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.
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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Silent cells? Potential for context-dependent gene expression in mature sperm
Lymbery, R. A., Garcia-Gonzalez, F. & Evans, J. P., Jan 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 292, 2038, 20241516.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
The best of both worlds: Why antipredator traits are lost in predator-free havens and how to keep them
LeBas, N. R., Rodger, J., Lymbery, R. A., Tomkins, J. L. & Blache, D., Jul 2025, In: Biological Conservation. 307, 5 p., 111178.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
Open Access1 Citation (Scopus) -
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 Access7 Citations (Scopus) -
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 Access7 Citations (Scopus)
Datasets
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Data from: Genetic variation underlies temperature tolerance of embryos in the sea urchin Heliocidaris erythrogramma armigera
Lymbery, R. A. (Creator) & Evans, J. P. (Creator), DRYAD, 16 Jul 2013
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.jp2rm, https://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.jp2rm
Dataset
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Egg-induced changes to sperm phenotypes shape patterns of multivariate selection on ejaculates
Hadlow, J. (Creator), Evans, J. (Creator) & Lymbery, R. (Creator), DRYAD, 6 Mar 2020
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.n2z34tmsx, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.n2z34tmsx and one more link, https://zenodo.org/record/4989546 (show fewer)
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)
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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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Data from: Ocean acidification alters sperm responses to egg-derived chemicals in a broadcast spawning mussel
Lymbery, R. (Creator), Brouwer, J. (Creator) & Evans, J. (Creator), DRYAD, 1 Mar 2021
DOI: 10.5061/dryad.9cnp5hqkf, http://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.9cnp5hqkf and one more link, https://zenodo.org/record/6321549 (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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Australasian Evolution Society Meeting 2019
Lymbery, R. (Participant)
2019Activity: 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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Monash University (Australia)
Lymbery, R. (Visiting researcher)
2019Activity: External visits › Visiting an external academic institution
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