Caroline M. Dong
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Education

​PhD Biology (2016 - 2020)
The University of Melbourne 
Melbourne, Victoria AUS
​Advisors: Devi Stuart-Fox, Claire A. McLean​, Adnan Moussalli (Museums Victoria)
Dissertation: Speciation and secondary contact in a colourful agamid, Ctenophorus decresii

​MSc Biology (2012 - 2015)
​The University of Hawaii, Manoa 
Honolulu, Hawaii USA
Advisor: Robert C. Thomson
Thesis: Origins of softshell turtles in Hawaii with implications for conservation

BSc Biology (2008 - 2012) 
Saint Louis University 
St. Louis, Missouri USA
Advisor: Daniel E. Warren
​Senior thesis: Buoyancy control in cold-submerged painted turtles (Chrysemys picta)

Publications

7. Dong CM, Johnston GR, Stuart-Fox D, Moussalli A, Rankin KJ, McLean CA. 2021. Elevation of divergent color polymorphic and monomorphic lizard lineages (Squamata: Agamidae) to species level. Ichthyology and Herpetology (formerly Copeia). 109(1): 43-54.
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https://doi.org/10.1643/h2020064
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6. ​Dong CM, Rankin KJ, McLean CA, Stuart-Fox D. 2021. Maternal reproductive output and F1 hybrid fitness may influence contact zone dynamics. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(4): 680-694.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jeb.13772
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5. Stuart-Fox D, Aulsebrook A, Rankin KJ, Dong CM, McLean CA. 2021. Convergence and divergence in lizard colour polymorphisms. Biological Reviews. 96(1): 289-309.
https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12656
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4. McLean CA, Bartle RA, Dong CM, Rankin KJ, Stuart-Fox D. 2020. Divergent male and female mate preferences do not explain incipient speciation between lizard lineages. Current Zoology. zoaa010​.
https://doi.org/10.1093/cz/zoaa010
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3. Dong CM, McLean CA, Moussalli A, Stuart-Fox D. 2019. Conserved visual sensitivities across divergent lizard lineages that differ in an ultraviolet sexual signal. Ecology and Evolution. 9(20): 11824 - 11832.
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5686
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2. Dong CM, Engstrom TE, Thomson RC. 2016. Origins of softshell turtles in Hawaii with implications for conservation. Conservation Genetics. 17(1): 207 - 220. 
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-015-0772-7
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​1. Cantrell EA, Dong CM, Hill CA, Warren DE. 2014. Buoyancy control in cold-submerged painted turtles: implications for overwintering physiology and behavior. Herpetologica. 70(4): 388 - ​394.
https://doi.org/10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-14-00016
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Pre-prints

Dong CM, McLean CA, Elliott A, Moussalli A, Stuart-Fox D. When polymorphism and monomorphism meet: discordant genomic and phenotypic clines across a lizard contact zone. bioRxiv.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/840678v2

Media

SCOPE is a children’s science show produced in association with the CSIRO in Australia. Season 4 Episode 52: Reptiles and Amphibians features my tawny dragon research.
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