Dr Nicola Jackson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of the Environment
Book Chapter
Jackson, Nicola, Potvin, Dominique, Braham, Kaitlin, Strickland, Kasha and Frère, Celine (2024). Urbanization, Animals, and Evolution. Reference Module in Life Sciences. (pp. 1-1) Amsterdam, Netherlands: Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-443-15750-9.00060-4
Journal Articles
Powell, Daniel, Jackson, Nicola, Kaur, Parwinder, Dudchenko, Olga, Aiden, Erez Lieberman, Georges, Arthur and Frère, Céline, H. (2025). The genome of the Australian water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii), an agamid model for urban adaptation. Journal of Heredity, 116 (5), 571-581. doi: 10.1093/jhered/esae054
Class, Barbara, Strickland, Kasha, Potvin, Dominique, Jackson, Nicola, Nakagawa, Shinichi and Frere, Celine (2024). Sex-specific associations between social behavior, its predictability and fitness in a wild lizard. The American Naturalist, 204 (5), 501-516. doi: 10.1086/732178
Frere, Celine, Jackson, Nicola, Moreno, Jarred, Oliveros Sandino, Alejandro, Ball, Sarah and Powell, Daniel (2024). Koalas, friends and foes—The application of airborne eDNA for the biomonitoring of threatened species. Journal of Applied Ecology, 61 (11), 2837-2847. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14784
Hahn, Erin E., Stiller, Jiri, Alexander, Marina R., Grealy, Alicia, Taylor, Jennifer M., Jackson, Nicola, Frere, Celine H. and Holleley, Clare E. (2024). Century-old chromatin architecture revealed in formalin-fixed vertebrates. Nature Communications, 15 (1) 6378, 1-14. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-50668-4
Delmé, C., Jackson, N., Class, B., Strickland, K., Potvin, D. A. and Frère, C. H. (2023). Adaptive significance of affiliative behaviour differs between sexes in a wild reptile population. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290 (2001) 20230805, 1-9. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0805
Jackson, Nicola, Littleford-Colquhoun, Bethan L., Strickland, Kasha, Class, Barbara and Frere, Celine H. (2022). Selection in the city: rapid and fine-scale evolution of urban eastern water dragons. Evolution, 76 (10), 2302-2314. doi: 10.1111/evo.14596
Powell, Daniel, Jones, Ashley, Kent, Nicola, Kaur, Parwinder, Bar, Ido, Schwessinger, Benjamin and Frère, Céline H. (2021). Genome sequence of the fungus Nannizziopsis barbatae, an emerging reptile pathogen. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 10 (1) e0121320. doi: 10.1128/mra.01213-20
Littleford‐Colquhoun, Bethan L., Weyrich, Laura S., Kent, Nicola and Frere, Celine H. (2019). City life alters the gut microbiome and stable isotope profiling of the eastern water dragon ( Intellagama lesueurii ). Molecular Ecology, 28 (20), 4592-4607. doi: 10.1111/mec.15240
Piza-Roca, Carme, Strickland, Kasha, Kent, Nicola and Frere, Celine H (2019). Presence of kin-biased social associations in a lizard with no parental care: the eastern water dragon (Intellagama lesueurii). Behavioral Ecology, 30 (5), 1406-1415. doi: 10.1093/beheco/arz093
Kent, Nicola, Cristescu, Romane H., Piza-Roca, Carme, Littleford-Colquhoun, Bethan L., Strickland, Kasha and Frère, Céline H. (2019). Maternal nesting behaviour in city dragons: a species with temperature-dependent sex determination. Journal of Urban Ecology, 5 (1) juz005. doi: 10.1093/jue/juz005
Research Reports
Frere, Celine and Jackson, Nicola (2025). Improving our understanding of Queensland’s terrestrial threatened species use of privately held land using airborne eDNA and citizen scientists.. Logan City Council website: Logan City Council.
Frere, Celine and Jackson, Nicola (2024). Using AirDNA to detect koala and greater glider activity along the proposed forest wind transmission line corridor. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Forest Wind.