Kara Layton (graduated 2018) PhD Student, UWA

Research Associate

Molecular Systematics Unit

BSc, MSc, PhD

Kara Layton Kara.Layton@museum.wa.gov.au

Research


-phylogenomics, population genomics & phylogeography of marine species

-the evolution of warning colouration and mimicry in nudibranchs

-the evolution of parasitism in gastropods

-using genomics to predict climate change response

-developing genomic resources for marine invertebrates

Current contact:

Lecturer in Marine Biology, University of Aberdeen

kara.layton@abdn.ac.uk

 

Past projects:

  • Net Conservation Benefits Project: Conservation Systematics of the Western Pilbara Fauna
  • PhD Thesis: Exploring patterns of diversity and specation in marine gastropods

 

Websites


laytonlab.com

 

Selected Publications

Kara’s full publication list can be found here

 

2016-present

Layton K. K. S., Snelgrove P. V. R., Dempson J. B. ... Bradbury I. R. (In press). Genomic evidence of past and future climate-linked loss in a migratory Arctic fish. Nature Climate Change.

Layton K. K. S., Carvajal J. I., Wilson N. G. (2020). Mimicry and mitonuclear discordance in nudibranchs: new insights from exon capture phylogenomics. Ecology and Evolution 10(21): 11966-11982. *cover

deWaard J. R., Ratnasingham S., Zakharov E.V...Layton K. K. S.... Hebert P. D. N. (2019). A reference library for the identification of Canadian invertebrates: 1.5 million DNA barcodes, voucher specimens, and genomic samples. Scientific Data 6(1): 308.

Layton K. K. S., Middelfart PU, Tatarnic NJ, Wilson NG. (2019). Erecting a new family for Spirostyliferina, a truncatelloidean microgastropod, and further insights into truncatelloidean phylogeny. Zoologica Scripta 48(6): 727-744.

Layton K. K. S., Rouse G. W., Wilson N. G. (2019). A newly discovered radiation of endoparasitic gastropods and their coevolution with asteroid hosts in Antarctica. BMC Evolutionary Biology 19: 180.

Layton K. K. S., Gosliner T. M., Wilson N. G. (2018). Flexible colour patterns obscure identification and mimicry in Indo-Pacific Chromodoris nudibranchs (Gastropoda: Chromodorididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 124: 27-36.

Reid, A. L., Ahyong, S. T., Keable S. J., Kupriyanova E., Layton K. K. S., Miller A. C. (2017). The Australian Museum Lord Howe Island Expedition 2017-marine invertebrates. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online, 26, 9–18.

Layton K. K. S., Corstorphine E. A., Hebert P. D. N. (2016). Exploring Canadian echinoderm diversity through DNA barcodes. PLoS ONE 11(11): e0166118.

Layton K. K. S., Martel A. L., Hebert P. D. N. (2016). Geographic patterns of genetic diversity in two species complexes of Canadian marine bivalves. Journal of Molluscan Studies 82: 282-291.

 

Selected publications (pre-2016)

Gaillard, B., Meziane, T., Tremblay, R., Archambault, P., Layton, K.K.S., Martel, A.L., Olivier, F. (2015). Dietary tracers in Bathyarca glacialis from contrasting trophic regions in the Canadian Arctic. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 536: 175-186.

Telfer A,...Layton, K.K.S...,et al. (113 co-authors). (2015). Biodiversity inventories in high gear: DNA barcoding facilitates a rapid biotic survey of a temperate nature reserve. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e6313. 

Layton, K.K.S., Martel, A.L., Hebert, P.D.N. (2014). Patterns of DNA barcode variation in Canadian marine molluscs. PLoS ONE 9(4): e95003. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095003. 

Brand, U., Came, R.E., Affek, H., Azmy, K., Mooi, R., Layton, K.K.S. (2014). Climate- forced change in Hudson Bay seawater composition and temperature, Arctic Canada. Chemical Geology 388(21): 78-86.