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PROF JOHN WEST



Contact Details

Organization: Botany
Position: Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
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Work: 8344 8080
Fax: 9349 3268
Room: 214
Level: 01
Building: Botany
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
biology of marine algae reproductive biology and molecular (DNA) biology Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
New Zealand Victoria University Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Japan Fukui Prefectural University Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Korea, Republic of Kongju National University Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Washington

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Phycological Society of America Lifetime 01-Jan-1966
Member Japanese Society of Phycology Member 01-Jan-1966
Member British Phycological Society Member 01-Jan-1966
Member International Phycological Society Member 01-Jan-1966

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Molecular phylogeny and morpho-taxonomy of the Bangiophyceae in Australia Chief Investigator ABRS Research Grants (DEH AUST BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES STUDY) 01/07/2002
WHY DO RED ALGAE LOSE THEIR SEXUALITY AND WHERE HAS IT OCCURRED? Chief Investigator HERMON SLADE FOUNDATION Grants 01/07/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Bostrychia (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) species of New Zealand, and relationships in the Southern Hemisphere
    Year: 2008
    Journal: New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 315-324
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  • Neorhodella cyanea, a new genus in the Rhodellophyceae (Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 560-572
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  • Rhodachlya madagascarensis gen. et sp. nov.: a distinct acrochaetioid represents a new order and family (Rhodachlyales ord. nov., Rhodachlyaceae fam. nov.) of the Florideophyceae (Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 203-212
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  • Phylogenetic relationships within the Stylonematales (Stylonematophyceae, Rhodophyta): Biogeographic patterns do not apply to Stylonema Alsidii


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 384-393
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  • New records of algae from Efate, Vanuatu
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Cryptogamie Algologie
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 235-254
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  • Origin of apomictic red algae: Outcrossing studies of different strains in Caloglossa Monosticha (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 977-984
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  • The utility of proteomics in algal taxonomy: Bostrychia Radicans/B. moritziana (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) as a model study
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1519-1528
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

  • Rhodophyta: Cyanidiophyceae and Bangiophyceae
    Year: 2007
    Book: Algae of Australia: Introduction
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Melbourne)
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Journal Articles

  • Corrigendum.  Correction to paper by West et al., Phycologia 46(3): 237-246 (2007).  Pulvinaster venetus J.A. West, G.C. Zuccarello et J.L. Scott gen. et sp. nov.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 478
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  • Pulvinus veneticus gen. et sp. nov. (Compsopogonales, Rhodophyta) from Vanuatu
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 237-246
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  • Rhodaphanes brevistipitata gen. et sp. nov., a new member of the Stylonematophyceae (Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 440-449
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  • Acclimation of the intertidal red alga Bangiopsis subsimplex (Stylonematophyceae) to salinity changes
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
    Volume: 343
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 176-186
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  • Actin and myosin regulate pseudopodia of Porphyra pulchella (Rhodophyta) archeospores
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 129-138
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  • Calcium oxalate crystals in the marine red alga Spyridia filamentosa (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 565-571
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  • Cytoplasmic streaming of calium oxalate crystals in Callipsygma wilsonis (Bryopsidales, Chlorophyta)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Phycological Research
    Volume: 55
    Page numbers: 278-285
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  • Ecophysiological performance of the primitive red alga Dixoniella grisea (Rhodellophyceae) to irradiance, temperature and salinity stress: growth responses and the osmotic role of mannitol
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 22-28
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  • Effects of ambient calcium concentration on the deposition of calcium oxalate crystals in Antithamnion (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 371-379
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  • Possible surface carbohydrates involved in signaling during conjugation process in Zygnema cruciatum monitored with fluorescein isothiocyanate-lectins (Zygnematacae, Chlorophyta)
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Phycological Research
    Volume: 55
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 135-142
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  • Trehalose, digeneaside and floridoside in the Floridephyceae (Rhodophyta) - a reeevaluation of its chemotaxonomic value
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 143-150
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Goniotrichopsis reniformis (Kajimura) Kikuchi comb. nov. (Stylonematales, Rhodophyta) from Japan
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Algae
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 185-191
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  • Olpidiopsis sp., an oomycete from Madagascar that infects Bostrychia and other red algae: Host species susceptibility
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Phycological Research
    Volume: 54
    Page numbers: 72-85
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  • Ptilothamnion richardsii  (Rhodophyta) is a Chantransia stage of Batrachospermum
    Year: 2006
    Journal: European Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 41
    Page numbers: 125-130
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  • Biology of Porphyra pulchella sp.nov. from Australia and New Zealand
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Algae
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 193-208
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  • Biology of a terrestrial green alga, Chlorococcum sp. (Chlorococcales, Chlorophyta), collected from the Miruksazi stupa in Korea
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 45
    Page numbers: 349-358
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  • Diversity of the Bostrychia radicans/Bostrychia moritziana species complex (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) in the mangroves of New Caledonia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Cryptogamie Algologie
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 245-254
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  • Increased sampling for inferring phylogeographic patterns in Bostrychia radicans/B. moritziana (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) in the eastern USA
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 1349-1352
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  • Light and electron microscopic observations on Erythrolobus coxiae gen.et sp.nov. (Porphyrideophyceae, Rhodophyta) from Texas U.S.A.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Algae
    Volume: 21
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 407-416
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  • Molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Bostrychioideae (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta): subsuming Stictosiphonia and highlighting polyphyly in species of Bostrychia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 24-36
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  • Observations on Bostrychia radicosa comb.nov. (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Phycological Research
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-14
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  • Reproduction of Rhodochorton purpureum from Jeju Island, Korea and San Juan Island, Washington, USA in laboratory culture
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Algae
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 103-107
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  • Systematics and genetic variation in commercial Kappaphycus and Eucheuma (Solieriaceae, Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Applied Phycology
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 643-651
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  • Time-lapse video microscopy of wound recovery and reproduction in the siphonous green alga Derbesia tenuissima
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Algae
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 109-124
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  • Vesicle transport and the cytoskeleton in the unicellular red alga Glaucosphaera vacuolata
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Phycological Research
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 15-20
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Publications in 2005

