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Michael S. Johnson

Researcher at University of Western Australia

Publications -  131
Citations -  5151

Michael S. Johnson is an academic researcher from University of Western Australia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Genetic divergence. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 127 publications receiving 4985 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael S. Johnson include Yale University & University of Leeds.

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Chaotic genetic patchiness in an intertidal limpet, Siphonaria sp.

TL;DR: Variation of 4 polymorphic enzymes was studied for 2 yr in an undescribed species of Siphonaria, a pulmonate limpet, from a rocky shore at Rottnest Island, Western Australia, leading to the proposal that planktonic dispersal, although causing uniformity on a large scale, can give rise to fine-scale genetic patchiness.
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Pattern beneath the chaos: the effect of recruitment on genetic patchiness in an intertidal limpet.

TL;DR: Gene exchange among widely separated areas characterizes many marine organisms with planktonic dispersal; the essential feature of such dispersal is that recruits to local populations come from somewhere else, and changes in the genetic composition of adults reflect single-generation effects of selection and recruitment.
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Congruence Between Morphological and Allozyme Data in Evolutionary Inference and Character Evolution

TL;DR: Cladistical rather than phenetic methods are required for the analysis of character evolution, and the ease of obtaining sufficient information, rather than presumed inherent differences between characters, should determine which characters are used for evolutionary taxonomic inference.
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Effects of recruitment on genetic patchiness in the urchin Echinometra mathaei in Western Australia

TL;DR: It is found that the total variance in allelic frequency among three populations separated by approximately 4 km at Rottnest Island, Western Australia is as large as that among five additional samples collected over a distance of 1 300 km along the Western Australian coast.