1. Johnson, K.J., Owens, I.F.P., and the Global Collection Group. A global approach for natural history museum collections. Science 379, 1192 (2023). DOI: 10.1126/science.adf6434
  2. Johnson, R.N., D. O’Meally, Z. Chen, G.J. Etherington, S.Y.W. Ho, W.J. Nash, C.E. Grueber, Y. Cheng, C.M. Whittington, S. Dennison, E. Peel, W. Haerty, R.J. O’Neill, D. Colgan, T.L. Russell, D.E. Alquezar-Planas, V. Attenbrow, J.G. Bragg, P.A. Brandies, A.Y.-Y. Chong, J.E. Deakin, F. Di Palma, Z. Duda, M.D.B. Eldridge, K.M. Ewart, C.J. Hogg, G.J. Frankham, A. Georges, A.K. Gillett, M. Govendir, A.D. Greenwood, T. Hayakawa, K.M. Helgen, M. Hobbs, C.E. Holleley, T.N. Heider, E.A. Jones, A. King, D. Madden, J.A.M. Graves, K.M. Morris, L.E. Neaves, H.R. Patel, A. Polkinghorne, M.B. Renfree, C. Robin, R. Salinas, K. Tsangaras, P.D. Waters, S.A. Waters, B. Wright, M.R. Wilkins, P. Timms, K. Belov. (2018). Adaptation and conservation insights from the koala genome. Nature Genetics 50, 1102-1111. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0153-5
  3. Johnson, R.N., Wilson-Wilde, L., Linacre, A.M. (2014) Current and Future Directions of DNA in Wildlife Forensic Science. Forensic Science International: Genetics 10, 10-11. doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.12.007
  4. Ewart, K.M., Frankham, G.J., McEwing, R., Webster, L.M.I., Ciavaglia, S.A, Linacre, A.M.T., Dang tat, T., Rovie, J., Sitam, F., Ovouthan, K., Johnson, R.N. (2018) International validation of a species identification test for seized rhinoceros horn. Forensic Science International: Genetics 32, 33-39. doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.10.003
  5. Löber, U., Hobbs, M., Dayaram, A., Tsangaras, K., Jones, K., Alquezar-Planas, D.E., Ishida, Y., Meers, J., Mayer, J., Quedenau, C., Chen, W., Johnson, R.N., Timms, P., Young, P.R., Roca, A.L., and Greenwood, A.D. Degradation and remobilization of endogenous retroviruses by recombination during the earliest stages of a germ-line invasion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2018, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807598115
  6. Hobbs, M., Pavasovic, A., King, AG., Prentis, PJ., Eldridge, MDB., Chen, Z., Colgan, DJ., Polkinghorne, P., Wilkins, MR., Flanagan, C., Gillett, A., Hanger, J., Johnson, R.N.* and Timms. P. (2014). A transcriptome resource for the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus): insights into koala retrovirus transcription and sequence diversity. BMC Genomics, 15:786 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-15-786
  7. Hobbs, M., King, A., Salinas, R., Chen, Z., Tsangaras, K., Greenwood, A.D., Johnson, R.N., Belov, K., Wilkins, M.R., Timms, P. (2017) Long-read genome sequence assembly provides insight into ongoing retroviral invasion of the koala germline. Scientific Reports 7, 15838. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-16171-1
  8. Zhou Z.M., Johnson R.N., Newman C, D. Buesching, D. W. Macdonald & Y. Zhou (2015). Private possession drives illegal wildlife trade in China. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13: 353–354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/15.WB.014
  9. Eldridge, M. D. B, Meek, P., and Johnson, R.N. (2013) Taxonomic uncertainty and the loss of insular biodiversity. A reassessment of the Christmas Island Shrew (Crocidura attenuata trichura), an endemic, and now probably extinct species. Conservation Biology 28(2), 572–579. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12177
  10. Johnson, R.N., Agapow, P-M., Crozier, R.H. (2003) A tree-island approach to inferring phylogeny in the ant subfamily Formicinae, with especial reference to the evolution of weaving. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 29, 317-330 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00114-3
  11. Johnson, R.N. (2010) The use of DNA identification in prosecuting wildlife-traffickers in Australia. Do the penalties fit the crimes?. Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, Vol 6, Issue 3, pp 211-216. DOI: 10.1007/s12024-010-9174-9
  12. Neaves, L. E., Frankham, G. J., Dennison, S., FitzGibbon, S., Flannagan, C., Gillett, A., Hynes, E., Handasyde, K., Helgen K.M., Tsangaras K., Greenwood A.D., Eldridge M.D.B., & Johnson, R. N. (2016). Phylogeography of the Koala, (Phascolarctos cinereus), and harmonising data to inform conservation. PLoS ONE, 11(9) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162207
  13. Zhou Z.M., Johnson R.N., Newman C, C. D. Buesching, D. W. Macdonald & Y. Zhou. (2015) Tweak Chinese law to end ivory demand. Nature (correspondence) 518: 303
  14. Ueland, M., Ewart K., Troobnikoff A.N., Frankham G.J., Johnson, R.N., Forbes S. (2016) A rapid chemical odour profiling method for the identification of rhinoceros horns, Forensic Science International: 266, e99 – e102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.05.011
  15. Cui, P., Löber, U., Alquezar-Planas, D. E., Ishida, Y., Courtiol, A., Timms, P., Johnson R.N., Lenz D., Helgen K.M., Roca A.L., Hartman S., Greenwood, A. D. (2016). Comprehensive profiling of retroviral integration sites using target enrichment methods from historical koala samples without an assembled reference genome. PeerJ, 4, e1847 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1847

