Dr Ben Cook

B.App.Sci, B.Sc. (Hons), PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biodiversity Program, TRaCK

Contact details for Dr Ben Cook

Research Expertise

  • Freshwater biogeography and phylogeography
  • Freshwater population biology
  • Freshwater conservation biology and restoration ecology

Publications

  • Cook, B.D., Pringle, C.M. and Hughes, J.M. (in press) Molecular evidence for sequential colonisation and taxon cycling in freshwater decapod shrimps on a Caribbean island. Molecular Ecology.
  • Cook, B.D., Pringle, C.M. and Hughes, J.M. (in press) Phylogeography of an island endemic, the Puerto Rican freshwater crab (Epilobocera sinuatifrons). Journal of Heredity.
  • Page, T.J., Cook, B.D., von Rintelen, T., von Rintelen, K. and Hughes, J.M. (2008) Evolutionary relationships of atyid shrimps imply both ancient Caribbean radiations and common marine dispersals. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 27: 68-83.
  • Cook, B.D. Bunn, S.E., and Hughes, J.M. (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.
  • Cook, B.D., Bunn, S.E. and Hughes, J.M. (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., Baker, A.M., Page, T.J., Fawcett, J.H., Grant, S.C., Hurwood, D.A. and 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.
  • Page, T.J., Baker, A.M., Cook, B.D. and Hughes, J.M. (2006) Historic transoceanic dispersal of a freshwater shrimp: colonisation of the South Pacific by Genus Paratya. Journal of Biogeography 32: 581-593.
  • Cook, B.D., Ma, J., Hillyer, M.J., Song, S.D., and Hughes, J.M. (2006) Polymorphic microsatellite markers in an Australian freshwater fish, southern pygmy perch Nannooperca australis. Molecular Ecology Notes 6: 970-908.
  • Cook, B.D., Bunn, S.E. and Hughes, J.M. (2002) Genetic structure and dispersal of Macrobrachium australiense (Decapoda: Palamonidae) in western Queensland, Australia. Freshwater Biology 47: 2098-2112.
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