Dr Emily Roycroft
Areas of expertise
- Biogeography And Phylogeography 060302
- Population, Ecological And Evolutionary Genetics 060411
- Molecular Evolution 060409
- Genomics 060408
- Evolutionary Biology 0603
- Phylogeny And Comparative Analysis 060309
Research interests
My research is driven by questions about the evolutionary past of species, and the environments in which they live. I am also especially interested in the ways we can use museum collections as a resource for understanding biodiversity loss. My research primarily focuses on the spectacular diversity of native Australian mammals and reptiles, using approaches in phylogenomics, phylogeography, population genomics and statistical molecular evolution.
Available student projects
I am available to supervise honours, masters or PhD students commencing from 2023. Below is a brief outline of currently available student projects. I also welcome students who have their own project ideas. Please get in touch.
Project 1: Historical demography and population dynamics in Gehyra geckos
Project 2: Detecting chromosome rearrangements with comparative Hi-C
Project 3: Comparative phylogeography of Australian rodents
Publications
- Roycroft, E, MacDonald, A, Moritz, C et al. 2021, 'Museum genomics reveals the rapid decline and extinction of Australian rodents since European settlement', PNAS - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 118, no. 27, pp. 8pp.
- Roycroft, E, Achmadi, A, Callahan, C et al. 2021, 'Molecular Evolution of Ecological Specialisation: Genomic Insights from the Diversification of Murine Rodents', Genome Biology and Evolution, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 16pp.
- Roycroft, E, Moussalli, A & Rowe, K 2020, 'Phylogenomics Uncovers Confidence and Conflict in the Rapid Radiation of Australo-Papuan Rodents', Systematic Biology, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 431-444.
- Ramm, T, Roycroft, E & Muller, J 2020, 'Convergent evolution of tail spines in squamate reptiles driven by microhabitat use', Biology Letters, vol. 16, pp. 1-5.
- Winterhoff, M, Achmadi, A, Roycroft, E et al. 2020, 'Native and Introduced Trypanosome Parasites in Endemic and Introduced Murine Rodents of Sulawesi', Journal of Parasitology, vol. 106, no. 5, pp. 523-536.
- Roycroft, E, Nations, J & Rowe, K 2019, 'Environment predicts repeated body size shifts in a recent radiation of Australian mammals', Evolution, vol. 74, no. 3, pp. 671-680.
- Roycroft, E, Le Port, A & Lavery, S 2019, 'Population structure and male-biased dispersal in the short-tail stingray Bathytoshia brevicaudata (Myliobatoidei: Dasyatidae)', Conservation Genetics, vol. 20, pp. 717-728.
- Roycroft, E 2019, 'Digest: Colonizing rodents overcome ecological incumbency in an island system', Evolution, vol. 73, no. 7, pp. 1496-1497.
- Potter, S, Xue, A, Bragg, J et al. 2018, 'Pleistocene climatic changes drive diversification across a tropical savanna', Molecular Ecology, vol. 27, pp. 520-532.
- Roitman, M, Gardner, M, New, T et al. 2017, 'Assessing the scope for genetic rescue of an endangered butterfly: the case of the Eltham copper', Insect Conservation and Diversity, vol. 10, pp. 399-414.
- Le Port, A, Roycroft, E, Thakur, V et al. 2016, 'Characterisation of eleven new polymorphic microsatellite markers for the coastal stingray Dasyatis brevicaudata (Dasyatidae Hutton 1875), and cross-amplification in seven dasyatid species', Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, vol. 65, pp. 234-237.
