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Neil J Gemmell

- Verified email at otago.ac.nz - Cited by 19332

Norman Gemmell

- Verified email at vuw.ac.nz - Cited by 9551

Are invasive species the drivers of ecological change?

…, MA Hutchison, RM Ewers, NJ Gemmell - Trends in ecology & …, 2005 - cell.com
Invasive species are widely accepted as one of the leading direct causes of biodiversity loss.
However, much of the evidence for this contention is based on simple correlations between …

Interactive effects of habitat modification and species invasion on native species decline

RK Didham, JM Tylianakis, NJ Gemmell… - Trends in ecology & …, 2007 - cell.com
Different components of global environmental change are often studied and managed
independently, but mounting evidence points towards complex non-additive interaction effects …

Mother's curse: the effect of mtDNA on individual fitness and population viability

NJ Gemmell, VJ Metcalf, FW Allendorf - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2004 - cell.com
The mitochondrial genome is considered generally to be an innocent bystander in adaptive
evolution; however, there is increasing evidence that mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is an …

Fiscal policy and growth: evidence from OECD countries

R Kneller, MF Bleaney, N Gemmell - Journal of public economics, 1999 - Elsevier
Is the evidence consistent with the predictions of endogenous growth models that the structure
of taxation and public expenditure can affect the steady-state growth rate? Much previous …

Testing the endogenous growth model: public expenditure, taxation, and growth over the long run

M Bleaney, N Gemmell, R Kneller - Canadian Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… For our annual panel however, T N ~N … 20 Kneller, Bleaney, and Gemmell ~1999! have
also applied a variant of … are substantial ~Kneller, Bleaney, and Gemmell 1999!, and this is the …

EVALUATING THE IMPACTS OF HUMAN CAPITAL STOCKS AND ACCUMULATION ON ECONOMIC GROWTH: SOME NEW EVIDENCE

N Gemmell - Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
Various hypotheses have been put forward in recent years concerning the contribution of
human capital to economic growth. This paper argues that school enrolment rates — by far the …

[HTML][HTML] Underestimation of species richness in Neotropical frogs revealed by mtDNA analyses

…, A Gilles, M Vences, C Marty, M Blanc, NJ Gemmell - PLoS one, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Background Amphibians are rapidly vanishing. At the same time, it is most likely that the
number of amphibian species is highly underestimated. Recent DNA barcoding work has …

Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

…, NJ Gemmell, N Dussex, H Mouritsen, N Thiele… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and
characterizing biodiversity 1 , 2 , 3 – 4 . Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to …

Fast, cost-effective development of species-specific microsatellite markers by genomic sequencing

…, BC Robertson, JAL Stanton, NJ Gemmell - …, 2009 - Future Science
… that on average, 190 inserts (n = 92) were sequenced resulting in … (n = 52). From these, 37
primer pairs were designed on average (n = 113), resulting in 14 polymorphic loci per study (n

Haplotype-resolved assembly of diploid genomes without parental data

…, O Fedrigo, KP Koepfli, L Urban, NJ Gemmell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Routine haplotype-resolved genome assembly from single samples remains an unresolved
problem. Here we describe an algorithm that combines PacBio HiFi reads and Hi-C …