Associate Professor Lyn Cook
Associate Professor
School of the Environment
+61 7 336 52070
Researcher biography
I obtained my PhD from The Australian National University in 2001 and have been at UQ since August 2006
My research is primarily aimed at understanding the origins, diversification and distributions of organisms, especially plants and insects in Australia. I mostly take a comparative approach and use molecular phylogenies to test hypotheses about ecological and evolutionary processes. Recent and ongoing topics include: understanding how interactions among plants and insects affect the evolutionary radiation of each; teasing apart the effects of extinction and speciation to understand how past climate and environmental change has shaped our biota; and investigating the relative roles of continental drift and long distance dispersal in explaining the current distribution patterns of organisms in the southern hemisphere. Specific questions relate, but are not limited, to topics such as:
• how the diversification of the unique Australian flora has driven insect speciation
• whether specific insect-plant interactions are the result of long term co-radiation or more recent adaptive radiations of insects
• the relative roles of vicariance (such as that induced by continental drift) and dispersal in explaining the current distribution patterns of southern hemisphere organisms
• evolutionary patterns of host-use by herbivores
• how past climate change has shaped the current distributions of taxa
• assembly of the flora and fauna of current biomes, especially the arid zone, monsoon tropics and southern temperate biomes
• phylogeography of plants and insects, and what this reveals about contemporary and recent gene flow
• consequences of differential dispersal, such as that between male and female scale insects, different developmental stages, or seed and pollen
Book Chapters
Gullan P. J.,, Miller D. R. and Cook L. G. (2005). Gall-inducing scale insects (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea). Biology, Ecology, and Evolution of Gall-Inducing Arthropods. (pp. 159-229) edited by A Raman, Carl W. Schaefer and Toni M. Withers. Enfield, NH: Science Publishers.
Crisp, M. D. and Cook, L. G. (2003). Phylogeny and embryo sac evolution in the endemic Australasian papilionoid tribes Mirbelieae and Bossiaeeae. Advances in legume systematics. Pt. 10, Higher level systematics. (pp. 253-268) edited by B. Klitgaard and A. Bruneau. Kew, UK: Kew Publishing.
Journal Articles
Crisp, Michael D., Minh, Bui Q., Choi, Bokyung, Edwards, Robert D., Hereward, James, Kulheim, Carsten, Lin, Yen Po, Meusemann, Karen, Thornhill, Andrew H., Toon, Alicia and Cook, Lyn G. (2024). Perianth evolution and implications for generic delimitation in the eucalypts (Myrtaceae), including the description of the new genus, Blakella. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. doi: 10.1111/jse.13047
Briggs, Ethan J., Santana, Renan C., Raven, Robert J. and Cook, Lyn G. (2023). Assessing the diversity of Australian tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae) using DNA barcoding and iterative species delimitation. Austral Entomology, 62 (4), 464-478. doi: 10.1111/aen.12666
Alshamakhi, Hilal S., Al-Sadi, Abdullah M. and Cook, Lyn G. (2023). Phylogenetic relationships of the mutualistic fungi associated with Macrotermes subhyalinus in Oman. Mycobiology, 51 (5), 281-287. doi: 10.1080/12298093.2023.2258623
Gunn, Bee F, Murphy, Daniel J, Walsh, Neville G, Conran, John G, Pires, J Chris, Macfarlane, Terry D, Crisp, Michael D, Cook, Lyn G and Birch, Joanne L (2023). Genomic data resolve phylogenetic relationships of Australian mat-rushes, Lomandra (Asparagaceae: Lomandroideae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 204 (1), 1-22. doi: 10.1093/botlinnean/boad034
Hodson, Christina N, Toon, Alicia, Cook, Lyn and Ross, Laura (2023). Are asymmetric inheritance systems an evolutionary trap? Transitions in the mechanism of paternal genome loss in the scale insect family Eriococcidae. Genetics, 224 (3) iyad090. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyad090
