Associate Professor Celine Frere
ARC Future Fellow
School of Biological Sciences
Chair, Research Committee

Publications
Book Chapter
Prentis, Peter J., Gilding, Edward K., Pavasovic, Ana, Frere, Celine H. and Godwin, Ian D. (2013). Molecular markers in plant improvement. Molecular markers in plants. (pp. 67-78) edited by Robert J. Henry. Ames, IA, United States: John Wiley and Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118473023.ch5
Journal Articles
Tacey, J., Class, B., Delmé, C., Powell, D. and Frère, C.H. (2023). Impacts of fungal disease on dyadic social interactions in a wild agamid lizard. Animal Behaviour, 200, 125-136. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.04.002
Baker, Cameron J., Frère, Céline H., Franklin, Craig E., Campbell, Hamish A., Irwin, Terri R. and Dwyer, Ross G. (2023). Long-term tracking reveals a dynamic crocodylian social system. Animal Behaviour, 199, 59-78. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.02.015
Barham, Kaitlin E., Baker, Cameron J., Franklin, Craig E., Campbell, Hamish A., Frére, Celine H., Irwin, Terri R. and Dwyer, Ross G. (2023). Conditional alternative movement tactics in male crocodiles. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 77 (3) 31. doi: 10.1007/s00265-023-03303-z
Powell, Daniel, Schwessinger, Benjamin and Frère, Céline H. (2023). Whole‐mitochondrial genomes of
Nannizziopsis
provide insights in evolution and detection. Ecology and Evolution, 13 (3) e9955. doi: 10.1002/ece3.9955
Dunlop, Rebecca and Frere, Celine (2023). Post-whaling shift in mating tactics in male humpback whales. Communications Biology, 6 (1) 162. doi: 10.1038/s42003-023-04509-7
Frère, C. H., O’Reilly, G. D., Strickland, K., Schultz, A., Hohwieler, K., Hanger, J., de Villiers, D., Cristescu, R., Powell, D. and Sherwin, W. (2023). Evaluating the genetic consequences of population subdivision as it unfolds and how to best mitigate them: a rare story about koalas. Molecular Ecology, 32 (9), 2174-2185. doi: 10.1111/mec.16877
Foroughirad, Vivienne, Frère, Celine H., Levengood, Alexis L., Kopps, Anna M., Krzyszczyk, Ewa and Mann, Janet (2023). Small effects of family size on sociality despite strong kin preferences in female bottlenose dolphins. Animal Behaviour, 195, 53-66. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.10.011
Terraube, J., Gardiner, R., Hohwieler, K., Frère, C. H. and Cristescu, R. H. (2023). Protected area coverage has a positive effect on koala occurrence in Eastern Australia. Biodiversity and Conservation, 32 (7), 2495-2511. doi: 10.1007/s10531-023-02615-w
Gardiner, Riana, Terraube, Julien, Frere, Celine and Cristescu, Romane (2022). Roads and water availability influence the occurrence of koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in secondary habitat: a multiscale approach. Biodiversity and Conservation, 32 (1), 1-18. doi: 10.1007/s10531-022-02493-8
Jackson, Nicola, Littleford-Colquhoun, Bethan L., Strickland, Kasha, Class, Barbara and Frere, Celine H. (2022). Selection in the city: rapid and fine-scale evolution of urban eastern water dragons. Evolution, 76 (10), 2302-2314. doi: 10.1111/evo.14596
Cristescu, Romane H., Strickland, Kasha, Schultz, Anthony J., Kruuk, Loeske E. B., de Villiers, Deidre and Frère, Céline H. (2022). Susceptibility to a sexually transmitted disease in a wild koala population shows heritable genetic variance but no inbreeding depression. Molecular Ecology, 31 (21), 5455-5467. doi: 10.1111/mec.16676
Foroughirad, Vivienne, McEntee, Molly, Kopps, Anna M., Levengood, Alexis, Frère, Celine and Mann, Janet (2022). Reproductive timing as an explanation for skewed parentage assignment ratio in a bisexually philopatric population. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 76 (9) 129. doi: 10.1007/s00265-022-03233-2
Hohwieler, Katrin R., de Villiers, Deidre L., Cristescu, Romane H. and Frere, Celine H. (2022). Genetic erosion detected in a specialist mammal living in a fast-developing environment. Conservation Science and Practice, 4 (7) e12738, 1-17. doi: 10.1111/csp2.12738
