Over 25 research leaders currently use the molecular laboratory facilities, assisted by the lab's team of specialists. Below is a list of selected publications from the molecular laboratory team.
2011
Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Jens G. Rohwer, Stephen J. Russell, Jovita C. Yesilyurt & Harald Schneider (2011). Evidence for radiations of cheilanthoid ferns in the Greater Cape Floristic Region. Taxon 60 (4)
Gower DJ, San Mauro D, Giri V, Bhatta G, Govindappa V, Kotharambath R, Oommen V. O, Fatih FA, Mackenzie-Dodds JA, Nussbaum RA, Biju SD, Shouche YS and Wilkinson M. ( 2011 ) Molecular systematics of caeciliid caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) of the Western Ghats, India. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59 (3) : 698 – 707
John D. Taylor, Emily A. Glover, Lisa Smith, Patricia Dyal and Suzanne T. Williams (2011). Molecular phylogeny and classification of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163, 15–49
Stephen W. Ansell,, Hans K. Stenøien, Michael Grundmann, Stephen J. Russell, Marcus A. Koch, Harald Schneider and Johannes C. Vogel (2011). The importance of Anatolian mountains as the cradle of global diversity in Arabis alpina, a key arctic–alpine species. Annals of Botany 108: 241–252.
Harriet V. Hunt, Stephen W. Ansell, Stephen J. Russell, Harald Schneider and Johannes C. Vogel. (2011). Dynamics of polyploid formation and establishment in the llotetraploid rock fern Asplenium majoricum. Annals of Botany 108: 143–157
Williams,S.T., Hall,A. and Kuklinski,P. (2011) Utility of elliptical fourier descriptors of shell shape for distinguishing cryptic taxa in the gastropod genus Lunella (Turbinidae)American Malacological Bulletin. In press
Hopkins KP and Tolley KA. (2011). Morphological variation in the Cape Dwarf Chameleon (Bradypodion pumilum) as a consequence of spatially explicit habitat structure differences. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 102, Issue 4, pages 878–888.
2010
Reid, D. G., Dyal, P. and Williams, S. T. (2010). Global diversifiction of mangrove fauna: a molecular phylogeny of Littoraria (Gastropoda: Littorinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics ad Evolution 55, 185-201
Crainey, J.L, Hurst, J., Wilson, M.D., Hall, A. & Post, R.J. (2010). Construction and characterisation of a BAC library made from field specimens of the onchocerciasis vector Simulium squamosum (Diptera: Simuliidae). Genomics, 96: 251-257
Feldheim K, Chauke L, Hopkins K, Tolley K. (2010). Characterization of microsatellite loci from a South African endemic, the Cape Dwarf Chameleon. Conservation Genetics Resources. Volume 2 165-168
2009
Measey GJ, Hopkins KP, Tolley KA. (2009). Morphology, ornaments and performance in two chameleon ecomorphs: is the casque bigger than the bite? Zoology 112: 217–226.
Bray, R. A., Waeschenbach, A., Cribb, T. H., Weedall, G. D., Dyal, P. and Littlewood, D. T. J. (2009). The phylogeny of the Lepocreadioidea (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes: implications for their systematics and evolution. Acta Parasitologica 54, 310-329.
Mercedes Martín-Cereceda., Roberts Emily C., Wootton Emma C., Bonaccorso Elisa, Dyal Patricia, Almudena Guinea, Rogers Dale, Wright Chris J. and Novarino Gianfranco (2009) Morphology, Ultrastructure, and Small Subunit rDNA Phylogeny of the Marine Heterotrophic Flagellate Goniomonas aff. Amphinema. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 57 (2) 159-170
Bass David, Brown David, Mackenzie-Dodds Jackie, Dyal Patricia, Nierzwickbauer Sandra,A., Vepritsky, Alexey, A. and Richards Thomas, A. (2009) A Molecular Perspective on Ecological Differentiation and Biogeography of Cyclotrichiid Ciliates. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology 56 (6) 559-567
Pfandl, Karin., Chatzinotas, Antonis, Dyal, Patricia and Boenigk Jens. (2009). SSU rRNA gene variation resolves population heterogeneity and ecophysiological differentiation within a morphospecies (Stramenopiles,Chrysophyceae). Limnology and Oceanography, 54 (1) 171-181.
Huys, R., Mackenzie-Dodds, J., Llewellyn-Hughes, J., (2009 ) Cancrincolidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) associated with land crabs: A semiterrestrial leaf of the ameirid tree. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51 : 143 – 156 .
Malaquias, M. A. E., Mackenzie-Dodds, J., Bouchet, P., Gosliner, T. and Reid, D. G. A. ( 2009 ) A molecular phylogeny of the cephalaspidea sensu lato (Gastropoda: Euthyneura): Architectibranchia redefined and Runcinacea reinstated. Zoologica Scripta 38 : 23 - 41