Research

Population genomics, microbial ecology, and the evolution of host-microbe relationships.
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Ryder, F.J., Pearman, W.S., Layton, C., Parvizi, E., Johnson, C., Bellgrove, A. & Fraser, C.I. (In Press). Contrasting patterns of population structure in two habitat-forming kelp species in southeastern Australia. Journal of Phycology. doi:10.1111/jpy.70140
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Kroos, G.C., Fernandes, K., Seddon, P., Ashcroft, T., Pearman, W.S. & Gemmell, N.J. (2026). Targeted Airborne eDNA of an Invasive Wallaby: Effects of Sampler Type, Distance, and Environmental Conditions. Environmental DNA, 8(1), e70240. doi:10.1002/edn3.70240
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Pillay, P., dos Remedios, N., Pearman, W.S., Santure, A.W. & Allen, M.S. (2025). Bones, barcodes, and biodiversity: Optimising bulk bone metabarcoding analysis for tropical subfossil collections from Polynesia. Quaternary International, 110099. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2025.110099
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Pearman, W.S., Rodrigo, A.G. & Santure, A.W. (2025). Within-host microbial selection and multiple microbial generations buffer the loss of host fitness under environmental change. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiaf089. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiaf089
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Morales, S.E., Tobias-Hünefeldt, S.P., Armstrong, E., Pearman, W.S. & Bogdanov, K. (2025). Marine phytoplankton impose strong selective pressures on in vitro microbiome assembly, but drift is the dominant process. ISME Communications, 5(1), ycaf001. doi:10.1093/ismeco/ycaf001
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Pearman, W.S., Duffy, G.A., Smith, R.O., Currie, K.I., Gemmell, N.J., Morales, S.E. & Fraser, C.I. (2024). Host dispersal relaxes selective pressures in rafting microbiomes and triggers successional changes. Nature Communications, 15(1), 10759. doi:10.1038/s41467-024-54954-z
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Pearman, W.S., Arranz, V., Carvajal, J.I., Whibley, A., Liau, Y., Johnson, K., Gray, R., Treece, J.M., Gemmell, N.J., Liggins, L., Fraser, C.I., Jensen, E.L. & Green, N.J. (2024). A cry for kelp: Evidence for polyphenolic inhibition of Oxford Nanopore sequencing of brown algae. Journal of Phycology, 60(6), 1601-1610. doi:10.1111/jpy.13513
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Pearman, W.S., Duffy, G.A., Gemmell, N.J., Morales, S.E. & Fraser, C.I. (2024). Long-distance movement dynamics shape host microbiome richness and turnover. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiae089. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiae089
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Pearman, W.S., Adams, C.I.M., Monteiro, M., Quesada, A. & Fraser, C.I. (2024). Fine-scale phylogenetic diversity gradients support the Antarctic geothermal refugia hypothesis. Antarctic Science, 1-8. doi:10.1017/S0954102024000099
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Pearman, W.S., Morales, S.E., Vaux, F., Gemmell, N.J. & Fraser, C.I. (2024). Host population crashes disrupt the diversity of associated marine microbiomes. Environmental Microbiology, 26(3), e16611. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.16611
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Pearman, W.S., Duffy, G.A., Liu, X.P., Gemmell, N.J., Morales, S.E. & Fraser, C.I. (2024). Macroalgal microbiome biogeography is shaped by environmental drivers rather than geographical distance. Annals of Botany, 133(1), 169-182. doi:10.1093/aob/mcad151
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Thompson, B., Atsawawaranunt, K., Nehmens, M.C., Pearman, W.S., Perkins, E.O., Pipek, P., Rollins, L.A., Tan, H.Z., Whibley, A., Santure, A.W. & Stuart, K.C. (2024). Population Genetics and Invasion History of the European Starling Across Aotearoa New Zealand. Molecular Ecology, e17579. doi:10.1111/mec.17579
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Pearman, W.S., Urban, L. & Alexander, A. (2022). Commonly used Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium filtering schemes impact population structure inferences using RADseq data. Molecular Ecology Resources, 22(7), 2599-2613. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.13646
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Liu, X.P., Duffy, G.A., Pearman, W.S., Pertierra, L.R. & Fraser, C.I. (2022). Meta-analysis of Antarctic phylogeography reveals strong sampling bias and critical knowledge gaps. Ecography, 2022(12), e06312. doi:10.1111/ecog.06312
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Fraser, C.I., Dutoit, L., Morrison, A.K., Pardo, L.M., Smith, S.D.A., Pearman, W.S., Parvizi, E., Waters, J. & Macaya, E.C. (2022). Southern Hemisphere coasts are biologically connected by frequent, long-distance rafting events. Current Biology, 32(14), 3154-3160.e3. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.05.035
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Pearman, W.S., Wells, S.J., Dale, J., Silander, O.K. & Freed, N.E. (2022). Long-read sequencing reveals atypical mitochondrial genome structure in a New Zealand marine isopod. Royal Society Open Science, 9(1), 211550. doi:10.1098/rsos.211550
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Pearman, W.S., Wells, S.J., Silander, O.K., Freed, N.E. & Dale, J. (2020). Concordant geographic and genetic structure revealed by genotyping-by-sequencing in a New Zealand marine isopod. Ecology and Evolution, 10(24), 13624-13639. doi:10.1002/ece3.6802
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Arranz, V., Pearman, W.S., Aguirre, J.D. & Liggins, L. (2020). MARES, a replicable pipeline and curated reference database for marine eukaryote metabarcoding. Scientific Data, 7(1), 209. doi:10.1038/s41597-020-0549-9
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Pearman, W.S., Freed, N.E. & Silander, O.K. (2020). Testing the advantages and disadvantages of short- and long-read eukaryotic metagenomics using simulated reads. BMC Bioinformatics, 21(1), 1-15. doi:10.1186/s12859-020-3528-4
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