My current research focuses on

• Connectivity and population structure, emphasising conservation and fisheries management applications,
• Acclimation and adaptation of tropical fishes to environmental stressors, and
• Reef fish evolutionary history and response to environmental change, including identification, characterization and expression of candidate genes.
• Transgenerational acclimation to stress and the utility of epigenetic mechanisms, applied to coral reef fishes.

Teaching

• MB5380: Invertebrate Biology (Level 5; TSV)

Research Disciplines

• Genetics (3105)
• Ecology (3103)

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Journal Articles

• Gainsford A, Jones G, Hobbs J, Heindler F and van Herwerden L (2020) Species integrity, introgression, and genetic variation across a coral reef fish hybrid zone. Ecology and Evolution, 10 (21), pp. 11998-12014, DOI:10.1002/ece3.6769.
• Gainsford A, Jones G, Gardner M and van Herwerden L (2020) Characterisation and cross-amplification of 42 microsatellite markers in two Amphiprion species (Pomacentridae) and a natural hybrid anemonefish to inform genetic structure within a hybrid zone. Molecular Biology Reports, 47 (2), pp. 1521-1525, DOI:10.1007/s11033-019-05190-y.
• Steinberg R, van der Meer M, Pratchett M, van Herwerden L and Hobbs J (2020) Keep your friends close and your anemones closer - ecology of the endemic wideband anemonefish, Amphiprion latezonatus. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 103, pp. 1513-1526, DOI:10.1007/s10641-020-01035-x.
• Ramirez Flores O, Birtles A, Pazmino D, Zenger K and Van Herwerden L (2019) Dwarf minke whales from the South Pacific share a matrilineal lineage distinct from Balaenoptera acutorostrata acutorostrata and B. a. scammoni. Australian Mammalogy, 41 (2), pp. 231-240, DOI:10.1071/AM18015.
• Rodríguez-Moreno M, Zapata F, Ramírez-Calero S, van Herwerden L and Feldheim K (2019) Highly polymorphic microsatellite loci for the Acapulco damselfish, Stegastes acapulcoensis, and cross amplification in three congeneric species. Marine Biodiversity, 49 (1), pp. 481-486, DOI:10.1007/s12526-017-0761-9.
• Green M, D'Anastasi B, Hobbs J, Feldheim K, McAuley R, Peverell S, Stapley J, Johnson G, Appleyard S, White W, Simpfendorfer C and van Herwerden L (2018) Mixed-marker approach suggests maternal philopatry and sex-biased behaviours of narrow sawfish Anoxypristis cuspidata. Endangered Species Research, 37, pp. 45-54, DOI:10.3354/esr00912.
• Jones K, Jensen M, Burgess G, Leonhardt J, van Herwerden L, Hazel J, Hamann M, Bell I and Ariel E (2018) Closing the gap: mixed stock analysis of three foraging populations of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) on the Great Barrier Reef. PeerJ, 6, Article: 5651, DOI:10.7717/peerj.5651.
• Ma K, van Herwerden L, Newman S, Berumen M, Choat J, Chu K and de Mitcheson Y (2018) Contrasting population genetic structure in three aggregating groupers (Percoidei: Epinephelidae) in the Indo-West Pacific: the importance of reproductive mode. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 18, Article: 180, DOI:10.1186/s12862-018-1284-0.
• Pazmiño D, Maes G, Green M, Simpfendorfer C, Hoyos-Padilla E, Duffy C, Meyer C, Kerwath S, Salinas-de-Leon P and van Herwerden L (2018) Strong trans-Pacific break and local conservation units in the Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis) revealed by genome-wide cytonuclear markers. Heredity, 120, pp. 407-421, DOI:10.1038/s41437-017-0025-2.
• Heindler F, Alajmi F, Huerlimann R, Zeng C, Newman S, Vamvounis G and van Herwerden L (2017) Toxic effects of polyethylene terephthalate microparticles and Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate on the calanoid copepod, Parvocalanus crassirostris. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 141, pp. 298-305, DOI:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2017.03.029.
• Montanari S, Hobbs J, Pratchett M, Bay L and van Herwerden L (2017) Naturally occurring hybrids of coral reef butterflyfishes have similar fitness compared to parental species. PLoS ONE, 12 (3), Article: e0173212, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0173212.
• Pazmiño D, Maes G, Simpfendorfer C, Salinas-de-León P and van Herwerden L (2017) Genome-wide SNPs reveal low effective population size within confined management units of the highly vagile Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis). Conservation Genetics, 18 (5), pp. 1151-1163, DOI:10.1007/s10592-017-0967-1.

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ResearchOnline@JCU stores 111+ research outputs authored by Dr Lynne van Herwerden from 1989 onwards.

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These Higher Degree Research projects are either current or by students who have completed their studies within the past 5 years at JCU. Linked titles show theses available within ResearchOnline@JCU.

Current

• Ulvans from Ulva: Optimisation of ulvan-based hydrogels for applications in biotechnology (PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Biogeography, Speciation, and Systematics of a Tree Frog Species Complex in the Amazon Basin (PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)
• Conservation Genomics and Ecology of True Sea Snakes (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Presence and impacts of microplastics on tropical coral reefs (PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)

Completed

• A multi-disciplinary evaluation of the hybrid anemonefish Amphiprion leucokranos: behaviour shaping evolutionary outcomes of hybridization (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Nature or nurture? Testing the correlation between stress tolerance and genotype in the coral Acropora millepora on the Great Barrier Reef (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Population genomics informs conservation and management of the Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis) at local, regional and oceanic scales (2017, PhD , Primary Advisor)
• Causes and consequences of natural hybridisation among coral reef butterflyfishes (Chaetodon: Chaetodontidae) (2018, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Combined effects of water quality and temperature on the early life history stages of the broadcast spawning coral Acropora tenuis (2016, PhD , Secondary Advisor)
• Coral reef fish larval connectivity in the Great Barrier Reef from biophysical modelling and genomics (2021, PhD , Primary Advisor/AM/Adv)
• Generating and evaluating salinity and temperature resilient cyanobacteria for tropical outdoor cultivation in Australia (2019, PhD , Secondary Advisor/AM)

These are the most recent metadata records associated with this researcher. To see a detailed description of all dataset records, visit Research Data Australia.

• D'Anastasi, B. (2018) Conservation genomics of Western Australian Aipysurus group sea snake species. James Cook University
• Gainsford, A. (2017) Data from: Hierarchical behaviour, habitat use and species size differences shape evolutionary outcomes of hybridization in a coral reef fish. James Cook University
• Veilleux, H. (2017) Acanthochromis polyacanthus transcriptome. James Cook University

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