Discoveries from collections‐based science change the way we perceive ourselves, our
environment, and our place in the universe. The 18th Century saw the beginning of formal …

The south‐western land division of Western Australia (SWWA), bordering the temperate
Southern and Indian Oceans, is the only global biodiversity hotspot recognised in Australia …

The Australian fauna is assessed for short-range endemism at the species level, ie the
prevalence of species with naturally small ranges of less than 10,000 km2. The …

Since the early 1970s, boine snakes (Boidae: Boinae) have served as a prime example of a
group whose current distribution was shaped by vicariant events associated with the …

Despite their widespread use as model organisms, the phylogenetic status of the around
520 species of freshwater crayfish is still in doubt. One hypothesis suggests two distinct …

There has hitherto been little research into evolutionary and taxonomic relationships
amongst species of the freshwater prawn genus Macrobrachium Bate across its global …

We have applied Bayesian and maximum likelihood methods of phylogenetic estimation to
data from four mitochondrial genes (COI, COII, 12S, and 16S) and a single nuclear gene …

Abstract Great Salt Lake (GSL) represents one of the world's most hypersaline
environments. In this study, the archaeal and bacterial communities at the North and South …

Aim The sequential break‐up of Gondwana is thought to be a dominant process in the
establishment of shared biota across landmasses of the Southern Hemisphere. Yet similar …

The nested clade analysis can be extremely useful in testing for an association between
genetic variation and geography and in explaining these observed patterns in terms of …