Sanaei, Ehsan, Albery, Gregory F., Yeoh, Yun Kit, Lin, Yen‐Po, Cook, Lyn G. and Engelstädter, Jan (2023). Host phylogeny and ecological associations best explain Wolbachia host shifts in scale insects. Molecular Ecology, 32 (9), 2351-2363. doi: 10.1111/mec.16883
Sanaei, Ehsan, Lin, Yen‐Po, Cook, Lyn G. and Engelstädter, Jan (2021). Wolbachia in scale insects: a distinct pattern of infection frequencies and potential transfer routes via ant associates. Environmental Microbiology, 24 (3), 1326-1339. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.15833
Barrett, Russell L., Clugston, James A. R., Cook, Lyn G., Crisp, Michael D., Jobson, Peter C., Lepschi, Brendan J., Renner, Matthew A. M. and Weston, Peter H. (2021). Understanding diversity and systematics in Australian Fabaceae Tribe Mirbelieae. Diversity, 13 (8) 391, 1-38. doi: 10.3390/d13080391
McDougall, Keith L., Gullan, Penelope J., Craven, Phil, Wright, Genevieve T. and Cook, Lyn G. (2021). Cycad killer, qu'est-ce que c'est? Dieback of Macrozamia communis on the south coast of New South Wales. Australian Journal of Botany, 69 (2), 102-109. doi: 10.1071/BT20071
Toon, Alicia, Terry, L. Irene, Tang, William, Walter, Gimme H. and Cook, Lyn G. (2020). Insect pollination of cycads. Austral Ecology, 45 (8), 1033-1058. doi: 10.1111/aec.12925
Mather, Andrew, Zalucki, Myron P., Farrell, Julianne, Perkins, Lynda E. and Cook, Lyn G. (2019). Australian processionary caterpillars, Ochrogaster lunifer Herrich‐Schäffer (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae), comprise cryptic species. Austral Entomology, 58 (4) aen.12410, 816-825. doi: 10.1111/aen.12410
Choi, Bokyung, Crisp, Michael D., Cook, Lyn G., Meusemann, Karen, Edwards, Robert D., Toon, Alicia and Külheim, Carsten (2019). Identifying genetic markers for a range of phylogenetic utility–From species to family level. PLoS One, 14 (8) e0218995, 1-19. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218995
Fahey, Patrick S., Fensham, Roderick J., Laffineur, Boris and Cook, Lyn G. (2019). Chloris circumfontinalis (Poaceae): A recently discovered species from the saline scalds surrounding artesian springs in north-eastern Australia. Australian Systematic Botany, 32 (1), 228-242. doi: 10.1071/SB18017
Crisp, Michael D., Cook, Lyn G., Bowman, David M. J. S., Cosgrove, Meredith, Isagi, Yuji and Sakaguchi, Shota (2019). Turnover of southern cypresses in the post-Gondwanan world: extinction, transoceanic dispersal, adaptation and rediversification. New Phytologist, 221 (4), 2308-2319. doi: 10.1111/nph.15561
Edwards, Robert D., Crisp, Michael D. and Cook, Lyn G. (2018). Species limits and cryptic biogeographic structure in a widespread complex of Australian monsoon tropics trees (broad-leaf paperbarks: Melaleuca, Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany, 31 (6), 495-503. doi: 10.1071/sb18032
Lin, Yen-Po, Kondo, Takumasa, Gullan, Penny J. and Cook, Lyn G. (2018). A newly recognised species of Cryptes Maskell 1892 (Hemiptera: Coccidae) from Western Australia. Zootaxa, 4508 (1), 101-114. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4508.1.6
Toon, A., Sacre, E., Fensham, R. J. and Cook, L. G. (2018). Immigrant and native? The case of the swamp foxtail Cenchrus purpurascens in Australia. Diversity and Distributions, 24 (8), 1169-1181. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12751
Lin, Yen-Po, Tanaka, Hirotaka, Kondo, Takumasa and Cook, Lyn G. (2017). A newly recognised species that has been confused with the global polyphagous pest scale insect, Coccus hesperidum Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Coccidae). Zootaxa, 4320 (3), 571-591. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4320.3.10
Lin, Yen-Po, Ding, Zheng Yee, Gullan, Penny J. and Cook, Lyn G. (2017). Newly recognised Australian endemic species of Austrolecanium Gullan & Hodgson 1998 (Hemiptera: Coccidae) from Queensland. Zootaxa, 4272 (1), 119-130. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.1.6
