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Miss Katharine Prata

k.prata@uq.edu.au
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Publications

Journal Articles (8)
Thesis (1)
Data Collections (3)

Journal Articles

Lei, Chuan, Hobbs, Jean-Paul A., Riginos, Cynthia, Prata, Katharine E., Heatwole, Siobhan J. and Popovic, Iva (2025). Conserving Nemo: Genomic insights into the history and status of the endangered anemonefish Amphiprion mccullochi and its sister species Amphiprion akindynos. Conservation Genetics, 26 (3), 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s10592-025-01678-2
Riginos, Cynthia, Popovic, Iva, Meziere, Zoe, Garcia, Vhon, Byrne, Ilha, Howitt, Samantha M., Ishida, Hisatake, Bairos-Novak, Kevin, Humanes, Adriana, Scharfenstein, Hugo, Richards, Thomas, Briggs, Ethan, Clark, Vanessa, Lei, Chuan, Khan, Mariam and Prata, Katharine E. (2024). Cryptic species and hybridisation in corals: challenges and opportunities for conservation and restoration. Peer Community Journal, 4 e106. doi: 10.24072/pcjournal.492
Hernández-Agreda, Alejandra, Huckeba, Joel, Prata, Katharine E., Vermeij, Mark J.A. and Bongaerts, Pim (2024). Hybridization and inbreeding affect the survival of a critically endangered coral. Current Biology, 34 (21), 5120-5129.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.035
Prata, Katharine E., Bongaerts, Pim, Dwyer, John M., Ishida, Hisatake, Howitt, Samantha M., Hereward, James P., Crandall, Eric D. and Riginos, Cynthia (2024). Some reef-building corals only disperse metres per generation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 291 (2027) 20231988, 20231988. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1988
Meziere, Zoe, Popovic, Iva, Prata, Katharine, Ryan, Isobel, Pandolfi, John and Riginos, Cynthia (2024). Exploring coral speciation: multiple sympatric Stylophora pistillata taxa along a divergence continuum on the Great Barrier Reef. Evolutionary Applications, 17 (1) e13644, e13644. doi: 10.1111/eva.13644
Gijsbers, J. C., Englebert, N., Prata, K. E., Pichon, M., Dinesen, Z., Brunner, R., Eyal, G., González-Zapata, F. L., Kahng, S. E., Latijnhouwers, K. R. W., Muir, P., Radice, V. Z., Sánchez, J. A., Vermeij, M. J. A., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Jacobs, S. J. and Bongaerts, P. (2023). Global phylogenomic assessment of Leptoseris and Agaricia reveals substantial undescribed diversity at mesophotic depths. BMC Biology, 21 (1) 147, 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s12915-023-01630-1
Prata, Katharine E., Riginos, Cynthia, Gutenkunst, Ryan N., Latijnhouwers, Kelly R. W., Sánchez, Juan A., Englebert, Norbert, Hay, Kyra B. and Bongaerts, Pim (2022). Deep connections: divergence histories with gene flow in mesophotic Agaricia corals. Molecular Ecology, 31 (9), 2511-2527. doi: 10.1111/mec.16391
Bongaerts, Pim, Dubé, Caroline E., Prata, Katharine E., Gijsbers, Johanna C., Achlatis, Michelle and Hernandez-Agreda, Alejandra (2021). Reefscape genomics: leveraging advances in 3D imaging to assess fine-scale patterns of genomic variation on coral reefs. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 638979, 1-9. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.638979

Thesis

Prata, Katharine (2023). Understanding cryptic coral diversity: a 3D-reefscape genomics approach to assess dispersal dynamics and niche differentiation. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/4b81fc8

Data Collections

Riginos, Cynthia, Prata, Katharine, Popovic, Iva, Byrne, Ilha, Howitt, Samantha, Ishida, Hisatake and Meziere, Zoe (2024). Data and scripts from - Cryptic species and hybridisation in corals: challenges and opportunities for conservation and restoration. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/76456b1
Riginos, Cynthia, Prata, Katharine and Bongaerts, Pim (2024). Shallow Agaricia genomic data. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/62bc9a5
van den Berg, Cedric, Prata, Katherine E., Booker, Ryan, Decoeur, Henri, Tan, Cheryl, Salmond, Jodi, Dunbavan, Phillip, Lapid, Christina and Peters, Elliot (2022). MEAM photogrammetry models. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.48610/2be1b1d
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