Increased Usage of Antiseptics Is Associated with Reduced Susceptibility in Clinical Isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

K Hardy, K Sunnucks, H Gil, S Shabir, E Trampari… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Hospital-acquired infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, and regimes to prevent
infection are crucial in infection control. These include the decolonization of vulnerable …

Avoidance of novel objects by rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus L.)

P Sunnucks - Wildlife Research, 1998 - CSIRO Publishing
Neophobia (fear of new stimuli) is an important component of mammalian behavioural
ecology. In addition, information on neophobia in pest species could be of great significance in …

Genetic rescue: A critique of the evidence supports maximizing genetic diversity rather than minimizing the introduction of putatively harmful genetic variation

K Ralls, P Sunnucks, RC Lacy, R Frankham - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Genetic rescue – ameliorating inbreeding depression and restoring genetic diversity of inbred
populations through gene flow - is valuable in wildlife conservation. Empirically validated …

[HTML][HTML] Applying population viability analysis to inform genetic rescue that preserves locally unique genetic variation in a critically endangered mammal

JP Zilko, D Harley, A Pavlova, P Sunnucks - Diversity, 2021 - mdpi.com
… A population of 110 individuals with all pairwise kinships equal to zero was simulated to
represent the population in the 1990s, varying the carrying capacity to K = 120 and K = 1000. …

[BOOK][B] Genetic management of fragmented animal and plant populations

…, MR Dudash, CB Fenster, RC Lacy, P Sunnucks - 2017 - books.google.com
… Lacy & Paul Sunnucks 2017 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First …
Sunnucks among others. Our paper on implications of different species concepts for biodiversity …

Easy‐to‐use R functions to separate reduced‐representation genomic datasets into sex‐linked and autosomal loci, and conduct sex assignment

…, DKP Harley, MJL Magrath, P Sunnucks… - Molecular Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… It uses the matrix of genotypes for all individuals to perform k- means clustering with two
centres (using the provided seed number). The rationale is that individuals would form two …

Microsatellite and chromosome evolution of parthenogenetic Sitobion aphids in Australia

P Sunnucks, PR England, AC Taylor, DF Hales - Genetics, 1996 - academic.oup.com
SUNNUCKS, unpublished). Primers for locus Sm12 did not give product in S. near fragam'…
TOMIUK, K. WOHRMANN and P. SUNNUCKS, 1996 Evolutionary and genetic aspects of …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for gene flow and local clonal selection in field populations of the grain aphid (Sitobion avenae) in Britain revealed using microsatellites

…, HD Loxdale, R Harrington, SJ Clark, P Sunnucks - Heredity, 2004 - nature.com
… Two diversity measures for each population, genotypic diversity, k, and the Shannon–Weaver
Index, H, are given in … The measure of genotypic diversity, k, is sample size dependent. …

SSCP is not so difficult: the application and utility of single‐stranded conformation polymorphism in evolutionary biology and molecular ecology

P Sunnucks, ACC Wilson, LB Beheregaray… - Molecular …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
All genetic markers are estimators of DNA nucleotide sequence variation. Rather than obtaining
DNA sequence data, it is cheaper and faster to use techniques that estimate sequence …

[PDF][PDF] Lifetime fitness costs of inbreeding and being inbred in a critically endangered bird

…, P Menkhorst, KA Miller, K Cartwright, P Sunnucks - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Reduced fitness as a result of inbreeding is a major threat facing many species of conservation
concern [1–4]. However, few case studies for assessing the magnitude of inbreeding …