Lin, Yen-Po, Edwards, Robert D., Kondo, Takumasa, Semple, Thomas L. and Cook, Lyn G. (2017). Species delimitation in asexual insects of economic importance: the case of black scale (Parasaissetia nigra), a cosmopolitan parthenogenetic pest scale insect. PLoS One, 12 (5) e0175889, e0175889. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0175889
Mills, Penelope J., Gullan, Penny J. and Cook, Lyn G. (2017). Nomenclatural changes in the Australasian gall-inducing genus Apiomorpha Rubsaamen (Hemiptera: Coccomorpha: Eriococcidae). Zootaxa, 4250 (5), 484-488. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4250.5.6
Edwards, Robert D., Crisp, Michael D., Cook, Dianne H. and Cook, Lyn G. (2017). Congruent biogeographical disjunctions at a continent-wide scale: quantifying and clarifying the role of biogeographic barriers in the Australian tropics. PLoS One, 12 (4) e0174812, 343-351. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174812
Crisp, Michael D., Cayzer, Lindy, Chandler, Gregory T. and Cook, Lyn G. (2017). A monograph of Daviesia (Mirbelieae, Faboideae, Fabaceae). Phytotaxa, 300 (1), 1-308. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.300.1.1
Mills, Penelope J., Semple, Thomas L., Garland, Kathleen L. S. and Cook, Lyn G. (2016). Two recently discovered species of Apiomorpha (Hemiptera:Eriococcidae) feeding on eudesmid eucalypts in Western Australia reaffirm host conservatism in this gall-inducing scale insect genus. Invertebrate Systematics, 30 (3), 255-273. doi: 10.1071/IS15039
Kondo, T., Gullan, P. J. and Cook, L. G. (2016). A review of the genus Capulinia Signoret (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae) with description of two new species. Zootaxa, 4111 (4), 471-491. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4111.4.7
Crisp, Michael Douglas, Mant, Jim, Toon, Alicia and Cook, Lyn Gai (2015). Australian spinifex grasses: new names in Triodia for Monodia and Symplectrodia. Phytotaxa, 230 (3), 293-296. doi: 10.11646/phytotaxa.230.3.9
Toon, A., Crisp, M. D., Gamage, H., Mant, J., Morris, D. C., Schmidt, S. and Cook, L. G. (2015). Key innovation or adaptive change? A test of leaf traits using Triodiinae in Australia. Scientific Reports, 5 (1) 12398, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/srep12398
Cook, Lyn G., Hardy, Nate B. and Crisp, Michael D. (2015). Three explanations for biodiversity hotspots: small range size, geographical overlap and time for species accumulation. An Australian case study. New Phytologist, 207 (2), 390-400. doi: 10.1111/nph.13199
Semple, Thomas L., Gullan, Penny J., Hodgson, Christopher J., Hardy, Nate B. and Cook, Lyn G. (2015). Systematic review of the Australian 'bush coconut' genus Cystococcus (Hemiptera:Eriococcidae) uncovers a new species from Queensland. Invertebrate Systematics, 29 (3), 287-312. doi: 10.1071/IS14061
Lin, Yen-Po, Cook, Dianne H., Gullan, Penny J. and Cook, Lyn G. (2015). Does host-plant diversity explain species richness in insects? A test using Coccidae (Hemiptera). Ecological Entomology, 40 (3), 299-306. doi: 10.1111/een.12191
Crisp, Michael D., Hardy, Nate B. and Cook, Lyn G. (2014). Clock model makes a large difference to age estimates of long-stemmed clades with no internal calibration: a test using Australian grasstrees. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14 (1) 263, 1-17. doi: 10.1186/s12862-014-0263-3
Mills, Penelope J. and Cook, Lyn G. (2014). Rapid chromosomal evolution in a morphologically cryptic radiation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 77 (1), 126-135. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.03.015
Moeseneder, Christian H. and Cook, Lyn G. (2014). Captive observations on mating, stridulation and male genital brushes of the Australian flower chafer Phyllopodium palmatum (Schaum, 1848) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Cetoniinae). Australian Entomologist, 41 (PART 2), 77-90.