Levengood, Alexis L., Strickland, Kasha, Foroughirad, Vivienne, Mann, Janet, Cristescu, Romane H., Krzyszczyk, Ewa and Frère, Céline H. (2022). Heterogeneity in resource competition covaries with individual variation in long-term social relationships. Behavioral Ecology, 33 (4), 745-757. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arac037
Littleford-Colquhoun, B. L., Weyrich, L. S., Hohwieler, K., Cristescu, R. and Frere, C. H. (2022). How microbiomes can help inform conservation: landscape characterisation of gut microbiota helps shed light on additional population structure in a specialist folivore. Animal Microbiome, 4 (1) 12, 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s42523-021-00122-3
Strickland, K., Levengood, A., Foroughirad, V., Mann, J., Krzyszczyk, E. and Frère, C. H. (2022). Correction to: A framework for the identification of long-term social avoidance in longitudinal datasets. Royal Society Open Science, 9 (1), 220017. doi: 10.1098/rsos.220017
Crampton, Joel, Frère, Celine and Potvin, Dominique (2022). Australian magpies Gymnorhina tibicen cooperate to remove tracking devices. Australian Field Ornithology, 39, 7-11. doi: 10.20938/afo39007011
Schultz, Anthony James, Strickland, Kasha, Cristescu, Romane H., Hanger, Jonathan, Villiers, Deidre and Frère, Céline H. (2022). Testing the effectiveness of genetic monitoring using genetic non‐invasive sampling. Ecology and Evolution, 12 (1) e8459, e8459. doi: 10.1002/ece3.8459
Albery, Gregory F., Turilli, Isabella, Joseph, Maxwell B., Foley, Janet, Frere, Celine H. and Bansal, Shweta (2021). From flames to inflammation: how wildfires affect patterns of wildlife disease. Fire Ecology, 17 (1) 23. doi: 10.1186/s42408-021-00113-4
Evans, Taylor, Krzyszczyk, Ewa, Frère, Céline and Mann, Janet (2021). Lifetime stability of social traits in bottlenose dolphins. Communications Biology, 4 (1) 759. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02292-x
Peterson, Nicola R., Rose, Karrie, Shaw, Stephanie, Hyndman, Tim H., Sigler, Lynne, Kurtböke, D. İpek, Llinas, Josh, Littleford‑Colquhoun, Bethan L., Cristescu, Romane and Frère, Celine (2021). Publisher Correction: Cross-continental emergence of Nannizziopsis barbatae disease may threaten wild Australian lizards (Scientific Reports, (2020), 10, 1, (20976), 10.1038/s41598-020-77865-7). Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 6871. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-86463-0
Waters, Paul D., Patel, Hardip R., Ruiz-Herrera, Aurora, Alvarez-Gonzalez, Lucia, Lister, Nicholas C., Simakov, Oleg, Ezaz, Tariq, Kaur, Parwinder, Frere, Celine, Grutzner, Frank, Georges, Arthur and Marshall Graves, Jennifer A. (2021). Microchromosomes are building blocks of bird, reptile, and mammal chromosomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118 (45) e2112494118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2112494118
Baker, Cameron J., Frère, Céline H., Franklin, Craig E., Campbell, Hamish A., Irwin, Terri R. and Dwyer, Ross G. (2021). Crocodile social environments dictated by male philopatry. Behavioral Ecology, 33 (1), 156-166. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arab120
Strickland, Kasha, Mitchell, David J., Delmé, Coralie and Frère, Céline H. (2021). Repeatability and heritability of social reaction norms in a wild agamid lizard. Evolution, 75 (8), 1953-1965. doi: 10.1111/evo.14298
Strickland, Kasha, Mann, Janet, Foroughirad, Vivienne, Levengood, Alexis L. and Frère, Céline H. (2021). Maternal effects and fitness consequences of individual variation in bottlenose dolphins' ecological niche. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90 (8) 1365-2656.13513, 1-13. doi: 10.1111/1365-2656.13513
Powell, Daniel, Jones, Ashley, Kent, Nicola, Kaur, Parwinder, Bar, Ido, Schwessinger, Benjamin and Frère, Céline H. (2021). Genome sequence of the fungus Nannizziopsis barbatae, an emerging reptile pathogen. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 10 (1). doi: 10.1128/mra.01213-20
