Prof. Klaus Rohde

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I have supervised many BSc. Honours, MSc. and PhD students at the Universities of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur) and New England. Research topics: Life cycles, taxonomy, histology, ultrastructure, pathology, zoogeography etc. of free-living and parasitic platyhelminths, nematodes and other invertebrates.

Recent students, 1985 to present:

  • Byrnes, T. P. (1986). The taxonomy, host specificity and zoogeography of metazoan ectoparasites infecting Australian bream (Acanthopagrus spp.). Ph D thesis.
  • Champion, A. C. (1986). Ectoparasites of Antechinus stuartii and Rattus fuscipes at Petroi, N.S.W. Hons thesis.
  • Currie, D. (1990). The Morphology and Function of Aesthetes, with Relationship to Reproduction in Three Species of Chitons (Mollusca: Polyplacophora). Ph D thesis (joint supervision).
  • de Kroon, J. (1988). Light and Electron Microscope studies of hook morphogenesis in the parasitic Platyhelminths Austramphilina elongata and Gigantolina magna (Amphilinidea, Cestodaria). Hons thesis.
  • Donaldson, L. (1995). The community ecology of the metazoan ectoparasites on the head and gills of a tropical marine fish species, Ephinephalus quoyanus (Family:Serranidae). M Sc prelim. thesis.
  • Fairfax, R. (1988). Studies on polystomes (Monogenea) from freshwater tortoises (Pleurodira, Chelidae) in Papua New Guinea and north-east Australia. M. LITT. thesis.
  • Farrell, E. J. (1998). Fasciola hepatica in the New England Region of New South Wales. Hons thesis (joint supervision).
  • Gosper, D. (1992). The ecology of parasites of Anguilla reinhardtii (long-finned eel) and Anguilla australis (short-finned eel). Hons thesis.
  • Hayward, C.J. (1991). Non-Interactive Assemblages of Parasites Infecting Luderick, an Australian Marine Fish. Hons thesis.
  • Hayward, C.J. (1996). Taxonomy and zoogeography of ectoparasites of Indo-Pacific whiting (Sillaginidae). Ph D thesis.
  • Heath, B. M. (1987). A study of the Endoparasitic Helminths of Deep Sea Fishes from Southeastern Australia: Taxonomy, Zoogeography and Host-Parasite Ecology. Ph D thesis.
  • Johnston, M. (1992). The influence of management strategies on the frequencies of three alleles of a ß-Tubulin gene in Trichostrongylus colubriformis/Trichostrongylus vitrinus. Hons thesis (joint supervision).
  • Jones, B. (1994). Stock separation of the common gemfish (Rexea solandri, Cuvier) by parasite analysis: management implications. Hons thesis. University of New England.
  • Kleeman, S. (1996). The Development of the Community Structure of the Ecto- and Endoparasites of Siganus doliatus, a Tropical Marine Fish. Hons thesis.
  • Koch, M. (1999). Anatomical and life cycle studies of a monostome trematode, Catatropis sp., in the New England region. Hons thesis.
  • Koch, M. A, (2004).  Aquatic snails and their trematodes in the New England Tablelands (New South Wales, Australia): low diversity and unstable population structure explained by unpredictable environmental fluctuations. PhD thesis. (joint supervision).
  • Miller, W. (2000). A taxonomic and ecological study of the suborder Proseriata (Turbellaria) from the intertidal meiofauna of four mid-north coast beaches of N.S.W. Hons. thesis (joint supervision).
  • Miller, W. R. (1995). Tardigrades of the Australian Antarctic. Ph D thesis (joint supervision).
  • Moodie, E. G. (2004). Misrosporidian parasites (Microspora) of the Australian Yabby, Cherax destructor (Decapoda:Parastacidae): Taxonomy, phylogenetic relationships, methods for detection and epizootological features PhD.thesis. (joint supervision).
  • Morris, A. (1999). The effect of pollution on the community structure of ectoparasites on the yellowfin bream, Acanthopagrus australis, in four estuaries on the mid north coast of N.S.W. M.Sc.prelim.thesis (joint supervision).
  • Nash, J. A. (1998). The ecology of endoparasites of a whiting, Sillago flindersi. Hons thesis.
  • Nichols, S. (1996). Nematodes of rabbits and hares of eastern Australia. Hons thesis.
  • Perera, K. M. L. (1989). Seasonality and Pathology of ectoparasites of Scomber australasicus. M Sc prelim. thesis.
  • Perera, K. M. L. (1994). Seasonality of ectoparasites and pathology of three species of didymozoids (Trematoda, Digenea) of slimy mackerel, Scomber australasicus (Teleostei, Scombridae). Ph D thesis.
  • Romilio, A.M. (1991). Ultrastructural changes in the tartigrade Milnesium tardigradum (Doyére, 1840) associated with anhydrobiosis. Hons thesis (joint supervision).
  • Rothsey, S. (2001). Magnetic orientation in oncomiracidia. Hons. thesis.
  • Roubal, F. R. (1985). Histological, cytological and morphometric aspects of ectoparasite pathology on the marine bream, Acanthopagrus australis (family Sparidae). Ph D thesis.
  • Steiner, K. (1987). Ultrastructural study of the protonephridial terminal complex, epidermis, epidermal cilia and sperm of Macrostomum n. sp. (Macrostomida). Hons thesis.
  • Whitehouse, J.P. (1999) Differences in ectoparasitic communities between freshwater and marine herring; the relevance of adaptation and evolution of ectoparasitic assemblages. Hons thesis (joint supervision).
  • Wooster, M. (1998). Interactions between Trichostrongylus colubriformis and Trichostrongylus vitrinis. Ph D thesis (joint supervision).

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