The house of Fred Allendorf and his wife was demolished by an avalanche last month (details below). MFL sends sympathy and best wishes for a speedy recovery. Wildlife Biology Program – University of Montana – www.cfc.umt.edu/wbio – wbio@cfc.umt.edu March 4, 2014Dear friends, As you may know, our dear friend and colleague FredAllendorf has been through a tragedy. Last Friday, […]
Peter Last from CSIRO Hobart gave MFL postgraduate student Carolina Vargas-Caro expert advice on skate species identification. Peter Last and John Stevens are authors of “Sharks and Rays of Australia” Carolina is working on the Chilean skate project. The main objective of that project is to resolve population structure using genetics. The first essential step […]
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PhD student Pascal Geraghty led a team of scientists to uncover genetic aspects of shark populations on the eastern coast of Australia. The findings will be used in the management and conservation of these commercially harvested species. Here is the reference for the published paper :- Geraghty PT, Williamson JE, Macbeth WG, et al. (2014) […]
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This DNA sequence of black marlin is one of the tools being used by Samuel Williams to determine the number of breeding populations of this iconic recreational species in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. The publication is a major achievement for Sam, who is completing his honours year at the Molecular Fisheries Laboratory. Read more about […]
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A few weeks ago Jenny Ovenden posted the following query to EvolDir. “Does anyone have a user-friendly way of inputting data into CLUMPP and DISTRUCT? CLUMPP averages results across STRUCTURE simulations once K has been selected, and DISTRUCT produces the STRUCTURE figure.The challenge is that both are command-line programs, and DISTRUCT mac version seems broken […]
Congratulations to postgraduate students Carolina Vargas-Caro and Carlos Bustamante for travel scholarships to attend the Sharks International 2104 conference in Durban in June. The awards were generously provided by the Oceania Chondrichthyan Society Inc. and Sharks International 2014 conference organisers.
Dr Laura Taillebois is working at the MFL until end of March 2014. Laura is a postdoctoral fellow from the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University. Laura and colleagues from the Northern Territory are collaborating with MFL on a project “Optimising the management of tropical reef fish through the development […]
The fishing industry and the Australian Fisheries Management Agency (AFMA) generously agreed to take extra samples for the gemfish project when project leader Andy Moore met with them last week. Andy says this will ensure the project has the best possible picture of the timing and location of spawning in this important commercial species. Jenny Ovenden says […]
MFL members were pleased to meet with Professor Wei-Chuan Chiang (Fisheries Research Institute, Chenggong Township, Taiwan) during his visit to the University of Queensland today. Professor Chiang (PhD) sponsored Samuel Williams’ recent field trip to Taiwan to collect samples for Project Black Marlin.
Go to the Downloadables page for the latest version of the NeEstimator software. Version 2.01 is a minor update of v2.0. The software is described here. Since its launch in August 2013, the software has been downloaded over 600 times.