Cristescu, Romane H., Gardiner, Riana, Terraube, Julien, McDonald, Kye, Powell, Dan, Levengood, Alexis L. and Frère, Céline H. (2021). Difficulties of assessing the impacts of the 2019–2020 bushfires on koalas. Austral Ecology, 48 (1), 12-18. doi: 10.1111/aec.13120
Peterson, Nicola R., Rose, Karrie, Shaw, Stephanie, Hyndman, Tim H., Sigler, Lynne, Kurtböke, D. İpek, Llinas, Josh, Littleford-Colquhoun, Bethan L., Cristescu, Romane and Frère, Celine (2020). Cross-continental emergence of Nannizziopsis barbatae disease may threaten wild Australian lizards. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 20976, 1-12. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-77865-7
Baxter-Gilbert, James, Riley, Julia L., Frère, Celine H. and Whiting, Martin J. (2020). Shrinking into the big city: influence of genetic and environmental factors on urban dragon lizard morphology and performance capacity. Urban Ecosystems, 24 (4), 661-674. doi: 10.1007/s11252-020-01065-4
Galezo, Allison A., Foroughirad, Vivienne, Krzyszczyk, Ewa, Frère, Céline H. and Mann, Janet (2020). Juvenile social dynamics reflect adult reproductive strategies in bottlenose dolphins. Behavioral Ecology, 31 (5), 1159-1171. doi: 10.1093/beheco/araa068
Schultz, Anthony J., Cristescu, Romane H., Hanger, Jon, Loader, Jo, de Villiers, Deidre and Frère, Celine H. (2020). Inbreeding and disease avoidance in a free‐ranging koala population. Molecular Ecology, 29 (13), 2416-2430. doi: 10.1111/mec.15488
Piza-Roca, Carmen, Schoeman, David and Frere, Celine (2020). Fitness benefits of male dominance behaviours depend on the degree of individual inbreeding in a polyandrous lizard. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287 (1927) 20200097, 20200097. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2020.0097
Cristescu, Romane H., Miller, Russell L. and Frère, Céline H. (2020). Sniffing out solutions to enhance conservation: How detection dogs can maximise research and management outcomes, through the example of koalas. Australian Zoologist, 40 (3), 416-432. doi: 10.7882/az.2019.030
Gaschk, Joshua L., Frère, Celine H. and Clemente, Christofer J. (2019). Quantifying koala locomotion strategies: implications for the evolution of arborealism in marsupials. Journal of Experimental Biology, 222 (24) jeb207506. doi: 10.1242/jeb.207506
Littleford‐Colquhoun, Bethan L., Weyrich, Laura S., Kent, Nicola and Frere, Celine H. (2019). City life alters the gut microbiome and stable isotope profiling of the eastern water dragon ( Intellagama lesueurii ). Molecular Ecology, 28 (20), 4592-4607. doi: 10.1111/mec.15240
Potvin, Dominique A., Strickland, Kasha, MacDougall-Shackleton, Elizabeth A., Slade, Joel W.G. and Frère, Celine H. (2019). Applying network analysis to birdsong research. Animal Behaviour, 154, 95-109. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.012
Strickland, Kasha and Frère, Céline H. (2019). Individual variation in the social plasticity of water dragons. The American Naturalist, 194 (2), 194-206. doi: 10.1086/704089
Cristescu, R. H., Scales, K. L., Schultz, A. J., Miller, R. L., Schoeman, D. S., Dique, D. and Frère, C. H. (2019). Environmental impact assessments can misrepresent species distributions: a case study of koalas in Queensland, Australia. Animal Conservation, 22 (4), 314-323. doi: 10.1111/acv.12455
Cristescu, R. H., Scales, K. L., Schultz, A. J., Miller, R. L., Schoeman, D. S., Dique, D. and Frère, C. H. (2019). Robust science underpinning legislation can create better outcomes for threatened species impacted by infrastructure projects : robust science is critical for EIAs. Animal Conservation, 22 (4), 328-330. doi: 10.1111/acv.12528
Piza-Roca, Carme, Strickland, Kasha, Kent, Nicola and Frere, Celine H (2019). Presence of kin-biased social associations in a lizard with no parental care: the eastern water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii). Behavioral Ecology, 30 (5), 1406-1415. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arz093
