Phoenix Group

Evolutionary Ecology & Genetics

Massey

Publications

Dowle EJ, Morgan-Richards M, Trewick SA. 2013. Molecular evolution and the latitudinal biodiversity gradient. Heredity advance online publication 13 March 2013; doi: 10.1038/hdy.2013.4 PDF
Waters JM, Trewick SA, Paterson AM, Spencer HG, Kennedy M, Craw D, Burridge CP, Wallis GP. 2013. Biogeography off the tracks Systematic Biology advanced access  
Kant R, Minor M, Sandanayaka M, Trewick SA. 2013 Effects of mating and oviposition delay on parasitism rate and sex allocation behaviour of Diaeretiella rapae (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae). Biological Control in press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocontrol.2013.01.012  
Doddala PRC, Trewick SA, Rogers DJ, Minor MA. 2013. Predictive modelling of adult emergence in a polyphagous Eucolaspis (Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae) leaf beetle. Journal of Economic Entomology in press.  
Hills SFK, Crampton JS, Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M. 2012.DNA and morphology unite two species and 10 million year fossils. Plos One. 7(12): 1-13. PDF
Trewick SA, Bland K. 2012. Fire and slice: palaeogeography for biogeography at New Zealand’s North Island/South Island juncture. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03036758.2010.549493 PDF
Myers S, Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M. 2012. Multiple lines of evidence suggest mosaic polyploidy in the hybrid parthenogenetic stick insect lineage Acanthoxyla. Insect Conservation & Diversity. Onlinefirst. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/icad.12008/abstract PDF
Tabora JAG, Hinlo RP, Bailey CA, and others. 2012. Detection of Crocodylus mindorensis x Crocodylus porosus (Crocodylidae) hybrids in a Philippine crocodile systematics analysi. Zootaxa in press  
Kant R, Trewick SA, Sandanayaka WRM, Godfrey AJR, Minor MA. 2012. Effects of multiple matings on reproductive fitness of male and female Diaeretiella rapae. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 145: 215–221. DOI 10.1111/eea.12007 DOI: 10.1111/eea.12007  
Wehi PM, Jorgensen M. Morgan-Richards M. Sex and seasonal movement in a flightless forest insect the Auckland tree weta. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. In press.  
Kant R, Minor MA and Trewick SA 2012. Mating or oviposition? A crucial decision in the life history of cabbage aphid parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae (McIntosh) (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae) Ecological Entomology. 37: 169-174. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2012.01347.x PDF
Kant R, Minor MA and Trewick SA 2012. Reproductive strategies of Diaeretiella rapae (Hymenoptera: Aphidiinae) during fluctuating temperatures of spring season in New Zealand. Biocontrol Science & Technology. 22: 1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09583157.2011.635248 PDF
Wehi PM, Whaanga H, Trewick SA. 2012. Artefacts, biology and bias in museum collection research. Molecular Ecology 21: 3103-3109 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05589.x PDF
Kant R, Minor MA, Trewick SA, Sandanayaka WRM. 2012. Body size and fitness relation in male and female Diaeretiella rapae. Biocontrol. 57(6):759-766 DOI 10.1007/sl0526-012-09452-4 PDF
Fitness J, Hitchmough RA, Morgan-Richards M. 2011. Little and large: body size and genetic clines in a New Zealand gecko (Woodworthia maculata) along a coastal transect. Ecology and Evolution. Advanced access PDF
Kant R, Minor MA, Trewick SA. 2012 Fitness gain in a koinobiont parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae) by parasitising hosts of different ages. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology. 15: 83–87 PDF
Trewick SA. 2011. Vicars and vagrants: Assembly of the New Zealand avifauna. Australasian Science 32: 24-27. PDF
Hills SFK, Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M. 2011 Phylogenetic information of genes, illustrated with mitochondrial data from a genus of gastropod molluscs. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.104: 770-785. Advanced access  
Chappell EM, Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M. 2012 Shape and sound reveal genetic cohesion not speciation in the New Zealand orthopteran, Hemiandrus pallitarsis, despite high mtDNA divergence. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 105: 169-186. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01777.x PDF
Wehi PM, Nakagawa S, Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M. 2011. Does predation result in adult sex ratio skew in a sexually dimorphic insect genus? Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 24: 2321–2328. doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02366.x Visit Youtube: http://youtu.be/c_n0mbpX4KE PDF
Goldberg J, Trewick SA. 2011 Exploring phylogeographic congruence in a continental island system. Insects. 2: 369-399. PDF
Kant R, Minor MA, Trewick SA, Sandanayaka WRM. 2011. Host selection for self-superparasitism  by Diaeretiella rapae (M’Intosh) (Hymenoptera: Aphidiidae). New Zealand Plant Protection 64: 37-43.  
