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Miss Kym Abrams

Telephone	+61 8 8303 6045
Position	Postgraduate
Email	kym.abrams@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8303 4364
Building	Darling
Floor/Room	G 21
Campus	North Terrace
Org Unit	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (Sch Earth & Environ Sci)

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Research Interests

I am interested in the systematics and phylogeography of the ancient, stygobitic crustacean family Parabathynellidae (Bathynellacea: Syncarida). Parabathynellids have proven to be strikingly diverse in Western Australia, but are poorly known from other regions of Australia, despite having considerable scientific, conservation and economic significance. My PhD project aims to taxonomically describe new parabathynellid species from various groundwater habitats in Australia. In addition, molecular systematics will be used to develop a robust phylogeny and generic level classification to accommodate the new species described.

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Publications

Guzik M.T., Abrams K.M., Cooper S.J.B., Humphreys W.F., Cho J., Austin A.D. (2008) Phylogeography of the ancient Parabathynellidae (Crustacea : Bathynellacea) from the Yilgarn region of Western Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 22, 205–216.

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