2023

Atsawawaranunt, K., Ewart, K.M., Major, R.E., Johnson, R.N., Santure, A.W. and Whibley, A.W. Tracing the introduction of the invasive common myna using population genomics. Heredity 131, 56–67 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-023-00621-w

Johnson, K.J., Owens, I.F.P., and the Global Collection Group. A global approach for natural history museum collections. Science 379, 1192 (2023). DOI: 10.1126/science.adf6434

2022

J. Lott, B. R. Wright, L. E. Neaves, G. J. Frankham, S. Dennison, M. D. B. Eldridge, S. Potter, D. E. Alquezar-Planas, C. J. Hogg, K. Belov, R. N. Johnson, Future-proofing the koala: Synergising genomic and environmental data for effective species management. Mol. Ecol. 31, 3035–3055 (2022).

J. Lott, B. R. Wright, L. E. Neaves, G. J. Frankham, S. Dennison, M. D. B. Eldridge, S. Potter, D. E. Alquezar-Planas, C. J. Hogg, K. Belov, R. N. Johnson, Future-proofing the koala: Synergising genomic and environmental data for effective species management. Mol. Ecol. 31, 3035–3055 (2022).

Damas, M. Corbo, J. Kim, J. Turner-Maier, M. Farré, D. M. Larkin, O. A. Ryder, C. Steiner, M. L. Houck, S. Hall, L. Shiue, S. Thomas, T. Swale, M. Daly, J. Korlach, M. Uliano-Silva, C. J. Mazzoni, B. W. Birren, D. P. Genereux, J. Johnson, K. Lindblad-Toh, E. K. Karlsson, M. T. Nweeia, R. N. Johnson, Zoonomia Consortium, H. A. Lewin, Evolution of the ancestral mammalian karyotype and syntenic regions. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 119, e2209139119 (2022).

Blaxter, J. M. Archibald, A. K. Childers, J. A. Coddington, K. A. Crandall, F. Di Palma, R. Durbin, S. V. Edwards, J. A. M. Graves, K. J. Hackett, N. Hall, E. D. Jarvis, R. N. Johnson, E. K. Karlsson, W. J. Kress, S. Kuraku, M. K. N. Lawniczak, K. Lindblad-Toh, J. V. Lopez, N. A. Moran, G. E. Robinson, O. A. Ryder, B. Shapiro, P. S. Soltis, T. Warnow, G. J. Zhang, H. A. Lewin, Why sequence all eukaryotes? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 119 (2022), doi:10.1073/pnas.2115636118.

