalt JO, Henry M, Price JJ, Griffith SC, 2017. Open cup nests evolved from roofed Lucchi RG, 2017. Svalbard ice-sheet decay after the Last Glacial nests in the early passerines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Maximum: New insights from micropalaeontological and organic Biological Sciences 248: 1848. biomarker paleoceanographical reconstructions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 465: 225–236. Prior NH, Yap KN, Mainwaring MC, Adomat HH, Crino OL, Ma C, Guns ES, Griffith SC, Buchanan KL, Soma KK, 2017. Sex Riley JL, Baxter-Gilbert JH, Litzgus JD, 2017. A comparison of three steroid profiles in zebra finches: Effects of reproductive state and external transmitter attachment methods for snakes. Wildlife domestication. General and Comparative Endocrinology 244: Society Bulletin 41: 132–139. 108–117. Riley JL, Noble DWA, Byrne RW, Whiting MJ, 2017. Does social Pyke GH, 2017. Fire-Stimulated Flowering: A Review and Look to the environment influence learning ability in a family-living lizard? Future. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 36: 179–189. Animal Cognition 20: 449–458.

24 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Riley JL, Noble DWA, Byrne RW, Whiting MJ, 2017. Early social Schwarz S, Wystrach A, Cheng K, 2017. Ants' navigation in an environment influences the behaviour of a family-living lizard. unfamiliar environment is influenced by their experience of a Royal Society Open Science 4: 1–16. familiar route. Scientific Reports 7.

Ritter MDN, Erthal F, Kosnik M, Coimbra JC, Kaufman DS, 2017. Seiter M, Wolff JO, 2017. Stygophrynus orientalis sp. nov. Spatial variation in the temporal resolution of subtropical shallow- (Amblypygi: Charontidae) from Indonesia with the description of a water molluscan death assemblages. Palaios 32: 572–583. remarkable spermatophore. Zootaxa 4232: 397–408.

Robinson GE, Barron AB, 2017. Epigenetics and the evolution of Sheldon EL, Griffith SC, 2017. A high incidence of non-cavity nesting instincts: Instincts may evolve from learning and share the same in an introduced population of House Sparrows suggests that the cellular and molecular mechanisms. Science 356: 26–27. species should not be constrained by cavity-nest site availability. Rodríguez JP, Fernández-Gracia J, Thums M, Hindell MA, Sequeira Avian Research 8. AMM, Meekan MG, Costa DP, Guinet C, Harcourt RG, McMahon CR, Short JW, Geiger HJ, Haney JC, Voss CM, Vozzo ML, Guillory V, Muelbert M, Duarte CM, Eguíluz VM, 2017. Big data analyses reveal Peterson CH, 2017. Anomalously High Recruitment of the 2010 Gulf patterns and drivers of the movements of southern elephant seals. Menhaden (Brevoortia patronus) Year Class: Evidence of Indirect Scientific Reports 7. Effects from the Deepwater Horizon Blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Rossetto M, Ens EJ, Honings T, Wilson PD, Yap J-YS, Costello O, Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 73: Round ER, Bowern C, 2017. From Songlines to genomes: Prehistoric 76–92. assisted migration of a rain forest tree by Australian Aboriginal people. PLoS ONE 12: 11. Smith CL, 2017. Referential signalling in birds: the past, present and future. Animal Behaviour 124: 315–323. Rutowski RL, Kemp DJ, 2017. Female iridescent colour ornamentation in a butterfly that displays mutual ornamentation: is Smith-Ferguson J, Reid CR, Latty T, Beekman M, 2017. Hänsel, it a sexual signal? Animal Behaviour 126: 301–307. Gretel and the slime mould - How an external spatial memory AIDS navigation in complex environments. Journal of Physics D: Applied Ryan EM, Ogle K, Peltier D, Walker AP, De Kauwe MG, Medlyn BE, Physics 50: 41. Williams DG, Parton W, Asao S, Guenet B, Harper AB, Lu X, Luus KA, Zaehle S, Shu S, Werner C, Xia J, Pendall E, 2017. Gross primary Soh WK, Wright IJ, Bacon KL, Lenz TI, Steinthorsdottir M, Parnell production responses to warming, elevated CO2, and irrigation: AC, McElwain JC, 2017. Palaeo leaf economics reveal a shift in quantifying the drivers of ecosystem physiology in a semiarid ecosystem function associated with the end-Triassic mass extinction grassland. Global Change Biology 23: 3092–3106. event. Nature Plants 3.

