Publications Arising

Group Projects

Simmons, L.W., Teale, R.J., Maier, M., Standish, R.J., Bailey, W.J., Withers, P.C. 1992. Some costs of reproduction for male bushcrickets, Requena verticalis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae): allocating resources to mate attraction and nuptial feeding. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 31, 57-62.

Simmons, L.W., Craig, M., Llorens, T., Schinzig, M., Hosken, D. 1993. Bushcricket spermatophores vary in accord with sperm competition and parental investment theory. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 251, 183-186.

Bailey, W.J., Withers, P.C., Endersby, M., Gaull, K. 1993. The energetic cost of calling in the bushcricket Requena verticalis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae: Listroscelidinae). Journal of Experimental biology, 178, 21-37.

Simmons, L.W., Llorens, T., Schinzig, M., Hosken, D., Craig, M. 1994. Sperm competition selects for male mate choice and protandry in the bushcricket, Requena verticalis (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Animal Behaviour, 47, 117-122.

Thompson, A.P., Hanley, J.R., & Johnson, M.S. 1997. The genetic structure of the Western Rock Lobster, Panulirus cygnus, with the benefit of hindsight. Marine and Freshwater Research 47: 889-896.

Johnson, M.S., Bentley, S.L., Ford, S.S., Ladyman, M.T., & Lambert, G.J. 1998. Effects of a complex archipelago on genetic subdivision of the intertidal limpet Siphonaria kurracheensis. Marine Biology 139: 1087-1094.

Simmons, L.W., Beesley, L., Lindhjem, P., Newbound, D., Norris, J., Wayne, A. 1999. Nuptial feeding by male bushcrickets: an indicator of male quality? Behavioral Ecology, 10, 263-269.

Allen, G.R., Kamien, D., Berry, O., Byrne, P. & Hunt, J. 1999. Larviposition, host cues, and planidial behavior in the sound-locating parasitoid fly Homotrixa alleni (Diptera: Tachinidae). J. Insect Behav. 12, 67-79.

Bailey, W.J., Ager, E.I., O'Brian, E.K., Watson, D.L. 2003. Searching by visual and acoustic cues among bushcrickets (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae): will females remain faithful to a male who stops calling? Physiological Entomology, 28, 209-214.

Johnson, M.S., Hamilton, Z.R, Murphy, C. E., MacLeay, C. A., Roberts, B., & Kendrick, P.G. 2004. Evolutionary genetics of island and mainland populations of Rhagada (Gastropoda:Pulmonata) in the Pilbara Region, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 341-355.

Clemente, C.J., McMaster, K.A., Fox, L., Meldrum, L., Main, B.Y. & Stewart,T. 2005. Visual acuity of the sheet-web building spider Badumna insignis (Araneae, Desidae). Journal Arachnology, 33, 726-734.

Simmons, L.W., Denholm, A., Jackson, C., Levy, E., Madon, E. 2007. Male crickets adjust ejaculate quality with both risk and intensity of sperm competition. Biology Letters, 3, 520-522.

Individual Projects

Watts, R.J., Johnson, M.S., & Black, R. 1990. Genetic patchines and recruitment in Western Australian populations of Echinometra mathaei. Marine Biology 105: 145-151.

Johnson, M.S., Holborn, K., & Black, R. 1993. Fine-scale patchiness and genetic heterogeneity of recruits of the corallivorous gastropod Drupella cornus. Marine Biology 112: 91-96.

Ayvazian, S.G., Johnson, M.S., & McGlashan, D.J. 1994. High levels of genetic subdivision of marine and estuarine populations of the estuarine catfish Cnidoglanis macrocephalus (Plotosidae) in southwestern Australia. Marine Biology 118: 25-31.

Holborn, K., Johnson, M.S., & Black, R. 1994. Population genetics of the corallivorous gastropod Drupella cornus at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia. Coral Reefs 13: 33-39.

Hunt, J., Simmons, L.W. 1997. Patterns of fluctuating asymmetry in beetle horns: an experimental examination of the honest signalling hypothesis. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 41, 109-114.

Hunt, J., Simmons, L.W. 1998. Patterns of fluctuating asymmetry in beetle horns: no evidence for reliable signalling. Behavioral Ecology, 9, 465-470.

Hunt, J., Simmons, L.W. 1998. Patterns of parental provisioning covary with male morphology in a horned beetle (Onthophagus taurus)(Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology, 42, 447-451.

Arrese, C., Dunlop, S.A., Harman, A.M., Braekevelt, C.R.,Ross, W.M., Shand, J. and Beazley, L.D. 1999. Retinal structure and visual acuity in a polyprotodont marsupial, the fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata). Brain Behav. Evol. 53, 111-126.