Kearns, Anna M., Joseph, Leo, Toon, Alicia and Cook, Lyn G. (2014). Australia's arid-adapted butcherbirds experienced range expansions during Pleistocene glacial maxima. Nature Communications, 5 (1) 3994, 3994. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4994
Toon, Alicia, Cook, Lyn G. and Crisp, Michael D. (2014). Evolutionary consequences of shifts to bird-pollination in the Australian pea-flowered legumes (Mirbelieae and Bossiaeeae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14 (1) 43, 1-11. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-43
Mech, Angela M., Asaro, Christopher, Cram, Michelle M., Coyle, David R., Gullan, Penelope J., Cook, Lyn G. and Gandhi, Kamal J. L. (2013). Matsucoccus macrocicatrices (Hemiptera: Matsucoccidae): first report, distribution, and association with symptomatic eastern white pine in the Southeastern United States. Journal of Economic Entomology, 106 (6), 2391-2398. doi: 10.1603/EC13251
Lin, Yen-Po, Kondo, Takumasa, Gullan, Penny and Cook, Lyn G. (2013). Delimiting genera of scale insects: molecular and morphological evidence for synonymising Taiwansaissetia Tao, Wong and Chang with Coccus Linnaeus (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Coccidae). Systematic Entomology, 38 (2), 249-264. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00664.x
Edwards, Robert D., Crisp, Michael D. and Cook, Lyn G. (2013). Niche differentiation and spatial partitioning in the evolution of two Australian monsoon tropical tree species. Journal of Biogeography, 40 (3), 559-569. doi: 10.1111/jbi.12027
Kearns, Anna M., Joseph, Leo and Cook, Lyn G. (2013). A multilocus coalescent analysis of the speciational history of the Australo-Papuan butcherbirds and their allies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 66 (3), 941-952. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.11.020
Ingham, James A., Forster, Paul I., Crisp, Michael D. and Cook, Lyn G. (2013). Ancient relicts or recent dispersal: how long have cycads been in central Australia?. Diversity and Distributions, 19 (3), 307-316. doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00936.x
Crisp, Michael D. and Cook, Lyn G. (2013). How was the Australian flora assembled over the last 65 million years? A molecular phylogenetic perspective. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 44, 303-324. doi: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135910
Hardy, Nate B. and Cook, Lyn G. (2012). Testing for ecological limitation of diversification: a case study using parasitic plants. American Naturalist, 180 (4), 438-449. doi: 10.1086/667588
Wang, A. X. and Cook, L. G. (2012). Oviposition behaviour in the dart-tailed wasp, Cameronella Dalla Torre (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae: Colotrechinae). Australian Entomologist, 39 (3), 179-187.
Crisp, Michael D. and Cook, Lyn G. (2012). Phylogenetic niche conservatism: what are the underlying evolutionary and ecological causes?. New Phytologist, 196 (3), 681-694. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04298.x
Kongjandtre, N., Ridgway, T., Cook, L. G., Huelsken, T., Budd, A. F. and Hoegh-Guldberg, O. (2012). Taxonomy and species boundaries in the coral genus Favia Milne Edwards and Haime, 1857 (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) from Thailand revealed by morphological and genetic data. Coral Reefs, 31 (2), 581-601. doi: 10.1007/s00338-011-0869-5
Crisp, Michael D. and Cook, Lyn G. (2011). Cenozoic extinctions account for the low diversity of extant gymnosperms compared with angiosperms. New Phytologist, 192 (4), 997-1009. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03862.x
Kearns, Anna M., Joseph, Leo, Omland, Kevin E. and Cook, Lyn G. (2011). Testing the effect of transient Plio-Pleistocene barriers in monsoonal Australo-Papua: Did mangrove habitats maintain genetic connectivity in the Black Butcherbird?. Molecular Ecology, 20 (23), 5042-5059. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05330.x