Ryan LA, Hemmi JM, Collin SP, Hart NS, 2017. Electrophysiological Søvik E, LaMora A, Seehra G, Barron AB, Duncan JG, Ben-Shahar Y, measures of temporal resolution, contrast sensitivity and spatial 2017. Drosophila divalent metal ion transporter Malvolio is required resolving power in sharks. Journal of Comparative Physiology A: in dopaminergic neurons for feeding decisions. Genes, Brain and Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology 203: Behavior 16: 506–514. 197–210. Srikanta Dani KG, Marino G, Taiti C, Mancuso S, Atwell BJ, Loreto F, Sams MA, Lai HR, Bonser SP, Vesk PA, Kooyman RM, Metcalfe Centritto M, 2017. De novo post-illumination monoterpene burst in DJ, Morgan JW, Mayfield MM, 2017. Landscape context explains Quercus ilex (holm oak). Planta 245: 459–465. changes in the functional diversity of regenerating forests better than climate or species richness. Global Ecology and Biogeography Srikanta Dani KG, Silva Benavides AM, Michelozzi M, Peluso G, 26: 1165–1176. Torzillo G, Loreto F, 2017. Relationship between isoprene emission and photosynthesis in diatoms, and its implications for global Scalon MC, Wright IJ, 2017. Leaf trait adaptations of xylem-tapping marine isoprene estimates. Marine Chemistry 189: 17–24. mistletoes and their hosts in sites of contrasting aridity. Plant and Soil 415: 117–130. Steckenreuter A, Hoenner X, Huveneers C, Simpfendorfer C, Buscot MJ, Tattersall K, Babcock R, Heupel M, Meekan M, Van Den Broek J, Scalon MC, Wright IJ, Franco AC, 2017. To recycle or steal? Nutrient McDowall P, Peddemors V, Harcourt R, 2017. Optimising the design resorption in Australian and Brazilian mistletoes from three low- phosphorus sites. Oikos 126: 32–39. of large-scale acoustic telemetry curtains. Marine and Freshwater Research 68: 1403–1413. Scheiner R, Entler BV, Barron AB, Scholl C, Thamm M, 2017. The effects of fat body tyramine level on gustatory responsiveness Stoll HM, Mendez-Vicente A, Abrevaya L, Anderson RF, Rigual- of honeybees (Apis mellifera) differ between behavioral castes. Hernïndez AS, Gonzalez-Lemos S, 2017. Growth rate and size effect Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 11. on carbon isotopic fractionation in diatom-bound organic matter in recent Southern Ocean sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Scheiner R, Reim T, Søvik E, Entler BV, Barron AB, Thamm M, 2017. Letters 457: 87–99. Learning, gustatory responsiveness and tyramine differences across nurse and forager honeybees. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: Stumpp C, Hose GC, 2017. Groundwater amphipods alter aquifer 1443–1450. sediment structure. Hydrological Processes 31: 3452–3454.

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Styan CA, McCluskey CF, Sun Y, Kupriyanova EK, 2017. Cryptic Wang H, Prentice IC, Keenan TF, Davis TW, Wright IJ, Cornwell sympatric species across the Australian range of the global estuarine WK, Evans BJ, Peng C, 2017. Towards a universal model for carbon invader Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923) (Serpulidae, dioxide uptake by plants /704/47 /704/158/851 letter. Nature Plants Annelida). Aquatic Invasions 12: 53–65. 3: 734–741.

Su J-Q, An X-L, Li B, Chen Q-L, Gillings MR, Chen H, Zhang T, Zhu Wardle SG, Ritchie JB, Seymour K, Carlson TA, 2017. Edge-related activity is not necessary to explain orientation decoding in human Y-G, 2017. Metagenomics of urban sewage identifies an extensively visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 37: 1187–1196. shared antibiotic resistome in China. Microbiome 5: 84. Warren DL, Geneva AJ, Lanfear R, Rosenberg M, 2017. RWTY (R We Sultana S, Baumgartner JB, Dominiak BC, Royer JE, Beaumont LJ, There Yet): An R package for examining convergence of Bayesian 2017. Potential impacts of climate change on habitat suitability for phylogenetic analyses. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34: the Queensland fruit fly. Scientific Reports 7. 1016–1020.