Trewick SA, Wallis GP, Morgan-Richards M. 2011. The invertebrate life of New Zealand: a phylogeographic approach. Insects. 2: 297-325. PDF
Segovia R, Walker Pett W, Trewick SA, Lavrov DV. 2011. Extensive and evolutionarily persistent mitochondrial tRNA editing in velvet worms (phylum Onychophora). MBE. PDF
Griffin MJ, Morgan-Richards M, Trewick SA. 2011. Is the tree weta Hemideina crassidens an obligate herbivore? New Zealand Natural Sciences. 36: 11-19. Online at: www.nznaturalsciences.org.nz PDF
Griffin MJ, Trewick SA, Wehi PM, Morgan-Richards M. 2011. Exploring the concept of niche convergence in a land without rodents: the case of weta as small mammals. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 35(3): 302-307 PDF
Crisp M, Trewick SA, Cook LG. 2010. Hypothesis testing in biogeography. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 1317: 1-7. PDF
Goldberg J, Trewick SA, Powlesland RG. 2010. Population structure and biogeography of Hemiphaga pigeons (Aves: Columbidae) on islands in the New Zealand region. Journal of Biogeography 38: 285-298. PDF
Allegrucci G, Trewick SA, Forunato A, Carchini G, Sbordoni V. 2010. Cave crickets and cave weta (Orthoptera) from the southern end of the world: a molecular phylogeny test of biogeographical hypotheses. Journal of Orthoptera Research 19: 121-130. PDF
Wyman TE, Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M, and Noble ADL. 2010. Mutualism or opportunism? Tree fuchsia (Fuchsia excorticata) and tree weta (Hemideina) interactions. Austral Ecology Onlinefirst- DOI:10.1111/j.1442-9993.2010.02146.x PDF
Cook LD, Morgan-Richards M, Trewick SA, Johns P. 2010. Status of the New Zealand cave weta (Rhaphidophoridae) genera Pachyrhamma, Gymnoplectron and Turbottoplectron. Invertebrate Systematics 24: 131-138. PDF
Morgan-Richards M, Trewick SA, Stringer IA. 2010. Geographic parthenogenesis and the common tea-tree stick insect of New Zealand. Molecular Ecology 19: 1227-1238. PDF
Trewick SA, Gibb G. 2010. Assembly of the New Zealand avifauna- a review of molecular evidence. IBIS 152: 226–253. PDF
Landis CA, Campbell HJ, Begg JG., Mildenhall DC, Paterson AM, Trewick SA. 2010. Discussion of ‘The Waipounamu Erosion Surface: questioning the antiquity of the New Zealand land surface and terrestrial. Geological  Magazine 147: 151–155. PDF
Macfarlane, R.P. et al. 2010 Phylum Arthropoda, subphylum Hexapoda. In: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) The New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.  
