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The age and origin of the Pacific islands: a geological overview by Neall, Vincent E, Trewick, Steven A

“…750 Ma with the rifting apart of Rodinia. By 160 Ma, the first ocean floor ascribed to the current Pacific plate was produced to the west of a spreading centre…”
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New Zealand phylogeography: evolution on a small continent by Wallis, Graham P, Trewick, Steven A

“…New Zealand has long been a conundrum to biogeographers, possessing as it does geophysical and biotic features characteristic of both an island and a…”
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Climate change and alpine-adapted insects: modelling environmental envelopes of a grasshopper radiation by Koot, Emily M, Morgan-Richards, Mary, Trewick, Steven A

“…Mountains create steep environmental gradients that are sensitive barometers of climate change. We calibrated 10 statistical models to formulate ensemble…”
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Wētā Aotearoa-Polyphyly of the New Zealand Anostostomatidae (Insecta: Orthoptera) by Trewick, Steven A, Taylor-Smith, Briar L, Morgan-Richards, Mary

“…The Anostostomatidae of Aotearoa New Zealand are well-characterized at the genus and species level, but the higher-level systematics of the family as a whole…”
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First detection of Wolbachia in the New Zealand biota by Bridgeman, Benjamin, Morgan-Richards, Mary, Wheeler, David, Trewick, Steven A

“…Wolbachia is one of the most widespread intracellular bacteria on earth, estimated to infect between 40 and 66% of arthropod species in most ecosystems that…”
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Fossil-calibrated phylogenies of Southern cave wētā show dispersal and extinction confound biogeographic signal by Dowle, Eddy J, Trewick, Steven A, Morgan-Richards, Mary

“…The biota of continents and islands are commonly considered to have a source-sink relationship, but small islands can harbour distinctive taxa. The…”
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Ngāokeoke Aotearoa: The Peripatoides Onychophora of New Zealand by Trewick, Steven A, Koot, Emily M, Morgan-Richards, Mary

“…(1) Background: Originally described as a single taxon, (Hutton, 1876) are distributed across both main islands of New Zealand; the existence of multiple…”
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Evolution of New Zealand's terrestrial fauna: a review of molecular evidence by Goldberg, Julia, Trewick, Steven A, Paterson, Adrian M

“…80 Ma, and there has existed a pervading view that the native biota is primarily a product of this long isolation. However, molecular studies of terrestrial…”
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Evolutionary lineages of marine snails identified using molecular phylogenetics and geometric morphometric analysis of shells by Vaux, Felix, Trewick, Steven A., Crampton, James S., Marshall, Bruce A., Beu, Alan G., Hills, Simon F.K., Morgan-Richards, Mary

“…[Display omitted] •Surprising concordance between shell morphology and phylogeny among marine snail genera.•Mitochondrial and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequence…”
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Insect Freeze-Tolerance Downunder: The Microbial Connection by Morgan-Richards, Mary, Marshall, Craig J, Biggs, Patrick J, Trewick, Steven A

“…Insects that are freeze-tolerant start freezing at high sub-zero temperatures and produce small ice crystals. They do this using ice-nucleating agents that…”
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Relationships among body size components of three flightless New Zealand grasshopper species (Orthoptera, Acrididae) and their ecological applications by Meza-Joya, Fabio Leonardo, Morgan-Richards, Mary, Trewick, Steven A.

“…Body size is perhaps the most fundamental property of an organism and is central to ecology at multiple scales, yet obtaining accurate estimates of…”
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Shifting ranges of two tree weta species (Hemideina spp.): competitive exclusion and changing climate by Bulgarella, Mariana, Trewick, Steven A., Minards, Niki A., Jacobson, Melissa J., Morgan-Richards, Mary

“…Aim Species' responses to climate change are likely to depend on their ability to overcome abiotic constraints as well as on the suite of species with which…”
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Standard metabolic rate variation among New Zealand Orthoptera by Bulgarella, Mariana, Haywood, John, Dowle, Eddy J., Morgan-Richards, Mary, Trewick, Steven A.

“…•We measured standard metabolic rates and calculated thermal sensitivity (Q10) for 15 species of New Zealand orthopterans.•We found no support for the…”
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Spatial Variation of Acanthophlebia cruentata (Ephemeroptera), a Mayfly Endemic to Te Ika-a-Māui—North Island of Aotearoa, New Zealand by Trewick, Steven A., Henderson, Ian M., Pohe, Stephen R., Morgan-Richards, Mary

“…The mayfly Acanthophlebia cruentata of Aotearoa, New Zealand, is widespread in Te Ika-a-Māui North Island streams, but has never been collected from South…”
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Sticky Genomes: Using NGS Evidence to Test Hybrid Speciation Hypotheses by Morgan-Richards, Mary, Hills, Simon F K, Biggs, Patrick J, Trewick, Steven A

“…Hypotheses of hybrid origin are common. Here we use next generation sequencing to test a hybrid hypothesis for a non-model insect with a large genome. We…”
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Explaining large mitochondrial sequence differences within a population sample by Morgan-Richards, Mary, Bulgarella, Mariana, Sivyer, Louisa, Dowle, Edwina J., Hale, Marie, McKean, Natasha E., Trewick, Steven A.

“…Mitochondrial DNA sequence is frequently used to infer species' boundaries, as divergence is relatively rapid when populations are reproductively isolated…”
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Species radiation of carabid beetles (broscini: mecodema) in new zealand by Goldberg, Julia, Knapp, Michael, Emberson, Rowan M, Townsend, J Ian, Trewick, Steven A

“…New Zealand biodiversity has often been viewed as Gondwanan in origin and age, but it is increasingly apparent from molecular studies that diversification, and…”
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Trans‐equatorial range of a land bird lineage (Aves: Rallidae) from tropical forests to subantarctic grasslands by Garcia-R, Juan C., Elliott, Graeme, Walker, Kath, Castro, Isabel, Trewick, Steven A.

“…Despite the capacity for dispersal, range size varies considerably among birds species. Many species have restricted geographic spread, whilst others routinely…”
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Fifteen into three does go : morphology, genetics and genitalia confirm taxonomic inflation of New Zealand beetles (Chrysomelidae : Eucolaspis) by Doddala, P. R. C

“…Tests the current classification of Eucolaspis Sharp 1886, a NZ native leaf beetle genus (Coleoptera : Chrysomelidae : Eumolpinae) with poorly described…”
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DNA and morphology unite two species and 10 million year old fossils by Hills, Simon F K, Crampton, James S, Trewick, Steven A, Morgan-Richards, Mary

“…Species definition and delimitation is a non-trivial problem in evolutionary biology that is particularly problematic for fossil organisms. This is especially…”
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