News: Honours projects - Evolution and palaeobiology
Fossil history of selected plant taxa
Honours project: Explores a detailed examination of the fossil history of selected plant taxa.
Leaf morphology in silver beech (Nothofagus menziesii)
Honours project: This flora holds important clues to the way in which trees coped with major climate changes.
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Re-vegetating South Australia
Honours project: Go back in time and use fossil records to help determine what species of flora we can re-vegetate parts of South Australia with.
Plant taxa & reconstruction of fossil palaeoenvironments
Honours project: Assess the environmental ranges of key fossil plant taxa from south-eastern Australia.
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Bioinformatics as applied to the study of genome structure and function
Honours project: Expand your knowledge and curiosity in bioinformatics and computational genetics.
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Genome biology & mammal gene evolution
Honours project: Examine the function and evolution of genes involved in sex determination and placentation in mammals.
Investigating the origin of mammal sex chromosomes
Honours project: Undertake a research project that investigates the origin of therian sex chromosomes
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Evolution of sterile helpers in bees, ants and wasps
Honours project: Explore evolutionary genetics by explaining the evolution of sterile helpers in the eusocial Hymenoptera - ants, bees and wasps.
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Ecological selection of Giant Australian Cuttlefish
Honours project: Plunge into research about the Giant Australian Cuttlefish!
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Survival of Western Pygmy possums in arid environments
Honours project: Do western Pygmy possums show genetic evidence of selection for enhanced survival in arid environments that may be useful for predictive translocations ahead of climate change impacts?
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