Foroughirad, Vivienne, Levengood, Alexis L., Mann, Janet and Frère, Céline H. (2019). Quality and quantity of genetic relatedness data affect the analysis of social structure. Molecular Ecology Resources, 19 (5), 1181-1194. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13028
Miller, Kyle L., Castañeda Rico, Susette, Muletz-Wolz, Carly R., Campana, Michael G., McInerney, Nancy, Augustine, Lauren, Frere, Celine, Peters, Alan M. and Fleischer, Robert C. (2019). Parthenogenesis in a captive Asian water dragon (Physignathus cocincinus) identified with novel microsatellites. PLoS One, 14 (6) e0217489, e0217489. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217489
Manlik, Oliver, Krützen, Michael, Kopps, Anna M., Mann, Janet, Bejder, Lars, Allen, Simon J., Frère, Celine, Connor, Richard C. and Sherwin, William B. (2019). Is MHC diversity a better marker for conservation than neutral genetic diversity? A case study of two contrasting dolphin populations. Ecology and Evolution, 9 (12), 6986-6998. doi: 10.1002/ece3.5265
Littleford‐Colquhoun, Bethan L., Clemente, Christofer, Thompson, Graham, Cristescu, Romane H., Peterson, Nicola, Strickland, Kasha, Stuart‐Fox, Devi and Frere, Celine H. (2019). How sexual and natural selection shape sexual size dimorphism: Evidence from multiple evolutionary scales. Functional Ecology, 33 (8), 1446-1458. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13337
Cristescu, Romane H., Miller, Russell L., Schultz, Anthony J., Hulse, Lyndal, Jaccoud, Damian, Johnston, Stephen, Hanger, Jon, Booth, Rosie and Frère, Céline H. (2019). Developing non-invasive methodologies to assess koala population health through detecting Chlamydia from scats. Molecular Ecology Resources, 19 (4) 1755-0998.12999, 957-969. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12999
Kent, Nicola, Cristescu, Romane H., Piza-Roca, Carme, Littleford-Colquhoun, Bethan L., Strickland, Kasha and Frère, Céline H. (2019). Maternal nesting behaviour in city dragons: a species with temperature-dependent sex determination. Journal of Urban Ecology, 5 (1) juz005. doi: 10.1093/jue/juz005
Piza-Roca, Carme, Strickland, Kasha, Schoeman, David and Frere, Celine H. (2018). Eastern water dragons modify their social tactics with respect to the location within their home range. Animal Behaviour, 144, 27-36. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.08.001
Strickland, Kasha, Patterson, Eric M. and Frère, Céline H. (2018). Eastern water dragons use alternative social tactics at different local densities. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 72 (9) 148. doi: 10.1007/s00265-018-2563-x
Parra, Guido J., Cagnazzi, Daniele, Jedensjö, Maria, Ackermann, Corinne, Frere, Celine, Seddon, Jennifer, Nikolic, Natacha and Krützen, Michael (2018). Low genetic diversity, limited gene flow and widespread genetic bottleneck effects in a threatened dolphin species, the Australian humpback dolphin. Biological Conservation, 220, 192-200. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.12.028
Schultz, Anthony J., Cristescu, Romane H., Littleford-Colquhoun, Bethan L., Jaccoud, Damian and Frère, Céline H. (2018). Fresh is best: accurate SNP genotyping from koala scats. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (6), 3139-3151. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3765
Strickland, Kasha and Frère, Céline H. (2018). Predictable males and unpredictable females: repeatability of sociability in eastern water dragons. Behavioral Ecology, 29 (1), 236-243. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arx148
Premachandra, H. K.A., La Cruz, Fabiola Lafarga-De, Takeuchi, Yutaka, Miller, Adam, Fielder, Stewart, O'Connor, Wayne, Frère, Celine H., Nguyen, Nguyen Hong, Bar, Ido and Knibb, Wayne (2017). Genomic DNA variation confirmed Seriola lalandi comprises three different populations in the Pacific, but with recent divergence. Scientific Reports, 7 (1) 9386. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-07419-x
Littleford-Colquhoun, Bethan L. , Clemente, Christofer, Whiting, Martin J. , Ortiz-Barrientos, Daniel and Frere, Celine H. (2017). Archipelagos of the Anthropocene: rapid and extensive differentiation of native terrestrial vertebrates in a single metropolis. Molecular Ecology, 26 (9), 2466-2481. doi: 10.1111/mec.14042