Mills, Penelope J., Macdonald, Melanie L., Rigby, Lisa M. and Cook, Lyn G. (2011). A recently discovered species of Apiomorpha Rubsaamen (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae) with unusual gall morphology. Zootaxa, 3093 (3093), 55-63. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3093.1.4
Byrne, Margaret, Steane, Dorothy A., Joseph, Leo, Yeates, David K., Jordan, Greg J., Crayn, Darren, Aplin, Ken, Cantrill, David J., Cook, Lyn G., Crisp, Michael D., Keogh, J. Scott, Melville, Jane, Moritz, Craig, Porch, Nicholas, Sniderman, J. M. Kale, Sunnucks, Paul and Weston, Peter H. (2011). Decline of a biome: Evolution, contraction, fragmentation, extinction and invasion of the Australian mesic zone biota. Journal of Biogeography, 38 (9), 1635-1656. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02535.x
Crisp, Michael D., Burrows, Geoffrey E., Cook, Lyn G., Thornhill, Andrew H. and Bowman, David M. J. S. (2011). Flammable biomes dominated by eucalypts originated at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary. Nature Communications, 2 (1) 193, 1-8. doi: 10.1038/ncomms1191
Crisp, MD, Trewick, SA and Cook, LG (2011). Hypothesis testing in biogeography. Trends In Ecology & Evolution, 26 (2), 66-72. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.11.005
Tan, Matthew, Cobon, Jennifer, Aitken, Elizabeth and Cook, Lyn G. (2010). Support for the 'out-of-Southeast Asia' hypothesis for the origin of Australian populations of Radopholus similis (Cobb, 1893) (Nematoda: Pratylenchidae). Systematic Parasitology, 77 (3), 175-183. doi: 10.1007/s11230-010-9265-8
Kearns, Anna M., Joseph, Leo and Cook, Lyn G. (2010). The impact of Pleistocene changes of climate and landscape on Australian birds: a test using the Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nigrogularis). Emu, 110 (4), 285-295. doi: 10.1071/MU10020
Cook, L. G., Edwards, R. D., Crisp, M. D. and Hardy, N. B. (2010). Need morphology always be required for new species descriptions?. Invertebrate Systematics, 24 (3), 322-326. doi: 10.1071/IS10011
Hardy, Nate B. and Cook, Lyn G. (2010). Gall-induction in insects: evolutionary dead-end or speciation driver?. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10 (1, Article number 257) 257, 1-8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-257
Edwards, Robert D., Craven, Lyn A., Crisp, Michael D. and Cook, Lyn G. (2010). Melaleuca revisited: cpDNA and morphological data confirm that Melaleuca L. (Myrtaceae) is not monophyletic. Taxon, 59 (3), 744-754. doi: 10.1002/tax.593007
Dinsdale, A., Cook, L., Riginos, C., Buckley, Y. M. and De Barro, P. (2010). Refined global analysis of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodoidea: Aleyrodidae) Mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase 1 to identify species level genetic boundaries. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 103 (2), 196-208. doi: 10.1603/AN09061
Bowman, D. M. J. S., Brown, G. K., Braby, M. F., Brown, J. R., Cook, L. G., Crisp, M. D., Ford, F., Haberle, S., Hughes, J., Isagi,Y., Joseph, L., McBride, J., Nelson, G. and Ladiges, P. Y. (2010). Biogeography of the Australian monsoon tropics. Journal of Biogeography, 37 (2), 201-216. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2009.02210.x
Crisp, Michael D., Isagi, Yuji, Kato, Yohei, Cook, Lyn and Bownam, David M. (2010). Livistona palms in Australia: Ancient relics or opportunistic immigrants?. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 54 (2), 512-523. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.09.020
Lin, Y.-P., Gullan, P.J. and Cook, L.G. (2010). Species richness and host-plant diversity are positively correlated in Coccidae. Entomologia Hellenica, 19 (2), 90-98.
Mills, P.J. and Cook, L.G. (2010). Disparity in chromosomal variation within the Apiomorpha minor species-group. Entomologia Hellenica, 19, 82-89.
