2007 Refereed Papers 

Beaulieu, F. & Weeks, A. R. (2007). Free-living mesostigmatic mites in Australia: their role in biological control and bioindication.  Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 47: 460-478. [view abstract]

Bernard M., and Wratten S. D. (2007). AgNote: Enhancing beneficial insects and mites in vineyards: providing nectar, pollen, and shelter in vine rows. The Australian and New Zealand Grapegrower and Winemaker, 519 (April), p. 33-35

Behere GT, Russell D, Batterham P, Tay WT. Two species into one: Bottleneck history of Helicoverpa zea from Helicoverpa armigera revealed by DNA barcoding. Journal of Insect Science 7 

Behere GT, Tay WT, Russell DA, Heckel DG, Appleton BR, Kranthi KR, Batterham P (2007) Mitrochondrial DNA analysis of field pupulations of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and of its relationship to H-zea BMC Evolutionary Biology 7 [view abstract]

Bernard M., Horne P. A., Papacek D.,  Jacometti  M. A., Wratten S. D.,  Evans K. J., Herbert K. S., Powell K. S., Rakimov A., Weppler R., Kourmouzis T., Yen A. L.  (2007) Guidelines for Environmentally Sustainable Wine Grape Production in Australia: IPM adoption self-assessment guide for growers, The Australian and New Zealand Grapegrower and Winemaker, 518 (March), p. 26-36

Byars, S.G. Papst, W. Hoffmann, A.A. (2007). Local adaptation and cogradient selection in the alpine plant, Poa hiemata, along a narrow altitudinal gradient. Evolution 61: 2925-41 [view abstract]

Carew ME, Pettigrove V, Cox RL, Hoffmann AA. 2007. DNA identification of urban Tanytarsini chironomids (Diptera : Chironomidae). Journal of the North American Benthological Society 26:587-600. [view abstract]

Carew ME, Pettigrove V, Cox RL, Hoffmann AA. 2007. The response of Chironomidae to sediment pollution and other environmental characteristics in urban wetlands. Freshwater Biology 52:2444-62. [view abstract]

Chong, C.S. Hoffmann, A.A. Thomson, L.J. (2007) Commercial agrochemical applications in vineyards do not influence ant communities. Environmental Entomology 36: 1374-83. [view abstract]

Chung H, Bogwitz MR, McCart C, Andrianopoulos A, ffrench-Constant RH, Batterham P, Daborn PJ (2007) Cis-regulatory elements in the accord retrotransposon result in tissue specific experssion of the Drosophila melanogaster insecticide resistance gene Cyp6g1. Genetics 175:1071-77. [view abstract]

Clark AG, Eisen MB, Smith DR et al (2007)  Evololution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature 450: 203-218. [view abstract]

Daborn PJ, Lumb C, Boey A, Wong W, ffrench-Constant RH, Batterham P (2007) Evaluating the insecticide resistancepotential of eight Drosophila melanogater cytochrome P450 genes by transgenic over expression. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37: 512-519. [view abstract]

Daborn, P. Robin, C. Hoffmann, A.A. (2007) Fighting fly genes. Trends in Genetics 23: 51-54 [view abstract]

Drosophila 12 Genomes Constoritum (2007) Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature 450:203-218 [view abstract]

Endersby, N. M. Hoffmann, A. A. McKechnie, S. W. Weeks, A. R. (2007). Is there genetic structure in populations of Helicoverpa armigera from Australia? Entomologia experimentalis et applicata 122: 253-263. [view abstract]

Hoffmann, A. A. Weeks, A. R. (2007). Climatic selection on genes and traits after a 100 year-old invasion: a critical look at the temperate-tropical clines in Drosophila melanogaster from eastern Australia. Genetica 129: 133-147. [view abstract]

Hoffmann, A.A. Daborn, P. J. (2007) Towards genetic markers in animal populations as biomonitors for human-induced environmental change. Ecology Letters 10: 63-76. [view abstract]

Hoffmann, A.A. Ratna, E. Sgrò, C.M. Barton, M. Blacket, M. Hallas, R. De Garis, S. Weeks, A.R. Antagonistic selection between adult thorax and wing size in field released Drosophila melanogaster independent of thermal conditions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 2219-2227. [view abstract]

Kellermann, V.M. Hoffmann, A.A. Sgrò, C.M. (2007). Hsp90 Inhibition and the Expression of Phenotypic Variability in Rainforest Species Drosophila birchii. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 92:457-65. [view abstract]

Kennington, W.J., Hoffmann, A. A., Partridge, L. (2007) Mapping regions within cosmopolitan inversion In(3R)Payne associated with natural variation in body size in Drosophila melanogaster.  Genetics 177: 549-576. [view abstract]

Kristensen, T. N. Loeschcke, V. Hoffmann, A.A. (2007). Can artificially selected phenotypes influence a component of field fitness? Thermal selection and fly performance under thermal extremes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 771-778. [view abstract]

Loeschcke, V. Hoffmann, A. A. (2007) Consequences of heat hardening on a field fitness component in Drosophila depend on environmental temperature.  American Naturalist 189: 175-183. [view abstract]

Low WY, Ng HL, Morton CJ, Parker MW, Batterham P, Robin C (2007) Molecular evolution of glutathione S transferases in the genus drosophila Genetics 177:1363-75. [view abstract]

Madalena CR, Amabis JM, Stocker AJ, Gorab E.  The localization of ribosomal DNA in Sciaridae (Diptera: Nematocera) reassessed. Chromosome Res. 2007, 15(4):409-16.[view abstract]

Mitrovski, P. Heinze, D.A. Broome, L. Hoffmann, A.A. Weeks, A.R. (2007) High levels of variation despite genetic fragmentation in populations of the endangered mountain pygmy-possum, Burramys parvus, in alpine Australia. Molecular Ecology 16: 75-87. [view abstract]

Nash, M.A. Thomson, L.J. Hoffmann, A. A. (2007). Slug control in Australian canola: monitoring, molluscicidal baits and economic thresholds. Pest Management Science 63:851-9. [view abstract]

Norgate, M., Southon, A., Zou, S., Zhan, M., Sun, Y., Batterham, P. & Camakaris, J. Copper homeostasis gene discovery in Drosophila melanogaster.  Biometals. [view abstract]

Paoletti, M. G., Osler, G. H. R., Kinnear, A., Black, D. G., Thomson, L.J., Tsitsilas, A., Sharley, D., Judd, S., Neville, P. and D’Incà, A.  (2007) Detritivores as indicators of landscape stress and soil degradation.  Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 47: 412-423. [view abstract]

Perry, T., McKenzie JA, Batterham P. (2007) A D alpha 6 knockout strain of Drosophila melanogaster confers a high level of resistance to spinosad. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 37(2):184-8. [view abstract]

Rako, L. Blacket, M.J. McKechnie, S.W. Hoffmann, A.A. (2007) Candidate genes and thermal phenotypes: identifying ecologically important genetic variation for thermotolerance in the Australian Drosophila melanogaster cline. Molecular Ecology 16: 2948-57. [view abstract]

Schiffer, M. Kennington, W.J. Hoffmann, A.A. Blacket, M.J. (2007). Lack of genetic structure among ecologically adapted populations of an Australian rainforest Drosophila species as indicated by microsatellite markers and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Molecular Ecology 16: 1687-1700. [view abstract]

Sztal T, Chung H, Gramzow L, Daborn PJ, Batterham P, Robin C. Two independent duplications forming the Cyp307a genes in Drosophila Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37: 1044-53. [view abstract]

Thomson, L.J. Hoffmann, A.A. (2007) Effects of ground cover (straw and compost) on the abundance of natural enemies and soil macroinvertebrates in vineyards. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 9:173-9. [view abstract]

Thomson, L.J. Sharley, D.J. Hoffmann, A.A. (2007). Beneficial organisms as bioindicators for environmental sustainability in the grape industry. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 47: 404-411. [view abstract]

Tsitsilas, A. and Umina, P. A. (2007). A potential new pest of cereals: the ‘flood bug’. Australian Grain 17: 9-11.

Umina, P.A. & Schiffer, M. (2007). Pest mite raises curly questions. Australian Farm Journal 16: 42-43.

Umina, P.A. (2007). Resistance threatens to derail redlegged earth mite control. Farming Ahead 184: 47-49.

Umina, P.A. Blue oat mite. Victorian Department of Primary Industries AgNote.

Umina, P.A.  Pyrethroid resistance discovered in a major agricultural pest in southern Australia: the redlegged earth mite (Acari: Penthaleidae). Pest Management Science 63:1185-90 [view abstract]

Valenzuela, I. Hoffmann, A. A. Malipatil, M.B.Ridland, P.M. and Weeks, A.R. (2007) Identification of aphid species (Hemiptera: Aphididae: Aphidinae) using a rapid PCR-RFLP method based on the cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene. Australian Journal of Entomology 46: 305-12 [view abstract]

van Heerwaarden B, Hoffmann AA. 2007. Global warming: Fly populations are responding rapidly to climate change. Current Biology 17:R16-R8. [view abstract]

Weeks AR, McKechnie SW, Hoffmann AA. 2007. Robust clines and robust sampling: a reply to Kyriacou et al. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20:1652-4. [view abstract]

Weeks, A.R. Turelli, M. Harcombe, W.R., Reynolds, K. T. Hoffmann, A.A. (2007). From parasite to mutualist:  Rapid evolution of Wolbachia in natural populations of Drosophila. PLOS Biology 5: e114. [view abstract]

Willi, Y., Dietrich, S., van Kleunen, M. & Fischer, M. (2007)  Interspecific competitive stress does not affect the magnitude of inbreeding depression. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9:959-974. [view abstract]

Willi, Y., van Kleunen, M., Dietrich, S. & Fischer, M. (2007) Genetic rescue persists beyond first-generation outbreeding in small populations of a rare plant. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 274: 2357-2364. [view abstract]

Willi, Y., Van Buskirk, J., Schmid, B. & Fischer, M. (2007) Genetic isolation of fragmented populations is exacerbated by drift and selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20:534-542. [view abstract]

Williams AK, Batterham P, Heckel DG. Progress in gene manipulaiton in the cotton bollworm Helicoverpa aremigera. Journal of Insect Science 7. 

Willoughby, L., Batterham, P. & Daborn, P. J.  Piperonyl butoxide induces the expression of cytochrome P450 and glutathione S-transferase genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Pest Management Science 63:803-8 [view abstract]  

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