Griffith University

B Science (Hons), PhD

Griffith School of Environment

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.

Current Teaching Areas

• Field Ecology
• Ecology and Conservation of Populations
• Evolution and Behavioural Ecology
• Conservation Biology

Selected Publications

• Hughes, J. M., D. J. Schmidt, A. McLean and A. Wheatley (2008) Population Genetic Structure in Stream Insects: What Have We Learned? In: Aquatic Insects: Challenges to Populations. CABI International Chapter 14, 268-288. Eds. Jill Lancaster and Robert A. Briers.
• Cook, B.D., C.M. Pringle and J.M. Hughes (2010) Immigration history of amphidromous species on a Greater Antillean island. Journal of Biogeography 37, 270-277.
• Smith, S., P. McRae and J.M. Hughes (2009) Faecal DNA analysis enables genetic monitoring of the species recovery program of an arid-dwelling marsupial. Australian Journal of Zoology 57, 139-148.
• Hughes, J.M., D.J. Schmidt and D.S. Finn (2009) Genes in streams: using DNA to understand the movement of freshwater fauna and their riverine habitat. Bioscience 59, 573-585.
• Sharma, S., and J.M. Hughes (2009) Genetic structure and phylogeography of freshwater shrimps (Macrobrachium australiense and M. tolmerum): the role of contemporary and historical events. Marine and Freshwater Research 60, 541-553.
• McLean, A. J, D. J. Schmidt and J. M. Hughes (2008) Do lowland habitats represent barriers to dispersal for a rainforest mayfly, Bungona narilla, in south-east Queensland? Marine and Freshwater Research 59, 761-771.
• Masci, K. D., M. Ponniah and J. M. Hughes (2008) Patterns of connectivity between the Lake Eyre and Gulf drainages, Australia: a phylogeographic approach. Marine and Freshwater Research 59, 751-760.
• Toon, A. and J.M. Hughes (2008) Are lice good proxies for host history?: A comparative analysis of the Australian magpie, Gymnorhina tibicen and two species of feather louse. Heredity 101, 127.135.
• Cook, B.D., C.M Pringle and J. M. Hughes (2008) Molecular evidence for sequential colonisation and taxon cycling in freshwater decapod shrimps on a Caribbean island.  Molecular Ecology 17, 1066?1075.
• Cook, B. D., S. E. Bunn and J. M. Hughes (2007) A comparative analysis of population structuring and genetic diversity in sympatric lineages of freshwater shrimp (Atyidae: Paratya): concerted or independent responses to hydrographic factors? Freshwater Biology 52, 2156-2171.
• Cook, B. D., S. E. Bunn, J. M. Hughes (2007) Molecular genetic and stable isotope signatures reveal complementary patterns of population connectivity in the regionally vulnerable southern pygmy perch  (Nannoperca australis). Biological Conservation 138, 60-72.
• Toon, A., P.B. Mather, A. M. Baker, K. L. Durrant and J. M. Hughes (2007) Pleistocene refugia in an arid landscape: analysis of a widely distributed Australian passerine.   Molecular Ecology.  16, 2525-2541.
• Song, S., R.A.I. Drew and J. M. Hughes (2007) Multiple paternity in a natural population of a wild tobacco fly, Bactrocera cacuminata, assessed by microsatellite DNA markers.  Molecular Ecology 16, 2353-2361.
• Page, T.J., and J. M. Hughes (2007) Radically different scales of phylogeographic structuring within cryptic species of freshwater shrimp (Atyidae: Caridina). Limnology and Oceanography 52(3) 1055-1066.
• Page, T.J. and J.M. Hughes (2007) Phylogeographic structure in an Australian freshwater shrimp largely pre-dates the geological origins of its landscape. Heredity, 1-10.
•  Hughes, J. M. (2007) Constraints on recovery: using molecular methods to study connectivity of aquatic biota in rivers and streams. Freshwater Biology 52, 616-631.
• Cook, B.D, A.M. Baker, T.J. Page, S.C. Grant, J.H. Fawcett, D.A. Hurwood and J.M. Hughes (2006) Biogeographic history of an Australian freshwater shrimp, Paratya australiensis (Atyidae): the role life history transition in phylogeographic diversification. Molecular Ecology 15, 1083-1093.