Andrew Hugall

Disentangling thermal from alternative drivers of reflectance in jewel beetles: A macroecological study

Lu-Yi Wang, Amanda M Franklin, Andrew F Hugall, Iliana Medina, Devi Stuart-Fox

Journal article  |  2023  |  GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Aim: To predict future colour–climate relationships, it is important to distinguish thermal drivers of reflectance from other evol..

Exposure to thermal extremes favors higher solar reflectivity in intertidal gastropods

Amanda M Franklin, Katrina J Rankin, Andre Hugall, Devi Stuart-Fox

Journal article  |  2022  |  ISCIENCE

During low tides, intertidal animals can be exposed to extreme temperatures that can exceed the animals' thermal limits. Reflectan..

Disparate origins for endemic bird taxa from the 'Gondwana Rainforests' of Central Eastern Australia

KJ Mitchell, AF Hugall, H Heiniger, L Joseph, PM Oliver

Journal article  |  2021  |  Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Subtropical and temperate rainforests of Central Eastern Australia are some of the largest remaining fragments of their kind globa..

Environmental gradients predict the ratio of environmentally acquired carotenoids to self-synthesised pteridine pigments

Devi Stuart-Fox, Katrina J Rankin, Adrian Lutz, Adam Elliott, Andrew F Hugall, Claire A McLean, Iliana Medina

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOLOGY LETTERS

Carotenoids are important pigments producing integument colouration; however, their dietary availability may be limited in some en..

Relict from the Jurassic: new family of brittle-stars from a New Caledonian seamount

Timothy D O'Hara, Ben Thuy, Andrew F Hugall

Journal article  |  2021  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The deep-seafloor in the tropical Indo-Pacific harbours a rich and diverse benthic fauna with numerous palaeoendemics. Here, we de..

Pteridine pigments compensate for environmental availability of carotenoids

Devi Stuart-Fox, Katrina Rankin, Adrian Lutz, Adam Elliott, Andrew Hugall, Claire McLean, Iliana Medina

Journal article  |  2021

Carotenoid-based colours are a textbook example of honest signalling because carotenoids must be acquired from the environment. Ho..

Convergent Evolution and Structural Adaptation to the Deep Ocean in the Protein-Folding Chaperonin CCTα.

Alexandra A-T Weber, Andrew F Hugall, Timothy D O'Hara

Journal article  |  2020  |  Genome Biol Evol

The deep ocean is the largest biome on Earth and yet it is among the least studied environments of our planet. Life at great depth..

Oligocene divergence of frogmouth birds (Podargidae) across Wallace's Line.

Paul M Oliver, Holly Heiniger, Andrew F Hugall, Leo Joseph, Kieren J Mitchell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Biology Letters

Wallace's Line demarcates the transition between the differentiated regional faunas of Asia and Australia. However, while patterns..

Unexpected high abyssal ophiuroid diversity in polymetallic nodule fields of the northeast Pacific Ocean and implications for conservation

M Christodoulou, T O'Hara, AF Hugall, S Khodami, CF Rodrigues, A Hilario, A Vink, PM Arbizu

Journal article  |  2020  |  Biogeosciences

The largest and commercially appealing mineral deposits can be found in the abyssal sea floor of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ)..

Dark Ophiuroid Biodiversity in a Prospective Abyssal Mine Field

Magdalini Christodoulou, Timothy D O'Hara, Andrew F Hugall, Pedro Martinez Arbizu

Journal article  |  2019  |  CURRENT BIOLOGY

The seafloor contains valuable mineral resources, including polymetallic (or manganese) nodules that form on offshore abyssal plai..