DR CRAIG SHERMAN

Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Room: 15.G16
Phone No: 02 4221 4773
Email: csherman@uow.edu.au

HEEPS GROUP

Research Interests

 Sperm Competition & Mate Choice

  Evolutionary and ecological consequences of variation in mating systems

Importance of selection in determining levels of local adaptation to microhabitats

 Importance of sexual and asexual reproduction in organisms with complex life histories

 

Representative Publications

 

Sherman CDH, Ayre DJ and Miller KJ (2006) Asexual reproduction does not produce clonal populations of the brooding coral Pocillopora damicornis on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Coral Reefs 25: 7-18

Sherman CDH and Olsson M (in press) Polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Australian tree frog, Litoria peronii. Conservation Genetics

Sherman CDH, Peucker AJ and Ayre DJ (in review) Do reproductive tactics vary with habitat heterogeneity in the intertidal sea anemone Actinia tenebrosa?

Sherman CDH (in review) Mating system flexibility in the hermaphroditic brooding coral, seriatopora hystrix.

Sherman, CDH & Ayre, DJ (in prep) Genotypic diversity and the distribution of clones within populations of the sea anemone Actinia tenebrosa from contrasting habitats.

Sherman, CDH (in prep) Localised adaptation of clones of the sea anemone Actinia tenebrosa to different microhabitats.

 

Brief CV

Academic Degrees

B.Sc. (Hons 1) 2000, School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, Bangor.
Ph.D. 2006, School of Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia.