Lyn G. Cook
Australian botanist and entomologist
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Lynette Gai Cook is an Australian botanist and entomologist. She earned a PhD from the ANU in 2001 with a thesis entitled The biology, evolution and systematics of the Gall-inducing scale insect Apiomorpha Rübsaamen (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea)[1]
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She is associate professor in the School of the Environment at the University of Queensland, where she has worked since 2006.[2] Her major research focus is to "understand the origins, diversification and distributions of organisms, especially plants and insects in Australia."[2]
She has made considerable contributions in the biogeography of plants and insects,[3][4][5] in plant/animal co-evolution,[6][7][8] and to the evolutionary history of other biota.[9][10]
Names published
- Daviesia devito Crisp & L.G.Cook[12][13]
- Daviesia schwarzenegger Crisp & L.G.Cook[12][13]