Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
Department of Genetics
Bloomer, P
BSc BSc(Hons) (PU vir CHO) PhD(Pret) - Professor and Head
NRF Rating: C2
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3259
Fax number: 012 362 5327
E-mail address: paulette.bloomer@up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Molecular Ecology and Evolution
The ecology, ethology, physiology and evolution of African animals; Behavioural, physiological and evolutionary ecology; and Antarctic biology
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Asher RJ, Maree S, Bronner GN, Bennett NC, Bloomer P, Czechowski P, Meyer M, Hofreiter M: 2010. A phylogenetic estimate for golden moles (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Chrysochloridae). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10 (69), pp 1-13, Full Text
Russo IM, Chimimba CT, Bloomer P: 2010. Bioregion heterogeneity correlates with extensive mitochondrial DNA diversity in the Namaqua rock mouse, Micaelamys namaquensis (Rodentia: Muridae) from southern Africa - evidence for a species complex. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10, p. 307, Full Text
Chenuil A, Hoareau TB, Egea E, Penant G, Rocher C, Aurelle Didi, Mokhtar-Jamai K, Bishop JDD, Boissin E, Diaz A, Krakau M, Luttikhuizen PC, Patti FP, Blavet N, Bloomer P, Mousset S: 2010. An efficient method to find potentially universal population genetic markers, applied to metazoans. Evolutionary Biology, 10 (276), pp 1-17, Full Text
Dippenaar SM, Mathibela RB, Bloomer P: 2010. Cytochrome oxidase I sequences reveal possible cryptic diversity in the cosmopolitan symbiotic copepod Nesippus orientalis Heller, 1868 (Pandaridae: Siphonostomatoida) on elasmobranch hosts from the KwaZulu-Natal coast of South Africa. Experimental Parasitology, 125, pp 42-50, Full Text
Grobbelaar JW, de Beer ZW, Bloomer P, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2010. Ophiostoma tsotsisp. nov., A Wound-infesting Fungus of Hardwood Trees in Africa. Mycopathologia, 169, pp 413-423, Full Text
Research and technical/policy output for clients:
Matlala MJ, Bills IR, Kleynhans N, Bloomer P: Technical Report: 2010. Systematics and phylogeography of suckermouth species (Chiloflanis) with emphasis on the Limpopo river system and implications of water management practices. For: Department of Water Affairs.
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