Pudovskis, M.S., Johnson, M.S., & Black, R. 2000. Genetic divergence of peripherally disjunct populations of the gastropod Batillariella estuarina in the Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Molecular Ecology 10: 2605-2616.

Yeap, K.L., Black, R., & Johnson, M.S. 2000. Complexity of phenotypic plasticity in the intertidal snail Nodilittorina australia. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72: 63-76.

Berry, O. 2001. Genetic evidence for wide dispersal by the sand frog, Heleioporus psammophilus (Anura: Myobatrachidae), in Western Australia. Copeia 2001: 136-141.

Hunt, D.M., C. A. Arrese, M. von Dornum, J. Rodger, A. Oddy, J. A. Cowing, E. I. Ager, J. K. Bowmaker, L. D. Beazley, and J. Shand. 2003. The rod opsin pigments from two marsupial species, the South American bare-tailed woolly opossum and the Australian fat-tailed dunnart. Gene, 323, 157-162.

Inness-Campbell, J., Stuckey, M., & Johnson, M.S. 2003. Allozymic investigation of phylogeny of Littoraria (Gastropoda: Littorinidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies 69: 19-26.

Firman, R.C., Simmons, L.W., Cummins, J.M., Matson, P.L. 2003. Are body fluctuating asymmetry and the ratio of 2nd to 4th digit length reliable predictors of ejaculate quality? Hum. Reprod., 18, 808-812.

Lynas J., Lindhjem P., Storey, A.W. & Knott B. 2004. Is the yabby, Cherax destructor (Parastacidae) in Western Australia an ecological threat? Freshwater Crayfish, 14, 37-44.

Iemmolo, M., Simmons, L.W., Matson, P. 2005. The rapid detection of cytotoxicity using a modified human sperm survival assay. J. Assist. Repro. Genet., 22, 176-180.

Armstrong, K.N., Storey, A.W. & Davies P.M. 2005. Effects of catchment clearing and sedimentation on macroinvertebrate communities of cobble habitat in freshwater streams of south Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 88, 1-11.

Kilgallon, S.J., Simmons, L.W. 2005. Image content influences mens semen quality. Biol. Lett., 1, 235-255.

Simmons, L.W., Roberts, B. 2005. Bacterial immunity traded for sperm viability in male crickets. Science, 309, 2031.

Whalan, S., Battershill, C., Harvey, E., & Johnson M.S. 2005. Mode of recruitment and genetic subdivision in a brooding, bioactive sponge, Haliclona sp. (Porifera: Demospongiae), in southern Western Australia. Marine Biology 146: 425-433.

Lynas J., Storey A.W., Armstrong K., Prince J. & Knott B. 2006. Invasion by the exotic crayfish, Cherax destructor Clark (Parastacidae), into habitats of local crayfish near Perth, Western Australia. Freshwater Crayfish, 15, 176-188.

Binks, R.M., Kennington W.J. & Johnson M.S. 2007. Rapid evolutionary responses in a translocated population of intertidal snail (Bembicium vittatum) utilise variation from different source populations. Conservation Genetics, 8, 1421-1429.

Lynas J, Storey A.W., Knott B. 2007. Aggressive interactions between three species of freshwater crayfish of the genus Cherax (Decapoda: Parastacidae): potential for competitive exclusion. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 40, 105-116.

Lynas J., Storey A.W. & Knott B. 2007. Introductions and spread of freshwater crayfish (Parastacidae) in Western Australia, and the potential for displacement of indigenous species. In: Gherardi F (ed) Biological Invaders in Inland Waters: Profiles, Distribution and Threats. Springer. Chapter 31, 577-596.

McMaster, K., A. Savage, T. Finston, M. Johnson and B. Knott. 2007. The recent spread of Artemia parthenogenetica in Western Australia. Hydrobiologia, 576: 39-48.

Voss S.C., Main B.Y., and Dadour, I.R. 2007. Habitat preferences of the urban wall spider Oecobius navus (Araneae, Oecobiidae). Aust. J. Ent., 46(4), 261-268.

Binks, R., Kennington, W.J. and Johnson, M.S. 2007. Rapid evolutionary responses in a translocated population of intertidal snail (Bembicium vittatum) utilise variation from different source populations. Conservation Genetics (in press).

Phillips, R.D., Storey. A.W. & Johnson, M.S. 2009. Genetic structure of Melanotaenia australis in relation to morphological differentiation at local and regional scales in the east Kimberley, Western Australia. Journal of Fish Biology, 74, 437-451.

Robinson, S.P., Kennington, W.J. & Simmons, L.W. 2009. No evidence for optimal fitness at intermediate levels of inbreeding in Drosophila melanogaster. Biol. J. Linn. Soc., in press.