Dr. Lea Rako 
Research Fellow

Bio21 Institute
The University of Melbourne 3010
Phone: 61 3 8344 2520
Facsimile: 61 3 8344 2279
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Current Research:

Assessing the roles of the hsr omega and Dca genes in cold tolereance variation.

Identifying two new mechanisms underlying clinal stress resistance variation. 

Climatic adaptation candidate genes: Dca  

Publications

L.Rako, M. Blacket, S.W. McKechnie,  A. A. Hoffmann (2007) Candidate genes and thermal phenotypes: identifying ecologically important genetic variation for thermotolerance in the Australian Drosophila melanogaster cline, Molecular Ecology 16 (14), (2007) 2948–2957

L Rako, AR Anderson, CM Sgrò, AJ Stocker, and AA Hoffmann (2006) The association of In(3R)Payne with clinally varying traits in Drosophila melanogaster Genetica 128, 373-384

L.Rako. A. A. Hoffmann (2006) Complexity of the cold acclimation response in the Drosophila melanogaster.  - Journal of Insect Phisiology 52, 94-104

S.S. Mcdonald, L. Rako, P. Batterham and A.A. Hoffmann. (2004) Dissecting chill coma recovery as a measure of cold resistance: evidence for biphasic response in Drosophila melanogaster, S.S. Mcdonald, L. Rako, P. Batterham and A.A. Hoffmann, Journal of Insect Physiology 50, 695-700