Lab publications
Richardson M. A., Nenadic N., Wingfield M., McDougall C. (2024). The development of multiplex PCR assays for the rapid identification of multiple Saccostrea species, and their practical applications. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 24:67. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-024-02250-1.
McDougall C., Nenadic N., Richardson M. A., Healy J.M. (2024). Molecular identification of intertidal rock oyster species in north-eastern Australia reveals new candidates for aquaculture. Aquaculture, 587:740838. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2024.740838.
Stanisic L., McDougall C., Oliver P. (2024). Biogeography of vine thickets and open woodland in subtropical eastern Australia: a case study of three camaenid land snail genera. Australian Journal of Zoology, 71:ZO23032. htpps://doi.org/10.1071/ZO23032.
2024
Shackelford N, & McDougall C. (2023). Ecosystem restoration, regeneration, and rewilding. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 23:52. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-023-02165-3 (Editorial).
Fuselli S, Greco S, Biello R, Palmitessa S, Lago M, Meneghetti C, McDougall C, Trucchi E, Rota Stabelli O, Biscotti A, Schmidt D.J., Roberts D.T., Espinoza T, Hughes J.M., Gerdol M & Bertorelle G. (2023). Relaxation of natural selection in the evolution of the giant lungfish genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 40(9):msad193. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad193.
Turschwell M.P., Brown C.J., Lacharité M., Melbourne-Thomas J., Hayes K.R., Bustamante R.H., Dambacher J.M., Evans L., Fidelman P., Hatton MacDonald, D., Van Putten, I., Wood G., Abdussamie N., Bates M., Blackwell D., D’Alessandro S., Dutton I., Ericson J.A., Frid C.L.J., McDougall C., Lea M., Rissik D., Trebilco R., & Fulton E.A. (2023). Co-designing a multi-criteria approach to ranking hazards to and from Australia’s emerging offshore blue economy. Environmental Science and Policy, 147:154-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.06.008.
2023
2022
Bodley, B., Holmes, B. J., Williams, S. M., Tibbetts, I. R., Burfeind, D. D., McDougall, C. Assassins and apples: the environmental constraints of two snails that threaten Australian aquatic systems. Marine and Freshwater Research, 73(12):1510-1519. https://doi.org/10.1071/MF22176.
Page, T. M., McDougall, C., Bar, I., Diaz-Pulido, G. (2022) Transcriptomic stability or lability explains sensitivity to climate stressors in coralline algae. BMC Genomics, 23:729. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-022-08931-9.
Stanisic, L., Köhler, F., McDougall, C. (2022). Two new genera of land snail from dry subtropical forests of eastern Australia: Brigaladra gen. nov. and Euryladra gen. nov (Epulmonata: Camaenidae). Invertebrate Systematics, 36:506-532. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS21075.
Richardson, M., Zhang, Y., Connolly, R. M., Gillies, C. L., McDougall, C. (2022). Some like it hot: the ecology, ecosystem benefits and restoration potential of oyster reefs in tropical waters. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9:873768. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.873768
Lawley, J. W., Carroll, A. R., McDougall, C. (2021) Rhizostomins: a novel pigment family from rhizostome jellyfish (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa). Frontiers in Marine Science, 8:752949. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.752949.
Salvi, D., Bertsch., H., Caceres-Martinez, J., Cruz-Flores, R., Del Rio-Portilla, M. A., Eernisse, D. J., Healy, J. M., Lafarga-De La Cruz, F., Londono-Cruz, E., McDougall., C., Oliver, G. P., Oliverio, M., Paniagua, C., Willan, R. C., Zacher, D. C., Mariottini, P. (2021) Taxonomic discussion on scientific names for Pacific oysters requires evidence-based arguments and pluralism. Letter to the Editor. Aquaculture, 737298.
Botwright, N. A., Mendoza-Porras, O., Chong, R., Zhang, Y, McDougall, C. (2021) Reproductive challenges in abalone breeding. Breeding Focus 2021 – Improving Reproduction. Animal Genetics and Breeding Unit, UNE.
Willan, R. C., Nenadic, N., Ramage, A, McDougall, C. (2021) Molecular confirmation that the large crassostreine oyster newly established in northern Queensland, Australia, is Magallana bilineata (Röding, 1798). Molluscan Research 41:1. https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2020.1865515
Buddawong, T., Asuvapongpatana, S. Suwannasing, C., Hubuddha, V., Sukonset, C., Sombutkayasith, C., McDougall, C., Weerachatyanukul, W. (2021) Calcineurin subunit B is involved in shell regeneration in Haliotis diversicolor. PeerJ 9:e10662. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10662
McDougall, C., Aguilera, F. A., Shokoohmand, A., Moase, P., Degnan, B. M. (2021) Pearl sac gene expression profiles associated with pearl attributes in the silver-lip pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima. Frontiers in Genetics special issue – The Evolution of Biomineralization in Metazoans 11:597459. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2020.597459
Varney, R. M., Speiser, D. I., McDougall, C., Degnan, B. M., Kocot, K. M. (2021) The iron-responsive genome of the chiton Acanthopleura granulata. Genome Biology and Evolution 13(1) https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaa263.
