Areas of expertise
- Molecular Evolution 060409
- Phylogeny And Comparative Analysis 060309
- Evolutionary Biology 0603
Publications
- Bromham, L, Dinnage, R, Skirgard, A et al. 2022, 'Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity', Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 6, pp. 163-173.
- Hua, X, Meakins, F, Algy, C et al. 2022, 'Language change in multidimensional space: New methods for modelling linguistic coherence', Language Dynamics and Change, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 78-123.
- Bromham, L, Skeels, A, Schneemann, H et al. 2021, 'There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation to reducing infection risk', Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 5, pp. 878-891.
- Ritchie, A, Hua, X, Cardillo, M et al. 2021, 'Phylogenetic diversity metrics from molecular phylogenies: modelling expected degree of error under realistic rate variation', Diversity and Distributions, vol. 27, pp. 164-178.
- Hua, X & Bromham, L 2020, 'Modeling colonization rates over time: Generating null models and testing model adequacy in phylogenetic analyses of species assemblages', Evolution, vol. 74, no. 12, pp. 2605-2616.
- Bromham, L, Hua, X, Algy, C et al 2020, 'Language endangerment: a multidimensional analysis of risk factors', Journal of Language Evolution, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 75-91.
- Orr, A, Padovan, A, Kainer, D et al 2020, 'A phylogenomic approach reveals a low somatic mutation rate in a long-lived plant', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 287, no. 1922, pp. -.
- Bromham, L 2020, 'Substitution Rate Analysis and Molecular Evolution', in Celine Scornavacca, Frederic Delsuc, Nicolas Galtier (ed.), Phylogenetics in the Genomic Era, Online, France, pp. 4.4:1-4.4:21.
- Bromham, L 2020, 'Causes of Variation in the Rate of Molecular Evolution', in Simon Y. W. Ho (ed.), The Molecular Evolutionary Clock Theory and Practice, Springer Nature Switzerland, Switzerland, pp. 45-64.
- Bromham, L 2020, 'Comparability in evolutionary biology: The case of Darwin's barnacles', Linguistic Typology, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 427-463.
- Bromham, L, Hua, X & Cardillo, M 2020, 'Macroevolutionary and macroecological approaches to understanding the evolution of stress tolerance in plants, Plant Cell and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.13857
- Roberts, S, Killin, A, Deb, A et al. 2020, 'CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database', Journal of Language Evolution, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 101-120.
- Bromham, L & Cardillo, M 2019, Origins of Biodiversity, Oxford University Press, UK.
- Hua, X, Greenhill, S, Cardillo, M et al. 2019, 'The ecological drivers of variation in global language diversity', Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 2047, pp. -.
- Bromham, L 2019, 'Six Impossible Things before Breakfast: Assumptions, Models, and Belief in Molecular Dating', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 474-486.
- Meakins, F, Hua, X, Algy, C et al 2019, 'Birth of a contact language did not favor simplification', Language (Washington), vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 294-332.
- Bromham, L, Duchene, S, Hua, X et al 2018, 'Bayesian molecular dating: opening up the black box', Biological Reviews, vol. 93, pp. 1165-1191.
- Bromham, L, Duchene, S, Hua, X et al 2018, 'Bayesian molecular dating: opening up the black box', Biological Reviews, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 1165-1191pp.
- Greenhill, S, Hua, X, Welsh, L et al 2018, 'Population size and the rate of language evolution: A test across indo-European, Austronesian, and Bantu Languages', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 9, no. 576, pp. 1-18pp.
- Bromham, L, Hua, X, Cardillo, M et al 2018, 'Parasites and politics: Why cross-cultural studies must control for relatedness, proximity and covariation', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 1-22pp.
- Hua, X & Bromham, L 2017, 'Darwinism for the genomic age: Connecting mutation to diversification', Frontiers in Genetics, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 12-12.
- Cardillo, M, Weston, P, Reynolds, Z et al 2017, 'The phylogeny and biogeography of Hakea (Proteaceae) reveals the role of biome shifts in a continental plant radiation', Evolution, vol. 71, no. 8, pp. 1928-1943pp..
