Teaching - Honours
Publications from Honours Research
Finlayson, G.R., Shimmin, G.A., Temple-Smith, P.D., Handasyde K. and Taggart, D. (2003) Monitoring the activity of a southern hairy-nosed wombat, Lasiorhinus latifrons, using temperature dataloggers. Aust Mammal 25: 205-208.
McDonald-Madden, E., Elgar, M.A. and Handasyde, K.A. (2004) Responses to threat by female bobucks, Trichosurus caninus, during different stages of offspring development. Behav Ecol & Sociobiol 56: 322-327.
Huchette, S.M.H., Koh, C. S. and Day, R. W. (2003). Growth of juvenile abalone (Haliotis rubra) in aquaculture tanks: effects of density and ammonia. Aquaculture 219: 457-470.
Huchette, S.M.H., Soulard, J.P., Koh, C.S. and Day, R.W., (2004). Maternal variability in the blacklip abalone. Haliotis rubra Leach (Mollusca: Gastropoda): effect of egg cytoplasm size on fertilisation success. Aquaculture 231: 181-195.
McDiarmid H, Day R, and Wilson R (2004) The ecology of polychaetes that infest abalone shells in Victoria. Australia. J. Shellfish Research 23: 1179-1188.
McAvaney, L.A. Day, R.W., Dixon C.D. and Huchette, S.M. (2004) Gonad development in seeded Haliotis laevigata: growth environment determines initial reproductive investment. J Shellfish Research 23: 1213-1218.
Smith, R. M., Walker, T. I., and Hamlett, W. C. (2004). Microscopic organisation of the oviducal gland of the holocephalan elephant fish Callorhynchus milii. Marine and Freshwater Research 55: 155-164.
Hynes EF, Rudd CD, Temple-Smith PD, Sofronidis G, Paris D, Shaw G, Renfree MB (2005). Mating sequence, dominance and paternity success in captive male tammar wallabies. Reproduction 130:123-130.
Waite R, Giraud A, Old J, Howlett M, Shaw G, Nicholas K, Familari M. (2005). Cross-fostering in Macropus eugenii leads to increased weight but not accelerated gastrointestinal maturation. J Exp Zoolog A Comp Exp Biol 303:331-44.
McNamara, K. B., Jones, T. M., Elgar, M. A. (2004). Up close and personal: male preference for virgin females in the hide beetle, Dermestes maculatus. Journal of Insect Behaviour 17: 337-352
Siebel, A.L., Gehring, H.M., Vodstrcil, L & Parry, L.J. (2005). Oxytocin and estrogen receptor expression in the myometrium of pregnant relaxin-deficient (Rlx-/-) mice. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1041: 104-109.
Gwyther, J., Gehring, H.M. & Parry, L.J. (2005). Effects of the sucking stimulus on relaxin receptor (LGR7) expression in the mammary apparatus of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1041: 118-122.
Awards from Honours Research:
Nation A. and Selwood L. (2004) Spermatogenesis in vivo and in vitro in the Stripe-faced dunnart. 50th Australian Mammal Society Meeting, Tanunda, SA. Lyne Award for best poster.McNamara, K. B. (2004) No cost to male fitness from polyandry in the hide beetle, Dermestes maculatus. International Behavioural Ecology Congress in Finland - second prize for poster.