Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
2021-present: Research Associate, UWA
2020: Principle Biologist, Bennelongia Environmental Consultants
2018-2020: Research Associate, UWA
2014-2018: PhD in Evolutionary Biology, UWA
2013: Biologist, Bennelongia Environmental Consultants
2009-2012: BSc (Hons) in Zoology, UWA
Roles and responsibilities
Key roles of current research position:
Conducting research relating to the adaptive outcomes of ejaculate-mediated paternal effects on offspring fitness. Skills include planning multi-generation experiments, gamete collections and analysis, artificial insemination, RNA and DNA methylation sequencing, statistical analyses, bioinformatics, scientific writing, co-supervising Honours and PhD students.
Funding overview
2020: Syracuse University Postdoctoral Fellowship (impacted by COVID19 pandemic).
2018: UWA School of Biological Sciences Strategic Funding, “Developing collaborations to explore the links between mitochondrial inheritance and sexual selection”
2017: Australasian Evolution Society student conference grant, supporting oral presentation at AES 2017 conference.
2015: Australasian Evolution Society Student Award supporting oral presentation place at Behaviour 2015 conference.
2014: Bruce and Betty Green Postgraduate Research Top-Up Scholarship.
2014: Hackett Postgraduate Scholarship.
2012: Hackett Foundation Alumni Honours Scholarship.
Teaching overview
Guest Lecturer and Module Coordinator:
Sex in the Sea (BIOL5504)
Unit Demostrator:
Behavioural Ecology (ANIM3365)
Research
My research focuses on sexual selection, the evolution of sperm-egg interactions, and parental effects on offspring fitness. I am currently studying these processes in live-bearing fish (guppies), fruit flies, and broadcast-spawning marine invertebrates, using a variety of experimental and molecular approaches. In particular, I am interested in ejaculate-mediated paternal effects, environmental effects on gametes, multivariate selection on ejaculate traits and gamete-level mate choice via chemical attraction of sperm by eggs (sperm chemotaxis). I am also exploring the molecular processes controlling sperm behaviour and function.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research expertise keywords
- Sexual selection
- Sperm competition
- Gamete evolution
- Parental effects
- Multivariate selection
- Quantitative genetics
- Cryptic female choice
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Patterns of sperm swimming behaviour depend on male mating tactic and spawning environment in chinook salmon
Rosengrave, P. C., Lymbery, R. A. & Evans, J. P., 27 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, 25680.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Female reproductive fluids 'rescue' sperm from phenotypic ageing in an external fertilizer
Hadlow, J. H., Evans, J. P. & Lymbery, R. A., 31 May 2023, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 290, 1999, p. 20230574 1 p., 20230574.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access6 Citations (Web of Science) -
Paternal environment effects are driven by female reproductive fluid but not sperm age in an external fertilizer
Hadlow, J. H., Lymbery, R. A. & Evans, J. P., 22 Nov 2023, In: Biology Letters. 19, 11, 1 p., 20230368.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access4 Citations (Scopus) -
Testing for age-dependent effects of dietary restriction on the strength of condition dependence in ejaculate traits in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)
Evans, J. P., Turnbull, E. J. & Lymbery, R. A., 30 Aug 2023, In: Royal Society Open Science. 10, 8, 230805.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
Density-dependent patterns of multivariate selection on sperm motility and morphology in a broadcast spawning mussel
Hadlow, J. H., Lymbery, R. A. & Evans, J. P., Feb 2022, In: Ecology and Evolution. 12, 2, e8514.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access2 Citations (Scopus)
Datasets
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Fertilization success, genetic relatedness and mitochondrial lineage estimates from competitive sperm chemotaxis experiment
Lymbery, R. A. (Creator), Kennington, W. (Creator) & Evans, J. P. (Creator), DRYAD, 14 Nov 2017
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.4kh60, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.4kh60
Dataset
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Data from: Post-ejaculation thermal stress causes changes to the RNA profile of sperm in an external fertiliser
Lymbery, R. (Creator), Evans, J. (Creator) & Kennington, J. (Creator), DRYAD, 8 Sept 2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.8pk0p2nkh, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.8pk0p2nkh and one more link, https://zenodo.org/record/4019788 (show fewer)
Dataset
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Data from: Ocean acidification during pre-fertilization chemical communication affects sperm success
Lymbery, R. (Creator), Kennington, J. (Creator), Cornwall, C. (Creator) & Evans, J. (Creator), DRYAD, 16 Oct 2019
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.37pvmcvf2, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.37pvmcvf2
Dataset
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Personality, sperm traits and a test for their combined dependence on male condition in guppies
Lymbery, R. (Creator), Galluccio, E. (Creator), Evans, J. (Creator) & Wilson, A. (Creator), DRYAD, 4 May 2022
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.00000005n, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.00000005n and one more link, https://zenodo.org/record/6518213 (show fewer)
Dataset
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Density-dependent patterns of multivariate selection on sperm motility and morphology in a broadcast spawning mussel
Hadlow, J. (Creator), Lymbery, R. (Creator) & Evans, J. (Contributor), DRYAD, 27 Jan 2023
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.z8w9ghxdr, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.z8w9ghxdr and one more link, https://zenodo.org/record/7577184 (show fewer)
Dataset
Projects
- 2 Finished
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How do female salmon influence male fertility outcomes?
Evans, J. (Chief Investigator), Lymbery, R. (Investigator) & Lymbery, R. (CoPI)
The University of Western Australia
1/01/23 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
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Reproductive fitness consequences of variation in mitochondrial DNA in a broadcast spawning mussel
Hadlow, J. (Investigator 01), Evans, J. (Investigator 02), Lymbery, R. (Investigator 03) & Kennington, J. (Investigator 04)
Ecological Society of Australia
7/05/21 → 7/05/22
Project: Research
Prizes
Activities
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Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, Virtual Meeting 2020
Lymbery, R. (Participant)
2020Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
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Biology of Spermatozoa 2019
Lymbery, R. (Participant)
2019Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
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Australasian Evolution Society Meeting 2019
Lymbery, R. (Participant)
2019Activity: Conferences and workshops › Contribution or participation in a conference
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Monash University (Australia)
Lymbery, R. (Visiting researcher)
2019Activity: External visits › Visiting an external academic institution
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