- Duchene Garzon, D, Hua, X & Bromham, L 2017, 'Phylogenetic estimates of diversification rate are affected by molecular rate variation', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 1884-1897pp..
- Bromham, L 2017, 'Curiously the same: swapping tools between linguistics and evolutionary biology', Biology and Philosophy, pp. 1-32.
- Bromham, L 2016, 'Testing hypotheses in macroevolution', Studies In History and Philosophy of Science Part A, vol. 55, pp. 47-59.
- Moray, C, Goolsby, E & Bromham, L 2016, 'The Phylogenetic Association Between Salt Tolerance and Heavy Metal Hyperaccumulation in Angiosperms', Evolutionary Biology, vol. 43, no. 1, pp. 119-130.
- Bromham, L, Hua, X & Cardillo, M 2016, 'Detecting Macroevolutionary Self-Destruction from Phylogenies', Systematic Biology, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 109-127.
- Day, E, Hua, X & Bromham, L 2016, 'Is specialization an evolutionary dead end? Testing for differences in speciation, extinction and trait transition rates across diverse phylogenies of specialists and generalists', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 1257-1267.
- Hua, X & Bromham, L 2016, 'PHYLOMETRICS: an R package for detecting macroevolutionary patterns, using phylogenetic metricsand backward tree simulation', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 806-810pp.
- Bromham, L 2016, 'What is a gene for?', Biology and Philosophy, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 103-123.
- Bromham, L 2016, An Introduction to Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics, Oxford University Press, UK.
- Bromham, L, Dinnage, R & Hua, X 2016, 'Interdisciplinary research has consistently lower funding success', Nature, vol. 534, no. 7609, pp. 684-687.
- Saslis-Lagoudakis, H, Hua, X, Bui, E et al. 2015, 'Predicting species' tolerance to salinity and alkalinity using distribution data and geochemical modelling: a case study using Australian grasses', Annals of Botany, vol. 115, no. 3, pp. 343-351.
- Bromham, L 2015, 'Macroevolutionary patterns of salt tolerance in angiosperms', Annals of Botany, vol. 115, no. 3, pp. 333-341.
- Duchene Garzon, D & Bromham, L 2015, 'Molecular Dating of Evolutionary Events', in W. Jack Rink, Jeroen Thompson (ed.), Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods, Springer Netherlands, Netherlands, pp. 593-596pp.
- Bromham, L, Hua, X, Fitzpatrick, T et al 2015, 'Rate of language evolution is affected by population size', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112, no. 7, pp. 2097-2102.
- Bromham, L, Hua, X, Lanfear, R et al 2015, 'Exploring the Relationships between Mutation Rates, Life History, Genome Size, Environment, and Species Richness in Flowering Plants', The American Naturalist, vol. 185, no. 4, pp. 507-524.
- Moray, C, Hua, X & Bromham, L 2015, 'Salt tolerance is evolutionarily labile in a diverse set of angiosperm families', BMC Evolutionary Biology (now BMC Ecology and Evolution), vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 1-10.
- Bromham, L 2015, 'Evolutionary change: nothing stands still in biology', in Gabriele Bammer (ed.), Change! Combining analytic approaches with street wisdom, ANU Press, Canberra, Australia, pp. 129-153.
- Hua, X, Cowman, P, Warren, D et al 2015, 'Longevity Is Linked to Mitochondrial Mutation Rates in Rockfish: A Test Using Poisson Regression', Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 32, no. 10, pp. 2633-2645.
- Cardillo, M, Bromham, L & Greenhill, S 2015, 'Links between language diversity and species richness can be confounded by spatial autocorrelation', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 282, no. 1809, pp. 20142986-20142986.
- Bromham, L & Bennett, T 2014, 'Salt tolerance evolves more frequently in C4 grass lineages', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 653-659.
- Moray, C, Lanfear, R & Bromham, L 2014, 'Domestication and the Mitochondrial Genome: Comparing Patterns and Rates of Molecular Evolution in Domesticated Mammals and Birds and Their Wild Relatives', Genome Biology and Evolution, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 161-169.
