Return to the homepage
  • Library
  • UC Online
  • News
  • Events
  • Maps
  • Staff
  • Work at UC
  • 150 Years
  • Study
    • Study
      • Courses and qualifications
      • Subjects
      • Online learning
      • Arts
      • Business
      • Digital Screen
      • Education
      • Engineering
      • Health
      • Law
      • Science
      • All departments
      • Scholarships
      • Examinations
      • Graduation
      • Graduate School
      • Key dates
      • Publications
      • Study abroad and exchanges
      • Work-Integrated Learning
      • Academic support
      • Special consideration
      • Summer School
      • Transition Programmes
      • Quick Links
      • LEARN
      • Logins
      • Timetables
      • Library
      • Scholarships
      • Transcripts
      • Grading
  • Enrol
    • Enrol at UC
      • Enrolment process
      • Enrolment and Course Dates
      • Admission and University Entrance
      • Identity and citizenship verification
      • International student enrolment
      • PhD and doctoral degree applications
      • Manage your study
      • Fees and funding
      • Student Agreement
      • Change your enrolment
      • Update your contact details
      • Contact Student Services
      • Quick Links
      • Enrol now with myUC
      • Re-enrol now with myUC
      • Qualifications and courses
      • Scholarships
      • Academic Support
      • Transcripts
  • Research
    • Research
      • Become a research student
      • Find a supervisor
      • Support for Researchers
      • Māori Research Partnerships
      • Research Impact
      • Research Institutes and Centres
      • Research specialties
      • Facilities and equipment
      • IP Commercialisation
      • Innovation Jumpstart
      • Ethics Approval
      • UC Research Awards
      • Contact us
      • Quick Links
      • Find an expert
      • Find a supervisor
      • Jobs at UC
      • Ethics Approval
      • Postgraduate forms
      • Library (research)
  • Life
    • Life
      • The campus
      • Facilities
      • Getting around
      • Student life
      • Accommodation
      • Support services
      • Know The Code
      • Sustainability Office
      • UC Students' Association (UCSA)
      • CCR
      • Golden Key
      • Health, safety and wellbeing
      • Life in CHCH
      • Life in NZ
      • Get active
      • Canterbury Card
      • Quick Links
      • UCGo
      • Maps
      • Parking
      • Health Centre
      • UC RecCentre
      • Student events
      • Clubs and societies
  • Support services
    • Support services
      • Finding support
      • Need to talk?
      • Health Services
      • Academic support
      • Assistive technology
      • Accessibility
      • Financial assistance
      • Academic grievances
      • Equity and diversity
      • Parents and whānau
      • Job and careers advice
      • New student support
      • Current student support
      • Postgraduate student support
      • High school student support
      • Adult student support
      • International student support
      • LGBTQI student support
      • Māori student support
      • Pasifika student support
      • Onsite services
      • Quick Links
      • In an emergency
      • Security
      • Raise a concern
      • IT Services
      • Academic Skills Centre
      • Library (support)
      • Contacts
      • Wellbeing Hub
  • Engage
    • Engage
      • Alumni
      • Business and industry
      • Canterbury University Press
      • Communications and Engagement
      • Community partnerships
      • External exam invigilation
      • Find an expert or consultant
      • Giving to UC
      • International partnerships
      • Knowledge Commons
      • News
      • School resources
      • Work at UC
      • Work placements
      • Quick Links
      • Donate to UC
      • Contact UC
      • Current vacancies
      • Erskine Fellowship
      • News
      • Public events
      • Liaison Office
  • About
    • About
      • What is special about UC
      • UC7
      • Ako - Learning & Teaching
      • Governance
      • Leadership
      • Health and Safety
      • Sustainability Hub
      • People and Culture
      • Asset Planning and Delivery
      • History
      • Information and Records Management
      • Ngā Uara | Our Values
      • Contacts
  • Logins
    • Logins
      • LEARN
      • Zoom
      • Student email
      • Staff email
      • myUC
      • My Timetable
      • Canterbury Card Account
      • My Library Account
      • OneDrive
      • UC CareerHub
      • UC Services Portal
      • Password Reset
      • UCGO
      • ourUC
      • Staff logins
      • More logins
Skip to main content
uc-research-profile

Use the Tab and Up, Down arrow keys to select menu items.

  • UC Research Profile
  • Search
  • Browse
    • Subject areas and disciplines
    • Colleges and departments
  • Administration
    • Email UC Research Profile Administrator
    • Update your UC Research Profile page in Profiler (Staff Only)
  • Quick Links
    • Research at UC

Dr Sarah Perry Flanagan

Contact

Department: School of Biological Sciences

Email: sarah.flanagan@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3690433

Office: Julius von Haast 237

Language: English

About
Research / Creative works
Supervision
Networks
Projects
Methods & Equipment

Fields of Research

  • sexual selection
  • population genetics
  • genomics
  • quantitative genetics
  • complex trait evolution
  • population genomics

Researcher Summary

Sarah Flanagan is focused on understanding the evolution of complex, multivariate traits (such as mating display traits), primarily relying on population and quantitative genetics, genomic datasets, simulation modeling. My empirical work has mostly focused on pipefish and seahorses.

