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Dr Melissa Carew
Research Fellow


Bio 21 Institute
Melbourne University
Phone: 61 3 8344 2522
Fax: 61 3 8344 2279
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Current Research:
 
 

Publications

Carew M.E. Pettigrove, V., Cox R.L. and Hoffmann A.A. (2007) The response of Chironomidae to sediment pollution and other environmental characteristics in urban wetlands. Freshwater Biology. (early online)
 
Carew M.E. Pettigrove, V., Cox R.L. and Hoffmann A.A. (2007) DNA identification of urban Tanytarsini chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae). Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 26:586-599
 
van Zweden, J.S., Carew M.E., Henshaw M.T. and Robson, S.K. and Crozier R.H (2007) Relatedness patterns in the queen size dimorphism in the ant Polyrhachis robsoni. Insectes Sociaux 54: 34-41.
 
Carew M.E., Pettigrove, V., and Hoffmann A.A. (2005) The utility of DNA markers in classical taxonomy: Using cytochrome oxidase I markers to differentiate Australian Cladopelma (Diptera: Chironomidae) midges. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 98(4): 587-594
 
Carew M.E., Goodisman M.A.D. and Hoffmann A.A. (2004) Species status and population genetic structure of grapevine eriophyoid mites. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 111: 876-96.
 
Schiffer, M., Carew, M.E. and Hoffmann A.A. (2004) Molecular, morphological and behavioural data reveal the presence of a cryptic species in the widely studied Drosophila serrata species complex. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 17(2):430-442.
 
Carew M.E., Pettigrove V.P. and Hoffmann A.A. (2003) Identifying chironomids (Diptera: Chironomidae) for biological monitoring using PCR-RFLP. Bulletin of Entomological Research 93: 483-490.
 
Thomson L.J., Rundle B.J., Carew M.E. and Hoffmann A.A. (2003) Identification and characterization of Trichogramma species from south-eastern Australia using the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS-2) region of the ribosomal gene complex. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 106(3):235-240
 
Magiafogolou A., Carew M.E., Hoffmann A.A. (2001). Shifting clinal patterns and microsatellite variation in Drosophila serrata populations: a comparison of populations near the southern border of the species range. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 15:763-774
 
Goodisman M. A. D., Matthews R. W., Spradbery J. P., Carew M. E., and Crozier R. H. (2001). Reproduction and recruitment in perennial colonies of the introduced wasp Vespula germanica. Journal of Heredity 92:346-349