Courses

• Biol1003: Evolution, Ecology and Genetics (Lecturer)
• Biol1009: Diversity of Life (Lecturer)
• Biol2151: Introductory Genetics (Lecturer/Convenor)
• Biol2152: Advances in Human Genetics (Lecturer)
• Biol2154: Evolution of Biodiversity (Lecturer/Convenor)


Teaching Awards

• ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004

• Chromosomal evolution in terrestrial invertebrates
• Social behaviour in terrestrial invertebrates
• Phylogeography of SE Australian animals and plants

ROCKMAN M.V., ROWELL D.M. & TAIT N.N. 2001 Phylogenetics of Planipapillus, lawn-headed onychophorans of the Australian Alps, based on nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences. Mol. Phylo. Evol. 21: 103 - 106
ROCKMAN M.V. & ROWELL D.M. 2002 Episodic chromosomal evolution in Planipapillus: a phylogenetic approach to evolutionary dynamics and speciation. Evolution 56: 58 - 69
ROWELL D.M, ROCKMAN M.V. & TAIT N.N. 2002 Extensive Robertsonian Rearrangement: Implications for the radiation and biogeography of Planipapillus Reid (Onychophora : Peripatopsidae). J. Zool. Lond. 257: 171 - 179
GARRICK R. C. , SANDS C. J., ROWELL D. M., TAIT N. N., GREENSLADE P. & SUNNUCKS P. 2004 Phylogeography recapitulates topography: very fine-scale local endemism of a saproxylic ‘giant’ springtail at Tallaganda in the Great Dividing Range of south-east Australia. Molecular Ecology 13: 3329 – 3344
REINHARD J. & ROWELL D.M. 2005 Social behaviour in an Australian velvet worm, Euperipatoides rowelli (Onychophora : Peripatopsidae). J. Zool. Lond. 267: 1 - 7
BEAVIS A.S. & ROWELL D.M. (2006) Phylogeography of two species of funnelweb spider (Hadronyche sp. 1 and Atrax sp. 1) in Tallaganda State Forest (NSW). In: Insect Biodiversity and Dead Wood: Proceedings of a Symposium for the 22 International Congress of Entomology. General Technical Report (eds Grove SJ, Hanula JL), pp. 23-29. US department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Asheville, North Carolina
WOODMAN J.D., ASH J.E. & ROWELL D.M. (2006). Climatic modelling for Tallaganda State Forest, NSW, relative to population structuring among saproxylic invertebrates. J. Zool. Lond. 268: 325-333
GRUETZNER, F., ASHLEY T., ROWELL D. & GRAVES J.M. (2006) How did the platypus get its sex chromosome chain? A comparison of meiotic multiples and sex chromosomes in plants and animals. Chromosoma 115: 75 - 88
STRAUSFELD N.J., STRAUSFELD C.M., LOESEL R., ROWELL D.M. & STOWE S. (2006) Arthropod phylogeny: chelicerate brain organization in an onychophoran. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. Ser b. 273: 1857-1866
SUNNUCKS P., BLACKET M., TAYLOR J.M., SANDS C. J., CIAVAGLIA S.A., TAIT N.N., ROWELL D.M. & PAVLOVA A. (2006) A tale of two flatties: different responses of two terrestrial flatworms to past environmental climatic fluctuations at Tallaganda in montane south-eastern Australia. Molecular Ecology 15: 4513 - 4531
STRAUSFELD N.J., STRAUSFELD C.M., STOWE S., ROWELL D.M. & LOESEL R. (2006) Organisation of neuropils in the brain of the onychophoran Euperipatoides rowelli and its evolutionary implications. Arthropod Structure and Development 35: 169 – 196
BEAVIS A.S., ROWELL D.M. & EVANS T. (2007) Cannibalism and kin recognition in Delena cancerides, a social huntsman spider. J. Zool. Lond. 271, 233-237.
HODGES K., ROWELL D.M. & KEOGH S. (2007) Comparative phylogeography of sister taxa reveals marked differences in recent evolutionary history. J. Zool. Lond. 272: 64-72
GARRICK R.C., SANDS C.J., ROWELL D.M., HILLIS D.M. & SUNNUCKS P. (2007) Catchments catch all: very fine-scale phylogeography of a ‘giant’ Gondwanan Hexapod from the southeast Australian highlands – a multi-gene approach. Molecular Ecology 16: 1865 - 1882
COOK L. & ROWELL D.M. (2007) Genetic diversity, host-specificity and unusual phylogeography of a cryptic, host-related species-complex of gall-inducing scale insects. Ecological Entomology 32: 506 - 515
SHARP H.E. & ROWELL D.M. (2007) Unprecedented Chromosomal Diversity and Behaviour Modify Linkage Patterns and Speciation Processes: Structural Heterozygosity in an Australian Spider. J. Evol. Biol. 20: 2427 - 2439
WISHART, G. & ROWELL D.M. (2008) Trapdoor Spiders of the Genus Misgolas (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) in the Central Coast, Newcastle and Lower Mid-North Coast Regions of New South Wales, Australia, with notes on genetic variation. Records of the Australian Museum 60: 45-86
GARRICK R.C., ROWELL D.M., SIMMONS C.S., HILLIS D.M. & SUNNUCKS P. (2008) Fine-scale phylogeographic congruence despite demographic incongruence in two low-mobility saproxylic springtails. Evolution 62: 1103-1118
MOORE D.J., HALLIDAY D, ROWELL D.M., ROBINSON A., KEOGH J.S. (2009) Positive Darwinian selection results in resistance to cardioactive toxins in true toads (Anura: Bufonidae) Biology Letters 5: 513 - 516