Elizabeth James

Research interests 

• Conservation and ecological genetics of threatened species
• Reproductive biology of clonal plants, particularly polyploidy species
• Influence of dispersal mechanisms on landscape genetic structure

Projects

• Conservation biology of holly-leaved grevilleas
• Aquatic plant dispersal in wetlands
  
• Conservation genetics of Pimelea spinescens

Publications

French, P., James, E. and Walsh, N. (2012). Analysis of genetic variation in a disjunct, narcotic producing, population of Duboisia hopwoodii. Muelleria 20, 65–71.

Hurry, C.R., James, E.A., Thompson, R. (2012). Connectivity, genetic structure and stress response of Phragmites australis: issues for restoration in a salinizing wetland system. Aquatic Botany 104, 138–146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2012.08.001 

James E.A., Brown G.K., Citroen R. and Blacket, M.J. (2012). Microsatellite marker development for two species of holly-leafed Grevillea and cross-species amplification in the Aspleniifolia/Hookeriana Subgroup (Proteaceae). Conservation Genetics Resources 4, 137–140. doi: 10.1007/s12686-011-9493-5. 

Jordan, R., James, E.A., Brown, G.K. and Brown, A.L. (2012.) Isolation of microsatellites using 454-sequencing for the grassland shrub Pimelea spinescens (Thymelaeaceae). Conservation Genetics Resources 4, 1085–1087.

Robinson, R.W., James, E.A. and Boon, P.I. (2012). Population structure in the clonal, woody wetland plant Melaleuca ericifolia (Myrtaceae): an analysis using historical aerial photographs and molecular techniques. Australian Journal of Botany 60, 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/BT11292

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