2021
2020
McDougall, C., Nenadic, N., Healy, J. M. (2020) Guide to Queensland’s intertidal oysters. Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. http://bit.ly/oysterbkt
McDougall, C. (2020) Reinvigorating the Queensland oyster industry, final report to the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation. Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland.
Stanisic, L., and Stanisic, J. (2020) On the identity of several Queensland camaenids: a reappraisal of their type specimens, accuracy of type localities and their association with extant populations (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae: Figuladra. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 62:133-156.
Buddawong, T., Asuvapongpatana, S., Senapin, S., McDougall, C., Weerachatyanukul, W. (2020) Characterization of calcineurin A and B genes in the abalone, Haliotis diversicolor, and their immune response role during bacterial infection. PeerJ 8:e8868 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8868.
Worthington Wilmer, J., Amey, A., McDougall, C., Venz, M., Peck S., Oliver, P. M. (2020) Comparative mitochondrial phylogeography of two legless lizards (Pygopodidae) from Queensland’s fragmented woodlands. Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution – special issue http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22244662-20191081.
2019
Baynes, A., Montagut Pino, G., Huong Duong, G., Lockyer, A. E., McDougall, C., Jobling, S., Routledge, E. (2019) Early embryonic exposure of freshwater gastropods to pharmaceutical 5α-reductase inhibitors results in a surprising open-coiled “banana-shaped” shell. Scientific Reports 9:16439.
Wollesen, T., McDougall, C., Arendt, D. (2019) Remnants of ancestral larval eyes in an eyeless mollusk? Molecular characterization of photoreceptors in the scaphopod Antalis entalis. EvoDevo 10:25.
Page, T. M., McDougall, C., Diaz-Pulido, G. (2019) De novo transcriptome assembly for four species of crustose coralline algae and analysis of unique orthologous genes. Scientific Reports 9:12611.
Schmidt, D. J., McDougall, C. (2019) Complete mitogenomes of five ecologically diverse Australian freshwater fishes. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 4(1):191-193.
2018
McDougall, C., Hammond, M., Dailey, S., Somorjai, I., Cummins, S. F., Degnan, B. M. (2018) The evolution of ependymin-related proteins. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18:182.
McDougall, C. (2018) Comparative de novo transcriptome analysis of the Australian black-lip and Sydney rock oysters reveals expansion of repetitive elements in Saccostrea genomes. PLOS ONE 13(10):e0206417.
Motti, C. A., Bose, U., Roberts, R. E., McDougall, C., Smith, M. K., Hall, M. R., Cummins, S. F. (2018) Chemical ecology of chemosensation in Asteroidea: Insights towards management strategies of pest species. Journal of Chemical Ecology 44(2):147-177.
McDougall, C., Degnan, B.M. (2018) The evolution of molluscan shells. WIRES Developmental Biology e313. https://doi/10.1002/wdev.313
Carmel’s previous publications
Hall, M. R., Kocot, K. M., Baughman, K. W., Fernandez-Valverde, S. L., Gauthier, M. E. A., Hatleberg, W. L., Krishnan, A., McDougall, C., Motti C., Shoguchi E., Wang T., Zhao M., Bose U., Shinzato C., Hisata K., Fujie M., Kanda M., Cummins S. F., Satoh N., Degnan S. M., Degnan B. M. (2017) The Crown-of-Thorns starfish genome as a tool for biocontrol of a coral reef pest. Nature 544:231-234.
Kocot, K. M., McDougall, C., Degnan, B.M. (2017). Developing Perspectives on Molluscan Shells Part 1: Introduction and Molecular Biology. Physiology of Molluscs: A Collection of Selected Reviews. Vol 1:1-41. Apple Academic Press. ISBN: 9781771884082.
Aguilera, F. A., McDougall, C., Degnan, B.M. (2017) Co-option and de novo gene evolution underlie molluscan shell diversity. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34(4):779-792.
McDougall, C., Woodcroft, B. J., Degnan, B.M. (2016) The widespread prevalence of silk-like proteins in metazoan biomaterials. PLOS ONE 11(7).
Wang, T., Nuurai, P., McDougall, C., York, P. S., Bose, U., Degnan, B.M., Cummins, S.C. (2016) Identification of a female spawn-associated Kazal-type inhibitor from the tropical abalone Haliotis asinina. Journal of Peptide Science 22(7):461-470.