K. N. Lawniczak, R. Durbin, P. Flicek, K. Lindblad-Toh, X. F. Wei, J. M. Archibald, W. J. Baker, K. Belov, M. L. Blaxter, T. M. Bonet, A. K. Childers, J. A. Coddington, K. A. Crandall, A. J. Crawford, R. P. Davey, F. Di Palma, Q. Fang, W. Haerty, N. Hall, K. J. Hoff, K. Howe, E. D. Jarvis, W. E. Johnson, R. N. Johnson, P. J. Kersey, X. Liu, J. V. Lopez, E. W. Myers, O. V. Pettersson, A. M. Phillippy, M. F. Poelchau, K. D. Pruitt, A. Rhie, J. C. Castilla-Rubio, S. K. Sahu, N. A. Salmon, P. S. Soltis, D. Swarbreck, F. Thibaud-Nissen, S. B. Wang, J. L. Wegrzyn, G. J. Zhang, H. Zhang, H. A. Lewin, S. Richards, Standards recommendations for the Earth BioGenome Project. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 119 (2022), doi:10.1073/pnas.2115639118.

Paez, R. H. S. Kraus, B. Shapiro, M. T. P. Gilbert, E. D. Jarvis, F. O. Al-Ajli, G. Ceballos, A. J. Crawford, O. Fedrigo, R. N. Johnson, W. E. Johnson, T. Marques-Bonet, P. A. Morin, R. C. Mueller, O. A. Ryder, E. C. Teeling, B. Venkatesh, Reference genomes for conservation. Science. 377, 364–366 (2022).

2021

Singh, D. Sun, A. G. King, D. E. Alquezar-Planas, R. N. Johnson, D. Alvarez-Ponce, S. V Yi, Koala methylomes reveal divergent and conserved DNA methylation signatures of X chromosome regulation. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 288, 20202244 (2021), doi:10.1098/rspb.2020.2244

M. Jackson, P. J. S. Fleming, M. D. B. Eldridge, M. Archer, S. Ingleby, R. N. Johnson, K. M. Helgen, Taxonomy of the Dingo: It’s an ancient dog. Australian Zoologist (2020), doi:10.7882/AZ.2020.049. https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.049

Moore, M Katherine; Baker, Barry W; Bauman, Tasha L; Burnham-Curtis, Mary K; Espinoza, Edgard O; Ferrell, Carolyn S; Frankham, Greta J; Frazier, Kim; Giles, Jenny L; Hawk, Deedra; “,The Society for Wildlife Forensic Science standards and guidelines,Forensic Science International: Animals and Environments,1,,100015,2021,Elsevier

Hogg, Carolyn J; Morrison, Caitlin; Dudley, Jessica S; Alquezar‐Planas, David E; Beasley‐Hall, Perry G; Magrath, Michael JL; Ho, Simon YW; Lo, Nathan; Johnson, Rebecca N; Grueber, Catherine E,Using phylogenetics to explore interspecies genetic rescue options for a critically endangered parrot. Conservation Science and Practice,3,9,e483,2021,”John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Chichester, UK”

M. Ewart, R. N. Johnson, L. Joseph, R. Ogden, G. J. Frankham, N. Lo, Phylogeography of the iconic Australian pink cockatoo, Lophochroa leadbeateri. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 132 (3), 704-723 (2021), https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa225

Brown, AO, Frankham, GJ, Bond, L, Stuart, BH, Johnson, RN, Ueland, M. An overview of risk investment in the transnational illegal wildlife trade from stakeholder perspectives. WIREs Forensic Sci. 2021; 3:e1397. https://doi.org/10.1002/wfs2.1397

Major, RE; Ewart, KM; Portelli, DJ; King, A; Tsang, LR; O’Dwyer, T; Carlile, N; Haselden, C; Bower, H; Alquezar‐Planas, DE; “,Islands within islands: genetic structuring at small spatial scales has implications for long‐term persistence of a threatened species, Animal Conservation,24(1) 95-107 (2021)

2020

Johnson, R. N. (2020) Tuatara Genome Reveals Diverse Insights into a Remarkable Reptile. Nature 584, 351-352. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02063-4

Morrison, C.E., Johnson, R.N., Grueber, C.E., Hogg, C.J. (2020) Genetic Impacts of Conservation Management Actions in a Critically Endangered Parrot Species.” Conservation Genetics, Springer, pp. 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-020-01292-4

