New Zealand Molecular Ecology

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A molecular protocol has been developed in order to identify parasitoid species attacking aphids, and hyperparasitoids attacking parasitoids. The novelty of this method is that species identification relies on DNA left behind by parasitic organisms after their emerg...

For many years, the larvae of the New Zealand grass grub Costelytra zealandica and that of its congener C. brunneum have been considered cryptic. To progress the research in my PhD project using these two scarabs as pest and non-pest species model, I developped novel m...

Museum specimens are of increasing importance to the study of ecology, evolution, phylogenetics and conservation biology. In my thesis I explored the use of museum specimens to analyse population changes and declines in the endangered weevil genus Hadramphus over the p...