Kocot, K. M., Aguilera, F. A., McDougall, C., Jackson, D. J., Degnan, B.M. (2016) Sea shell diversity and rapidly evolving secretomes: insights into the evolution of biomineralization. Frontiers in Zoology 13:23.
McDougall, C., Moase, P., Degnan, B.M. (2016) Host and donor influence on pearls produced by the silver-lip pearl oyster, Pinctada maxima. Aquaculture 450:313-320.
Wollesen, T., Rodriguez Monje, S., McDougall, C., Degnan, B.M., Wanninger, A. (2015) The ParaHox gene Gsx patterns the apical organ and central nervous system but not the foregut in scaphopod and cephalopod mollusks. EvoDevo 6:41.
Baughman, K.W., McDougall, C., Cummins, S., Hall, M., Degnan, B.M., Satoh, N., Shoguchi, E. (2014) Genomic organisation of the echinoderm Acanthaster planci Hox and ParaHox clusters. Genesis 52(12):952-958.
Wollesen, T., McDougall, C., Degnan, B.M., Wanninger, A. (2014) POU genes are expressed during the formation of individual ganglia of the cephalopod central nervous system. EvoDevo 5:41.
Budd, A.*, McDougall, C., Green, K., Degnan, B.M. (2014) Control of shell pigmentation by secretory tubules in the abalone mantle. Frontiers in Zoology 11:62. *Equal contribution.
Aguilera, F., McDougall, C., Degnan, B.M. (2014) Evolution of the tyrosinase gene family in bivalve molluscs: independent expansion of the mantle gene repertoire. Acta Biomaterialia 10:3855-3865.
McDougall, C., Aguilera, F., Moase, P., Lucas, J.S., Degnan, B.M. (2013) Pearls. Current Biology 23(16):R671-R673. (Quick Guide).
Aguilera, F., McDougall, C., Degnan, B. M. (2013) Origin, evolution and classification of type-3 copper proteins: Lineage-specific gene expansions and losses across the Metazoa. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13(96).
McDougall, C., Aguilera, F., Degnan, B. M. (2013) Rapid evolution of pearl oyster shell matrix proteins with repetitive, low-complexity domains. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 10:20130041. [IF = 4.216, 15(WOS)/26(GS) citations]
Hui, J., McDougall, C., Monteiro, A. S., Holland, P. W. H., Arendt, D., Balavoine, G., Ferrier, D. E. K. (2012) Extensive chordate and annelid macrosynteny reveals ancestral homeobox gene organisation. Molecular Biology and Evolution 29(1):157-165.
McDougall, C., Degnan, B.M. (2011). Modularity of gene-regulatory networks revealed in sea-star development. BMC Biology 9:6. (Commentary).
McDougall, C., Korchagina, N., Tobin, J., Ferrier, D. E. K. (2011) Annelid Distal-less/Dlx duplications reveal varied post-duplication fates. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11:241.
McDougall, C., Green, K., Jackson, D. J., Degnan, B. M. (2011) Ultrastructure of the mantle of the gastropod Haliotis asinina and mechanisms of shell regionalization. Cells, Tissues, Organs 174:103-107.
Jackson, D. J., Meyer, N. P., Seaver, E., Pang, K., McDougall, C., Moy, V. N., Gordon, K., Degnan, B. M., Martindale, M. Q., Burke, R. D., Peterson, K. J. (2010) Developmental expression of COE across the Metazoa supports a conserved role in neuronal cell-type specification and mesodermal development. Development, Genes and Evolution 220:221-234.
Jackson, D.J., McDougall, C., Woodcroft, B., Moase, P., Rose, R.A., Kube, M., Reinhardt, R., Rokhsar, D.S., Montagnani, C., Joubert, C., Piquemal, D., Degnan, B.M. (2010) Parallel evolution of nacre building gene sets in molluscs. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27(3):591-608.
Takahashi, T., McDougall, C., Troscianko, J., Chen, W.C., Jayaraman-Nagarajan, A., Shimeld, S., Ferrier, D.E.K. (2009) An EST screen from the annelid Pomatoceros lamarckii reveals patterns of gene loss and gain in animals. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:240.
McDougall, C., Hui, J.H.L., Monteiro, A., Takahashi, T., Ferrier, D.E.K. (2008). Annelids in evolutionary developmental biology and comparative genomics. Parasite 15(3):321-328. (Invited review).
Jackson, D.J., McDougall, C., Green, K., Simpson, F., Worheide, G., Degnan, B.M. (2006). A rapidly evolving secretome builds and patterns a sea shell. BMC Biology 4:40.
McDougall, C., Chen, W.C., Shimeld, S.M., Ferrier, D.E.K. (2006). The development of the larval nervous system, musculature and ciliary bands of Pomatoceros lamarckii (Annelida): heterochrony in polychaetes. Frontiers in Zoology 3:16.