Dr Belinda Van Heerwaarden - Researcher Profile

Biography

Belinda works in the School of Biological Sciences in the Faculty of Science at Monash University as a Research Fellow.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Univeristy of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2009

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONS)

Institution: LaTrobe University

Year awarded: 2004

Publications

Journal Articles

Williams, B.R., Van Heerwaarden, B., Dowling, D.K., Sgro, C.M., 2012, A multivariate test of evolutionary constraints for thermal tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster, Journal Of Evolutionary Biology [P], vol 25, issue 7, Wiley-Blackwell, New Jersey USA, pp. 1415-1426.

Van Heerwaarden, B., Lee, R.F.H., Wegener, B.J., Weeks, A.R., Sgro, C.M., 2012, Complex patterns of local adaptation in heat tolerance in Drosophila simulans from eastern Australia, Journal Of Evolutionary Biology [P], vol 25, issue 9, Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken NJ USA, pp. 1765-1778.

Lee, S., Sgro, C., Shirriffs, J., Wee, C., Rako, L., Van Heerwaarden, B., Hoffman, A., 2011, Polymorphism in the couch potato gene clines in eastern Australia but is not associated with ovarian dormancy in Drosophila melanogaster, Molecular Ecology [P], vol 20, issue 14, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden USA, pp. 2973-2984.

Van Heerwaarden, B., Sgro, C., 2011, The effect of developmental temperature on the genetic architecture underlying size and thermal clines in Drosophila melanogaster and D-simulans from the east coast of Australia, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution [P], vol 65, issue 4, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden USA, pp. 1048-1067.

Kellermann, V.M., van Heerwaarden, B., Sgro, C.M., Hoffmann, A.A., 2009, Fundamental evolutionary limits in ecological traits drive Drosophila species distributions, Science [P], vol 325, issue 5945, Science, USA, pp. 1244-1246.

van Heerwaarden, B., Kellermann, V.M., Schiffer, M., Blacket, M.J., Sgro, C.M., Hoffmann, A.A., 2009, Testing evolutionary hypotheses about species borders: patterns of genetic variation towards the southern borders of two rainforest Drosophila and a related habitat generalist, Proceedings of the Royal Society - Biological Sciences (Series B) [P], vol 276, issue 1661, The Royal Society Publishing, UK, pp. 1517-1526.

Van Heerwaarden, B., Willi, Y., Kristensen, T.N., Hoffmann, A.A., 2008, Population bottlenecks increase additive genetic variance but do not break a selection limit in rain forest drosophila, Genetics [P], vol 179, Genetics Society of America, USA, pp. 2135-2146.

Van Heerwaarden, B., Hoffmann, A.A., 2007, Global Warming: Fly Populations Are Responding Rapidly to Climate Change, Current Biology [P], vol 17, issue 1, Cell Press, USA, pp. 16-18.

Kellermann, V.M., Van Heerwaarden, B., Hoffmann, A.A., Sgro, C.M., 2006, Very low additive genetic variance and evolutionary potential in multiple populations of two rainforest drosophila species, Evolution [P], vol 60, issue 5, The Society for the Study of Evolution, USA, pp. 1104-1108.