For more information see the lab website: https://flanagan-lab.github.io

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Biology: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Behaviour; Biology; Evolution; Marine Ecology

Resources

  • Flanagan Lab Website
  • ORCID
  • LinkedIn
  • Google Scholar Profile
  • Research Gate
  • Github
  • sarah-flanagan.jpg

Prizes and Awards

Displaying all items.
  • National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship ( 2016 - 2018)
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship ( 2013 - 2019)
  • Texas A&M Merit Fellowship ( 2019 - 2012)

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Johnson BD., Anderson AP., Small CM., Rose E., Flanagan SP., Hendrickson-Rose C. and Jones AG. (2022) The evolution of the testis transcriptome in pregnant male pipefishes and seahorses. Evolution 76(9): 2162-2180. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.14579. (Journal Articles)
  • Pullen M., Gerber D., Thomsen MS. and Flanagan SP. (2022) Seasonal Dynamics of Faunal Diversity and Population Ecology in an Estuarine Seagrass Bed. Estuaries and Coasts 45(8): 2578-2591. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12237-022-01103-8. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP., Rose E. and Jones AG. (2021) The population genomics of repeated freshwater colonizations by Gulf pipefish. Molecular Ecology 30(7): 1672-1687. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15841. (Journal Articles)
  • Howell L., LaRue M. and Flanagan SP. (2021) Environmental DNA as a tool for monitoring Antarctic vertebrates. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 48(3-4): 245-262. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03014223.2021.1900299. (Journal Articles)
  • Anderson AP., Rose E., Flanagan SP. and Jones AG. (2020) The estrogen-responsive transcriptome of female secondary sexual traits in the gulf pipefish. Journal of Heredity 111(3): 294-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/JHERED/ESAA008. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan S. (2020) Quantitative Genetics of Behavior. In Choe JC (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior (2nd Edition ed.): 80-93.Elsevier Academic Press. (Chapters)
  • Lerch BA., Dautel KA., Brewer S., Liang A., Siewe N. and Flanagan S. (2020) Space, density and extra-pair matings have opposing impacts on male and female reproductive success. Population Ecology 62(2): 269-283. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/1438-390X.12047. (Journal Articles)
  • Wright AM., Schwartz RS., Oaks JR., Newman CE. and Flanagan SP. (2020) The why, when, and how of computing in biology classrooms. F1000Research 8 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.20873.1. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP. and Jones AG. (2019) The future of parentage analysis: From microsatellites to SNPs and beyond. Molecular Ecology 28(3): 544-567. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.14988. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP. and Jones AG. (2018) Substantial differences in bias between signal-digest and double-digest RAD-seq libraries: A case study. Molecular Ecology Resources 18(2): 264-280. http://dx.doi.org/10.0.4.87/1755-0998.12734. (Journal Articles)
  • Jost L., Archer F., Flanagan S., Gaggiotti O., Hoban S. and Latch E. (2018) Differentiation measures for conservation genetics. Evolutionary Applications 11(7): 1139-1148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.12590. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan S. (Ed.) (2017) gwscaR: Genome-wide selection components analysis in R. . (Software / Code)
  • Flanagan SP. (2017) Pipefish Pairing. Biosphere 23 [Magazine article]. (Other)
  • Flanagan SP. (Ed.) (2017) fsthet: Generating smoothed quantiles for the FST-heterozygosity distribution. . (Software / Code)
  • Flanagan SP. and Jones AG. (2017) Constraints on the F-ST-Heterozygosity Outlier Approach. Journal of Heredity 108(5): 561-573. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esx048. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP. and Jones AG. (2017) Genome-wide selection components analysis in a fish with male pregnancy. Evolution 71(4): 1096-1105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.13173. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP., Forester BR., Latch EK., Aitken SN. and Hoban S. (2017) Guidelines for planning genomic assessment and monitoring of locally adaptive variation to inform species conservation. Evolutionary Applications early access online http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eva.12569. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP., Rosenqvist G. and Jones AG. (2017) Mate quality and the temporal dynamics of breeding in a sex-role-reversed pipefish, S. typhle. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 71 28 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-016-2255-3. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP., Rose E. and Jones AG. (2016) Population genomics reveals multiple drivers of population differentiation in a sex-role-reversed pipefish. Molecular Ecology 25(20): 5043-5072. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.13794. (Journal Articles)
  • Monteiro Titon SC., de Assis VR., Titon Junior B., Giorgi Barsotti AM., Flanagan SP. and Gomes FR. (2016) Calling rate, corticosterone plasma levels and immunocompetence of Hypsiboas albopunctatus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Part A: Molecular and Integrative Physiology 201: 53-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpa.2016.06.023. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP. and Jones AG. (2015) Identifying signatures of sexual selection using genomewide selection components analysis. Ecology and Evolution 5(13): 2722-2744. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1546. (Journal Articles)
  • Rose E., Flanagan SP. and Jones AG. (2015) The Effects of Synthetic Estrogen Exposure on the Sexually Dimorphic Liver Transcriptome of the Sex-Role-Reversed Gulf Pipefish. PLoS ONE 10(10) e0139401 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139401. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP. and Bevier CR. (2014) Do Male Activity Level And Territory Quality Affect Female Association Time in The Brown Anole, Anolis sagrei? Ethology 120(4): 365-374. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/eth.12213. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP., Johnson JB., Rose E. and Jones AG. (2014) Sexual selection on female ornaments in the sex-role-reversed Gulf pipefish (Syngnathus scovelli). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27(11): 2457-2467. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jeb.12487. (Journal Articles)
  • Flanagan SP., Wilson WH., Jones KL. and Lance SL. (2010) Development and characterization of twelve polymorphic microsatellite loci in the Bog Copper, Lycaena epixanthe. Conservation Genetics Resources 2(1): 159-161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12686-010-9206-5. (Journal Articles)

