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Citations
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4432
National Ranking
348

Overview

Jeremy J. Austin is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia. Their research spans multiple fields with a focus on Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. The main subfields of their work include Ecology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecological Modeling, and Geography, Planning and Development.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects including Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Genetic diversity and population structure, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Forensic and Genetic Research, Identification and Quantification in Food, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies.

Jeremy J. Austin has contributed to several notable recent papers, including:

  • "Forensic touch DNA recovery from metal surfaces - A review" (2020), published in Science & Justice
  • "Process-explicit models reveal pathway to extinction for woolly mammoth using pattern-oriented validation" (2021), published in Ecology Letters
  • "Historical museum samples enable the examination of divergent and parallel evolution during invasion" (2022), published in Molecular Ecology
  • "Umbrella terms conceal the sale of threatened shark species: A DNA barcoding approach" (2023), published in Food Control
  • "Genomic Approaches for Conservation Management in Australia under Climate Change" (2021), published in Life

Frequent co-authors in their collaborations include Denice Higgins, Damien A. Fordham, Dan Nana Osei Bonsu, Stuart C. Brown, and Sean Haythorne.

Their publications appear regularly in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions to Australian Mammalogy, Forensic Science International, Conservation Genetics Resources, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Science & Justice.

Best Publications

  • Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

    Eske Willerslev;John Davison;Mari Moora;Martin Zobel

  • Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution.

    Alan Cooper;Carles Lalueza-Fox;Carles Lalueza-Fox;Simon Anderson;Andrew Rambaut

  • Multiple Geographic Origins of Commensalism and Complex Dispersal History of Black Rats

    Ken P. Aplin;Hitoshi Suzuki;Alejandro A. Chinen;R. Terry Chesser

  • Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska

    James Haile;Duane G. Froese;Ross D. E. MacPhee;Richard G. Roberts

  • Prevalence and differential host‐specificity of two avian blood parasite genera in the Australo‐Papuan region

    Jon S. Beadell;Jon S. Beadell;Eben Gering;Eben Gering;Jeremy Austin;John P. Dumbacher;John P. Dumbacher

  • Molecular Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Habitat Preference Evolution of Marsupials

    Kieren J. Mitchell;Renae C. Pratt;Laura N. Watson;Gillian C. Gibb

  • Teeth as a source of DNA for forensic identification of human remains: A Review

    Denice Higgins;Jeremy J. Austin

  • Problems of Reproducibility-Does Geologically Ancient DNA Survive in Amber-Preserved Insects?

    Jeremy J. Austin;Andrew J. Ross;Andrew B. Smith;Richard A. Fortey

  • Novel Psychrobacter Species from Antarctic Ornithogenic Soils

    John P. Bowman;Joanne Cavanagh;Jeremy J. Austin;Kevin Sanderson

  • Revising the recent evolutionary history of equids using ancient DNA

    Ludovic Orlando;Jessica L. Metcalf;Maria T. Alberdi;Miguel Telles-Antunes

  • Flight of the Dodo

    Beth Shapiro;Dean Sibthorpe;Andrew Rambaut;Jeremy J. Austin

  • A New Dolphin Species, the Burrunan Dolphin Tursiops australis sp. nov., Endemic to Southern Australian Coastal Waters

    Kate Charlton-Robb;Lisa-ann Gershwin;Lisa-ann Gershwin;Ross Thompson;Jeremy Austin;Jeremy Austin

  • Reconstructing an island radiation using ancient and recent DNA: the extinct and living day geckos (Phelsuma) of the Mascarene islands.

    J.J Austin;E.N Arnold;C.G Jones

  • Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions during the Last Deglaciation

    Jessica L Metcalf;Jessica L Metcalf;Chris S.M. Turney;Ross Barnett;Ross Barnett;Fabiana M Martin

  • Late-Quaternary biogeographic scenarios for the brown bear (Ursus arctos), a wild mammal model species

    John Davison;Simon Y.W. Ho;Simon Y.W. Ho;Sarah C. Bray;Marju Korsten

  • Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific

    Vicki A Thomson;Ophelie Lebrasseur;Jeremy J. Austin;Jeremy J. Austin;Terry L Hunt;Terry L Hunt

  • Indo-European and Asian origins for Chilean and Pacific chickens revealed by mtDNA

    Jaime Gongora;Nicolas J. Rawlence;Victor A. Mobegi;Han Jianlin

  • Relict or colonizer? Extinction and range expansion of penguins in southern New Zealand.

    Sanne Boessenkool;Jeremy J. Austin;Trevor H. Worthy;Paul Scofield

  • Palaeontology in a molecular world: the search for authentic ancient DNA

    Jeremy J. Austin;Andrew B. Smith;Richard H. Thomas

  • DNA capture and next-generation sequencing can recover whole mitochondrial genomes from highly degraded samples for human identification

    Jennifer E L Templeton;Jennifer E L Templeton;Paul M Brotherton;Paul M Brotherton;Bastien Llamas;Julien Soubrier

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper Charles Sturt University
Christopher P. Burridge
Christopher P. Burridge University of Tasmania
Jane Melville
Jane Melville Museums Victoria
Leo Joseph
Leo Joseph Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Jessica L. Metcalf
Jessica L. Metcalf Colorado State University
Trevor H. Worthy
Trevor H. Worthy Flinders University
James Haile
James Haile Murdoch University
Stephen C. Donnellan
Stephen C. Donnellan South Australian Museum
Damien A. Fordham
Damien A. Fordham University of Adelaide
Andrew B. Smith
Andrew B. Smith Natural History Museum

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