Doddala P.R.C., Minor M.A., and Rogers D.J. 2010. Population dynamics of bronze beetle, Eucolaspis spp (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in relation to other soil macro-invertebrates in organic apple orchards in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. New Zealand Plant Protection 63:195-200 PDF
Morgan-Richards M, Smissen RD, Shepherd LD, Hayward J, Chan C, Chambers GK, Wallis GP, Chapman HM. 2009 A review of genetic analyses of hybridisation in New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 39(1): 15-34. PDF
Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M. 2009 New Zealand Biology. Pages 665-673 in Encyclopedia of Islands (Eds R.G. Gillespie and D.A. Clague). University of California Press, Berkeley. PDF
Trewick SA. Te Ara- Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Ministry of Culture . http://www.teara.govt.nz/TheBush/InsectsAndOtherInvertebrates/StickInsects/  
Trewick SA, Brescia F, Jordan C. 2009. Diversity and phylogeny of New Caledonian Placostylus land snails; evidence from mitochondrial DNA. In Zoologia Neocaledonica 7. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 196 (ed. P. Grandcolas), 295-310. PDF
Wallis GP, Trewick SA. 2009. New Zealand phylogeography: evolution on a small continent. Molecular Ecology, 18, 3548–3580. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04294.x PDF
Pratt RC, Gibb GC, Morgan-Richards M, Phillips MJ, Hendy MD, Penny D. 2009. Towards resolving deep Neoaves phylogeny: data, signal enhancement and priors Molecular Biology and Evolution; 26(2): 313–326 PDF
Trewick SA, Cowie RH. 2008 Introduction. Evolution on Pacific islands: Darwin’s legacy. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London 363: 3289–3291. PDF
Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M, Collins LJ. 2008. Are you my mother? DNA reveals hybrid stick insect genus is an orphan. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48:799-808. PDF
Trewick SA, Walker KJ, Jordan CJ. 2008. Taxonomic and conservation status of a newly discovered giant landsnail from Mount Augustus, New Zealand. Conservation Genetics 9: 1563-1575. PDF
Walker KJ, Trewick SA, Barker GM. 2008. A new species of Powelliphanta (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Rhytididae) land snail from the Stockton Plateau, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 38: 163–186. PDF
Trewick SA. 2008 DNA Barcoding is not enough: mismatch of taxonomy and genealogy in New Zealand grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Cladistics 24: 240-254. PDF
Trewick S, Morris S. 2008 Diversity and taxonomic status of some New Zealand grasshoppers. DOC Research & Development Series #290. Wellington, New Zealand. PDF
Pratt RC, Morgan-Richards M, Trewick SA. 2008. Diversification of New Zealand weta (Orthoptera: Ensifera: Anostostomatidae) and their relationships in Australasia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London 363(1508): 3427-3438. PDF
Trewick SA, Paterson AM, Campbell HJ. 2007. Hello New Zealand. Journal of Biogeography  34: 1-6. PDF
Goldberg J, Trewick SA, Paterson AM. 2008 Evolution of New Zealand's terrestrial fauna: a review of molecular evidence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London 363: 3319–3334. PDF
Landis CA, Campbell HJ, Begg JG, Mildenhall DC, Paterson AM, Trewick SA. 2008 The Waipounamu Erosion Surface:  Questioning the Antiquity of the New Zealand Land Surface and Terrestrial Fauna and Flora. Geological Magazine 145: 1-25. PDF
Morgan-Richards MTrewick SA, Bartosch-Härlid A, Kardailsky O, Phillips MJ, McLenachan PA, Penny D. 2008. Bird Evolution: Testing The Metaves Clade With Six New Mitochondrial Genomes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:20. PDF
Morgan-Richards M, Trewick SA, Dunavan S. 2008. When is it coevolution? The case of ground wētā and fleshy fruits in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Ecology 32: 108-112. PDF
Neall VE, Trewick SA. 2008. The age and origin of the pacific islands - a geological overview. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London 363: 3293–3308. PDF
Morgan-Richards M. 2005. Chromosome rearrangements are not accompanied by expected genome size change in the tree weta Hemideina thoracica (Orthoptera, Anostostomatidae). Journal of Orthoptera Research 14(2): 143-148. PDF
Morgan-Richards M, Trewick SA. 2005. Hybrid origin of a parthenogenetic genus? Molecular Ecology 14: 2133-2142. PDF
Trewick SA, Goldberg J, Morgan-Richards M. 2005. Fewer species of Argosarchus and Clitarchus stick insects (Phasmida, Phasmatinae): evidence from nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Zoologica Scripta 34: 483-491. PDF
Trewick SA, Morgan-Richard, M. 2005 After the deluge: mitochondrial DNA indicates Miocene radiation and Pliocene adaptation of tree and giant weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). Journal of Biogeography 32: 295-309. PDF
Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M. 2005. New Zealand Wild: Stick Insects. Reed Publishing. Hong Kong.  
Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M. 2004. Phylogenetics of New Zealand’s tree, giant and tusked weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae): evidence from mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Orthoptera Research 13: 185-196. PDF
Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M, Chapman HM. 2004. Chloroplast DNA diversity of Hieracium pilosella (Asteraceae) introduced to New Zealand: reticulation, hybridization and invasion. American Journal of Botany 91:73-85. PDF
Morgan-Richards M, Trewick SA, Chapman HM. 2004. Evidence of hybridisation among Hieracium species in New Zealand from flow cytometry.  Heredity 93 (1): 34-42. PDF
Morgan-Richards M, Wallis GP. 2003. Degree of cytogenetic differentiation fails to predict hybrid zone width in the weta  Hemideina thoracica (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). Evolution  57: 849-861. PDF
Morgan-Richards M. 2002. Fission or fusion? Mitochondial DNA phylogenetics of the chromosomal races of Hemideina crassidens (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae). Cytogenetics & Genome Genetics 96: 217-222.  
Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M, Henderson S, Pinter I, Russell SJ, Barrett JA, Gibby M, Vogel JC. 2002. Polyploidy, phylogeography and Pleistocene refugia of the rockfern Asplenium ceterach: evidence from cpDNA. Molecular Ecology 11: 2003-2012. PDF
Pinter I, Bakker F, Barrett J, Cox C, Gibby M, Henderson S, Morgan-Richards M, Rumsey F, Russell S, Trewick S, Schneider H, Vogel J. 2002. Phylogenetic and biosystematic relationships in four highly disjunct polyploid complexes in the subgenera Ceterach and Phyllitis in Asplenium (Aspleniaceae). Organisms, Diversity and Evolution 2: 299-311.  
Morgan-Richards M, King T, Trewick SA. 2001. The Evolutionary history of tree weta: a genetical approach. Chapter 7, Pp: 111-124. In: Field, L. [Ed] Biology of weta, King Crickets and their Allies. CABI Publishing, Oxford.  
Wallis GP, Trewick SA. 2001 Finding fault with vicariance: a critique of Heads (1998).  Systematic Biology 50:602-609. PDF
Morgan-Richards M, Gibbs GW. 2001. A phylogenetic analysis of New Zealand giant and tree weta (Orthoptera: Anostostomatidae: Deinacrida and Hemideina) using morphology and genetic characters. Invertebrate Taxonomy, 15: 1- 12. PDF
Morgan-Richards M, Trewick SA, Wallis GP. 2001. Chromosome races with Pliocene origins: evidence from mtDNA. Heredity, 86(3): 303-312. PDF
Trewick SA. 2001 Identity of an endangered grasshopper (Acrididae: Brachaspsis): taxonomy, molecules  and conservation. Conservation Genetics 2: 233-243. PDF
Trewick SA, Wallis GP. 2001. Bridging the ‘beech-gap’: invertebrate phylogeography implicates recent rather than ancient processes in New Zealand biogeographic patterns. Evolution 55:  2170-2180. PDF
Trewick SA. 2001. Scree weta phylogeography: surviving glaciation and implications for Pleistocene biogeography in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 28: 291-298. PDF
Steel DJ, Trewick SA, Wallis GP. 2000. Heteroplasmy of mitochondrial DNA in the Ophiuroid Astrobrachion constrictum. Journal of Heredity 91: 146-149. PDF
Trewick SA. 2000. Mitochondrial DNA sequences support allozyme evidence for cryptic radiation of New Zealand Peripatoides. Molecular Ecology 9: 269-282. PDF
Trewick SA. 2000. Molecular evidence for dispersal rather than vicariance as the source of flightless insects on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Journal of Biogeography 27: 1189-1200. PDF
