publications

Schwartz, Tonia S., Hongseok Tae, Youngik Yang, Keithanne Mocktalis, John L Van Hemert, Steve R Proulx, Jeong-Hyeon Choi and Anne M Bronikowski. Submitted. A garter snake transcriptome: pyrosequencing, de novo assembly, and sex-specific differences. PDF Link to Data

Olsson, Mats, Erik Wapstra, Tonia Schwartz, Thomas Madsen, Beata Ujvari, Tobias Uller and Richard Shine. In Press. In hot pursuit: fluctuating mating system and sexual selection in sand lizards. Evolution

Olsson, Mats, Tonia Schwartz, Tobias Uller and Mo Healey. 2009. Effects of sperm storage and male colour on probability of paternity in a polychromatic lizard. Animal Behaviour 77: 419-424. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.10.017 PDF

Attard, Catherine R. M., Greg I. Holwell, Tonia S. Schwartz, Kate D. L. Umbers, Adam Stow, Marie E. Herberstein and Luciano B. Beheregaray. 2009. Microsatellite markers for the praying mantid Ciulfina rentzi (Liturgusidae). Molecular Ecology Resources 9: 1480-1482. PDF

Schwartz, Tonia S., Shauna Murray and Frank Seebacher. 2008. Novel reptilian uncoupling proteins: molecular evolution and gene expression during cold acclimation. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 275: 979-985. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1761 PDF

Schwartz, Tonia S., and Stephen A. Karl. 2008. Population Genetic Assignment of Confiscated Gopher Tortoises. Journal of Wildlife Management 72: 254-259. PDF

Schwartz, Tonia S., and Luciano B. Beheregaray. 2008. Using genotype simulations and Bayesian analyses to identify individuals of hybrid origin in Australian bass: lessons for fisheries management. Journal of Fish Biology 72: 435-450. PDF

Schwartz, Tonia, and Mats Olsson. 2008. Microsatellite markers developed for a Swedish population of sand lizard (Lacerta agilis). Conservation Genetics 9: 719-721. PDF ERRATUM

Olsson, Mats, Erik Wapstra, Mo Healey, Tonia Schwartz and Tobias Uller. 2008. Selection on space use in a ploymorphic lizard. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10: 621-627. PDF

Schwartz, Tonia S., Daniel A. Warner, Luciano B. Beheregaray and Mats Olsson. 2007. Microsatellite loci for Australian agamid lizards. Molecular Ecology Notes 7: 528-531. doi:10.1111/j.1471-8286.2006.01644.x PDF

Olsson, Mats, Tonia Schwartz, Tobias Uller and Mo Healey. 2007a. Sons are made from old stores: sperm storage effects on sex ratio in a lizard. Biology Letters 3: 491-493. PDF

Olsson, Mats, Mo Healey, Erik Wapstra, Tonia Schwartz, Natasha Lebas and Tobias Uller. 2007b. Mating system variation and morph fluctuations in a polymorphic lizard. Molecular Ecology 16: 5307-5315. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2007.03578.x PDF

Seebacher, Frank, Tonia S. Schwartz and Micheal B. Thompson. 2006. Transition from ectothermy to endothermy: the development of metabolic capacity in a bird (Gallus gallus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 273: 565-570. PDF

Schwartz, Tonia S., and Stephen A. Karl. 2005. Population and conservation genetics of the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus). Conservation Genetics 6: 917-928. PDF

Schwartz, Tonia S., F. Jenkins and L. B. Beheregaray. 2005. Microsatellite DNA markers developed for the Australian bass (Macquaria novemaculeata) and their cross-amplification in estuary perch (Macquaria colonorum). Molecular Ecology Notes 5: 519-520. PDF

Roberts, Mark A., Tonia S. Schwartz and Stephen A. Karl. 2004. Global population genetic structure and male-mediated gene flow in the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas): analysis of microsatellite loci. Genetics 166: 1857-1870. 10.1534/genetics.166.4.1857 PDF

Beheregaray, Luciano B., Tonia S. Schwartz, L. M. Moller, D. Call, N. L. Chao and A. Caccone. 2004a. A set of microsatellite DNA markers for the one-lined pencilfish Nannostomus unifasciatus, an Amazonian flooded forest fish. Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 333-335.

Beheregaray, Luciano B., L. M. Moller, Tonia S. Schwartz, N. L. Chao and A. Caccone. 2004b. Microsatellite markers for the cardinal tetra Paracheirodon axelrodi, a commercially important fish from central Amazonia. Molecular Ecology Notes 4: 330-332.

Seminoff, J. A., Stephen A. Karl, Tonia S. Schwartz and A. Resendiz. 2003. Hybridization of the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Pacific Ocean: Indication of an absence of gender bias in the directionality of crosses. Bulletin of Marine Science 73: 643-652.

Schwartz, Tonia S., M. Osentoski, T. Lamb and Stephen A. Karl. 2003. Microsatellite loci for the North American tortoises (genus Gopherus) and their applicability to other turtle species. Molecular Ecology Notes 3: 283-286. PDF