Hill, K.G.W., Nielson, K.E., Tyler, J.J., McInerney, F. A., Doubleday, Z. A., Frankham, G. J., Johnson, R. N., Gillanders, B. M., Delean, S. and Cassey, P. (2020) “Pet or Pest? Stable Isotope Methods for Determining the Provenance of an Invasive Alien Species.” NeoBiota 59: 21-37. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.59.53671

Major, R.E., Ewart, K.M., Portelli, D.J., King, A., Tsang, L.R., O’Dwyer, T., Carlile, N., Haselden, C., Bower, H., Alquezar‐Planas, D.E., Johnson, R.N. and Eldridge, M.D.B. (2020), Islands within islands: genetic structuring at small spatial scales has implications for long‐term persistence of a threatened species. Animal Conservation, https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12603

Lavery Tyrone H., Alabai Masaafi, Esau Tommy, Fuiberi Simon, Furina Di’ifaka, Johnson Rebecca N., Kekeubata Esau, MacLaren David, Waneagea Jackson, Flannery Tim F. (2020) Integrating traditional knowledge, science and conservation in the search for undescribed mammals on Malaita, Solomon Islands. Pacific Conservation Biology, https://doi.org/10.1071/PC19037

Ewart, K.M., Lo, N., Ogden, R., Joseph, L., Ho, S.Y.W., Frankham, G.J., Eldridge, M.D.B., Schodde, R. and Johnson, R.N. (2020) Correction: Phylogeography of the Iconic Australian Red-Tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus Banksii) and Implications for Its Conservation. Heredity 125, page 167. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-020-0315-y

Ewart, K.M., Lo, N., Ogden, R., Joseph, L., Ho, S.Y.W., Frankham, G.J., Eldridge, M.D.B., Schodde, R. and Johnson, R.N. (2020) Phylogeography of the iconic Australian red-tailed black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) and implications for its conservation. Heredity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-020-0315-y

Ueland, M., Brown, A., Bartos, C., Frankham, G.J., Johnson, R.N., & Forbes, S.L. (2020) Profiling Volatilomes: A Novel Forensic Method for Identification of Confiscated Illegal Wildlife Items. Separations, 7(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/separations7010005 

Eldridge, M. D. B., Deakin, J. E., MacDonald, A. J., Byrne, M., Fitzgerald, A., Johnson, R. N., Moritz, C., Palmer, S., & Young, A. (2020). The Oz Mammals Genomics (OMG) initiative: developing genomic resources for mammal conservation at a continental scale. Australian Zoologist, 40(3), 505–509. https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.003

Lott, M.J., Wright, B.R, Kemp, L.F., Johnson, R.N., Hogg, C.J. (2020) Genetic Management of Captive and Reintroduced Bilby Populations. The Journal of Wildlife Management 1–13; 2019; https://doi.org/10.1002/jwmg.21777

2019

Morrison, C.E., Hogg, C.J., Gales, R., Johnson, R.N., & Grueber, C.E. (2019) Low innate immune-gene diversity in the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot (Neophema chrysogaster), Emu – Austral Ornithology, https://doi.org/10.1080/01584197.2019.1686994

Ewart, K. M., Johnson, R.N., Ogden, R., Joseph, L., Frankham, G.J. & Lo, N. (2019) ‘Museum specimens provide reliable SNP data for population genomic analysis of a widely distributed but threatened cockatoo species’, Molecular Ecology Resources, (August), pp. 1755–0998.13082. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13082

Wright, B.R., Grueber, C.E., Lott, M.J., Belov, K., Johnson, R.N. & Hogg, C.J. (2019). Impact of reduced-representation sequencing protocols on detecting population structure in a threatened marsupial. Mol Biol Rep. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-019-04966-6

Mitchell, A., Rothbart, A., Frankham, G., Johnson, R. N., & Neaves, L. (2019). Could do better ! A high school market survey of fish labelling in Sydney, Australia, using DNA barcodes. PeerJ, 7, e7138 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7138

Jackson, S. M., Fleming, P. J. S., Eldridge, M. D. B., Ingleby, S., Flannery, T. F., Johnson, R. N., Cooper, S.J.B, Mitchell, K.J., Souilmi, Y., Cooper, A., Wilson, D., & Helgen, K. M. (2019). The Dogma of Dingoes—Taxonomic status of the dingo: A reply to Smith et al. Zootaxa, 4564(1), 198. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4564.1.7

