Biodiversity and Human Impacts
Past Summer Studentship Projects
Research - Past Summer Studentship ProjectsEach year the Allan Wilson Centre funds summer studentships taken up during the semester breaks. Each student in requred to prepare a short report on the research they undertake. These reports are listed below. 2009 Summer StudentsGenetic Markers for Stick Insects An Introduction and Analysis of the Pure Birth and Birth/Death Speciation Model Statistical Graph Algorithms for Population Genetic Inference Genetic variation in an old population of Light Brown Apple moth Adaptive Diversification of New Zealand Alpine Pachycladon Predatory Whelks and their Parasites: evolution in co-dependence or independence? Resolving Morphologically and Genetically Crytpic Topshell Species
2008 Summer StudentsGeographic Origins of Rafting Kelp Monitoring the Success of Translocated Tuatara at Karori Wildlife
Sanctuary New Zealand Tree Weta Determining the cryptic phylogeny of topshell
snails Grasshopper reproductive behaviour and/or conservation genetics
2007 Summer StudentsSpeciation and Conservation of Endemic Grasshoppers Stochastic properties of Yule models Sacred ibis (Threskiornis aethiopicus) – Modern samples
2006 Summer StudentsMoa Extinction Genetics of Two Non-classical MHC Genes in Tuatara New Analytical Results for the Speciation Times in Neutral Models A phylogeny of the genus Pseudhelops (Tenebrionidae) from the southern islands of New Zealand
2005 Summer StudentsExact number of Hybridization Events Phylogeny of New Zealand Skinks The Breeding System of Nothofagus solandri Is headstarting a useful tool for conservation of reptiles? Evolution of the Tuatara Tick, Aponomma sphenodonti Stochastic models for speciation events in phylogenetic trees Feline Immunodeficiency Virus is a relative of HIV 2004 Summer StudentsNational Frozen Tissue Collection Management Major Histocompatability Complex (MHC) variation in Tuatara Inter-island genetic variation in the Fiji ground frog (Platymantis vitianus). Optinisation of Tuatara leukocyte proliferation in purified leukocytes and in whole blood cultures Use of Commensal Rats as Markers of Human Mobility in Remote Oceania. Use of Commensal Rats as Markers of Human Mobility in Remote Oceania. PART II Science Journalism (includes 8 articles)
2003 Summer Students The Branch and Bound Code Frozen tissue collection management Evolutionary trees in Tuatara Ancient DNA and the rate of evolution for Adelie penguins Use of commensal rats as markers for human mobility in Oceania Using genetics to Differentiate Limpet Species: Is Notoacmea scapha an ecotype of N. helmsi? Genetic Diversity in Taro (Colocasia esculenta) Using Genetics to Evaluate the Distinction between Lepsiella scobina and L. albomarginata Mutation Rates of the Adélie Penguin based on the Mitochondrial Genome. The implementation and testing of new algorithms on Helix, and extension of existing software (Spectronet).
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