Sun Y, Al-Kandari M, Kubal P, Walmiki N, Kupriyanova EK, 2017. Warrington RE, Hart NS, Potter IC, Collin SP, Hemmi JM, 2017. Cutting a Gordian knot of tubeworms with DNA data: the story of Retinal temporal resolution and contrast sensitivity in the parasitic the Hydroides Operculata-complex (Annelida, Serpulidae). Zootaxa lamprey Mordacia mordax and its non-parasitic derivative Mordacia 4323: 39–48. praecox. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 1245–1255.

Sun Y, Wong E, Keppel E, Williamson JE, Kupriyanova EK, 2017. Wason A, Pearce FG, Gerrard JA, Mabbutt BC, 2017. Archaeal Lsm A global invader or a complex of regionally distributed species? rings as stable self-assembling tectons for protein nanofabrication. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 489: 326–331. Clarifying the status of an invasive calcareous tubeworm Hydroides dianthus (Verrill, 1873) (Polychaeta: Serpulidae) using DNA Wassens S, Ning N, Hardwick L, Bino G, Maguire J, 2017. Long-term barcoding. Marine Biology 164: 1. changes in freshwater aquatic plant communities following extreme drought. Hydrobiologia 799: 233–247. Szabo B, Bugnyar T, Auersperg AMI, 2017. Within-group relationships and lack of social enhancement during object Webster K, Narayan E, de Vos N, 2017. Fecal glucocorticoid manipulation in captive Goffin's cockatoos (Cacatua goffiniana). metabolite response of captive koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) to Learning and Behavior 45: 7–19. visitor encounters. General and Comparative Endocrinology 244: 157–163. Tan Z-H, Zeng J, Zhang Y-J, Slot M, Gamo M, Hirano T, Kosugi Y, Whitacre KE, Kaufman DS, Kosnik MA, Hearty PJ, 2017. Converting Da Rocha HR, Saleska SR, Goulden ML, Wofsy SC, Miller SD, Manzi A/I values (ion exchange) to D/L values (reverse phase) for amino AO, Nobre AD, De Camargo PB, Restrepo-Coupe N, 2017. Optimum acid geochronology. Quaternary Geochronology 37: 1–6 air temperature for tropical forest photosynthesis: Mechanisms involved and implications for climate warming. Environmental White TE, 2017. Digest: Strengthening the link between sexual Research Letters 12: 5. selection and color polymorphism. Evolution 277: 1913–1914.

Thompson JA, Stow AJ, Raftos DA, 2017. Lack of genetic White TE, 2017. Jewelled spiders manipulate colour-lure geometry introgression between wild and selectively bred Sydney rock oysters to deceive prey. Biology Letters 13. Saccostrea glomerata. Marine Ecology Progress Series 570: 127–139. White TE, Dalrymple RL, Herberstein ME, Kemp DJ, 2017. The perceptual similarity of orb-spider prey lures and flower colours. Tosetto L, Williamson JE, Brown C, 2017. Trophic transfer of Evolutionary Ecology 31. microplastics does not affect fish personality. Animal Behaviour 123: 159–167. White TE, Kemp DJ, 2017. Colour polymorphic lures exploit innate preferences for spectral versus luminance cues in dipteran prey. Wait LF, Fox S, Peck S, Power ML, 2017. Molecular characterization BMC Evolutionary Biology 17: 1. of Cryptosporidium and Giardia from the Tasmanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii). PLoS ONE 12: 4. White TE, Rojas B, Mappes J, Rautiala P, Kemp DJ, 2017. Colour and luminance contrasts predict the human detection of natural stimuli Walczyk NE, Smith PMC, Tovey ER, Roberts TH, 2017. Peanut in complex visual environments. Biology Letters 13: 9. protein extraction conditions strongly influence yield of allergens Whitehead MR, Catullo RA, Ruibal M, Dixon KW, Peakall R, Linde Ara h 1 and 2 and sensitivity of immunoassays. Food Chemistry 221: CC, 2017. Evaluating multilocus Bayesian species delimitation for 335–344. discovery of cryptic mycorrhizal diversity. Fungal Ecology 26: 74–84.

