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62
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14400
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2072
National Ranking
161

Overview

Arthur Georges is affiliated with the University of Canberra in Australia. Their research spans several intersecting fields, primarily within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. The scientist has contributed significantly to subfields including Genetics, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their work concentrates on diverse topics such as Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Turtle Biology and Conservation, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Arthur Georges include Clare E. Holleley, Sarah L. Whiteley, Duminda S. B. Dissanayake, Hardip R. Patel, and Stephen D. Sarre. These collaborations underpin much of their combined academic output.

Arthur Georges has published numerous articles in notable venues with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Sexual Development
  • BMC Genomics

Their recent scientific papers include:

  • Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble, 2020, Current Biology
  • <scp> <i>dartR</i> </scp> v2: An accessible genetic analysis platform for conservation, ecology and agriculture, 2022, Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Microchromosomes are building blocks of bird, reptile, and mammal chromosomes, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cellular calcium and redox regulation: the mediator of vertebrate environmental sex determination?, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Genetic evidence supports three previously described species of greater glider, Petauroides volans, P. minor, and P. armillatus, 2020, Scientific Reports

Arthur Georges has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by Chelonian research monographs titled Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (10th Ed.), scheduled for 2025.

Best Publications

  • The conservation status of the world's reptiles

    Monika Böhm;Ben Collen;Jonathan E.M. Baillie;Philip Bowles

  • dartr: An r package to facilitate analysis of SNP data generated from reduced representation genome sequencing.

    Bernd Gruber;Peter J. Unmack;Oliver F. Berry;Arthur Georges

  • The ends of a continuum: genetic and temperature-dependent sex determination in reptiles.

    Stephen Sarre;Arthur Georges;Alexander Quinn

  • Turtles and Tortoises Are in Trouble

    Craig B. Stanford;Craig B. Stanford;John B. Iverson;Anders G.J. Rhodin;Peter Paul van Dijk

  • Sex reversal triggers the rapid transition from genetic to temperature-dependent sex

    Clare E. Holleley;Denis O'Meally;Stephen D. Sarre;Jennifer A. Marshall Graves;Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

  • A Global Analysis of Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Distributions with Identification of Priority Conservation Areas

    Kurt A. Buhlmann;Thomas S. B. Akre;John B. Iverson;Deno Karapatakis;Deno Karapatakis

  • Temperature Sex Reversal Implies Sex Gene Dosage in a Reptile

    Alexander E. Quinn;Arthur Georges;Stephen D. Sarre;Fiorenzo Guarino

  • Hatchling sex in the marine turtle Caretta caretta is determined by proportion of development at a temperature, not daily duration of exposure

    Arthur Georges;Colin Limpus;Ros Stoutjesdijk

  • Adaptation and conservation insights from the koala genome

    Rebecca N. Johnson;Rebecca N. Johnson;Denis O’Meally;Denis O’Meally;Zhiliang Chen;Graham J. Etherington

  • Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (8th Ed.)

    Anders G.J. Rhodin;John B. Iverson;Roger Bour;Uwe Fritz

  • Nest site choice compensates for climate effects on sex ratios in a lizard with environmental sex determination

    J. Sean Doody;Enzo Guarino;Arthur Georges;Ben Corey

  • DNA detective : a review of molecular approaches to wildlife forensics

    Erika A Alacs;Arthur Georges;Nancy N FitzSimmons;James Robertson

  • dartR v2: an accessible genetic analysis platform for conservation, ecology, and agriculture

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  • Global biodiversity assessment and hyper-cryptic species complexes: more than one species of elephant in the room?

    Mark Adams;Mark Adams;Tarmo A. Raadik;Tarmo A. Raadik;Christopher P. Burridge;Arthur Georges

  • The dragon lizard Pogona vitticeps has ZZ/ZW micro-sex chromosomes.

    Tariq Ezaz;Alexander E. Quinn;Ikuo Miura;Stephen D. Sarre

  • Heterogeneous wetland complexes, buffer zones, and travel corridors: Landscape management for freshwater reptiles

    John H. Roe;Arthur Georges

  • Wildlife across our borders: a review of the illegal trade in Australia

    Erika Alacs;Arthur Georges

  • Sex chromosome evolution in lizards: independent origins and rapid transitions

    T. Ezaz;S.D. Sarre;D. O’Meally;J.A. Marshall Graves

  • Genetic evidence for co-occurrence of chromosomal and thermal sex-determining systems in a lizard

    Rajkumar S Radder;Alexander E Quinn;Arthur Georges;Stephen D Sarre

  • Modelling development of reptile embryos under fluctuating temperature regimes

    Arthur Georges;Kerry Beggs;Jeanne E. Young;J. Sean Doody

  • Transitions Between Sex-Determining Systems in Reptiles and Amphibians

    Stephen D. Sarre;Tariq Ezaz;Arthur Georges

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen D. Sarre
Stephen D. Sarre University of Canberra
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves La Trobe University
John H. Roe
John H. Roe University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Damien A. Fordham
Damien A. Fordham University of Adelaide
Peter J. Unmack
Peter J. Unmack University of Canberra
John B. Iverson
John B. Iverson Earlham College
Richard Shine
Richard Shine Macquarie University
Janine E. Deakin
Janine E. Deakin University of Canberra
Barry W. Brook
Barry W. Brook University of Tasmania
H. Bradley Shaffer
H. Bradley Shaffer University of California, Los Angeles

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