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Overview

Shane D. Lavery is affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research spans multiple fields, predominantly environmental science, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and earth and planetary sciences.

The main subfields of study include ecology, genetics, oceanography, molecular biology, and global and planetary change. Within these areas, Lavery's work covers a range of topics such as genetic diversity and population structure, marine and coastal plant biology, crustacean biology and ecology, coral and marine ecosystems studies, identification and quantification in food, marine biology and ecology research, and environmental DNA in biodiversity studies.

The scientist's publication record features articles in various academic journals. Frequent venues for their research include the Journal of Biogeography, One Earth, Molecular Ecology Resources, ICES Journal of Marine Science, and BMC Genomics.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Shane D. Lavery are:

  • Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions (2022, One Earth)
  • Towards reproducible metabarcoding data: Lessons from an international cross-laboratory experiment (2021, Molecular Ecology Resources)
  • Comparative phylogeography in the genomic age: Opportunities and challenges (2022, Journal of Biogeography)
  • Genome-wide SNPs reveal fine-scale genetic structure in ornate spiny lobster Panulirus ornatus throughout Indo-West Pacific Ocean (2022, ICES Journal of Marine Science)
  • From feeding habits to food webs: exploring the diet of an opportunistic benthic generalist (2020, Marine Ecology Progress Series)

Throughout their career, Lavery has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Andrew Jeffs, Ahmad Farhadi, Vanessa Arranz, Priscila M. Salloum, and Anna W. Santure.

Best Publications

  • Indo-Pacific population structure and evolutionary history of the coconut crab Birgus latro

    S. Lavery;C. Moritz;D. R. Fielder

  • The genetic structure of Australasian green turtles (Chelonia mydas): exploring the geographical scale of genetic exchange

    Kiki E. M. Dethmers;Kiki E. M. Dethmers;Damien Broderick;Craig Moritz;Craig Moritz;Nancy N. Fitzsimmons

  • DNA Surveillance: Web-Based Molecular Identification of Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises

    H. A. Ross;G. M. Lento;M. L. Dalebout;M. Goode

  • Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history of the shrimp genus Penaeus s.l. derived from mitochondrial DNA.

    Shane Lavery;Tin-Yam Chan;Y.K Tam;K.H Chu

  • When oceans meet: A teleost shows secondary intergradation at an Indian-Pacific interface.

    S. F. Chenoweth;J. M. Hughes;C. P. Keenan;S. Lavery

  • Mitochondrial gene rearrangements confirm the parallel evolution of the crab-like form

    C. L. Morrison;A. W. Harvey;S. Lavery;K. Tieu

  • A Worldwide Perspective on the Population Structure and Genetic Diversity of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in New Zealand

    Gabriela Tezanos-Pinto;Charles Scott Baker;Kirsty Russell;Karen Martien

  • Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions

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  • Concordance between dispersal and mitochondrial gene flow: isolation by distance in a tropical teleost, Lates calcarifer (Australian barramundi)

    Stephen F Chenoweth;Jane M Hughes;Clive P Keenan;Shane Lavery

  • Genetic Patterns Suggest Exponential Population Growth in a Declining Species

    S Lavery;C Moritz;Fielder

  • Determining the Diet of Larvae of Western Rock Lobster (Panulirus cygnus) Using High-Throughput DNA Sequencing Techniques

    Richard O'Rorke;Shane Lavery;Seinen Chow;Haruko Takeyama

  • Total Mercury, Methyl Mercury, and Selenium Levels in the Red Meat of Small Cetaceans Sold for Human Consumption in Japan

    Tetsuya Endo;Koichi Haraguchi;Yohei Hotta;Yohsuke Hisamichi

  • Application of mitochondrial control region in population genetic studies of the shrimp Penaeus

    K. H. Chu;C. P. Li;Y. K. Tam;S. Lavery

  • New Zealand triplefin fishes (family Tripterygiidae): contrasting population structure and mtDNA diversity within a marine species flock

    Anthony J. R. Hickey;Shane D. Lavery;Danielle A. Hannan;C. Scott Baker

  • PCR enrichment techniques to identify the diet of predators.

    R. O’Rorke;S. Lavery;A. Jeffs

  • Incomplete reporting of whale, dolphin and porpoise ‘bycatch’ revealed by molecular monitoring of Korean markets

    C. S. Baker;V. Lukoschek;S. Lavery;M. L. Dalebout

  • Estimating the number of whales entering trade using DNA profiling and capture-recapture analysis of market products.

    C. Scott Baker;C. Scott Baker;Justin G. Cooke;Shane Lavery;Merel L. Dalebout

  • Using DNA barcoding and phylogenetics to identify Antarctic invertebrate larvae: Lessons from a large scale study.

    Dorothea Heimeier;Shane Lavery;Mary A. Sewell

  • Population Genetics of Two Tropical Sharks, Carcharhinus tilstoni and C. sorrah, in Northern Australia

    Shane Lavery;James B. Shaklee

  • Linking Environmental DNA and RNA for Improved Detection of the Marine Invasive Fanworm Sabella spallanzanii

    Ulla von Ammon;Ulla von Ammon;Susanna A. Wood;Olivier Laroche;Olivier Laroche;Anastasija Zaiko;Anastasija Zaiko

  • Changing patterns of population structure and gene flow at different spatial scales in Birgus latro (the coconut crab)

    Shane Lavery;Craig Moritz;D R Fielder

  • Investigation on natural diets of larval marine animals using peptide nucleic acid-directed polymerase chain reaction clamping.

    Seinen Chow;Sayaka Suzuki;Tadashi Matsunaga;Shane Lavery

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew G. Jeffs
Andrew G. Jeffs University of Auckland
Mary A. Sewell
Mary A. Sewell University of Auckland
Craig Moritz
Craig Moritz Australian National University
Anastasija Zaiko
Anastasija Zaiko Sequench Limited
Susanna A. Wood
Susanna A. Wood Cawthron Institute
C. Scott Baker
C. Scott Baker Oregon State University
John C. Montgomery
John C. Montgomery University of Auckland
Anya M. Waite
Anya M. Waite Dalhousie University
Lynnath E. Beckley
Lynnath E. Beckley Murdoch University
Kendall David Clements
Kendall David Clements University of Auckland

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