Ward, J., Johnson, R. N., & Wilson-Wilde, L. (2019). Gender equity: how do the forensic sciences fare? Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1080/00450618.2019.1568556

Lo, N., Montagu, A., Noack, A., Nahrung, H., Wei, H., Eldridge, M., Gray, K.A., Rose, H., Cassis, G., Johnson, R.N., & Lawson, S. (2019). Population genetics of the Australian eucalypt pest Thaumastocoris peregrinus: evidence for a recent invasion of Sydney. Journal of Pest Science, 92(1), 201–212. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-018-0995-8

Summerell, A. E., Frankham, G. J., Gunn, P., & Johnson, R. N. (2019). DNA based method for determining source country of the short beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) in the illegal wildlife trade. Forensic Science International, 295, 46–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.11.019

Ewart, K. M., Griffin, A. S., Johnson, R. N., Kark, S., Magory Cohen, T., Lo, N., & Major, R. E. (2019). Two speed invasion: assisted and intrinsic dispersal of common mynas over 150 years of colonization. Journal of Biogeography, 46(1), 45–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13473

2018

Johnson, R.N., D. O’Meally, Z. Chen, G.J. Etherington, S.Y.W. Ho, W.J. Nash, C.E. Grueber, Y. Cheng, C.M. Whittington, S. Dennison, E. Peel, W. Haerty, R.J. O’Neill, D. Colgan, T.L. Russell, D.E. Alquezar-Planas, V. Attenbrow, J.G. Bragg, P.A. Brandies, A.Y.-Y. Chong, J.E. Deakin, F. Di Palma, Z. Duda, M.D.B. Eldridge, K.M. Ewart, C.J. Hogg, G.J. Frankham, A. Georges, A.K. Gillett, M. Govendir, A.D. Greenwood, T. Hayakawa, K.M. Helgen, M. Hobbs, C.E. Holleley, T.N. Heider, E.A. Jones, A. King, D. Madden, J.A.M. Graves, K.M. Morris, L.E. Neaves, H.R. Patel, A. Polkinghorne, M.B. Renfree, C. Robin, R. Salinas, K. Tsangaras, P.D. Waters, S.A. Waters, B. Wright, M.R. Wilkins, P. Timms, K. Belov. (2018). Adaptation and conservation insights from the koala genome. Nature Genetics 50, 1102-1111. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-018-0153-5

Löber, U., Hobbs, M., Dayaram, A., Tsangaras, K., Jones, K., Alquezar-Planas, D.E., Ishida, Y., Meers, J., Mayer, J., Quedenau, C., Chen, W., Johnson, R.N., Timms, P., Young, P.R., Roca, A.L., and Greenwood, A.D. Degradation and remobilization of endogenous retroviruses by recombination during the earliest stages of a germ-line invasion. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2018, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807598115

Ewart, K.M., Frankham, G.J., McEwing, R., The, D.T., Hogg, C.J., Johnson, R.N. (2018). A rapid multiplex PCR assay for presumptive species identification of rhinoceros horns and its implementation in Vietnam. PLoS ONE 13(6): e0198565. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198565

Eldridge, M.D.B., Potter, S., Helgen, K.M., Sinaga, M.H., Aplin, K.P., Flannery, T.F. and Johnson, R.N. 2018. Phylogenetic analysis of the tree-kangaroos (Dendrolagus) reveals multiple divergent lineages within New Guinea. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.05.030

Neaves L.E., Danks M., Lott M.J., Dennison S., Frankham G.J., King A., Eldridge M.D.B., Johnson R.N., Divljan A., (2018) Unmasking the complexity of species identification in Australasian flying-foxes. PLoS ONE 13(4): e0194908. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0194908

Ewart, K.M., Frankham, G.J., McEwing, R., Webster, L.M.I., Ciavaglia, S.A, Linacre, A.M.T., Dang tat, T., Rovie, J., Sitam, F., Ovouthan, K., Johnson, R.N. (2018) International validation of a species identification test for seized rhinoceros horn. Forensic Science International: Genetics 32, 33-39. doi:10.1016/j.fsigen.2017.10.003