Strickland, Kasha, Levengood, Alexis, Foroughirad, Vivienne, Mann, Janet, Krzyszczyk, Ewa and Frère, Celine H. (2017). A framework for the identification of long-term social avoidance in longitudinal datasets. Royal Society Open Science, 4 (8) 170641, 170641. doi: 10.1098/rsos.170641
Smith, H., Frère, C., Kobryn, H. and Bejder, L. (2016). Dolphin sociality, distribution and calving as important behavioural patterns informing management. Animal Conservation, 19 (5), 462-471. doi: 10.1111/acv.12263
Sexton, Gary J., Frere, C.H., Kalinganire, A., Uwamariya, A., Lowe, A.J., Godwin, I.D., Prentis, P.J. and Dieters, M.J. (2015). Influence of putative forest refugia and biogeographic barriers on the level and distribution of genetic variation in an African savannah tree, Khaya senegalensis (Desr.) A. Juss. Tree Genetics and Genomes, 11 (103) 103. doi: 10.1007/s11295-015-0933-3
Kosanic, A., Anderson, K., Frère, C. H. and Harrison, S. (2015). Regional vegetation change and implications for local conservation: An example from West Cornwall (United Kingdom). Global Ecology and Conservation, 4, 405-413. doi: 10.1016/j.gecco.2015.08.006
Cristescu, Romane H., Banks, Peter B., Carrick, Frank N. and Frère, Céline (2015). Correction: Potential 'Ecological Traps' of restored landscapes: Koalas Phascolarctos cinereus re-occupy a rehabilitated mine site. PLoS ONE, 10 (6) e0130115. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130115
Frere, Celine H., Chandrasoma, Dani and Whiting, Martin J. (2015). Polyandry in dragon lizards: inbred paternal genotypes sire fewer offspring. Ecology and Evolution, 5 (8), 1686-1692. doi: 10.1002/ece3.1447
Cristescu, Romane H., Foley, Emily, Markula, Anna, Jackson, Gary, Jones, Darryl and Frere, Celine (2015). Accuracy and efficiency of detection dogs: a powerful new tool for koala conservation and management. Scientific Reports, 5 (1) 8349. doi: 10.1038/srep08349
Frère, Celine H., Nugent, Daniel R., Littleford-Colquhoun, Bethan and Strickland, Kasha (2015) Intellagama lesueurii Eastern water dragon: cannibalism. Herpetological Bulletin, 133: 38-39.
Strickland, K., Gardiner, R., Schultz, A. J. and Frere, C. H. (2014). The social life of eastern water dragons: sex differences, spatial overlap and genetic relatedness. Animal Behaviour, 97, 53-61. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.08.009
Brown, Alexander M., Kopps, Anna M., Allen, Simon J., Bejder, Lars, Littleford-Colquhoun, Bethan, Parra, Guido J., Cagnazzi, Daniele, Thiele, Deborah, Palmer, Carol and Frere, Celine H. (2014). Population differentiation and hybridisation of Australian snubfin (Orcaella heinsohni) and Indo-Pacific humpback (Sousa chinensis) dolphins in North-Western Australia. PloS One, 9 (7) e101427, e101427. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101427
Gardiner, Riana Zanarivero, Doran, Erik, Strickland, Kasha, Carpenter-Bundhoo, Luke and Frere, Celine (2014). A face in the crowd: a non-invasive and cost effective photo-identification methodology to understand the fine scale movement of eastern water dragons. PLoS ONE, 9 (5) e96992, e96992. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096992
Lin, Wenzhi, Frère, Céline H., Karczmarski, Leszek, Xia, Jia, Gui, Duan and Wu, Yuping (2014). Phylogeography of the finless porpoise (genus Neophocaena): Testing the stepwise divergence hypothesis in the northwestern Pacific. Scientific Reports, 4 (1) 6572. doi: 10.1038/srep06572
Cristescu, Romane H., Banks, Peter B., Carrick, Frank N. and Frere, Celine (2013). Potential 'Ecological Traps' of restored landscapes: koalas Phascolarctos cinereus re-occupy a rehabilitated mine site. PLoS One, 8 (11) e80469, e80469.1-e80469.12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080469