Trewick SA, Wallis, G.P. & Morgan-Richards, M. 2000.  Phylogeographic pattern correlates with Pliocene mountain-building in the alpine scree weta (Orthoptera, Anostostomatidae). Molecular Ecology 9: 657-666. PDF
Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M. 2000. Artificial weta roosts: a technique for ecological study and population monitoring of tree weta (Hemideina) and other invertebrates. New Zealand Journal of Ecology, 24: 201-208. PDF
Trewick SA, Worthy T. 2000 Origins and prehistoric ecology of takahe: flightless Porphyrio (Aves: Rallidae). Chapter 4, Pp: 31-48. In: William G.L. and I.G. Jamieson (eds) The Takahe: 50 Years of Conservation Management and Research. Otago University Press, Dunedin.  
Morgan-Richards M, Wolff K. 1999. Genetic structure and differentiation of Plantago major reveals a pair of sympatric sister species. Molecular Ecology, 8: 1027-1036. PDF
Trewick SA. 1999. A new weta from the Chatham Islands (Orthoptera: Raphidophoridae). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 29: 165-173. PDF
Trewick SA. 1999. Molecular diversity of Dunedin peripatus (Onychophora: Peripatopsidae). New Zealand Journal Of Zoology 26: 381-393. PDF
Trewick SA. 1998. Sympatric cryptic species in New Zealand Onychophora. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 63: 307-329. PDF
Morgan-Richards M. 1997. Intraspecific karyotype variation is not concordant with allozyme variation in the Auckland tree weta of New Zealand, Hemideina thoracica (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 60: 423-442.  
Trewick SA. 1997. Sympatric flightless rails Gallirallus dieffenbachii and G. modestus on the Chatham Islands, New Zealand; morphometrics and alternative evolutionary scenarios. J. Royal Soc. New Zealand, 27: 451-464. PDF
Trewick SA. 1997 Flightless and phylogeny amongst endemic rails (Aves: Rallidae) of the New Zealand region. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London B 352: 429-446. PDF
Trewick SA. 1997 On the skewed sex ratio of the kakapo Strigops habroptilus: Sexual and natural selection in opposition? Ibis 139:652-663. PDF
Trewick SA. 1996 Morphology and evolution of two takahe: Flightless rails of New Zealand. Journal of Zoology (London), 238: 221-237.  
Trewick SA, Morgan-Richards M. 1995 On the distribution of tree weta in the North Island, New Zealand. Journal Royal Society New Zealand 25: 485-493. PDF
Morgan-Richards M, Daugherty CH, Gibbs GW. 1995.  Specific status of the tree weta from Stephens Island, Mt Holdsworth and Mt Arthur, based on allozyme variation. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 25(2): 301-312.  
Morgan-Richards M. 1995. A new species of tree weta in the North Island of New Zealand (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae: Hemideina) New Zealand Entomologist, 18: 15-23. PDF
Morgan-Richards M, Townsend JA. 1995.  Hybridisation of tree weta on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand, and colour polymorphism within Hemideina ricta (Orthoptera: Stenopelmatidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 22: 393-399.  
Trewick SA,  Dearden, P. 1994 A rapid protocol for DNA extraction and primer annealing for PCR sequencing. Biotechniques 17: 842-844.  
Trewick SA. 1990 Occurrence of Papilio, Graphium and Charaxes butterflies in Ugandan forests. Africa Journal of Ecology 28: 83-86.