Professor Graham Wallis
Email graham.wallis@otago.ac.nz
Phone 64-3-479-7984
Teaching
- CELS 191 Cell and Molecular Biology
- ZOOL 222 Evolutionary Biology
- GENE 312 Evolutionary Genetics
- GENE 360 Special Topics in Genetics
- GENE 412 Current Topics in Genetics
- ZOOL 410 Evolutionary Genetics
Research interests
- Population genetics
- Molecular evolution
- Molecular systematics and biogeography of endemic species
- Genetics of hybrid zones
Current projects
- Adaptive evolution of a zona pellucida-region gene in galaxiid fishes
- The evolution of melanism in NZ alpine weta, Hemideina maori
- Phylogeography of NZ endemic fishes and insects
- Genetic analysis of hybridisation in European newts
Current/recent postdocs
- Lise Wallis Comparative transcriptomics of migratory and stream-resident galaxiid fishes (Marsden-funded)
- Smita Apte Phylogeography and population genetic structuring of koura (Paranephrops spp.) (FoRST-funded)
- Jon Waters Molecular systematics of New Zealand galaxiid fish: speciation and biogeography (Marsden-funded)
- Steven Trewick New Zealand phylogeography: evidence from spatio-temporal congruence of invertebrate endemism and diversity (FoRST-funded)
- Mary Morgan-Richards Speciation, intergradation or hybrid zones? Comparing contact zones between chromosomal races of the Auckland tree weta (Hemideina thoracica) (Marsden-funded)
Current/recent graduate students
- Keith King (PhD): Phylogeography and the evolution of melanism in the alpine weta, Hemideina maori
- David Winter (PhD): Phylogeography of Pacific landsnails
- Graham McCulloch (PhD): Evolutionary genetics of southern stoneflies
- Shan Crow (PhD): Evolutionary ecology of southern galaxiid fishes
- Renate Sponer (PhD): World-wide phylogeography of the brooding brittle star Amphipholis squamata
- Yuzine bin Esa (MSc): Genetic analysis of hybridisation in New Zealand galaxiid fish
- Debbie Steel (MSc): Population genetics of the sea snake star Astrobrachion constrictum in Fiordland
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Keywords
- evolutionary genetics, systematics, hybridisation, phylogeography
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