Katrina McGuigan

Thermal adaptation in coral Stylophora pistillata is polygenic and largely population-specific across the Great Barrier Reef, yet range-wide models predict regional genotype-environment patterns and future maladaptation.

The paper examines how mutation contributions to size variation differ among genotypes with varying breeding values in Drosophila serrata, finding genotype-specific mutational biases and variances.

The paper examines thermal tolerance differences among cryptic coral taxa during a heatwave, finding that survival correlates with biological factors rather than environmental exposure.

The paper identifies multivariate phenotypes most influenced by mutation using Drosophila serrata wing data, showing robust mutational variance across samples.

This study uses genomic animal models to analyze head shape variation in a marine fish, finding that phenotypic differentiation exceeds genetic differentiation at macrogeographic scales.

This study examines how spontaneous mutations affect survival and reproduction in Drosophila serrata infected with Drosophila C virus, finding no directional bias in mutational effects on survival but pleiotropic effects on reproductive output.

This study examines how morphology-performance relationships vary with temperature in three zebrafish strains, finding temperature-independent and -dependent patterns of swimming speed variation.

The paper uses Bayesian Sparse Factor Genetic modelling to analyze gene expression traits in two Drosophila species, finding that most heritable trait covariation is due to a few extreme genotypes, suggesting the House of Cards model applies to co-expression phenotypes.

This study investigates variability in mutational variance estimates from mutation accumulation experiments, finding that sampling error and environmental factors contribute significantly to differences among estimates.