Richard Jobson
Position
Systematic Botanist
Branch
Science & Public Programs
Section
Plant Diversity
Email
richard.jobson@rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au
Phone
+61 2 9231 8082
Fax
+61 2 9241 3892
Current research projects
- Systematics of Utricularia (Lentibulariaceae) with Markus Reut (Uni. de Neuchátel)
- Population ecology in the invasive Cabomba with Dr. Michael Moody (Uni. Western Australia)
- Systematics of Mimosa and Piptadenia (Fabaceae) with Cecilia Bessega (Uni. de Buenos Aires) and Dr. Melissa Luckow (Cornell).
Research interests
- Systematics and the diversification of plants.
Keywords
- Phylogenetics, taxonomy, Lentibulariaceae, aquatic plants, Systematics and evolution in plants and animals
Key publications
- Jobson RW, EC Morris & S Burgin (2000) Carnivory and nitrogen supply affect the growth of the bladderwort Utricularia uliginosa. Australian Journal of Botany 48: 549-560.
- Jobson RW & EC Morris (2001) Feeding ecology of a carnivorous bladderwort (Utricularia uliginosa, Lentibulariaceae). Austral Ecology 26: 680-691.
- Jobson RW & VA Albert (2002) Molecular rates parallel diversification contrasts in carnivorous plant sister lineages. Cladistics 18: 127-136.
- Cameron KM, K Wurdack, & RW Jobson (2002) Molecular evidence for the common origin of snap-traps among carnivorous plants. American Journal of Botany 89: 1503-1509.
- Jobson RW, J Playford, KM Cameron, & VA Albert (2003) Molecular phylogeny of Lentibulariaceae inferred from rps16 and trnL-F chloroplast gene regions: implications for character evolution and biogeography. Systematic Botany 28: 157-171.
- Jobson RW, R Nielsen, M Wikström, L Laakkonen, & VA Albert (2004) Adaptive evolution of cytochrome c oxidase: infrastructure for a carnivorous plant radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. 101: 18064-68.
- Luckow M, et al. (2005) Acacia: the case against moving the type to Australia. Taxon 54: 513-519.
- Laakkonen L, RW Jobson, & Albert VA (2006) A new model for the evolution of carnivory in the bladderwort plant (Utricularia): adaptive changes in cytochrome c oxidase (COX) provide respiratory power. Plant Biology 8: 758-764.
- Hiniker A, G Ren, B Heras, Y Zheng, S Laurinec, RW Jobson, J Stuckey, JL Martin, & JCA Bardwell (2007) Laboratory evolution of one disulfide isomerase to resemble another. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA. 104: 11670-11675.
- Jobson RW & M Luckow (2007) A phylogenetic study of genus Piptadenia (Benth.) using plastid trnL-F and trnk/matK sequence data. Systematic Botany 32: 569-575.
- Qiu Y-L, L Li, B Wang, Z Chen, O Dombrovska, J Lee, L Kent, R Li, RW Jobson, TA Hendry, DW Taylor, CM Testa, & M Ambros (2007) A non-flowering land plant phylogeny inferred from nucleotide sequences of seven chloroplast, mitochondrial and nuclear genes. International Journal of Plant Sciences 168: 691-708.
- Jobson RW & Y-L Qiu (2008) Did RNA editing in plant organellar genomes originate under natural selection or through genetic drift? Biology Direct 3: 43.
- Galtier N, RW Jobson, B Nabholz, S Glemin, & UP Blier (2009) Mitochondrial whims: metabolic rate, longevity and the rate of molecular evolution. Biology Letters 5: 413-416.
- Jobson RW, Dehne-Garcia A, & N Galtier. (2010) Longevity-related adaptation of mitochondrial amino acid content is due to nucleotide compositional shifts. Mitochondrion 10: 540-547.
- Jobson RW, Nabholz B, & N Galtier (2010) An evolutionary genome scan for longevity-related natural selection in mammals. Molecular Biology & Evolution 27: 840-847.
- Albert VA, RW Jobson, TP Michael & DJ Taylor (2010) The carnivorous bladderwort (Utricularia, Lentibulariaceae): a system inflates. J. Experimental Botany 61: 5-9.
- Reut M & Jobson RW (2010) A phylogenetic study of subgenus Polypompholyx: a parallel radiation of Utricularia (Lentibuariaceae) throughout Australasia. Aust. J. Syst. Bot. 23: 152-161.
- Jobson RW & Y-L Qiu. (2011) Amino acid compositional shifts during streptophyte transitions to terrestrial habitats. Journal of Molecular Evolution 72:204-214
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