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Graham P. Wallis

Graham P. Wallis

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
7179
World Ranking
3524
National Ranking
39

Overview

Graham P. Wallis is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand. Their research spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Wallis has contributed notably to subfields including nature and landscape conservation, genetics, molecular biology, aquatic science, and ecology.

Their work addresses a range of topics, prominently featuring genetic diversity and population structure, fish ecology and management studies, and fish biology and ecology studies. Additional areas of research include identification and quantification in food, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and species distribution and climate change.

Wallis's recent publications cover diverse ecological and evolutionary themes. Among the notable papers are:

  • "Persisting in a glaciated landscape: Pleistocene microrefugia evidenced by the tree wētā Hemideina maori in central South Island, New Zealand" (2020, Journal of Biogeography)
  • "Genome-wide analysis resolves the radiation of New Zealand's freshwater Galaxias vulgaris complex and reveals a candidate species obscured by mitochondrial capture" (2022, Diversity and Distributions)
  • "A Review of Galaxias (Galaxiidae) Fossils from the Southern Hemisphere" (2020, Diversity)
  • "First evidence of deviation from Mendelian proportions in a conservation programme" (2021, Molecular Ecology)
  • "Evolutionary biogeography of Aotearoa" (2023, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand)

Wallis frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include Jonathan M. Waters, Ludovic Dutoit, Ciarán Campbell, Tania M. King, and Dave Craw. These collaborations have contributed to publications appearing in various scientific journals.

Their research has been published in several recurrent venues, such as:

  • Diversity
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Diversity and Distributions
  • Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
  • Molecular Ecology

Overall, Graham P. Wallis's research presents interdisciplinary intersections between environmental science and molecular biology, emphasizing biodiversity, genetics, and ecological dynamics in New Zealand's unique landscapes and aquatic environments. Their work contributes to the understanding of genetic structures in native species and evolutionary patterns within these ecosystems.

Best Publications

  • New Zealand phylogeography: evolution on a small continent.

    Graham P. Wallis;Steven A. Trewick

  • EVOLUTION AND THE AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM: DEFINING UNIQUE UNITS IN POPULATION CONSERVATION

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  • Biogeography of a southern hemisphere freshwater fish: how important is marine dispersal?

    Jonathan M. Waters;Lucette H. Dijkstra;Graham P. Wallis

  • RESTRICTED GENE FLOW IN A MOVING HYBRID ZONE OF THE NEWTS TRITURUS CRISTATUS AND T. MARMORATUS IN WESTERN FRANCE.

    J. W. Arntzen;G. P. Wallis;G. P. Wallis

  • GENES MEET GEOLOGY: FISH PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC PATTERN REFLECTS ANCIENT, RATHER THAN MODERN, DRAINAGE CONNECTIONS

    Jonathan M. Waters;Dave Craw;John H. Youngson;Graham P. Wallis

  • MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA VARIATION IN THE CRESTED NEWT SUPERSPECIES: LIMITED CYTOPLASMIC GENE FLOW AMONG SPECIES.

    Graham P. Wallis;Graham P. Wallis;J. W. Arntzen

  • Oral infection of aedes aegypti with yellow fever virus: geographic variation and genetic considerations

    W. J. Tabachnick;G. P. Wallis;T. H. G. Aitken;B. R. Miller

  • Inbreeding and endangered species management: is New Zealand out of step with the rest of the world?

    Ian G. Jamieson;Graham P. Wallis;James V. Briskie

  • BRIDGING THE “BEECH-GAP”: NEW ZEALAND INVERTEBRATE PHYLOGEOGRAPHY IMPLICATES PLEISTOCENE GLACIATION AND PLIOCENE ISOLATION

    Steven A. Trewick;Graham P. Wallis

  • CLADOGENESIS AND LOSS OF THE MARINE LIFE-HISTORY PHASE IN FRESHWATER GALAXIID FISHES (OSMERIFORMES: GALAXIIDAE)

    Jonathan M. Waters;Graham P. Wallis

  • Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of galaxiid fishes (Osteichthyes: Galaxiidae): dispersal, vicariance, and the position of Lepidogalaxias salamandroides.

    Jonathan M. Waters;J. Andrés López;Graham P. Wallis

  • Geographic variation and taxonomy of crested newts (Triturus cristatus superspecies): morphological and mitochondrial DNA data

    J.W. Arntzen;Graham P. Wallis

  • Transverse Alpine Speciation Driven by Glaciation.

    Graham P. Wallis;Jonathan M. Waters;Phaedra Upton;David Craw

  • Phylogeographical pattern correlates with Pliocene mountain building in the alpine scree weta (Orthoptera, Anostostomatidae)

    S. A. Trewick;G. P. Wallis;M. Morgan‐Richards

  • Seabird and louse coevolution: complex histories revealed by 12S rRNA sequences and reconciliation analyses.

    Adrian M. Paterson;Graham P. Wallis;Lise J. Wallis;Russell D. Gray

  • Isozyme analysis of Galaxias species (Teleostei: Galaxiidae) from the Taieri River, South Island, New Zealand: a species complex revealed

    Richard M. Allibone;Todd A. Crowl;Jean M. Holmes;Tania M. King

  • Genetic variation and diadromy in some native New Zealand galaxiids (Teleostei: Galaxiidae)

    Richard M. Allibone;Graham P. Wallis

  • Heterozygosity-fitness correlations and their relevance to studies on inbreeding depression in threatened species

    Catherine E Grueber;Graham P Wallis;Ian G Jamieson

  • Gene Trees versus Species Trees: Reassessing Life-History Evolution in a Freshwater Fish Radiation

    Jonathan M. Waters;Diane L. Rowe;Christopher P. Burridge;Christopher P. Burridge;Graham P. Wallis

  • Episodic positive selection in the evolution of avian toll-like receptor innate immunity genes.

    Catherine E. Grueber;Graham P. Wallis;Ian G. Jamieson

  • Penguins, petrels, and parsimony: does cladistic analysis of behavior reflect seabird phylogeny?

    Adrian M. Paterson;Graham P. Wallis;Russell D. Gray

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan M. Waters
Jonathan M. Waters University of Otago
Steven A. Trewick
Steven A. Trewick Massey University
Jan W. Arntzen
Jan W. Arntzen Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Christopher P. Burridge
Christopher P. Burridge University of Tasmania
Dave Craw
Dave Craw University of Otago
Ian G. Jamieson
Ian G. Jamieson University of Otago
Mary Morgan-Richards
Mary Morgan-Richards Massey University
Catherine E. Grueber
Catherine E. Grueber University of Sydney
Terry Burke
Terry Burke University of Sheffield
Brent C. Emerson
Brent C. Emerson Spanish National Research Council

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