Research Interests

My research addresses questions of phylogeny and phylogeographic patterns across marine animals. Current questions revolve around molluscan phylogeny, and gene flow in Antarctic invertebrates. I love to work on nudibranch sea slugs, and investigate various aspects of reproduction, behaviour, sperm morphology and symbioses.

Current projects include:

• Resolving molluscan phylogeny with EST data

(with Casey Dunn and Gonzalo Giribet)

• Phylogeography of southern Australian Sea Dragons

(with Greg Rouse and Steve Donnellan)

• Phylogeny of the chromodoridid nudibranchs

(with Schery Umanzor-Rodriguez and Michelle Nishiguchi)

• Phylogeography of Antarctic Marine Invertebrates

• Evolution of bioluminescence in the Planaxidae (Cerithioidea)

(with Dimitri Deheyn)

Publications

Wilson, NG, Rouse, GW & Giribet, G. (2010) Novel molecular data quantifies support for a molluscan clade Serilaia (Monoplacophora+Polyplacophora). Moleculr Phylogenetics & Evolution 54: 187-193.

Holland, ND & Wilson, NG (2009) Molecular identification of larvae of a tetraphyllidean tapeworm (Plathelminthes: Cestoda) in a razor clam; an alternative intermediate host in the life cycle of Acanthobothrium brevissime. Journal of Parasitology 95: 1215-11217.

Wilson, NG, Huang, D, Goldstein, MC, Cha, H, Giribet, G & Rouse, GW (2009) Field collection of Laevipilina hyalina MacLean, 1979 from southern California, the most accessible living monoplacophoran. Journal of Molluscan Studies 75: 195-197.

Wilson, NG, Schrödl, M & Halanych, KM (2009) Ocean barriers and glaciation: evidence for explosive radiation of mitochondrial lineages in the Antarctic sea slug Doris kerguelenensis. Molecular Ecology 18: 965-984.

Rouse, GW, Wilson, NG, Goffredi, SK, Young, CM & Vrijenhoek, RC. (2009) Spawning and metamorphosis of Osedax boneworms. Marine Biology 156: 395-405.

Holland, ND, Campbell, T, Holland, LZ & Wilson, NG (2008) The Florida amphioxus (Cephalochordata) hosts larvae of the tapeworm Acanthobothrium brevissime: natural history, anatomy and taxonomic identification of the parasite. Acta Zoologica 90: 23-42.

Salmen, A, Schrödl, M, & Wilson, NG (2008) Scanning electron microscopical description of three new endoparasitic Ceratosomicola species from tropical Indo-Pacific nudibranch hosts (Crustacea, Copepoda, Poecilostomatoida). Spixiana 31(1): 47-69.

Turner, LM and Wilson, NG (2008) Paraphyly across oceans: a molecular phylogeny of the Chromodorididae. Zoologica Scripta 37(1): 23-42.

Wilson, NG, Belcher, RL, Lockhart, SJ and Halanych, KM (2007) Multiple lineages and an absence of panmixia in the ‘circumpolar’ crinoid Promachocrinus kerguelensis in the Atlantic sector of Antarctica. Marine Biology 152: 895-904.

Wilson, NG, and Willan, RC (2007) Hypselodoris jacksoni, a new species from the south-western Pacific Ocean (Nudibranchia: Chromodorididae), with a discussion on intraspecific variation in mantle glands in Chromodoris willani Rudman, 1982. Zootaxa 1549: 29-42.

Wilson, NG (2006) New record of the nudibranch Polycera hedgpethi Marcus, 1964 in South Australia, with a discussion on its occurrence in Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Suppl. 69: 137-140.

Loh, W, Cowlishaw, M, and Wilson NG (2006) Diversity of Symbiodinium dinoflagellates from the Indo-Pacific sea slug Pteraeolidia ianthina (Gastropoda, Mollusca). Marine Ecology Progress Series 320: 177-184.

Wilson, NG and Healy, JM (2006) Basal chromodorid sperm ultrastructure (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudibranchia). Zoomorphology 125: 99-107.

Wilson, NG & Lee, MSY (2005) Molecular phylogeny of Chromodoris (Mollusca, Nudibranchia) and the identification of a planar spawning clade Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 36(3): 722-727.

Wilson, NG (2005) Sperm ultrastructure of the Actinocyclidae (Mollusca, Nudibranchia) and homology of the terminal region of nudibranch sperm. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 47(1): 1-9.

Wilson, NG. (2005) Site fidelity in mariametrid crinoids from southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Coral Reefs, 24(1): 99-101.

Wilson, NG (2003). Australian Aphelodoris (Mollusca: Nudibranchia): two new species, sperm ultrastructure and a redescription of Aphelodoris greeni Burn. In: F. E. Wells and D. I. Walker (eds), The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth. Volume 2: 563-587.

Wilson, NG & Healy, JM (2002) Is Cadlinella ornatissima a chromodorid? – sperm ultrastructure in an enigmatic nudibranch. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 42(2-3): 179-188.

Wilson, NG (2002) Spawn masses of chromodorid nudibranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Malacologia, 44(2): 289-305.

Wilson, NG & Healy JM (2002) Comparative sperm ultrastructure in five genera of the nudibranch family Chromodorididae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 68: 133-145.