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Peter R. Teske is affiliated with the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. These areas of study are further specialized through subfields such as Molecular Biology, Ecology, Aquatic Science, Genetics, and Oceanography.

The scientist's recent publications reflect a focus on marine and aquatic environments, genomics, and ecological processes. Notable papers include:

  • "Rejection of the genetic implications of the 'Abundant Centre Hypothesis' in marine mussels," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Modern supratidal microbialites fed by groundwater: functional drivers, value and trajectories," 2020, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "The sardine run in southeastern Africa is a mass migration into an ecological trap," 2021, Science Advances
  • "Comparative phylogeography in a marine biodiversity hotspot provides novel insights into evolutionary processes across the Atlantic-Indian Ocean transition," 2022, Diversity and Distributions
  • "Genomics-informed models reveal extensive stretches of coastline under threat by an ecologically dominant invasive species," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their work covers several main topics including Identification and Quantification in Food, Genetic diversity and population structure, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, and Aquatic life and conservation.

Frequent collaborators include Arsalan Emami-Khoyi, Bettine Jansen van Vuuren, Daniela M. Monsanto, Christopher D. McQuaid, and Shilpa Pradeep Parbhu.

Peter R. Teske's publications often appear in journals and venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Marine Science, Mitochondrial DNA Part B, and Ecology and Evolution. Among these, bioRxiv features the highest number of publications related to their work.

Best Publications

  • A review of marine phylogeography in southern Africa

    Peter R. Teske;Sophie von der Heyden;Christopher D. McQuaid;Nigel P. Barker

  • What limits the distribution of subtidal macrobenthos in permanently open and temporarily open/closed South African estuaries? Salinity vs. sediment particle size

    Peter R. Teske;Tris H. Wooldridge

  • Implications of life history for genetic structure and migration rates of southern African coastal invertebrates: planktonic, abbreviated and direct development

    P. R. Teske;I. Papadopoulos;I. Papadopoulos;G. I. Zardi;C. D. McQuaid

  • Unexpected genetic structure of mussel populations in South Africa: indigenous Perna perna and invasive Mytilus galloprovincialis

    G. I. Zardi;C. D. McQuaid;P. R. Teske;N. P. Barker

  • A comparison of the macrobenthic faunas of permanently open and temporarily open/closed South African estuaries

    Peter R. Teske;Tris Wooldridge

  • Impacts of marine biogeographic boundaries on phylogeographic patterns of three South African estuarine crustaceans

    Peter R. Teske;Christopher D. McQuaid;P. William Froneman;Nigel P. Barker

  • Mitochondrial DNA is unsuitable to test for isolation by distance

    Peter R. Teske;Tirupathi Rao Golla;Jonathan Sandoval-Castillo;Arsalan Emami-Khoyi

  • The evolutionary history of seahorses (Syngnathidae: Hippocampus): molecular data suggest a West Pacific origin and two invasions of the Atlantic Ocean

    Peter R Teske;Michael I Cherry;Conrad A Matthee

  • Molecular evidence for long-distance colonization in an Indo-Pacific seahorse lineage

    Peter R. Teske;Healy Hamilton;Per J. Palsbøll;Chee K. Choo

  • Population genetics of the endangered Knysna seahorse, Hippocampus capensis.

    P. R. Teske;M. I. Cherry;C. A. Matthee

  • Evolution of seahorses' upright posture was linked to Oligocene expansion of seagrass habitats.

    Peter R Teske;Luciano Bellagamba Beheregaray

  • Thermal selection as a driver of marine ecological speciation.

    Peter R Teske;Jonathan Sandoval-Castillo;Tirupathi Rao Golla;Arsalan Emami-Khoyi

  • Oceanic dispersal barriers, adaptation and larval retention: an interdisciplinary assessment of potential factors maintaining a phylogeographic break between sister lineages of an African prawn

    Peter R Teske;Peter R Teske;Isabelle Papadopoulos;Isabelle Papadopoulos;Brent K Newman;Peter C Dworschak

  • Marine dispersal and barriers drive Atlantic seahorse diversification

    J. T. Boehm;J. T. Boehm;Lucy Woodall;Peter R. Teske;Sara A. Lourie

  • Signatures of seaway closures and founder dispersal in the phylogeny of a circumglobally distributed seahorse lineage

    Peter R Teske;Peter R Teske;Healy Hamilton;Conrad A Matthee;Nigel P Barker

  • Coastal topography drives genetic structure in marine mussels

    K. R. Nicastro;G. I. Zardi;C. D. McQuaid;P. R. Teske

  • Climate-driven genetic divergence of limpets with different life histories across a southeast African marine biogeographic disjunction: different processes, same outcome.

    Peter R. Teske;Isabelle Papadopoulos;K. Lucas Mmonwa;T. Given Matumba

  • Phylogeographic structure of Octopus vulgaris in South Africa revisited: identification of a second lineage near Durban harbour

    Peter R Teske;A Oosthuizen;I Papadopoulos;I Papadopoulos;Nigel P Barker

  • Connectivity between marine reserves and exploited areas in the philopatric reef fish Chrysoblephus laticeps (Teleostei: Sparidae)

    Peter R Teske;Peter R Teske;Peter R Teske;Fabien R.G Forget;Paul D Cowley;S von der Heyden

  • A tropical/subtropical biogeographic disjunction in southeastern Africa separates two Evolutionarily Significant Units of an estuarine prawn

    Peter Teske;Peter Teske;H Winker;C D McQuaid;N P Barker

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher D. McQuaid
Christopher D. McQuaid Rhodes University
Luciano B. Beheregaray
Luciano B. Beheregaray Flinders University
Nigel P. Barker
Nigel P. Barker University of Pretoria
Marc Rius
Marc Rius University of Southampton
Sophie von der Heyden
Sophie von der Heyden Stellenbosch University
Conrad A. Matthee
Conrad A. Matthee Stellenbosch University
Gerardo I. Zardi
Gerardo I. Zardi Rhodes University
Ryan J. Wasserman
Ryan J. Wasserman Rhodes University
Jonathan M. Waters
Jonathan M. Waters University of Otago
Paul D. Cowley
Paul D. Cowley South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity

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