研究领域

Molecular ecology, biodiversity, population genetic models, kinship

Bill Sherwin uses molecular genetics in biodiversity management and fundamental evolutionary biology. His broad research areas are: Evolutionary ecology of parentage, relatedness and group formation, especially in dolphins; Conservation genetics and demography of endangered harvested and invasive species; as well as the Theory of molecular ecology, evolutionary genetics and biodiversity. He is now embarking on an ambitious program to test all current methods of genetical inference in population genetics, including new methods based on information theory, devised by himself. At UNSW, as Deputy Head of the School of BEES, and co-coordinator of the Genetics Program, he manages research and teaching spanning these disciplines and others.

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ManlikO, McDonald JA, Mann J, Raudino HC, BejderL, Krützen M, Connor RC, Heithaus MR, Lacy RC, Sherwin WB. 2016. The relative importance of reproduction and survival for the conservation of two dolphin populations. Ecology and Evolution ECE-2015-09-00551.R2 Accepted 22 Mar 2016 Sved JA, Chen Y, Shearman D, Frommer M, Sherwin WB, Gilchrist AS. 2016. Extraordinary conservation of entire chromosomes in insects over long evolutionary periods. Evolution 70:229–234. Rollins LA, Woolnough AP, Fanson BG, Cummins ML, Crowley TM, Wilton AN, Sinclair R, Butler A, Sherwin WB. 2016. Selection on mitochondrial variants occurs between and within individuals in an expanding invasion. Molecular Biology and Evolution (accepted 13-Dec-2015). DOI:10.1093/molbev/msv343. Schwanz LE, Sherwin WB, Ognenovska K, Lacey EA. 2016. Paternity and male mating strategies in a ground squirrel (Ictidomys parvidens) with an extended mating season. Journal of Mammalogy DOI:10.1093/jmammal/gyv204 Sherwin WB. 2105. Genes are information, so information theory is coming to the aid of evolutionary biology. Molecular Ecology Resources 15:1259–1261. (NB this is a solicited article, but it was peer-reviewed anonymously) Kopps AM, Jungkoo Kang J, Sherwin WB, Palsbøll PJ. 2015. How well do molecular and pedigree relatedness correspond, in populations with variable mating systems, and types and quantities of molecular and demographic data? G3: Genes Genomes Genetics DOI:10.1534/g3.115.019323 Chao A, Jost L, Hsieh TC, Ma KH, Sherwin WB, Rollins LA. 2015. Expected Shannon entropy and Shannon differentiation between subpopulations for neutral genes under the finite island model. PLoS ONE DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0125471 Rollins LA, Whitehead MR, Woolnough A, Sinclair R, Sherwin WB. 2015. Is there evidence of selection in the dopamine receptor D4 gene in Australian invasive starling populations. Current Zoology 61:505-519. Sherwin WB, Frommer M, Sved J, Raphael K, Oakeshott JG, Shearman DCA, Gilchrist ASG. 2015. Tracking invasion and invasiveness in Queensland fruit flies – from classical genetics to ‘omics. Current Zoology 61:477-487. Gilchrist AS, Shearman DCA, Frommer M, Raphael KA, Deshpande NP, Wilkins MR, Sherwin WB, Sved JA. 2014. The draft genome of the pest tephritid fruit fly Bactrocera tryoni: resources for the genomic analysis of hybridising species. BMC Genomics 15:1153. Raphael KA, Shearman DCA, Gilchrist S, Sved JA, Morrow JL, Sherwin WB, Riegler M, Frommer M. 2014 Australian endemic pest tephritids: genetic, molecular and microbial tools for improved Sterile Insect Technique. BMC Genetics 15(Suppl 2):S9 doi:10.1186/1471-2156-15-S2-S9 Chan JT, SherwinWB, Taylor MD. 2014. A tool for tracking genetic contributions of wild Penaeus (Melicertus) plebejus broodstock to hatchery populations. Animal Genetics 45:888–892. Cardoso MJ, Mooney N, Eldridge MDB, Firestone KB, Sherwin WB. 2014. Genetic monitoring reveals significant population structure in eastern quolls – implications for the conservation of a threatened carnivorous marsupial. Australian Mammalogy 36:169-177. Kopps AM, Ackermann C, Sherwin WB, Allen SJ, Bejder L, Krützen, M. 2014 accepted. Cultural transmission of tool use combined with habitat specialisations leads to fine-scale genetic structure in bottlenose dolphins. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 281: 20133245; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.3245. Kopps AM, KrützenM, Allen SJ, Bacher K, Sherwin WB. 2013 Characterizing the socially transmitted foraging tactic ‘sponging’ by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops sp.) in the western gulf of Shark Bay, Western Australia. Marine Mammal Science. 30:847-863. DOI: 10.1111/mms.12089 Rollins LA, Moles AT, Buswell JM, Lam S, Brandenburger CR, Buitenwerf R, Flores-Moreno H, Nielsen KB, Couchman E, Brown GS, Thomson FJ, Hemmings F, Frankham R & Sherwin WB. 2013. High genetic diversity is not essential for successful introduction. Ecology and Evolution. 3:4501-4517. doi/10.1002/ece3.824/pdf Chan JT, Waqairatua S, Appleyard S, Preston N, Dixon TJ, Sherwin WB, Taylor MD 2013. Novel polymorphic microsatellite loci for the eastern king prawn, Penaeus (Melicertus) plebejus. Conservation Genetics Resources 5:1125-1128 COGR-D-13-00196 Holleley CE, Nichols RA, Whitehead MR, Adamack AT, Gunn MR, Sherwin WB. 2014 Testing single-sample estimators of effective population size in genetically structured populations. Conservation Genetics 15:23-35. DOI 10.1007/s10592-013-0518-3 Cristescu R, Cahill V, Sherwin WB, Handasyde K, Carlyon K, Whisson D, Herbert CQ, Carlsson BLJ, Wilton AN, Cooper DW. 2012. Corrigendum to: Inbreeding and testicular abnormalities in a bottlenecked population of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus). Wildlife Research 39:374 - 374 Kopps AM, SherwinWB. 2012. Modelling the emergence and stability of a vertically transmitted cultural trait in bottlenose dolphins, Animal Behaviour 84: 1347–1362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.08.029