Mace, Emma S., Tai, Shuaishuai, Gilding, Edward K., Li, Yanhong, Prentis, Peter J., Bian, Lianle, Campbell, Bradley C., Hu, Wushu, Innes, David J., Han, Xuelian, Cruickshank, Alan, Dai, Changming, Frere, Celine, Zhang, Haikuan, Hunt, Colleen H., Wang, Xianyuan, Shatte, Tracey, Wang, Miao, Su, Zhe, Li, Jun, Lin, Xiaozhen, Godwin, Ian D., Jordan, David R. and Wang, Jun (2013). Whole-genome sequencing reveals untapped genetic potential in Africa's indigenous cereal crop sorghum. Nature Communications, 4 (1) 2320, 2320.1-2320.8. doi: 10.1038/ncomms3320
Cristescu, Romane H., Rhodes, Jonathan, Frere, Celine and Banks, Peter B. (2013). Is restoring flora the same as restoring fauna? Lessons learned from koalas and mining rehabilitation. Journal of Applied Ecology, 50 (2), 423-431. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.12046
Gilding, Edward K., Frere, Celine H., Cruickshank, Alan, Rada, Anna K., Prentis, Peter J., Mudge, Agnieszka M., Mace, Emma S., Jordan, David R. and Godwin, Ian D. (2013). Allelic variation at a single gene increases food value in a drought-tolerant staple cereal. Nature Communications, 4 (1) 1483, 1483.1-1483.5. doi: 10.1038/ncomms2450
Carter, Kerryn D., Seddon, Jennifer M., Frère, Celine H., Carter, John K. and Goldizen, Anne W. (2013). Fission-fusion dynamics in wild giraffes may be driven by kinship, spatial overlap and individual social preferences. Animal Behaviour, 85 (2), 385-394. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.11.011
Jewell, M., Frere, C. H., Harris-Shultz, K., Anderson, W. F., Godwin, I. D. and Lambrides, C. J. (2012). Phylogenetic analysis reveals multiple introductions of Cynodon species in Australia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 65 (2), 390-396. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.06.026
Cristescu, Romane H., Goethals, Klara, Banks, Peter B., Carrick, Frank N. and Frere, Celine (2012). Experimental Evaluation of Koala Scat Persistence and Detectability with Implications for Pellet-Based Fauna Census. International Journal of Zoology, 2012 (Article Number631856) 631856, 1-12. doi: 10.1155/2012/631856
Cristescu, Romane H., Frere, Celine and Banks, Peter B. (2012). A review of fauna in mine rehabilitation in Australia: current state and future directions. Biological Conservation, 149 (1), 60-72. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.02.003
Lin, Wenzhi, Chang, Lihong, Frere, Céline H., Zhou, Ruilian, Chen, Jialin, Chen, Xi and Wu, Yuping (2012). Differentiated or not? An assessment of current knowledge of genetic structure of Sousa chinensis in China. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 416, 17-20. doi: 10.1016/j.jembe.2012.02.002
Frere, C. H., Prentis, P. J., Ezaz, T. and Georges, A. (2012). Isolation and characterisation of novel microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA markers for the Eastern Water Dragon (Physignathus lesueurii). Conservation Genetics Resources, 4 (1), 113-116. doi: 10.1007/s12686-011-9487-3
Frére, C. H., Seddon, J., Palmer, C., Porter, L. and Parra, G. J. (2011). Multiple lines of evidence for an Australasian geographic boundary in the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis): Population or species divergence?. Conservation Genetics, 12 (6), 1633-1638. doi: 10.1007/s10592-011-0242-9
Frere, Celine H., Prentis, Peter J., Gilding, Edward K., Mudge, Agnieszka M., Cruickshank, Alan and Godwin, Ian D. (2011). Lack of low frequency variants masks patterns of non-neutral evolution following domestication. PLoS One, 6 (8 Article # e23041) e23041, e23041-1-e23041-5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023041
Frere, Celine H., Mann, Janet, Krutzen, Michael, Connor, Richard, Bejder, Lars and Sherwin, William B. (2011). Nature and nurture: A step towards investigating their interactions in the wild. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 4 (2), 192-193. doi: 10.4161/cib.4.2.14297
Cristescu, R., Ellis, W., de Villiers, D., Lee, K., Woosnam-Merchez, O., Frere, C., Banks, P. B., Dique, D., Hodgkison, S., Carrick, H., Carter, D., Smith, P. and Carrick, F. (2011). North Stradbroke Island: An island ark for Queensland's koala population?. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland, 117, 309-333.
