Former staff
Dr. Candice Bywater – Postdoctoral Research Fellow/Laboratory Manager
Bywater, C.L., Seebacher, F. and Wilson, R.S. (2015) Building a dishonest signal: the functional basis of unreliable signals of strength in males of the two-toned fiddler crab, Uca vomeris. Journal of Experimental Biology 218: 3077-3082
Bywater, C.L., White, C.R. and Wilson, R.S. (2014) Metabolic incentives for dishonest signals of strength in the fiddler crab, Uca vomeris. Journal of Experimental Biology 217: 2848-2850
Bywater, C.L. and Wilson, R.S. (2012) Is honesty the best policy? Testing signal reliability in fiddler crabs when receiver-dependent costs are. Functional Ecology 26: 804-811
David, G.K., Condon, C.H., Bywater, C.L., Ortiz-Barrientos D. and Wilson, R.S. (2011) Receivers limit the prevalence of deception in humans: evidence from diving behaviour in soccer players. PLoS One 6: e26017
Wilson, R.S., James, R.S., Bywater, C.L. and Seebacher, F. (2009) Costs and benefits of increased weapon size differ between sexes of the slender crayfish, Cherax dispar. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 853-858
Bywater, C.L., Angilletta, M.J. and Wilson, R.S. (2008) Weapon size is a reliable indicator of strength and social dominance in female slender crayfish (Cherax dispar). Functional Ecology 22: 311-316
Dr. Pieter Arnold – Honours (2012), PhD (2013-2016), Research Assistant (2017)
White, C, Marshall, D, Alton, L et al 2019, ‘The origin and maintenance of metabolic allometry in animals’, Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 3, pp. 598-603.
Arnold, P, Rafter, M, Malekpour, R et al 2017, ‘Investigating movement in the laboratory: dispersal apparatus designs and the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum’, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, vol. 163, pp. 93-100.
Arnold, P.A.; Cassey, P.; White, C.R. Functional traits in red flour beetles: The dispersal phenotype is associated with leg length but not body size nor metabolic rate. Funct. Ecol. 2017, 31, 653–661.
Arnold, P, Cassey, P & White, C 2016, ‘Maturity matters for movement and metabolic rate: trait dynamics across the early adult life of red flour beetles’, Animal Behaviour, vol. 111, pp. 181-188.
Arnold, P, White, C & Johnson, K 2015, ‘Drosophila melanogaster does not exhibit a behavioural fever response when infected with Drosophila C virus’, Journal of General Virology, vol. 96, pp. 3667-3671.
Arnold, P, Johnson, K & White, C 2013, ‘Physiological and metabolic consequences of viral infection in Drosophila melanogaster’, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 216, pp. 3350-3357.
Julian Beaman – PhD (2013-2016), Research Assistant (2013-2016)
Beaman, J.E., White, C.R. and Seebacher, F. (2016) Evolution of plasticity: mechanistic link between development and reversible acclimation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31: 237-249
Seebacher, F., Beaman, J.E. and Little, A. (2014) Regulation of thermal acclimation varies between generations of the short-lived mosquitofish that developed in different environmental conditions. Functional Ecology 28: 137-148
Former students
Amanda Petterson – PhD (co-supervised)
Lukas Schuster – PhD (co-supervised)
James Matcott – PhD (co-supervised)
Aleksandra Kovacevic – PhD (co-supervised)
Hugh Winwood-Smith – Honours (2013), PhD
Winwood-Smith, H.S., Franklin, C.E. and White, C.R. (2017) Low carbohydrate diet induces metabolic depression: a possible mechanism to conserve glycogen. American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology 313: R347-R356
Winwood-Smith, H.S., Alton, L.A., Franklin, C.E. and White, C.R. (2015) Does enhanced thermal plasticity allow expansion of an invasive terrestrial anuran into higher latitudes? Conservation Physiology 3: doi: 10.1093/consphys/cov010
Dr. Philip Matthews – Honours, PhD, ARC DECRA Research Fellow
Bartrim, H., Matthews, P.G.D., Lemon, S., White, C.R. (2014) Oxygen-induced plasticity in tracheal morphology and discontinuous gas exchange cycles in cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea. Journal of Comparative Physiology B doi:10.1007/s00360-014-0862-8
Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2013) Reversible brain inactivation induces discontinuous gas exchange in cockroaches. The Journal of Experimental Biology doi:10.1242/jeb.077479
Trappett, A., Condon, C., White, C.R., Matthews, P.G.D. and Wilson, R.S. (2013) Extravagant ornaments of male threadfin rainbowfish (Iriatherina werneri) are not costly for swimming. Functional Ecology doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.12097
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2013) Discontinuous gas exchange expression is a heritable trait in speckled cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea. The Journal of Evolutionary Biology doi: 10.1111/jeb.12093
Merrit, L., Matthews P. G. D. and White C. R. (2013) Performance correlates of resting metabolic rate in garden skinks Lampropholis delicata. Journal of Comparative Physiology B doi:10.1007/s00360-012-0736-x
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2012) Standard metabolic rate is associated with gestation duration, but not clutch size, in speckled cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea. Biology Open doi: 10.1242/bio.20122683
Snelling, E.P., Seymour, R.S., Matthews, P.G.D. and White C.R. (2012) Maximum metabolic rate, relative lift, wingbeat frequency, and stroke amplitude during tethered-flight in the adult locust Locusta migratoria. The Journal of Experimental Biology doi:10.1242/jeb.069799
Snelling, E.P., Seymour, R.S., Runciman, S., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2012). Symmorphosis and the insect respiratory system: a comparison between flight and hopping muscle. The Journal of Experimental Biology doi: 10.1242/jeb.072975
Matthews, P.G.D., Snelling, E.P., Seymour, R.S. and White, C.R. (2012). A test of the oxidative damage hypothesis for discontinuous gas exchange in the locust Locusta migratoria. Biology Letters doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0137
Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2012). Discontinuous gas exchange, water loss and metabolism in Protaetia cretica (Cetoniinae, Scarabaeidae). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 85, 174-182
White, C.R., Kearney, M.R., Matthews, P.G.D., Kooijman, S.A.L.M. and Marshall, D.J. (2011). A manipulative test of competing theories for metabolic scaling. American Naturalist 178, 746-754.