2017

Hobbs, M., King, A., Salinas, R., Chen, Z., Tsangaras, K., Greenwood, A.D., Johnson, R.N., Belov, K., Wilkins, M.R., Timms, P. (2017) Long-read genome sequence assembly provides insight into ongoing retroviral invasion of the koala germline. Scientific Reports 7: 15838 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-16171-1

Ahlers, N., Creecy, J., Frankham, G., Johnson, R.N., Kotze, A., Linacre, A., McEwing, R., Mwale, M., Rovie-Ryan, J.J., Sitam, F., Webster, L.M.I. (2017) ForCyt’ DNA database of wildlife species. Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series, Volume 6, Pages e466-e468, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigss.2017.09.195

Duchêne, D.A., Bragg, J.G., Duchêne, S., Neaves, L.E., Potter, S., Moritz, C., Johnson, R.N., Ho, S.Y.W., Eldridge, M.D.B. (2017) Analysis of Phylogenomic Tree Space Resolves Relationships Among Marsupial Families. Systematic Biology, syx076, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syx076

Hogg, C. J., Dennison, S., Frankham, G. J., Hinds, M., & Johnson, R. N. (2018). Stopping the spin cycle: genetics and bio-banking as a tool for addressing the laundering of illegally caught wildlife as ‘captive-bred.’ Conservation Genetics Resources, 10(2), 237–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-017-0784-3

Dennison, S., Frankham, G.J., Neaves, L.E., Flannagan, C., Fitzgibbon, S, Eldridge, M.D.B. and Johnson, R.N. (2017) Population genetics of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) in northeastern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland. Australian Journal of Zoology. doi.org/10.1071/ZO16081

Waugh, C.A., Hanger, J., Loader, J., King, A., Hobbs, M., Johnson, R.N. and Timms, P. (2017) Infection with koala retrovirus subgroup B (KoRV-B), but not KoRV-A, is associated with chlamydial disease in free-ranging koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus). Scientific Reports 7: 134, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-00137-4

Eldridge, M. D. B., Divljan, A., Frankham, G. J., Ingleby, S., Johnson, R. N., King, A. G., Major, R.E., Parnaby, H.E. & Tsang, L. (2017). The Australian Museum Lord Howe Island Expedition 2017—birds and mammals. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.1835-4211.26.2017.1704

2016

Neaves, L. E., Frankham, G. J., Dennison, S., FitzGibbon, S., Flannagan, C., Gillett, A., Hynes, E., Handasyde, K., Helgen K.M., Tsangaras K., Greenwood A.D., Eldridge M.D.B., & Johnson, R. N. (2016). Phylogeography of the Koala, (Phascolarctos cinereus), and harmonising data to inform conservation. PLoS ONE, 11(9). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162207

Ueland, M., Ewart K., Troobnikoff A.N., Frankham G.J., Johnson, R.N., Forbes S. (2016) A rapid chemical odour profiling method for the identification of rhinoceros horns, Forensic Science International: 266, e99 – e102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.05.011

Cui, P., Löber, U., Alquezar-Planas, D. E., Ishida, Y., Courtiol, A., Timms, P., Johnson R.N., Lenz D., Helgen K.M., Roca A.L., Hartman S., Greenwood, A. D. (2016). Comprehensive profiling of retroviral integration sites using target enrichment methods from historical koala samples without an assembled reference genome. PeerJ, 4, e1847. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1847

2015

Zhou Z.M., Johnson R.N., Newman C, C. D. Buesching, D. W. Macdonald & Y. Zhou. (2015) Tweak Chinese law to end ivory demand. Nature (correspondence) 518: 303

Zhou Z.M., Johnson R.N., Newman C, C. D. Buesching, D. W. Macdonald & Y. Zhou (2015). Private possession drives illegal wildlife trade in China. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13: 353–354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/15.WB.014

Cui, J., Frankham, G. J., Johnson, R. N., Polkinghorne, A., Timms, P., O’Meally, D., Cheng, Y.Y., & Belov, K. (2015). SNP Marker Discovery in Koala TLR Genes. PLOS ONE, 10(3), e0121068. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121068

