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Stephen D. Sarre is affiliated with the University of Canberra in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on the genetic diversity and population structure of species as well as amphibian and reptile biology.

Their work extensively covers topics such as species distribution and climate change, animal behavior and reproduction, wildlife ecology and conservation, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, and physiological and biochemical adaptations.

Frequent research collaborators include Arthur Georges, Bernd Gruber, Richard P. Duncan, Tariq Ezaz, and Will Osborne.

Stephen D. Sarre has published multiple papers in well-known scientific venues, including Biological Conservation, SSRN Electronic Journal, Scientific Reports, Diversity and Distributions, and Molecular Ecology.

Recent publications reflect an ongoing interest in the effects of climate change on reptiles and sex determination systems. Notable papers include:

  • "Climate change, sex reversal and lability of sex-determining systems" (2020, Journal of Evolutionary Biology)
  • "Evolving thermal thresholds explain the distribution of temperature sex reversal in an Australian dragon lizard" (2020, Diversity and Distributions)
  • "Climate warming drives a temperate-zone lizard to its upper thermal limits, restricting activity, and increasing energetic costs" (2023, Scientific Reports)
  • "Diversity of reptile sex chromosome evolution revealed by cytogenetic and linked-read sequencing" (2022, )
  • "Evolutionary stability inferred for a free ranging lizard with sex-reversal" (2022, Molecular Ecology)

The main fields of study associated with their research outcomes are:

  • Environmental Science
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Within these fields, the key subfields of study include:

  • Genetics
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecological Modeling
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

Topics frequently explored in their work involve:

  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
  • Physiological and biochemical adaptations

Best Publications

  • Can assignment tests measure dispersal

    Oliver Berry;Mandy D. Tocher;Stephen D. Sarre

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

    Stephen Sarre;Arthur Georges;Alexander Quinn

  • 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

  • Temperature Sex Reversal Implies Sex Gene Dosage in a Reptile

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

  • The effects of habitat fragmentation and livestock grazing on animal communities in remnants of gimlet Eucalyptus salubris woodland in the Western Australian wheatbelt. I. Arthropods

    G. T. Smith;G. W. Arnold;S. Sarre;M. Abensperg-Traun

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

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

  • 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

  • Transitions Between Sex-Determining Systems in Reptiles and Amphibians

    Stephen D. Sarre;Tariq Ezaz;Arthur Georges

  • The Role of Density Regulation in Extinction Processes and Population Viability Analysis

    Klaus Henle;Stephen Sarre;Kerstin Wiegand

  • Effect of Vegetation Matrix on Animal Dispersal: Genetic Evidence from a Study of Endangered Skinks

    Oliver Berry;Mandy D. Tocher;Dianne M. Gleeson;Stephen D. Sarre

  • Genetic diversity and taxonomy: a reassessment of species designation in tuatara (Sphenodon: Reptilia)

    Jennifer M. Hay;Stephen D. Sarre;David Martin Lambert;Fred W. Allendorf

  • Evolutionary transitions between mechanisms of sex determination in vertebrates

    Alexander E. Quinn;Stephen D. Sarre;Tariq Ezaz;Tariq Ezaz;Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

  • Are some chromosomes particularly good at sex? Insights from amniotes

    Denis O’Meally;Denis O’Meally;Tariq Ezaz;Arthur Georges;Stephen D. Sarre

  • Persistence of two species of gecko (Oedura reticulata and Gehyra variegata) in remnant habitat

    Stephen Sarre;Graeme T. Smith;Jacqueline A. Meyers

  • The tales of two geckos: does dispersal prevent extinction in recently fragmented populations?

    Marion Hoehn;Marion Hoehn;Stephen Sarre;Klaus Henle

  • High-coverage sequencing and annotated assembly of the genome of the Australian dragon lizard Pogona vitticeps

    Arthur Georges;Qiye Li;Jinmin Lian;Denis O’Meally

  • Gel‐free species identification using melt‐curve analysis

    Oliver Berry;Stephen D. Sarre

  • Non-homologous sex chromosomes of birds and snakes share repetitive sequences

    Denis O’Meally;Denis O’Meally;Hardip R. Patel;Rami Stiglec;Stephen D. Sarre

  • Faecal DNA detection of invasive species: the case of feral foxes in Tasmania

    Oliver Fleetwood Berry;Stephen D. Sarre;Lachlan William Farrington;Lachlan William Farrington;Nicola Aitken

  • Molecular marker suggests rapid changes of sex-determining mechanisms in Australian dragon lizards.

    Tariq Ezaz;Tariq Ezaz;Alexander E. Quinn;Stephen D. Sarre;Denis O’Meally

  • The effect of habitat fragmentation and livestock grazing on animal communities in remnants of gimlet, Eucalyptus salubris, woodland. II. lizards.

    Graeme Smith;Graeme Arnold;Stephen Sarre;Max Abensperg-Traun

Frequent Co-Authors

Arthur Georges
Arthur Georges University of Canberra
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves
Jennifer A. Marshall Graves La Trobe University
Klaus Henle
Klaus Henle Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Dianne M. Gleeson
Dianne M. Gleeson University of Canberra
Yoichi Matsuda
Yoichi Matsuda Nagoya University
Kerstin Wiegand
Kerstin Wiegand University of Göttingen
Mick N. Clout
Mick N. Clout University of Auckland
Janette A Norman
Janette A Norman Southern Cross University
Janine E. Deakin
Janine E. Deakin University of Canberra
David M. Lambert
David M. Lambert Griffith University

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