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DR CARLA SGRO



Contact Details

Organization: Genetics
Position: Honorary (Fellow)
Homepage: http://www.genetics.unimelb.edu.au/person/academics/csgro.html
Work: 8344 7509
Room: 309
Level: 03
Building: Chemistry-East Wing
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Genetic basis of adaptation Quantitative genetics, Life histroy evolution, canalisation evolutionary genomics Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Environmental Stress and Life History Varitaion in Drosophila melanogaster La Trobe University 31-Dec-1997
Bachelor of Science La Trobe University 31-Dec-1990

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
Breaking selective constraints: is Hsp90 a capacitor of evolutionary change? Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2005

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

  • Investigating latitudinal clines for life history and stress resistance traits in Drosophila simulans from eastern Australia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
    Volume: 21
    Page numbers: 1470-1479
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Antagonistic selection between adult thorax and wing size in field released Drosophila melanogaster independent of thermal conditions
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 2219-27
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  • Hsp90 inhibition and the expression of phenotypic variability in the rainforest species Drosophila birchii
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
    Volume: 92
    Page numbers: 457-65
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Absence of clinal variation in virgin retention capacity in Australian Drosophila melanogaster
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Evolutionary Ecology
    Volume: 20
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 407-413
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  • The association between inversion In(3R)Payne and clinally varying traits in Drosophila melanogaster
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Genetica
    Volume: 128
    Page numbers: 373-384
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  • Very low additive genetic variance and evolutionary potential in multiple populations of two rainforest Drosophila species
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Evolution
    Volume: 60
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1104-1108
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Fluctuating asymmetry, fecundity and development time in Drosophila: is there an association under optimal and stress conditions?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 147-157
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