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Rainforest Revelation: Adaptation to environmental changes of tropical rainbowfish.

Nature’s solution to climatic change: Hybridization!

Successful long-term fish reintroduction!

Adaptive resilience to projected future climates

A TREE review in aquatic landscape genomics

Water temperatures drive evolution of new species

Genomes of giant tortoises tell us about cancer and longevity!

Sea turtles like it local! Isolation by oceanic environment in the endangered Olive Ridley turtle

Our seascape genomics paper is ‘News and Views’ in Molecular Ecology!

Genetic rescue is cover of Evolutionary Applications!

Congratulations Fabricius for Doctoral Thesis Excellence!

SWINGER to the rescue of endangered species!

Oceanography limits connectivity in southern Australia

MELFU’s first PhD thesis in landscape genomics

Fieldtrip to the Galápagos to save extinct biodiversity

Our seascape genetics study is a ‘feature article’ in MEPS!

Great results from our reintroduction project!

Successful sampling of rainbowfish ecotypes

Documentary: Blue whales expedition to the Maldives!

Congratulations Steve and Peter for new faculty positions!

Our lab at the ARC Major Grants Expo

MELFU’s first PhD thesis in landscape genomics

September 23, 2016

Congratulations Chris Brauer for finishing his PhD thesis!
PhD #17 of the MELFU and the lab’s first thesis on “population genomics”. This work pioneers conservation genomics studies for southern hemisphere aquatic animals.
Thesis title: “Conservation genomics and evolutionary potential of the southern pygmy perch, Nannoperca australis, in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia”