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Books, reports and series

  • Australia's Biodiversity Conservation Strategy - 2010
  • Commonwealth public inquiry into access to biological resources in Commonwealth areas - 2000
  • Nationally consistent approach for access to and the utilisation of Australia's native genetic and biochemical resources - 2002
  • Queensland Biodiscovery Collaboration - The Griffith University AstraZeneca Partnership for Natural Product Discovery - UNU-IAS Report - 2008

Brochures, fact sheets and case studies

  • Biological resources access agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Craig J. Venter Institute - 2004
  • Genetic resources management in Commonwealth areas - Sustainable access > shared benefits - 2005
    A guide to understanding the new Australian regulations for access to genetic and biochemical resources found in native species in Commonwealth areas
    Chinese version (PDF - 4MB)
    Japanese version (PDF - 4MB)
  • Understanding the Nationally consistent approach for access to and the utilisation of Australia's native genetic and biochemical resources (NCA) - 2002
  • Australia: the right environment for Biodiscovery - 2006 (PDF - 783KB)
  • Biodiscovery in Commonwealth areas: A guide to permit requirements - 2008 (PDF - 818KB)

Research publications related to biological resources collected from Commonwealth areas

  • Attard CR, Beheregaray LB, Jenner C, Gill P, Jenner M, Morrice M, Bannister J, Leduc R, Möller L, 2010. Genetic diversity and structure of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) in Australian feeding aggregations. Conservation genetics 11, 2437-2441.
  • Attard CR, Beheregaray LB, Jenner KCS, Gill PC, Jenner MN, Morrice MG, Robertson KM, Möller LM, 2012. Hybridization of Southern Hemisphere blue whale subspecies and a sympatric area off Antarctica: impacts of whaling or climate change? Molecular ecology 21, 5715-5727.
  • Baumgartner FA, Motti CA, De Nys R, Paul NA, 2009. Feeding preferences and host associations of specialist marine herbivores align with quantitative variation in seaweed secondary metabolites. Marine Ecology Progress Series 396, 1-12.
  • Baz JP, Cañedo LM, Tapiolas D, 1996. A New Tetraprenylhydroquinone Derivative with an Acetic Acid Unit from the Marine Sponge Ircinia muscarum. Journal of natural products 59, 960-961.
  • Bongaerts P, Bridge TCL, Kline D, Muir P, Wallace C, Beaman R, Hoegh-Guldberg O, 2011. Mesophotic coral ecosystems on the walls of Coral Sea atolls. Coral Reefs 30, 335.
  • Bongaerts P, Englebert N, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Hay KB, Muir P, 2014. Deepest zooxanthellate corals of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea.
  • Colson K, Motti C, Neidig P, Fischer C, Hicks J, Tapiolas D, 2008. Automated natural product extract screening using 1H NMR. Planta Medica 74, SL3.
  • Crandall ED, Treml EA, Liggins L, Gleeson L, Yasuda N, Barber PH, Wörheide G, Riginos C, 2014. Return of the ghosts of dispersal past: historical spread and contemporary gene flow in the blue sea star Linckia laevigata. Bulletin of Marine Science 90, 399-425.
  • Dehnhard N, Quillfeldt P, Hennicke JC, 2011. Leucocyte profiles and H/L ratios in chicks of Red-tailed Tropicbirds reflect the ontogeny of the immune system. Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology 181, 641-648.
  • Doyle JR, Burnell JN, Haines DS, Llewellyn LE, Motti CA, Tapiolas DM, 2005. A Rapid Screening Method to Detect Specific Inhibitors of Pyruvate Orthophosphate Dikinase as Leads for C₄ Plant-Selective Herbicides. Journal of biomolecular screening 10, 67-75.
  • Drew M, Harzsch S, Stensmyr M, Erland S, Hansson B, 2010. A review of the biology and ecology of the Robber Crab, Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1767)(Anomura: Coenobitidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger-A Journal of Comparative Zoology 249, 45-67.
  • Ettinger-Epstein P, Motti CA, De Nys R, Wright AD, Battershill CN, Tapiolas DM, 2007. Acetylated Sesterterpenes from the Great Barrier Reef Sponge Luffariella variabilis. Journal of natural products 70, 648-651.
  • Ettinger-Epstein P, Tapiolas DM, Motti CA, Wright AD, Battershill CN, De Nys R, 2008. Production of manoalide and its analogues by the sponge Luffariella variabilis is hardwired. Marine Biotechnology 10, 64-74.
  • Gram L, Melchiorsen J, Bruhn JB, 2010. Antibacterial activity of marine culturable bacteria collected from a global sampling of ocean surface waters and surface swabs of marine organisms. Marine Biotechnology 12, 439-451.
  • Guenther J, Wright AD, Burns K, De Nys R, 2009. Chemical antifouling defences of sea stars: effects of the natural products hexadecanoic acid, cholesterol, lathosterol and sitosterol. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 385, 137-149.
  • Haines DS, Burnell JN, Doyle JR, Llewellyn LE, Motti CA, Tapiolas DM, 2005. Translation of in vitro inhibition by marine natural products of the C4 acid cycle enzyme pyruvate Pi dikinase to in vivo C4 plant tissue death. Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 53, 3856-3862.
  • Hamer K, Humphreys E, Magalhaes M, Garthe S, Hennicke J, Peters G, Grémillet D, Skov H, Wanless S, 2009. Fine‐scale foraging behaviour of a medium‐ranging marine predator. Journal of Animal Ecology 78, 880-889.
  • Holland IP, Mccluskey A, Sakoff JA, Gilbert J, Chau N, Robinson PJ, Motti CA, Wright AD, Van Altena IA, 2009. Steroids from an Australian Sponge Psammoclema sp. Journal of natural products 72, 102-106.
  • Huelsken T, Keyse J, Liggins L, Penny S, Treml EA, Riginos C, 2013. A Novel Widespread Cryptic Species and Phylogeographic Patterns within Several Giant Clam Species (Cardiidae: Tridacna) from the Indo-Pacific Ocean. PloS one 8, e80858.
  • Kaestli M, Mayo M, Harrington G, Ward L, Watt F, Hill JV, Cheng AC, Currie BJ, 2009. Landscape changes influence the occurrence of the melioidosis bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei in soil in northern Australia. PLoS neglected tropical diseases 3, e364.
  • Krieger J, Sandeman RE, Sandeman DC, Hansson BS, Harzsch S, 2010. Brain architecture of the largest living land arthropod, the Giant Robber Crab Birgus latro (Crustacea, Anomura, Coenobitidae): evidence for a prominent central olfactory pathway? Frontiers in zoology 7, 25.
  • Lauro FM, Demaere MZ, Yau S, Brown MV, Ng C, Wilkins D, Raftery MJ, Gibson JaE, Andrews-Pfannkoch C, Lewis M, 2010. An integrative study of a meromictic lake ecosystem in Antarctica. The ISME journal 5, 879-895.
  • Månsson M, Phipps RK, Gram L, Munro MHG, Larsen TO, Nielsen KF, 2010. Explorative solid-phase extraction (E-SPE) for accelerated microbial natural product discovery, dereplication, and purification. Journal of natural products 73, 1126-1132.
  • Motti CA, Ettinger-Epstein P, Willis RH, Tapiolas DM, 2010. ESI FTICR-MS analysis of larvae from the marine sponge Luffariella variabilis. Marine drugs 8, 190-199.
  • Motti CA, Freckelton ML, Tapiolas DM, Willis RH, 2009. FTICR-MS and LC-UV/MS-SPE-NMR Applications for the Rapid Dereplication of a Crude Extract from the Sponge Ianthella flabelliformis. Journal of natural products 72, 290-294.
  • Mukherjee J, Llewellyn LE, Evans-Illidge EA, 2008. A Tropical Marine Microbial Natural Products Geobibliography as an Example of Desktop Exploration of Current Research Using Web Visualisation Tools. Marine drugs 6, 550-577.
  • Mukherjee J, Webster N, Llewellyn LE, 2009. Purification and characterization of a collagenolytic enzyme from a pathogen of the Great Barrier Reef sponge, Rhopaloeides odorabile. PloS one 4, e7177.
  • Newman DJ, Cragg GM, Battershill CN, 2009. Therapeutic agents from the sea: biodiversity, chemo-evolutionary insight and advances to the end of Darwin's 200th year. Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine 39, 216-225.
  • Ng C, Demaere MZ, Williams TJ, Lauro FM, Raftery M, Gibson JaE, Andrews-Pfannkoch C, Lewis M, Hoffman JM, Thomas T, 2010. Metaproteogenomic analysis of a dominant green sulfur bacterium from Ace Lake, Antarctica. The ISME journal 4, 1002-1019.
  • Ng PKL, Davie PJF, 2011. Labuanium vitatum (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), a new Indo-West Pacific species of arboreal crab. Zootaxa 2889, 35-48.
  • Ovenden S, Nielson J, Liptrot C, Willis R, Tapiolas D, Wright A, Motti C, 2011. Callophycin A, a cytotoxic tetrahydro-beta-carboline from the red alga Callophycus oppositifolius. Phytochemistry Letters 4, 69-71.
  • Ovenden SPB, Nielson JL, Liptrot CH, Willis RH, Tapiolas DM, Wright AD, Motti CA, 2010. Sesquiterpene Benzoxazoles and Sesquiterpene Quinones from the Marine Sponge Dactylospongia elegans. Journal of natural products 74, 65-68.
  • Ovenden SPB, Nielson JL, Liptrot CH, Willis RH, Tapiolas DM, Wright AD, Motti CA, 2011. Metachromins U–W: Cytotoxic Merosesquiterpenoids from an Australian Specimen of the Sponge Thorecta reticulata. Journal of natural products 74, 1335-1338.
  • Ovenden SPB, Nielson JL, Liptrot CH, Willis RH, Wright AD, Motti CA, Tapiolas DM, 2011. Comosusols A−D and Comosone A: Cytotoxic Compounds from the Brown Alga Sporochnus comosus. Journal of natural products 74, 739-743.
  • Proudfoot J, Nosjean O, Blanchard J, Wang J, Besson D, Crankshaw D, Gauglitz G, Hertzberg R, Homon C, Llewellyn L, 2011. Glossary of terms used in biomolecular screening (IUPAC Recommendations 2011). Pure and Applied Chemistry 83, 1129-1158.
  • Quillfeldt P, Martínez J, Hennicke J, Ludynia K, Gladbach A, Masello JF, Riou S, Merino S, 2010. Hemosporidian blood parasites in seabirds—a comparative genetic study of species from Antarctic to tropical habitats. Naturwissenschaften 97, 809-817.
  • Raina JB, Tapiolas D, Willis BL, Bourne DG, 2009. Coral-associated bacteria and their role in the biogeochemical cycling of sulfur. Applied and environmental microbiology 75, 3492-3501.
  • Safavi-Hemami H, Young ND, Doyle J, Llewellyn L, Klueter A, 2010. Characterisation of nitric oxide synthase in three cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbioses. PloS one 5, e10379.
  • Skov H, Humphreys E, Garthe S, Geitner K, Grémillet D, Hamer KC, Hennicke J, Parner H, Wanless S, 2008. Application of habitat suitability modelling to tracking data of marine animals as a means of analyzing their feeding habitats. Ecological Modelling 212, 504-512.
  • Sommerfeld J, Hennicke JC, 2010. Comparison of trip duration, activity pattern and diving behaviour by Red-tailed Tropicbirds (Phaethon rubricauda) during incubation and chick-rearing. Emu 110, 78-86.
  • Stevens TA, Evans MC, Osborne WS, Sarre SD, 2010. Home ranges of, and habitat use by, the grassland earless dragon (Tympanocryptis pinguicolla) in remnant native grasslands near Canberra. Australian Journal of Zoology 58, 76-84.
  • Tapiolas DM, Bowden BF, Abou-Mansour E, Willis RH, Doyle JR, Muirhead AN, Liptrot C, Llewellyn LE, Wolff CWW, Wright AD, 2009. Eusynstyelamides A, B, and C, nNOS Inhibitors, from the Ascidian Eusynstyela latericius. Journal of natural products 72, 1115-1120.
  • Vynne NG, Månsson M, Nielsen KF, Gram L, 2011. Bioactivity, chemical profiling, and 16S rRNA-based phylogeny of Pseudoalteromonas strains collected on a global research cruise. Marine Biotechnology 13, 1062-1073.
  • Webster NS, Xavier JR, Freckelton M, Motti CA, Cobb R, 2008. Shifts in microbial and chemical patterns within the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba during a disease outbreak. Environmental microbiology 10, 3366-3376.
  • Wietz M, Gram L, Jørgensen B, Schramm A, 2010. Latitudinal patterns in the abundance of major marine bacterioplankton groups. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 61, 179-189.
  • Wietz M, Mansson M, Gotfredsen CH, Larsen TO, Gram L, 2010. Antibacterial compounds from marine Vibrionaceae isolated on a global expedition. Marine drugs 8, 2946-2960.
  • Wietz M, Månsson M, Gram L, 2011. Chitin stimulates production of the antibiotic andrimid in a Vibrio coralliilyticus strain. Environmental Microbiology Reports 3, 559-564.
  • Wright AD, Nielson JL, Tapiolas DM, Motti CA, Ovenden SPB, Kearns PS, Liptrot CH, 2009. Detailed NMR, including 1, 1-ADEQUATE, and anticancer studies of compounds from the echinoderm Colobometra perspinosa. Marine drugs 7, 565-575.
  • Wright SH, Raab A, Tabudravu JN, Feldmann J, Long PF, Battershill CN, Dunlap WC, Milne BF, Jaspars M, 2008. Marine metabolites and metal ion chelation: intact recovery and identification of an iron (II) complex in the extract of the ascidian Eudistoma gilboviride. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 47, 8090-8092.
  • Yau S, Cavicchioli R, 2011. Microbial communities in Antarctic lakes: Entirely new perspectives from metagenomics and metaproteomics. MICROBIOLOGY 32, 157-159.
  • Yau S, Lauro FM, Demaere MZ, Brown MV, Thomas T, Raftery MJ, Andrews-Pfannkoch C, Lewis M, Hoffman JM, Gibson JA, 2011. Virophage control of antarctic algal host–virus dynamics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 6163-6168.
  • Zivanovic A, Al E, in press. Sterol composition of three deep sea sponge extracts from North Western Australia. Chemistry of Natural Compounds.
  • Zivanovic A, Pastro N, Fromont J, Thomson M, Skropeta D, 2011. Kinase Inhibitory, haemolytic and cytotoxic activity of three deep-water sponges from North Western Australia and their fatty acid composition. Natural Product Communications 6, 1921-1924.
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