Lynette Gai Cook is an Australian botanist and entomologist. She earned a PhD from the

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in 2001 with a thesis entitled ''The biology, evolution and systematics of the Gall-inducing scale insect Apiomorpha Rübsaamen (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Coccoidea)'' She is associate professor in the School of the Environment at the

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, where she has worked since 2006. Her major research focus is to "understand the origins, diversification and distributions of organisms, especially plants and insects in Australia." She has made considerable contributions in the biogeography of plants and insects, in plant/animal co-evolution, and to the evolutionary history of other biota.

Names published

*'' Daviesia devito'' Crisp & L.G.Cook *'' Daviesia schwarzenegger'' Crisp & L.G.Cook

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, Lyn G. Living people 21st-century Australian botanists Australian entomologists Australian National University alumni Academic staff of the University of Queensland Year of birth missing (living people)