- Saslis-Lagoudakis, H, Moray, C & Bromham, L 2014, 'Evolution of Salt Tolerance in Angiosperms: A Phylogenetic Approach', in Nishanta Rajakaruna, Robert S. Boyd, Tanner B. Harris (ed.), Plant Ecology and Evolution in Harsh Environments, Nova Publishing, New York, US, pp. 77-95.
- Bennett, T, Flowers, T & Bromham, L 2013, 'Repeated evolution of salt-tolerance in grasses', Biology Letters, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 20130029-20130029.
- Bromham, L, Cowman, P & Lanfear, R 2013, 'Parasitic plants have increased rates of molecular evolution across all three genomes', BMC Evolutionary Biology (now BMC Ecology and Evolution), vol. 13, no. 126, pp. 126-126.
- Duchene Garzon, D & Bromham, L 2013, 'Rates of molecular evolution and diversification in plants: chloroplast substitution rates correlate with species-richness in the Proteaceae', BMC Evolutionary Biology (now BMC Ecology and Evolution), vol. 13, no. 65, pp. 2-11.
- Bromham, L 2013, 'Molecular Evolution: Rates', in Wiley (ed.), Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (2013), John Wiley & Sons Inc, UK, pp. 1-7pp.
- Bromham, L 2013, 'Molecular Evolution: Patterns and Rates', in Wiley (ed.), Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (2013), John Wiley & Sons Inc, UK, pp. 1-5pp.
- Bromham, L, Saslis-Lagoudakis, H, Bennett, T et al 2013, 'Soil alkalinity and salt tolerance: adapting to multiple stresses', Biology Letters, vol. 9, p. 20130642.
- Sauquet, H, Ho, S, Gandolfo, M et al 2012, 'Testing the impact of calibration on molecular divergence times using a fossil-rich group: The case of nothofagus (Fagales)', Systematic Biology, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 289-313.
- Bromham, L, Lanfear, R, Cassey, P et al 2012, 'Reconstructing past species assemblages reveals the changing patterns and drivers of extinction through time', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 279, no. 1744, pp. 4024-4032.
- Bromham, L 2011, 'The genome as a life-history character: why rate of molecular evolution varies between mammal species', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, vol. 366, no. 1577, pp. 2503-2513.
- Ho, S, Lanfear, R, Bromham, L et al 2011, 'Time-dependent rates of molecular evolution', Molecular Ecology, vol. 20, no. 15, pp. 3087-3101.
- Lanfear, R & Bromham, L 2011, 'Estimating phylogenies for species assemblages: A complete phylogeny for the past and present native birds of New Zealand', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, vol. 61, no. 3, pp. 958-963.
- Goldie, X, Lanfear, R & Bromham, L 2011, 'Diversification and the rate of molecular evolution: no evidence of a link in mammals', BMC Evolutionary Biology (now BMC Ecology and Evolution), vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 286-286.
- Bromham, L 2011, 'The Small Picture Approach to the Big Picture: Using DNA Sequences to Investigate the Diversification of Animal Body Plans', in Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny (ed.), The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited, MIT Press, Cambridge MA, USA and London, UK, pp. 271-298.
- Bromham, L 2011, 'Biology's first law: the tendency for diversity and complexity to increase in evolutionary systems', Biology and Philosophy, vol. 26, no. 6, pp. 915-933.
- Ho, S, Lanfear, R, Bromham, L et al 2011, 'Time-dependent rates of molecular evolution', Molecular Ecology, vol. 20, no. 15, pp. 3087-3101.
- Lanfear, R, Bromham, L & Ho, S 2011, 'Reply to Englund: Molecular evolution and diversification:Counting species is better than counting nodes when the phylogeny is unknown', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 108, no. 17, pp. E85-E86.
- Lanfear, R, Ho, S, Love, D et al 2010, 'Mutation rate is linked to diversification in birds', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 107, no. 47, pp. 20423-20428.
- Bromham, L 2002, 'The human zoo: Endogenous retroviruses in the human genome', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 91-97.
- Bromham, L, Clark, F & McKee, J 2001, 'Discovery of a novel murine type C retrovirus by data mining', Journal of Virology, vol. 75, no. 6, pp. 3053-3057.
- Cardillo, M & Bromham, L 2001, 'Body size and risk of extinction in Australian mammals', Conservation Biology, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 1435-1440.
