2006 Refereed Papers and Book Chapters

Bahrndorff, S., Ward, J., Pettigrove, V. & Hoffmann, A. A. (2006).  A microcosm test of adaptation and species specific responses to polluted sediments applicable to indigenous chironomids (Diptera). Environmental Pollution 139: 550-560. [view abstract]

Batterham, P., Hill-Williams, A., Levot, G., Sales, N. & McKenzie, J. A.  (2006).  The genetic bases of high-level resistance to diflubenzuron and low-level  resistance to cyromazine in a field strain of the Australian sheep blowfly,  Lucilia cuprina (Wiedemann) (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Australian Journal of Entomology 45: 87–90 [view abstract]

Behere, G.T., Russell, D and Batterham, P. and Tay, W.T. (2006) Two species in into one: Bottleneck history of Helicoverpa zea from Helicoverpa armigera revealed by DNA barcoding. 7th International Workshop on the Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Lepidoptera.  Kolympari, Crete, Greece Aug 20-26, 2006.  Abstract p 27.  

Cameron, S.L., Barker, S.C. & Whiting, M.F. (2006). Mitochondrial genomics and the new insect order Mantophasmatodea.  Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 38, 274-279. 

Chen, Z., Robin, C., Damiano, J., Lydall, J., Lumb, C., Smith, K., Blasetti, A., Daborn, P.J.,  Heckel, D., McKenzie, J.A. & Batterham, P.  (2006)  Positional cloning of a cyromazine resistance gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Molecular Biology 15:181-186. [view abstract]

Collinge, J.E. Hoffmann, A.A. & McKechnie, S.W. (2006). Altitudinal patterns for latitudinally-varying traits and polymorphic markers in Drosophila melanogaster from eastern Australia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 473-482. [view abstract]

Covacin, C., Shao, R., Cameron, S. & Barker, S. C. (2006).  Extraordinary numbers of gene rearrangements in the mitochondrial genomes of lice (Phthiraptera: Insecta). Insect Molecular Biology 15, 63-68. [view abstract]

Debat, V. Milton, C.C. Rutherford, S.L. Klingenberg, C.P. & Hoffmann, A.A. (2006).  Hsp90 and the quantitative variation of wing shape in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 60:2529-2538. [view abstract]

Endersby, N. M., McKechnie, S. W., Ridland, P. M. & Weeks, A. R. (2006). Microsatellites reveal a lack of structure in Australian populations of the diamond back moth, Plutella xylostella (L.). Molecular Ecology 15: 107-118. [view abstract]

ffrench-Constant, R. H., Feyereisen, R.,  & Daborn, P. J. (2006). Resistance and the jumping gene. Bioessays 28:6-8.  [view abstract]

Fiorini A, de Gouveia FS, de Soares MA, Stocker AJ, Ciferri RR, Fernandez MA (2006) DNA bending in the replication zone of the C3 DNA puff amplicon of Rhynchosciara Americana (Diptera: Sciaridae). Mol Biol Rep.  33(1): 71-82 [view abstract]

Guerrero, F.D., Nene, V.M., George,  J.E., Barker, S.C., & Willadsen, P.  (2006).  Sequencing a new target genome:  the southern cattle tick, Boophilus microplus (Acari: Ixodidae).  Journal of Medical Entomology 43, 9-16. [view abstract]

Herbert, K. S. Hoffmann, A. A. & Powell, K.S.  (2006). Changes in grape phylloxera abundance in ungrafted vineyards from south-eastern Australia. Journal of Economic Entomology 99: 1774-1783.  [view abstract]

Hillocks, R. J., Russell, D., Sekamatte, B., Riches, C. R. AND Orr, A. (2006) IPM for smallholder cotton in Uganda: An example of successful private sector engagement in service delivery. Aspects of Applied Biology 75, 1- 9.  

Hoffmann, A. A. & Loeschcke, V. (2006). Are fitness effects of density mediated by body size? Evidence from Drosophila field releases. Evolutionary Ecology Research 8: 813-828. [view abstract]

Kearney, M., Blacket, M. J., Strasburg, J. L., & Moritz, C.  (2006).  Waves of parthenogenesis in the desert: evidence for the parallel loss of sex in a grasshopper and a gecko from Australia. Molecular Ecology 15: 1743-1748 [view abstract]

Kellermann, V. M., Van Heerwaarden, B., Hoffmann, A. A. & Sgrò, C. M. (2006). Very low additive genetic variance and evolutionary potential in multiple populations of two rainforest Drosophila species. Evolution 60: 1104-1108. [view abstract]

Kennington, W.J., Partridge, L. & Hoffmann, A. A. (2006). Patterns of diversity and linkage disequilibrium within the cosmopolitan inversion In(3R)Payne in Drosophila melanogaster are indicative of coadaptation. Genetics 172: 1655-1663.  [view abstract]

McMeniman, C. J. & Barker, S. C. (2006).  Transmission ratio distortion in the human body louse, Pediculus humanus (Insecta: Phthiraptera). Heredity 96, 63-68. [view abstract]

Norgate, M., Lee, E., Southon, A., Farlow, A., Batterham, P., Camakaris, J. & Burke, R.  (2006). Essential roles in development and pigmentation for the Drosophila copper transporter DmATP7. Mol. Biol. Cell. 17: 475-84. [view abstract]