Student Supervision

Displaying all items.
    Completed
  • Masters - Gerber D: Determining effects of temperature and heatwaves on estuarine foundation species and associated animal communities (2021)
  • Masters - Howell L: Environmental DNA as a tool for in-field monitoring of Antarctic vertebrates. (2021)
  • Masters - Pullen M: Community composition of native New Zealand seagrass, Zostera muelleri (2021)
  • Summer Student - Freeman C: Evolution of pigmentation genes in sex-role reversed pipefish (2019)

Review and Refereeing

Displaying all items.
  • Animal Conservation ( 2018 - 2023)
  • Aquaculture Research ( 2016 - 2023)
  • Ecology and Evolution ( 2018 - 2023)
  • Evolutionary Applications ( 2018 - 2023)
  • Heredity ( 2017 - 2023)
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences ( 2016 - 2023)
  • Journal of Ethology ( 2018 - 2023)
  • Molecular Ecology ( 2016 - 2023)
  • Molecular Ecology Resources ( 2017 - 2023)

Research Projects

  • Does sexual selection drive the evolution of sex-biased gene expression?
  • The role of sexual selection in the evolution of a novel female ornament
  • Variation over time: diversity from genes to communities
  • Developing tools to manage and monitor health of seagrass beds
  • Seagrass restoration, ecosystem services and blue carbon

Future Research

  • diversity and biogeography of New Zealand pipefish
  • evolution of female ornamentation in pipefish
  • comparative genomics of female ornamentation

Key Methodologies

  • Reduced representation sequencing
  • R
  • C++
  • high throughput sequencing
UC Library
Research & Innovation
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Research & Innovation Admin
Phone +64 3 369 5858
admin@research.canterbury.ac.nz
Research Profile Administrator
pbrfprofileradmin@canterbury.ac.nz
Back to top
  • GENERAL ENQUIRIES
  • +64 3 369 3999
  • info@canterbury.ac.nz
  • ENROLMENT ENQUIRIES
  • 0800 VARSITY (0800 827 748)
  • enrol@canterbury.ac.nz
  • INTERNATIONAL ENQUIRIES
  • +64 3 364 3443
  • (Aus) 1-800-431595
  • Ask a question
  • CONTACTS & DIRECTORIES
  • University contacts
  • Student contacts
  • Students' Association
  • Find a researcher (Research Profile)
  • Accommodation
  • Maps
  • Donate online
  • UC on Facebook
  • UC on Twitter
  • UC on youTube
  • UC on Instagram
  • UC on Snapchat
  • UC on LinkedIn
  • UC on WeChat
  • DEPARTMENTS
  • All departments
  • Arts
  • Business
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Health
  • Law
  • Science
  • Service areas
  • LATEST
  • News
  • Events
  • Publications
  • Work at UC
  • Info for media
  • Style Guide
  • TOOLS
  • LEARN
  • UC Policy Library
  • Library
  • myUC
  • IT account
  • Student email
  • OneDrive
  • Timetable
  • Staff email
  • Intranet (Staff)
  • Copyright Feedback Privacy Cookies Declaration Payment Data
  • Emergency Information
  • © University of Canterbury - A Fair Trade University