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PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
I am evolutionary geneticist in the School of Earth, Environmental and Biological at QUT. My current research employs a combination of high throughput genomics, bioinformatics and ecological experiments to address questions in human dominated and marine ecosystems. The questions I am currently investigating include the evolutionary genetics of marine species especially sea anemones, the evolution of cnidarian genomes and how plant derived lures influence gene expression and fitness in true fruit flies. My research uses diverse species to answer these questions but mainly sea anemones and pest fruit fly species. My previous research investigated the evolutionary genomics of plant species. This research answered fundamental questions about the genomics of adaptation, the genomics of artificial selection in crops as well as population genetic studies in invasive species.Projects (Chief investigator)
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- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2017
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- Editorial Board Member - Ecology and Evolution
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2017
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- Editorial Board member- PeerJ
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2017
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- Invited speaker - Venoms to Drugs
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- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2016
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- Conference organisation - ABACBS 2016
- Prentis, P., Pavasovic, A. & Norton, R. (2018). Sea anemones: Quiet achievers in the field of peptide toxins. Toxins, 10(1), 1–15. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/115679
- Prentis, P., Nagalingam, K., Van Der Burg, C., Qin, Y., Cameron, S. & Clarke, A. (2018). Plant-mediated female transcriptomic changes post-mating in a Tephritid fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni. Genome Biology and Evolution, 10(1), 94–107. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/115680
- Mace, E., Tai, S., Gilding, E., Li, Y., Prentis, P., Bian, L., Campbell, B., Hu, W., Innes, D., Han, X., Cruickshank, A., Dai, C., Frere, C., Zhang, H., Hunt, C., Wang, X., Shatte, T., Wang, M., Su, Z., Li, J., Lin, X., Godwin, I., Jordan, D. & Wang, J. (2013). Whole-genome sequencing reveals untapped genetic potential in Africa's indigenous cereal crop sorghum. Nature Communications, 4, 1–9. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/69135
- Prentis, P. & Pavasovic, A. (2014). The Anadara trapezia transcriptome: A resource for molluscan physiological genomics. Marine Genomics, 18, 113–115. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/76317
- Roda, F., Liu, H., Wilkinson, M., Walter, G., James, M., Bernal, D., Melo, M., Lowe, A., Rieseberg, L., Prentis, P. & Ortiz-Barrientos, D. (2013). Convergence and divergence during the adaptation to similar environments by an Australian groundsel. Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 67(9), 2515–2529. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/62559
- Prentis, P. & Pavasovic, A. (2013). Understanding the genetic basis of invasiveness. Molecular Ecology, 22(9), 2366–2368. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/62668
- WIlson, J., Dormontt, E., Prentis, P., Lowe, A. & Richardson, D. (2009). Something in the way you move: dispersal pathways affect invasion success. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 24(3), 136–144. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/44306
- Prentis, P., Sigg, D., Raghu, S., Dhileepan, K., Pavasovic, A. & Lowe, A. (2009). Understanding invasion history: genetic structure and diversity of two globally invasive plants and implications for their management. Diversity and Distributions, 15(5), 822–830. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/45135
- Prentis, P., WIlson, J., Dormontt, E., Richardson, D. & Lowe, A. (2008). Adaptive evolution in invasive species. Trends in Plant Science, 13(6), 288–294. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/45228
- Prentis, P., White, E., Radford, I., Lowe, A. & Clarke, A. (2007). Can hybridization cause local extinction: a case for demographic swamping of the Australian native Senecio pinnatifolius by the invasive Senecio madagascariensis? New Phytologist, 176(4), 902–912. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/40148
- Title
- Centre for Fruit Fly Biosecurity Innovation
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- IC150100026
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Title
- Geomolecular dating with biologically relaxed clocks, and mammal evolution
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP150104659
- Start year
- 2015
- Keywords
- Molecular dating; Fossil calibration; Mammal evolution
- Title
- Generic Delimitations in Rottboelliinae (Andropogoneae, Panicoideae, Poaceae) based on Molecular and Morphological Data
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- RFL214-56
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- Cytology; Diversity; Morphology; Systematics; Taxonomy
- Characterization of the Carbonic Anhydrase Gene Family and Other Key Osmoregulatory Genes in Australian Freshwater Crayfish (genus Cherax) (2016)
- Leaf and Inflorescence Structure and Phylogenetics of Tripogon and Affiliated Genera (Poaceae: Chloridoideae) (2015)
- Functional significance of male attractants of Bactrocera tryoni (Diptera: Tephritidae) and underlying mechanisms (2014)