- Bromham, L & Hendy, M 2000, 'Can fast early rates reconcile molecular dates with the Cambrian explosion?', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 267, no. 1447, pp. 1041-1047.
- Bromham, L, Penny, D, Rambaut, A et al 2000, 'The power of relative rates tests depends on the data', Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 296-301.
- Hanger, J, Bromham, L, McKee, J et al 2000, 'The nucleotide sequence of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) retrovirus: A novel type C endogenous virus related to gibbon ape leukemia virus', Journal of Virology, vol. 74, no. 9, pp. 4264-4272.
- Bromham, L & Degnan, B 1999, 'Hemichordates and deuterostome evolution: Robust molecular phylogenetic support for a hemichordate + echinoderm clade', Evolution and Development, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 166-171.
- Bromham, L, Phillips, M & Penny, D 1999, 'Growing up with dinosaurs: Molecular dates and the mammalian radiation', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 113-118.
- Bromham, L, Cardillo, M, Bennett, A et al 1999, 'Effects of stock grazing on the ground invertebrate fauna of woodland remnants', Austral Ecology, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 199-207.
- Brennan, R, Burrows, J, Bell, M et al 2010, 'Strains of Epstein-Barr virus infecting multiple sclerosis patients', Multiple Sclerosis, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 643-651.
- Lanfear, R, Welch, J & Bromham, L 2010, 'Watching the clock: Studying variation in rates of molecular evolution between species', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 25, no. 9, pp. 495-503.
- Flowers, T, Galal, H & Bromham, L 2010, 'Evolution of halophytes: multiple origins of salt tolerance in land plants', Functional Plant Biology, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 604-612.
- Thomas, J, Welch, J, Lanfear, R et al 2010, 'A Generation Time Effect on the Rate of Molecular Evolution in Invertebrates', Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1173-1180.
- Bromham, L 2009, 'Putting the 'bio' into bioinformatics', Biology Letters, vol. 5, pp. 391-393.
- Bromham, L 2009, 'Why do species vary in their rate of molecular evolution?', Biology Letters, vol. 5, pp. 401-404.
- Bromham, L 2009, 'Darwin would have loved DNA: celebrating Darwin 200', Biology Letters, vol. 5, pp. 503-505.
- Lanfear, R & Bromham, L 2008, 'Statistical Tests between Competing Hypotheses of Hox Cluster Evolution', Systematic Biology, vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 708-718.
- Bromham, L 2008, 'Teaching evolutionary biology in schools to foster active learning', School Science Review, vol. 90, no. 331, pp. 57-63.
- Bromham, L 2008, Reading the story in DNA: a beginner's guide to molecular evolution, Oxford University Press, US.
- Bromham, L 2008, 'Molecular Evolution: Rates', in J Wiley (ed.), Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (supp), John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York USA, pp. 1-6pp.
- Bromham, L 2008, 'Molecular Evolution: Patterns and Rates', in J Wiley (ed.), Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (supp), John Wiley & Sons Inc, New York USA, pp. 1-5pp.
- Bromham, L 2008, 'Does nothing in evolution make sense except in the light of population genetics?', Biology and Philosophy, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 387-403.
- Welch, J, Bininda-Emonds, O & Bromham, L 2008, 'Correlates of substitution rate variation in mammalian protein-coding sequences', BMC Evolutionary Biology (now BMC Ecology and Evolution), vol. 8, no. 53, pp. 1-12.
- Fontanillas, E, Welch, J, Thomas, J et al. 2007, 'The influence of body size and net diversification rate on molecular evolution during the radiation of animal phyla', BMC Evolutionary Biology (now BMC Ecology and Evolution).
- Lanfear, R, Thomas, J, Welch, J et al 2007, 'Metabolic rate does not calibrate the molecular clock', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 104, no. 39, pp. 15388-15393.
- Bromham, L & Cardillo, M 2007, 'Primates follow the 'island rule': implications for interpreting Homo floresiensis', Biology Letters, vol. 3, pp. 398-400.
- Bromham, L & Oprandi, P 2006, 'Evolution online: using a virtual learning environment to develop active learning in undergraduates', Journal of Biological Education, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 21-25.
- Thomas, J, Welch, J, Woolfit, M et al 2006, 'There is no universal molecular clock for invertebrates, but rate variation does not scale with body size', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 103, no. 19, pp. 7366-7371.
- Bromham, L 2006, 'Molecular dates for the cambrian explosion: is the light at the end of the tunnel an oncoming train?', Palaeontologia Electronica, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 3.
- Bromham, L & Leys, R 2005, 'Sociality and the Rate of Molecular Evolution', Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1393-1402.
- Welch, J & Bromham, L 2005, 'Molecular dating when rates vary', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 320-327.
- Woolfit, M & Bromham, L 2005, 'Population size and molecular evolution on islands', Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, vol. 272, pp. 2277-2282.
- Welch, J, Fontanillas, E & Bromham, L 2005, 'Molecular Dates for the "Cambrian Explosion": The Influence of Prior Assumptions', Systematic Biology, vol. 54, no. 4, pp. 672-678.
- Wanninger, A, Koop, D, Bromham, L et al 2005, 'Nervous and muscle system development in Phascolion strombus (Sipuncula)', Development Genes and Evolution, vol. 215, pp. 509-518.
- Burrows, J, Bromham, L, Woolfit, M et al 2004, 'Selection Pressure-Driven Evolution of the Epstein-Barr Virus-Encoded Oncogene LMP1 in Virus Isolates from Southeast Asia', Journal of Virology, vol. 78, no. 13, pp. 7131-7137.
- Bromham, L & Woolfit, M 2004, 'Explosive Radiations and the Reliability of Molecular Clocks: Island Endemic Radiations as a Test Case', Systematic Biology, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 758-766.
- Bromham, L & Penny, D 2003, 'The Modern Molecular Clock', Nature Reviews: Genetics, vol. 4, pp. 216-224.
- Bromham, L 2003, 'What can DNA Tell us About the Cambrian Explosion?', Integrative and Comparative Biology, vol. 43, pp. 148-156.
- Cardillo, M, Huxtable, J & Bromham, L 2003, 'Geographic range size, life history and rates of diversification in Australian mammals', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 16, pp. 282-288.
- Bromham, L 2003, 'Molecular Clocks and Explosive Radiations', Journal of Molecular Evolution, vol. 57, pp. S13-S20.
- Woolfit, M & Bromham, L 2003, 'Increased Rates of Sequence Evolution in Endosymbiotic Bacteria and Fungi with Small Effective Population Sizes', Molecular Biology and Evolution, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 1545-1555.
- Bromham, L & Cardillo, M 2003, 'Testing the link between the latitudinal gradient in species richness and rates of molecular evolution', Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 16, pp. 200-207.
- Bromham, L, Eyre-Walker, A, Smith, N et al 2003, 'Mitochondrial Steve: paternal inheritance of mitochondria in humans', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 2-4.
- Bromham, L 2002, 'Slow as molasses: a new gene in Drosophila', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 17, no. 10, p. 454.
- Bromham, L 2002, 'Searching for Pax in hydromedusa', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 11-12.
- Bromham, L & Waxman, D 2002, 'Phage λ takes the first exit', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 17, no. 4, p. 160.
- Bromham, L 2001, 'Evolution by leaps and bounds', Trends in Ecology and Evolution, vol. Mar 1, 16, no. 3, p. 125.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Evolving rates: foundations for the next generation of molecular clocks (Primary Investigator)
- Evolution at extremes: Macroevolutionary responses to harsh environments (Primary Investigator)
- Developing new methods for using distribution data to identify taxa that can tolerate extreme conditions (Secondary Investigator)
- Evolution of halophytes: a phyloinformatic approach to understanding and exploiting the traits of underlying salt-tolerance in plants (Primary Investigator)
- Origins of a biodiversity hotspot flora: diversification of the Australian Proteaceae (Secondary Investigator)
- Exploring evolvability: its causes, consequences and practical applications in a changing environment (Primary Investigator)
- Phyloinformatics and biodiversity: developing bioinformatic tools for understanding the dynamics of extinction and invasion within species assemblages (Primary Investigator)