Rosauer, D, Laffan, S.W., Crisp, M.D., Dannellan, S.C. and Cook, L. (2009). Phylogenetic endemism: a new approach for identifying geographical concentrations of evolutionary history. Molecular Ecology, 18 (19), 4061-4072. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04311.x
Crisp, M.D. and Cook, L. (2009). Explosive radiation or cryptic mass extinction? Interpreting signatures in molecular phylogenies. Evolution, 63 (9), 2257-2265. doi: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00728.x
Crisp, Michael D., Arroyo, Mary T. K., Cook, Lyn G., Gandalfo, Maria A., Jordan, Gregory J., McGlone, Matt S., Weston, Peter H., Westoby, Mark, Wilf, Peter and Linder, H. Peter (2009). Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale. Nature, 458 (7239), 754-756. doi: 10.1038/nature07764
Omland, K.E., Cook, L.G. and Crisp, M.D. (2008). Tree Thinking for all Biology: the Problem with Reading Phylogenies as Ladders of Progress. BioEssays, 30 (9), 854-867. doi: 10.1002/bies.20794
Schroer, S., Pemberton, R.W., Cook, L.G., Kondon, T. and Gullan, P. (2008). The genetic diversity, relationships, and potential for biological control of the lobate lac scale, Paratachardina pseudolobata Kondo & Gullan (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Kerriidae). Biological Control, 46 (2), 256-266. doi: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2008.04.009
Hardy, N.B., Gullan, P.J., Henderson, R.C. and Cook, L. (2008). Relationships among felt scale insects (Hemiptera : Coccoidea : Eriococcidae) of southern beech, Nothofagus (Nothofagaceae), with the first descriptions of Australian species of the Nothofagus-feeding genus Madarococcus Hoy. Invertebrate Systematics, 22 (3), 365-405. doi: 10.1071/IS07032
Cook, Lyn G., Morris, David C., Edwards, Robert D. and Crisp, Michael D. (2008). Reticulate evolution in the natural range of the invasive wetland tree species Melaleuca quinquenervia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 47 (2), 506-522. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.02.012
Cook, L. and Gullan, P.J. (2008). Insect, not plant, determines gall morphology in the Apiomorpha pharetrata species-group (Hemiptera: Coccidea). Australian Journal of Entomology, 47 (1), 51-57. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2007.00625.x
Gullan, P. J. and Cook, L. G. (2007). Phylogeny and higher classification of the scale insects (Hemiptera : Sternorrhyncha : Coccoidea). Zootaxa, 1668 (1668), 413-425. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1668.1.22
Cook, Lyn G. and Rowell, David M. (2007). Genetic diversity, host-specificity and unusual phylogeography of a cryptic, host-associated species complex of gall-inducing scale insects. Ecological Entomology, 32 (5), 506-515. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00893.x
Crisp, M. D. and Cook, L. G. (2007). A congruent molecular signature of vicariance across multiple plant linages. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 43 (3), 1106-1117. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.02.030
Kondo, Takumasa, Hardy, Nate, Cook, Lyn and Gullan, Penny (2006). Description of two new genera and species of Eriococcidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) from southern South America. Zootaxa, 1349 (1349), 19-36. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.1349.1.2
Gullan, P. J., Giliomee, J. H., Hodgson, C. J. and Cook, L. G. (2006). The systematics and biology of the south African gall-inducing scale insect, Calycicoccus merwei brain (Hemiptera : Coccoidea : Eriococcidae). African Entomology, 14 (1), 13-33.
Cook, Lyn G. and Crisp, Michael D. (2005). Not so ancient: the extant crown group of Nothofagus represents a post-Gondwanan radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272 (1580), 2535-2544. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3219
Cook, Lyn G. and Crisp, Michael D. (2005). Directional asymmetry of long-distance dispersal and colonization could mislead reconstructions of biogeography. Journal of Biogeography, 32 (5), 741-754. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01261.x
Crisp, Michael D. and Cook, Lyn G. (2005). Do early branching lineages signify ancestral traits?. Trends In Ecology & Evolution, 20 (3), 122-128. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2004.11.010
Orthia, L. A., Crisp, M. D., Cook, L. G. and de Kok, R. P. J. (2005). Bush peas: a rapid radiation with no support for monophyly of Pultenaea (Fabaceae : Mirbelieae). Australian Systematic Botany, 18 (2), 133-147. doi: 10.1071/SB04028
Crisp, Mike D., Cook, Lyn G. and Steane, Dorothy A. (2005). Molecular dating and eucalypts: reply to Ladiges and Udovicic. Australian Systematic Botany, 18 (3), 295-296. doi: 10.1071/SB05007
Cook, L. G. and Gullan, P. J. (2004). The gall-inducing habit has evolved multiple times among the eriococcid scale insects (Sternorrhyncha : Coccoidea : Eriococcidae). Biological Journal of The Linnean Society, 83 (4), 441-452. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2004.00396.x
Cook, L. G. (2003). Apiomorpha gullanae sp n., an unusual new species of gall-inducing scale insect (Hemiptera : Eriococcidae). Australian Journal of Entomology, 42 (4), 327-333. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-6055.2003.00370.x
Crisp, Michael D. and Cook, Lyn G. (2003). Phylogeny and evolution of anomalous roots in Daviesia (Fabaceae : Mirbelieae). International Journal of Plant Sciences, 164 (4), 603-612. doi: 10.1086/375318
Crisp, Michael D. and Cook, Lyn G. (2003). Molecular evidence for definition of genera in the Oxylobium group (Fabaceae : Mirbelieae). Systematic Botany, 28 (4), 705-713.