Rako, L., Anderson, A.R., Sgrò, C.M., Stocker, A.J. & Hoffmann, A.A. (2006). The association between inversion In(3R)Payne and clinally varying traits in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica 128: 373-384. [view abstract]

Rako, L. & Hoffmann, A.A. (2006). Complexity of the cold acclimation response in Drosophila. Journal of Insect Physiology 52: 94-104. [view abstract]

Russell, D.A. and Deguine, J-P. (2006) Durabilité de la culture de cotonniers transgéniques en Chine et en Inde.  Cahiers Agricultures 15 (1), 54-59. [view abstract]

Russell, D.A. and Kranthi, K.R. (2006) Improved cotton bollworm (Helicoverpa armigera) control in small-scale cotton production systems in India. Proceedings Technical Seminar, 58^th Plenary Meeting, International Cotton Advisory Committee, Goainia, Brazil.  ICAC, Washington  

Schiffer, M. & McEvey, S. F. (2006) Drosophila bunnanda—a new species from northern Australia with notes on other Australian members of the montium subgroup (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Zootaxa 1333: 1-23. [view abstract]

Schiffer, M., Gilchrist, A. S. & Hoffmann, A. A. (2006) The contrasting genetic architecture of wing size, viability and development time in a rainforest species and its more widely distributed relative. Evolution 60: 106-114.  [view abstract]

Sgrò, C. M., Magiafoglou, A., Faine, L. & Hoffmann, A. A. (2006).  Absence of clinal variation in virgin retention capacity in Australian Drosophila melanogaster. Evolutionary Ecology 20: 407-413.  [view abstract]

Shao, R., Barker, S. C., Mitani, H., Tabuchi, N., & Fukunaga, M.  (2006).  Molecular mechanisms for the variation of mitochondrial gene content and gene arrangement among parasitic chigger mites of the genus Leptotrombidium (Acari: Acariformes). Journal of Molecular Evolution 63, 251-261.  [view abstract]

Steen, N.A., Barker, S.C. & Alewood, P.F.  (2006). A review of the saliva of the Ixodida (ticks). Toxicon 47:1-20. 

Sunnucks P, Blacket MJ, Taylor JM (2006) A tale of two flatties: different responses of two terrestrial flatworms to past enviornmental climatic fluctuations at Tallaganda in montane southeastern Australia. Molecular Ecology 15 15:4513-31. [view abstract]

Telonis-Scott, M., Guthridge, K. M. & Hoffmann, A. A. (2006). A new set of laboratory selected Drosophila melanogaster lines for the analysis of desiccation resistance: response to selection, physiology and correlated responses. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 1837-1847.  [view abstract]

Thomson, L.J. (2006) Influence of reduced irrigation on beneficial invertebrates in vineyards. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 46: 1389-1395.  [view abstract]

Thomson, L.J. & Hoffmann, A.A. (2006) Field validation of laboratory-derived IOBC toxicity ratings for natural enemies in commercial vineyards. Biological Control 39:507-515. [view abstract]

Tsitsilas, A., Stuckey, S. Hoffmann, A.A., Weeks, A.R. & Thomson, L.J. (2006). Shelterbelts in agricultural landscapes suppress invertebrate pests. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 46: 1379-1388.  [view abstract]

Umina, P.A., Hoffmann, A. A., Weeks, A. R. & McKechnie, S. W. (2006). An independent non-linear latitudinal cline for the sn-glycerol-3-phospate (a-Gpdh) polymorphism of D. melanogaster in eastern Australia. Genetical Research 87: 13-21.  [view abstract]

Van Buskirk, J & Willi Y. (2006) The change in quantitative genetic variation under inbreeding. Evolution 60: 2428-2434 [view abstract]

Van de Wouw, A., Batterham, P. & P. J. Daborn (2006). The insect growth regulator insecticide cyromazine causes earlier emergence in Drosophila melanogaster. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 63:101-109.  [view abstract]

Weeks, A. R., McKechnie, S. W. & Hoffmann, A. A. (2006). In search of clinal variation in the period and clock timing genes in Australian Drosophila melanogaster populations.  Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19: 551-557. [view abstract]

Willi Y, Van Buskirk J, Hoffmann, AA (2006) Limits to the adaptive potential of small populations. Annual Review of Ecology Evolutions and Systematics 37:433-58. [view abstract]

Willoughby, L., Chung, H., Lumb, C., Robin, C., Batterham, P. & P. J. Daborn, P. J.. (2006). A comparison of Drosophila melanogaster detoxification gene induction responses for six insecticides, caffeine and phenobarbital. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 36:934-942. [view abstract]

Book Chapters

Evans, B. K., Ladiges, P. Y., McKenzie, J. A., Batterham, P. & Sanders, Y.  (2006) Biology Two (Fourth Edition). Heinemann, Melbourne. 

Russell, D.A. and Kranthi, K.R. (Eds) (2006) Handbook of sustainable control of cotton bollworm Helicoverpa armigera. Pp160 Surya Press, India 

Thomson, L. J. & Hoffmann, A. A.  (2006) Integrated strategies and bioindicators for sustainable grape production in Australia. Encyclopaedia of Pest Management. D.Pimentel (Ed.) Marcel Dekker, New York.