Griffith University

BScience, PhD

Griffith School of Environment
Research Member, Australian Rivers Institute 

Contact details for Professor Jane Hughes

Research Expertise

Jane Hughes runs the Molecular Ecology laboratory at Griffith University. Her interests are in using molecular markers to answer ecological and evolutionary questions. She heads the aquatic conservation and biodiversity theme within the Australian Rivers Institute.

Publications

• Toon, Alicia, Peter B Mather, Andrew M Baker, Kate L Durrant And Jane M Hughes (In press) Pleistocene refugia in an arid landscape: analysis of a widely distributed Australian passerine. Molecular Ecology.
• Hughes, Jane M. (in press) Constraints on recovery: using molecular methods to study connectivity of aquatic biota in rivers and streams. Freshwater Biology.
• Ponniah, M. and J.M. Hughes (2006) The evolution of Queensland spiny mountain crayfish of the genus Euastacus. II. Investigating simultaneous vicariance with intraspecific genetic data. Marine and Freshwater Research 57, 349-362.
• Huey, J.A., J.M. Hughes and A.M. Baker (2006) Patterns of gene flow in two species of eel-tailed catfish, Neosilurus hyrtlii and Porochilus argenteus (Siluriformes: Plotosidae), in western Queensland's dryland rivers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 87, 457-467.
• Eastwood, R., N.E. Pierce, R.L. Kitching and J.M. Hughes (2006) Do ants enhance diversification in Lycaenid butterflies? Phylogeographic evidence from a model myrmecophile Jalmeus evagoras. Evolution. 60 (2), 315-327.
• Cook, B.D, Baker, A.M., Page, T.J., Grant, S.C., Fawcett, J. H., Hurwood, D.A., Hughes, J.M. (2006) Biogeographic history of an Australian freshwater shrimp, Paratya australiensis (Atyidae): the role life history transition in phylogeographic diversification. Molecular Ecology 15, 1083-1093.
• Shephard, J., J.M. Hughes, C.P. Catterall and P. Olsen (2005) Conservation status of the White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster in Australia: determined using mtDNA control region sequence data. Conservation Genetics 6, 413-429.
• Durrant, K.L., and J.M. Hughes (2005) Differing rates of extra-group paternity between two populations of the Australian magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 57, 536-545.
• Page, T.J., B.D. Cook, A.M. Baker and J.M. Hughes (2005) Historic transoceanic dispersal of a freshwater shrimp: the colonisation of the South Pacific by the genus Paratya (Atyidae). Journal of Biogeography 32, 581-593.
• Carini, G., and J.M. Hughes (2004) Population structure of Macrobrachium australiense (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in Western Queensland, Australia: the role of contemporary and historical processes. Heredity 93, 350-364.
• Hughes, J.M., A.M. Baker, C. Bartlett, S. Bunn, K. Goudkamp and J. Somerville. (2004) Past and present patterns of connectivity among populations of four cryptic species of freshwater mussels Velesunio spp. (Hyriidae) in central Australia. Molecular Ecology 13, 3197-3212.
• Ponniah, M.H., and J. M. Hughes (2004) The evolution of the Queensland spiny mountain crayfish of the genus Euastacus: I. Testing vicariance and dispersal with interspecific mtDNA. Evolution 58, 1073-1085.
• Baker, A.M., J.M. Hughes, J.C. Dean and S.E. Bunn (2004) Mitochondrial DNA reveals high diversity in Australian freshwater macroinvertebrate assemblages. Marine and Freshwater Research 55, 629-640.
• Hughes, J.M., A. Toon, P.B. Mather, I. Rowley and E. Russell (2003) High levels of extra-group paternity in a population of the Australian Magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen. Molecular Ecology 12, 3441-3450.
• Chenoweth S., and J.M. Hughes (2003) Oceanic interchange and non-equilibrium genetic patterns in the Indo-Pacific tasselfish, Polynemus sheridani. Molecular Ecology 12, 2387-2398.
• Holman, J., J.M. Hughes and R. Fensham (2003) A morphological cline in Eucalyptus: a genetic perspective. Molecular Ecology 12, 3013-3025.
• Hughes, J.M., K. Goudkamp, D.A. Hurwood, M. Hancock and S.E. Bunn (2003) Translocation causes extinction of a local population of the Freshwater Shrimp, Paratya australiensis. Conservation Biology 17, 1007-1012.