Frankham, G. J., Hinds, M. C., & Johnson, R. N. (2015). Development of 16 forensically informative microsatellite loci to detect the illegal trade of broad headed snakes (Hoplocephalus bungaroides). Conservation Genetics Resources, 7(2), 533–535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-014-0414-2

2014

Hobbs, M., Pavasovic, A., King, AG., Prentis, PJ., Eldridge, MDB., Chen, Z., Colgan, DJ., Polkinghorne, P., Wilkins, MR., Flanagan, C., Gillett, A., Hanger, J., Johnson, R.N. and Timms. P. (2014). A transcriptome resource for the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus): insights into koala retrovirus transcription and sequence diversity. BMC Genomics, 15:786 https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-15-786

Major, R.E., Johnson, R.N., King, A.G., Cooke, G.M., and Sladek, J.L.T. (2014) Genetic isolation of endangered bird populations inhabiting saltmarsh remnants surrounded by intensive urbanisation. Animal Conservation Animal Conservation, 17 419–429 doi:10.1111/acv.12108

Johnson, R.N., Wilson-Wilde, L., Linacre, A.M. (2014) Current and Future Directions of DNA in Wildlife Forensic Science. Forensic Science International: Genetics 10, 1–11 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2013.12.007

Johnson, R.N., Hobbs, M., Eldridge, M.B.D., King, A.G., Colgan, D.J., Wilkins, M.R., Chen, Z., Prentis, P.J., Pavasovic, A., Polkinghorne, A., & Timms, P., (2014). The Koala Genome Consortium. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum (online) 24: 91–92. https://doi.org/10.3853/j.1835-4211.24.2014.1629

Pye, G. W., Johnson, R.N., Greenwood, A.D., 2014. Preface to papers presented at the Koala Retrovirus Workshop, San Diego Zoo, April 2013. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum (online) 24: 1–2.

Pye, G. W., Johnson, R.N., Greenwood, A.D., 2014. Koala Retrovirus Workshop conclusion. The future of KoRV research—foundational and applied. Technical Reports of the Australian Museum (online) 24: 103–105.

2013 and earlier

Mason, R.A.B., Price, C., Boles, W. E., Gray, K.A., Rickard, E., Eldridge, M.D.B, Johnson, R.N. (2013) Isolation and characterisation of microsatellite loci in the Bush Stone-curlew (Burhinus grallarius), a declining Australian bird’. Australian Journal of Zoology 61, 421–423 doi.org/10.1071/ZO13059

Eldridge, M. D. B, Meek, P., and Johnson, R.N. (2013) Taxonomic uncertainty and the loss of insular biodiversity. A reassessment of the Christmas Island Shrew (Crocidura attenuata trichura), an endemic, and now probably extinct species. Conservation Biology 28(2), 572–579. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.12177

Frankham, G.J., Hogg, C., Gillespie, J., King, A. and Johnson, R.N. (2013) Characterisation of 16 microsatellite markers to aid ex-situ conservation of the Scimitar-horned Oryx, Oryx dammah, via 454 sequencing. Conservation Genetics Resources 5(1) 795–797. DOI 10.1007/s12686-013-9910-z

Cooke, G. M., King, A. G., Johnson, R. N., Boles, W. E., & Major, R. E. (2012). Rapid Characterization of Mitochondrial Genome Rearrangements in Australian Songbirds Using Next-generation Sequencing Technology. Journal of Heredity, 103(6), 882–886. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/ess091

King, A. G., Cooke, G. M., Johnson, R. N., & Major, R. E. (2012). Development and multiplex genotyping of eighteen novel microsatellite markers for a threatened saltmarsh bird Epthianura albifrons (Meliphagidae). Conservation Genetics Resources, 4(4), 893–896. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-012-9667-9

Cooke, G. M., King, A. G., Miller, L., & Johnson, R. N. (2012). A rapid molecular method to detect the invasive golden apple snail Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1822). Conservation Genetics Resources, 4(3), 591–593. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12686-011-9599-9

Johnson, R.N. (2010) The use of DNA identification in prosecuting wildlife-traffickers in Australia. Do the penalties fit the crimes?. Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology, Vol 6, Issue 3, pp 211-216. DOI: 10.1007/s12024-010-9174-9