Cook, L. G., Gullan, P. J. and Trueman, H. E. (2002). A preliminary phylogeny of the scale insects (Hemiptera : Sternorrhyncha : Coccoidea) based on nuclear small-subunit ribosomal DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution, 25 (1), 43-52. doi: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00248-8
Cranston, P. S., Edward, D. H. and Cook, L. G. (2002). New status, species, distribution records and phylogeny for Australian mandibulate Chironomidae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Entomology, 41 (4), 357-366. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-6055.2002.00304.x
Cook, L. G. and Gullan, P. J. (2001). Longevity and reproduction in Apiomorpha Rubsaamen (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea). Bollettino di Zoologia agraria e Bachicoltura, 33 (3), 259-265.
Gullan, P. J. and Cook, L. G. (2001). Phenacoleachia Cockerell (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Phenacoleachiidae) re-visited. Bollettino di Zoologia agraria e Bachicoltura, 33 (3), 163-173.
Cook, Lyn G. (2001). Extensive chromosomal variation associated with taxon divergence and host specificity in the gall-inducing scale insect Apiomorpha munita (Schrader) (Hemiptera : Sternorrhyncha : Coccoidea : Eriococcidae). Biological Journal of The Linnean Society, 72 (2), 265-278. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2001.tb01316.x
Cook, L. G. (2000). Extraordinary and extensive karyotypic variation: A 48-fold range in chromosome number in the gall-inducing scale insect Apiomorpha (Hemiptera : Coccoidea : Eriococcidae). Genome, 43 (2), 255-263. doi: 10.1139/gen-43-2-255
Cook, L. G., Gullan, P. J. and Stewart, A. C. (2000). First-instar morphology and sexual dimorphism in the gall-inducing scale insect Apiomorpha Rubsaamen (Hemiptera : Coccoidea : Eriococcidae). Journal of Natural History, 34 (6), 879-894. doi: 10.1080/002229300299291
Gullan, P. J. and Cook, L. G. (1999). Are cochineal insects eriococcids?. Entomologica, 33, 91-99.
Cook, L. G. and Gullan, P. J. (1999). Are the enlarged ducts of Eriococcus (Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Eriococcidae) plesiomorphic?. Entomologica, 33, 59-66.
Gullan, P. J., Cranston, P. S. and Cook, L. G. (1997). The response of gall-inducing scale insects (Hemiptera: Eriococcidae: Apiomorpha Rübsaamen) to the fire history of mallee eucalypts in Danggali Conservation Park, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 121 (4), 137-146.
Conference Papers
Murtiningsih, R. , Ridland, P.M., Cook, L.G. and Furlong, M. J. (2017). Know your enemies: suppression of Plutella xylostella and Crocidolomia pavonana by different predators in West Java, Indonesia. 5th International Symposium on Biological Control of Arthropods, Langkawi, Malaysia, 11-15 September 2017. Wallingford, United Kingdom: CABI International. doi: 10.1079/9781786394118.0139
Wong, M.H., Henderson. J., Cook, L., Van Brunschot., S., Aitken, E.A.B. and Drenth, A. (2011). Genetic diversity of Guignardia musae on banana based on internal transcribed spacer region of ribosomal DNA. 4th Asian Conference for Plant Pathology (ACPP) concurrent with the 18th Australasian Plant Pathology Conference, Darwin, NT, Australia, 26-29 April 2011. APPS.
Orthia, L. A., Cook, L. G. and Crisp, M. D. (2005). Generic delimitation and phylogenetic uncertainty: An example from a group that has undergone an explosive radiation. Workshop of a Consensus Census for Australias Virtual Herbarium, Sydney, Australia, 28 March 2003. Collingwood, Vic., Australia: CSIRO Publishing. doi: 10.1071/SB04016
Crisp, Michael D., Cook, Lyn G. and Steane, Dorothy A. (2004). Radiation of the Australian flora: What can comparisons of molecular phylogenies across multiple taxa tell us about the evolution of diversity in present-day communities?. Discussion Meeting on Plant Phylogeny and the Origin of Major Biomes, London, United Kingdom, 15-16 March 2004. London, United Kingdom: The Royal Society Publishing. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2004.1528