Frere, Celine H., Krutzen, Michael, Mann, Janet, Connor, Richard C., Bejder, Lars and Sherwin, William B. (2010). Social and genetic interactions drive fitness variation in a free-living dolphin population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 107 (46), 19949-19954. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1007997107
Sexton, G. J., Frere, C. H., Dieters, M. J., Godwin, I. D. and Prentis, P. J. (2010). Development and characterization of microsatellite loci for Khaya senegalensis (Meliaceae). American Journal of Botany, 97 (11), E111-E113. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1000300
Jewell, MC, Frere, CH, Prentis, PJ, Lambrides, CJ and Godwin, ID (2010). Characterization and multiplexing of EST-SSR primers in Cynodon (Poaceae) species. American Journal of Botany, 97 (10), E99-E101. doi: 10.3732/ajb.1000254
Frere, Céline H., Krutzen, Michael, Kopps, Anna M., Ward, Patrick, Mann, Janet and Sherwin, William B. (2010). Inbreeding tolerance and fitness costs in wild bottlenose dolphins. Proceedings of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 277 (1694), 2667-2673. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0039
Frere, C. H., Krutzen, M., Mann, J., Watson-Capps, J. J., Tsai, Y. J., Patterson, E. M., Connor, R., Bejder, L. and Sherwin, W. B. (2010). Home range overlap, matrilineal and biparental kinship drive female associations in bottlenose dolphins. Animal Behaviour, 80 (3), 481-486. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.06.007
Frère, Céline H., Krzyszczyk, Ewa, Patterson, Eric M., Hunter, Sue, Ginsburg, Alison and Mann, Janet (2010). Thar she blows! A novel method for DNA collection from cetacean blow. PLoS ONE, 5 (8) e12299, e12299-1-e12299-5. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012299
Frere, Celine H., Hale, Peter T., Porter, Lindsay, Cockcroft, Victor G. and Dalebout, Merel L. (2008). Phylogenetic analysis of mtDNA sequences suggests revision of humpback dolphin (Sousa spp.) taxonomy is needed. Marine and Freshwater Research, 59 (3), 259-268. doi: 10.1071/MF07120
Conference Paper
Lambrides, Christopher J., Zhou, Yi, Fukai, Shu, Jewell, Margaret, Loch, Don, Godwin, Ian, Holton, Tim, Innes, David, Frere, Celine, Hanna, Wayne, Ye, Changrong, Van Tran, Thinh, Le, Thu, Cao, Ninh, Al Dabbagh, Haider, O'Brien, Chris, Roche, Matt, Fullelove, Garry, Ballard, Emma, Kearns, Ryan, Pearce, Will, Hacker, Andrew, Puachuay, Meena, Shelton, Max, Dalzell, Scott, Anderson, Bill, Harris-Shultz, Karen and Cremer, Julia (2013). Ecoturf - a case study on genetic variation and agronomic potential of bermudagrass (cynodon spp.) germplasm collected from Australian biodiversity. ITRC 2013: 12th International Turfgrass Research Conference, Beijing, China, 14-19 July 2013. Overland Park, KS, USA: Intertec Publishing.
Preprints
Research Reports
Hohwieler, Katrin , Chudleigh, Sally , Frere, Celine and Cristescu, Romane (2020). Koala Forever Noosa. Securing the future of wild koalas and wild koala eco-tourism in the Noosa Biosphere Reserve. Interim Report Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia: Noosa Biosphere.
Cristescu, Romane , Hohwieler, Katrin , Gardiner, Riana , deVilliers, Deidre , Vincent, Ben and Frere, Celine (2019). Cool Country Koala project 2018/2019 Final Report. Final Report NSW, Australia: NSW Government.
Frere, Celine and Cristescu, Romane (2017). Cool Country Koala project 2016/2017 Northern Section. Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia: University of the Sunshine Coast.
Frere, Celine H. and Cristescu, Romane (2016). Bruce Highway Cooroy to Curra - Tinana Koala surveys. Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia: University of the Sunshine Coast.
Frere, Celine and Cristescu, Romane (2016). Bruce Highway Cooroy to Curra - Woodnam to Curra. Sunshine Coast, QLD, Australia: University of the Sunshine Coast.