Gray, K.A., Noack, A., Johnson, R.N., Eldridge, M.D.B., Bess, E., Lo, N., & Rose, H. (2010) Eleven di-nucleotide polymorphic microsatellite markers for the winter bronzing bug Thaumastocoris peregrines Carpintero and Dellapé (Heteroptera: Thaumastocoridae). Molecular Ecology Resources 10, 1106–1108, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-0998.2010.02916.x

Wilson, G. D. F., Humphrey, C. L., Colgan, D. J., Gray, K. A., & Johnson, R. N. (2009). Monsoon-influenced speciation patterns in a species flock of Eophreatoicus Nicholls (Isopoda; Crustacea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 51(2), 349–364. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.02.001

Leis, J.M., Wright, K.J., Johnson, R.N. (2007) Behaviour that influences dispersal and connectivity in the small, young larvae of a reef fish. Marine Biology, 153: 103-117 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00227-007-0794-x

Siegel, A.J., Hui, J., Johnson, R.N. and Starks, P.T. (2005) Mobile Insulator Unit: Honey bee workers as living insulation. Insectes Sociaux, 52(3), 242-246 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00040-005-0805-1

Johnson, R.N., Zaman, T., Decelle, M., Siegal, A.J., Tarpy, D.R., Siegel, E. and Starks, P.T. (2005) Isolation of a model honeybee disease agent: Revision needed for inoculation of experimental colonies with chalkbrood. Journal of Apicultural Research, 44(1), 29-32 https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2005.11101143

Starks, P.T., Johnson, R.N., Siegel, A.J., DeCelle, M.M. (2005) Heat-Shielding: A task for youngsters. Behavioural Ecology, 16(1), 128-132 https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arh124

Liebert, A.E., Johnson, R.N., Switz, G.T., Starks, P.T. (2004) Triploid females and diploid males: underreported phenomena in polistine wasps? Insectes Sociaux, 51(3), 205-211 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00040-004-0754-0

Johnson, R.N. and Starks, P.T. (2004) A surprising level of genetic diversity in an invasive wasp: Polistes dominulus in the Northeastern United States. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 97(4), 732-737 https://doi.org/10.1603/0013-8746(2004)097[0732:ASLOGD]2.0.CO;2

Johnson, R.N., Agapow, P-M., Crozier, R.H. (2003) A tree-island approach to inferring phylogeny in the ant subfamily Formicinae, with especial reference to the evolution of weaving. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 29: 317-330 https://doi.org/10.1016/S1055-7903(03)00114-3

Johnson, R.N., Oldroyd, B.P., Barron, A.B. and Crozier, R.H. (2002). Genetic control of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) dance language: Segregating dance forms in a backcrossed colony. Journal of Heredity, 93(3), 170-173 https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/93.3.170

Crozier R.H., Oldroyd B.P., Tek Tay W., Kaufmann B.E., Johnson R.N., Carew M.E., Jennings K.M. (1997) Molecular advances in understanding social insect population structure. Electrophoresis 18: 1672-1675 https://doi.org/10.1002/elps.115018093

  • Johnson, R.N. (2013) Investigation of ‘Aircraft Wildlife Strike’ using forensic techniques. In Cooper and Cooper (eds), Wildlife Forensic Investigation: Principles and Practice. ISBN 13:978-1-4398-1374-4 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
  • Johnson, R.N. (2011) Conservation Genetics and Wildlife Forensics of Birds. In Huffman, J.E. and Wallace, J.R. (eds), Wildlife Forensics: Methods and Applications. ISBN 9780470662588 John Wiley & Sons Limited UK [distributor].
  • Mason, R. A. B., Price, C., Johnson, R.N., Boles, W. E., Eldridge, M.D.B.E, Gray, K. A., Rickard, E. (2010). Genetic analysis of the Bush Stone-curlew Burhinus grallarius. Report prepared for the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.
  • Eldridge, M.D.B., Johnson, R.N., Meek, P.D. (2009) The Taxonomy of the Christmas Island Shrew Crocidura attenuata trichura. A report to the Department of the Environment, Heritage, Water and the Arts.
  • Christidis, L., Norman, J.A., Johnson, R.N., Lindsay, S. (2006) Forensic Identification of Aviation Bird Strikes in Australia. ATSB Research and Analysis Report. Aviation Safety Research Grant B2005/0117