PhD

Research Fellow, Griffith School of Environment
Member, Australian Rivers Institute

Contact details for Dr Giovannella Carini

Research Expertise

My primary research interests focus on questions of evolutionary, ecological and conservation significance above and below species boundary as inferred from molecular genetics markers. In particular, I am interested in resolving the relative importance of contemporary and historical processes on population genetic structure of species using a phylogeographic (coalescent) approach and in comparative analyses of phylogeographies and phylogenies of co-distributed species as a way to identify evolutionary significant assemblage of species.

Publications

• Carini G, Hughes JM. (2006) Population genetic structure and phylogeography of an endangered freshwater snail, Notopala sublineata (Gastropoda: Viviparidae) in Western Queensland, Australia Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.88, 1-16.
• Carini G, Hughes JM. (2004) Population structure of Macrobrachium australiense (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in Western Queensland, Australia: the role of contemporary and historical processes. Heredity, 93, 350-363.
• Carini G, Hughes JM.and Bunn SE (in press) The role of the waterholes as “refugia” in sustaining genetic diversity and variation in two freshwater species in dryland river systems (Western Queensland, Australia) Freshwater Biology 51 (8), 1434–1446.