Book Chapters

  • Long-term macroalgal culture maintenance
    Year: 2005
    Book: Algal Culturing Techniques
    Publisher: Elsevier(California)
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Journal Articles

  • A new unusual low molecular weight carbohydrate in the red algal genus Hypoglossum (Delesseriaceae, Ceramiales) and its possible function as an osmolyte
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Planta
    Volume: 222
    Page numbers: 319-326
    Publisher: Springer Verlag(New York)
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  • Experimental hybridization between some marine coenocytic green algae using protoplasms extruded in vitro
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Algae
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 239-249
    Publisher: Korean Society Phycology(Seoul)
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  • Observations on Purpureofilum apyrenoidigerumgen. et sp. nov. from Australia and Bangiopsis subsimplex from India (Stylonematales, Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Phycological Research
    Volume: 53
    Page numbers: 49-66
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Effects of plant growth regulators on callus formation, growth and regeneration in axenic tissue cultures of Gracilaria tenuistipitata and Gracilaria perplexa (Gracilariales, Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Phycological Research
    Volume: 52
    Page numbers: 244-254
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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  • Phylogeography of Caloglossa leprieurii and related species (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) based on the rbcL gene sequences
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Japanese Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 52 (Suppl)
    Page numbers: 147-151
    Publisher: Japanese Society of Phycology
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Cytochemical and ultrastructural studies on protoplast formation from disintegrated cells of the marine alga Chaetomorpha aerea (Chlorophyta)
    Year: 2003
    Journal: European Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 38
    Page numbers: 205-216
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • Evolutionary relationships of the genus Caloglossa (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) inferred from large-subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences, morphological evidence and reproductive compatibility, with description of a new species from Guatemala
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 478-497
    Publisher: International Phycological Society(Kansas)
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  • Low molecular weight carbohydrates of the Bangiophycidae (Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 584-589
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Multiple crypticspecies: molecular diversity and reproductive isolation in the Bostrychia radicans/B. mortiziana complex (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) with focus on North American isolates
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 39
    Page numbers: 948-959
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Time-lapse video microscopy of fertilizaetion and the actin cytoskeleton in Murrayella periclados (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 638-645
    Publisher: International Phycological Society(Kansas)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Gracilaria species (Gracilariaceae, Rhodophyta) from southeastern Australia, including a new species Gracilaria perplexa sp. nov.: Morphology, molecular relationships and agar content
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Phycological Research
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 295-311
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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  • Chloroplast rotation and morphological plasticity of the unicellular alga Rhodosorus (Rhodophyta, Stylonematales)
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Phycological Research
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 183-191
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  • Diversity within red algal species: variation in world-wide samples of Spyridia filamentosa (Ceramiaceae) and Murrayella periclados (Rhodomelaceae) using DNA markers and breeding studies
    Year: 2002
    Journal: European Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 403-417
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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  • Fertilization and the cytoskeleton in the red alga Bostrychia moritziana (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta)
    Year: 2002
    Journal: European Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 509-522
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  • From protoplasm to swarmer: regeneration of proptoplasts from disintegrated cells of the multicellular marine green alga Microdictyon umbilicatum (Chlorophyta)
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 38
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 174-183
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Massachusetts)
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  • Phylogeography of the Bostrychia calliptera-B. pinnata complex (Rhodomelaceae, Rhodophyta) and divergence rates based on nuclear, mitochondrian and plastid DNA markers
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Phycologia
    Volume: 41
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 49-60
    Publisher: International Phycological Society(Kansas)
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  • Phylogeography of the cosmopolitan red alga Caulacanthus ustulatus (Caulacanthaceae, Gigartinales)
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Phycological Research
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 163-172
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Asia
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Time-lapse videomicroscopy of cell (spore) movement in red algae
    Year: 2001
    Journal: European Journal of Phycology
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 9-22
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(New York)
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