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Rebecca Rose

Rebecca Rose Rebecca completed her honours year in May 2005, co-supervised by Josh Van Buskirk at the University of Melbourne. Rebecca investigated background colour matching in Ctenophorus pictus in north western Victoria - an agamid species that occurs on both red and white desert sands. She used genetic, ecological and experimental methods. Rebecca is currently spending a year working on Meerkats in the Kalahari.

Publications:

Rose, R. J., and J. Melville. A New Technique for Measuring Body Color of Small Lizards in the Field. Herpetological Review (In press).

Rose, R. J., J. Ng and J. Melville. A New Technique for Measuring Lizards in the Field. Herpetological Review (In press).

Austin J. J., R. J Rose and J. Melville. 2006. Polymorphic microsatellite markers in the painted dragon lizard, Ctenophorus pictus. Molecular Ecology Notes 6: 194-196.