Created Ecosystems

Research topic "Created Ecosystems" is further divided into following sections:

• aquaculture genetics and nutrition
• applied genetics of aquatic species
• remediation

Involved research staff

• Andrew Baker - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: +61 7 3138 4443 mobile: +61 4 2427 2051 fax: +61 7 3138 1535 e-mail: am.baker@qut.edu.au
• Malcolm Cox - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 1649 fax: 07 3138 1535 e-mail: m.cox@qut.edu.au
• Ray Frost - Faculty of Science / Physical and Chemical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2407 mobile: 0414 84 2407 fax: 07 3138 1804 e-mail: r.frost@qut.edu.au
• Serge Kokot - Faculty of Science / Physical and Chemical Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 2472 fax: 07 3138 1804 e-mail: s.kokot@qut.edu.au
• Peter Mather - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 1737 fax: 07 3138 2330 e-mail: p.mather@qut.edu.au
• Habib Yezdani - Faculty of Science / Natural Resource Sciences
  telephone: 07 3138 4880 mobile: 0401 657 179 fax: 07 3138 4878 e-mail: h.yezdani@qut.edu.au

Related research projects

• Stock structure of commercially important freshwater fishes in the Mekong River system
  project time frame: 2004-2006
  project budget: $338 785
  project participants: Peter Mather (Chief Investigator)
   
• Assessing the potential for low cost formulated diets for mud crab aquaculture in Australia, Indonesia and Vietnam
  project time frame: 2004-2006
  project budget: $373 714
  project participants: Peter Mather (Chief Investigator)
   
• Genetic diversity in wild and cultured stocks of Abalone (Haliotis rubra) in northern NSW
  project time frame: 2005-2006
  project budget: $40 000
  project participants: Peter Mather (Chief Investigator)
   
• Impact of hatchery practices on genetic diversity in cultured and wild stocks of two commercially important marine species in NSW
  - QUT Srategic Links with Industry Grant Scheme
  project time frame: 2005-2006
  project budget: $44 000
  project participants: Peter Mather (Chief Investigator)
   
• Enhancement of freshwater prawn aquaculture in the Pacific: Assessing freshwater prawn stock quality and nutrition in Fiji
  project time frame: 2007-2009
  project budget: $331 288
  project participants: Peter Mather (Chief Investigator)
   
• Fine-scale environmental and genetic spatial structuring of the giant freshwater prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii, through a little-known biogeographic boundary: the Isthmus of Kra
  - School of Natural Resource Sciences: Biological Systems Grant. Principal Investigator (with Wilson, J., Mather, P.B. and Cox, M.).
  project time frame: 2004-2006
  project budget: $10 000
  project participants: Andrew Baker (Principal Investigator), Peter Mather, Malcolm Cox
   

Publications

• Crawford, A.C.; Richardson, N; Mather, P.: A comparative study of cellulase and xylanase enzyme activity in freshwater crayfish and marine prawns - Aquaculture Research, 36: 586 - 92, 2005
• Carmoday, O; Frost, R.; Yunfei, X; Kokot, S.: Adsorption of hydrocarbons on organo-clays- implications for oil spill remediation - in print, JCIS, 2006
• Mather, P.; Lal, S.N.; Wilson, J.: Experimental evaluation of selection to improve red body colour in Fijian hybrid tilapia - Aquaculture Research 32: 1 -8, 2001
• Appleyard, S.A.; Mather, P.: Genetic characterisation of Fijian tilapia using allozymes and Random amplified Polymorphic DNA - Asian Fisheries Science, 15: 249 - 264, 2002
• de Bruyn, M; Wilson, J.A; Mather, P.: Huxley's line demarcates extensive genetic divergence among eastern and western forms of the Giant Freshwater Prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution 30(1): 251 - 57, 2004
• Pavasovic, A; Richarson, N.A.; Mather, P.; Anderson, A.J.: Influence of insoluble dietary cellulose on digestive enzyme activity, feed digestibility and survival in the red claw crayfish - Aquaculture Research, In Press, 2006
• Baker, A.; Sheldon, F; Somerville, J; Walker, K.F.; Hughes, J.M.: Mitochondrial DNA phylogenetic structuring suggests genetic similarity between two morphologically plastic genera of Australian freshwater mussels (Unionoida: Hyriidae) - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 32: 902-912, 2004
• Baker, A.; Hughes, J.M.; Dean, J.C.; Bunn, S.E.: Mitochondrial DNA reveals phylogenetic structuring and cryptic diversity in Australian freshwater macroinvertebrate assemblages - Marine and Freshwater Research 55: 629-640, 2004
• Baker, A.; Hurwood, D.A.; Krogh, M; Hughes, J.M.: Mitochondrial signatures of restricted gene flow within divergent lineages of a freshwater shrimp (Paratya australiensis) - Heredity 93: 196-207, 2004
• Hurwood, D; Heasman, M; Mather, P.: Population structure in the Australian Flat oyster Ostrea angasi (Sowerby 1871): among estuaries in southern New South wales - Marine and Freshwater Research, 56: 1099 - 1106, 2005
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