Walker AP, Quaife T, van Bodegom PM, De Kauwe MG, Keenan TF, Whitley R, Beringer J, Hutley LB, Abramowitz G, De Kauwe MG, Joiner J, Lomas MR, MacBean N, Xu C, Yang X, Woodward FI, 2017. Evans B, Haverd V, Li L, Moore C, Ryu Y, Scheiter S, Schymanski The impact of alternative trait-scaling hypotheses for the maximum SJ, Smith B, Wang Y-P, Williams M, Yu Q, 2017. Challenges and photosynthetic carboxylation rate (Vcmax) on global gross primary opportunities in land surface modelling of savanna ecosystems. production. New Phytologist 215: 1370–1386. Biogeosciences 14: 4711–4732.

26 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Wierucka K, Pitcher BJ, Harcourt R, Charrier I, 2017. The role Wolff JO, Lovtsova J, Gorb E, Dai Z, Ji A, Zhao Z, Jiang N, Gorb SN, of visual cues in mother-pup reunions in a colonially breeding 2017. Strength of silk attachment to Ilex chinensis leaves in the tea mammal. Biology Letters 13: 11. bagworm Eumeta minuscula (Lepidoptera, Psychidae). Journal of the Royal Society Interface 14: 128. Wilks JV, Armand LK, 2017. Diversity and taxonomic identification Wolff JO, Seiter M, Gorb SN, 2017. The water-repellent cerotegument of Shionodiscus s in the Australian sector of the Subantarctic Zone. of whip-spiders (Arachnida: Amblypygi). Arthropod Structure and Diatom Research 32: 295–307. Development 46: 116–129.

Wilks JV, Rigual-Hernández AS, Trull TW, Bray SG, Flores J-A, Wolff JO, van der Meijden A, Herberstein ME, 2017. Distinct Armand LK, 2017. Biogeochemical flux and phytoplankton spinning patterns gain differentiated loading tolerance of silk succession: A year-long sediment trap record in the Australian thread anchorages in spiders with different ecology. Proceedings of sector of the Subantarctic Zone. Deep-Sea Research Part I: the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284: 1859. Oceanographic Research Papers 121: 143–159. Wong AC-N, Wang Q-P, Morimoto J, Senior AM, Lihoreau M, Neely Williamson JE, Byrnes EE, Clark JA, Connolly DM, Schiller SE, GG, Simpson SJ, Ponton F, 2017. Gut Microbiota Modifies Olfactory- Thompson JA, Tosetto L, Martinelli JC, Raoult V, 2017. Ecological Guided Microbial Preferences and Foraging Decisions in Drosophila. Current Biology 27: 2397–2407. impacts and management implications of reef walking on a tropical reef flat community. Marine Pollution Bulletin 114: 742–750. Wright IJ, Dong N, Maire V, Prentice IC, Westoby M, Díaz S, Gallagher RV, Jacobs BF, Kooyman R, Law EA, Leishman MR, Wolf ID, Ainsworth GB, Crowley J, 2017. Transformative travel as a Niinemets Ü, Reich PB, Sack L, Villar R, Wang H, Wilf P, 2017. Global sustainable market niche for protected areas: a new development, climatic drivers of leaf size. Science 357: 917–921. marketing and conservation model. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 25: 1650-1673. Zhu Y-G, Gillings M, Simonet P, Stekel D, Banwart S, Penuelas J, 2017. Microbial mass movements. Science 357: 1099–1100. Wolff JO, Řezáč M, Krejčí T, Gorb SN, 2017. Hunting with sticky tape: Zhu Y-G, Zhao Y, Li B, Huang C-L, Zhang S-Y, Yu S, Chen Y-S, Zhang Functional shift in silk glands of araneophagous ground spiders T, Gillings MR, Su J-Q, 2017. Continental-scale pollution of estuaries (Gnaphosidae). Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 2250–2259. with antibiotic resistance genes. Nature Microbiology 2.

Wolff JO, Herberstein ME, 2017. Three-dimensional printing Zolfaghar S, Villalobos-Vega R, Zeppel M, Cleverly J, Rumman R, spiders: Back-and-forth glue application yields silk anchorages with Hingee M, Boulain N, Li Z, Eamus D, 2017. Transpiration high pull-off resistance under varying loading situations. Journal of of Eucalyptus woodlands across a natural gradient of the Royal Society Interface 14: 127. depth-to-groundwater. Tree physiology 37: 961–975.

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