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2011). Cockroaches that exchange respiratory gases discontinuously survive food and water restriction. Evolution doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01456.x.
Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2011). Discontinuous gas exchange in insects: Is it all in their heads? The American Naturalist 177, 130-134.
Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2011). Regulation of gas exchange and haemolymph pH in the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea. The Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 3062-3073.
Snelling, E.P., Seymour, R.S., Matthews, P.G.D., Runciman, S. and White, C.R. (2011). Scaling of resting and maximum hopping metabolic rate throughout the life cycle of the locust Locusta migratoria. The Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 3218-3224.
Snelling, E.P., Seymour, R.S., Runciman, S., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2011). Symmorphosis and the insect respiratory system: allometric variation. The Journal of Experimental Biology 214, 3225-3237.
Lamprecht, I., Seymour, R., White, C., Matthews, P.G.D. and Wadsö, L. (2009). Discontinuous ventilation in the rhinoceros beetle Oryctes nasicornis. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 95, 743-747.
White, C.R., Matthews, P.G.D. and Seymour, R.S. (2008). In situ measurement of calling metabolic rate in an Australian mole cricket, Gryllotalpa monanka. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology a-Molecular & Integrative Physiology 150, 217-221.
White, C.R., Matthews, P.G.D. and Seymour, R.S. (2006). Balancing the competing requirements of saltatorial and fossorial specialisation: burrowing costs in the spinifex hopping mouse, Notomys alexis. Journal of Experimental Biology 209, 2103-2113.
Agnieszka Gudowska – Visiting PhD Candidate (2017)
Aidan Janetzki – Honours (2014-2015)
Metabolic plasticity in tropical ectotherms.
Lauren Mulkearns – Honours (2014-2015)
The influence of social dominance on feeding preference in the speckled cockroach Nauphoeta cinereal.
Rebecca Yaun – Honours (2014-2015)
Interactive effects of diet and sleep on survival strategies in the cockroach Nauphoeta cinereal.
Dr. Taryn Crispin – Honours (2009), PhD (2014-2017)
Crispin, T.S. and White, C.R. (2013) The effect of thermal acclimation on organ mass, tissue respiration and allometry in Leichhardtian river prawns, Macrobrachium tolmerum (Riek, 1951). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 86: 470-481
Dr. Natalie Schimpf – Honours (2008), PhD (2013-2016)
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2013) Discontinuous gas exchange exhibition is a heritable trait in speckled cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26: 1588-1597
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2012) Cockroaches that exchange respiratory gases discontinuously survive food and water restriction. Evolution 66: 597-604
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2012) Standard metabolic rate is associated with gestation duration, but not clutch size, in speckled cockroaches Nauphoeta cinerea. Biology Open 1: 1185-1191
Schimpf, N.G., Matthews, P.G.D., Wilson, R.S. and White, C.R. (2009) Cockroaches breathe discontinuously to reduce respiratory water loss. Journal of Experimental Biology 212: 2773-2780
Lauren Harrison – Honours (2013)
The consequences of metabolic depression on the specific dynamic action of the speckled cockroach, Nauphoeta cinereal.
Jacinta Kong – Honours (2013)
The effect of temperature on the interspecific and intraspecific body mass-metabolic rate scaling relationship: Testing the Metabolic Theory of Ecology.
Jordan Phoenix – Honours (2013)
The effect of chronic cold exposure on daily energy expenditure and the metabolic cost of locomotion.
Niky Wu – Honours (2013)
Wu, N.C., Alton, L.A., Clemente, C.J., Kearney, M.R. and White, C.R. (2015) Morphology and burrowing energetics of semi-fossorial skinks (Liopholis). Journal of Experimental Biology 218: 2416-2426
Mischa Turschwell – Honours (2012)
Turschwell, M.P. and White, C.R. (2016) The effects of laboratory housing and spatial enrichment on brain size and metabolic rate in the eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki. Biology Open 5: 205-2010
Tom Callaghan – Honours (2012)
Sex dependence of acclimation responses in eastern mosquitofish, Gambusia holbrooki.
Hamish Bartrim – Honours (2010)
Bartrim, H., Matthews, P.G.D., Lemon, S. and White, C.R. (2014) Oxygen induced tracheal plasticity alters the exhibition of discontinuous gas exchange cycles in the speckled cockroach (Nauphoeta cinerea). Journal of Comparative Physiology B 184: 977-990
Christian Hart – Honours (2010)
The effect of pH on the metabolic rate in mosquito fish.
Lucy Merritt – Honours (2009-2010)
Merritt, L., Matthews, P.G.D. and White, C.R. (2013) Performance correlates of resting metabolic rate in garden skinks Lampropholis delicata. Journal of Comparative Physiology B 183: 663-673
Cameron Schofield – Honours (2009-2010)
Effects of oxygen availability on the metabolic allometry of cane toads Bufo marinus.
Fabian Vaca – Honours (2008)
Vaca, H.F. and White, C.R. (2010) Environmental modulation of metabolic allometry in ornate rainbowfish Rhadinocentrus ornatus. Biology Letters. 6: 136-138
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