Dr. Charles Robin

Recent Publications 1996 - 2007

Drosophila Comparative Genome Sequencing and Analysis Consortium. Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature 450: 203-218.

Low, W.Y., Ng, H.L., Morton, C.J., Parker, M.W., Batterham, P., Robin, C., Positive selection of Glutathione S-Transferases in the genus, Drosophila. Genetics (in press)

Sztal, T., Chung, H., Gramzow, L., Daborn, P.J., Batterham, P., Robin, C. (2007) Two independent gene duplications forming the 307a genes of Drosophila. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 37(10):1044-1053.

Robin, C, Daborn, P.J., Hoffmannn, A.A. (2007) Fighting Fly Genes. Trends in Genetics 23(2) 51-54.

Willoughby, L., Chung, H., Lumb, C., Robin, C., Batterham, P., 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 (12) 934-942.

Chen, Z, Robin, C, Damiano, J., Lydall, J., Lumb, C., Blasetti, A, Daborn, P.J., Heckel, D., McKenzie, J.A., Batterham, P. (2005) Positional cloning of a cyromazine resistance gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Molecular Biology 15 (2): 181-186.

Zhenzhong Chen, Katherine R. Smith, Philip Batterham, and Charles Robin (2005) Smg1 Nonsense Mutations Do Not Abolish Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 171: 403-406 http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/abstract/171/1/403?etoc

P.M.Campbell*, G.C.deQ.Robin,*, L.N.Court, S.J.Dorrian, R.J.Russell, J.G.Oakeshott (2003) Developmental expression and gene/enzyme identifications in the alpha esterase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Molecular Biology 12(5), 459-471. *Joint first authors

Charles Robin, Richard F. Lyman, Anthony D. Long, Charles H. Langley and Trudy F. C. Mackay (2002). hairy: A Quantitative Trait Locus for Drosophila Sensory Bristle Number. Genetics 162: 155-164.
http://www.genetics.org/cgi/content/abstract/162/1/155

G.C.deQ.Robin, C. Claudianos, R.J.Russell and J.G.Oakeshott (2000). Reconstructing the Diversification of a-esterases; Comparing the gene clusters of Drosophila buzzatii and D. melanogaster. Journal of Molecular Evolution 51: 149-160.

G.C.deQ.Robin, R.J. Russell, D.J. Cutler, J.G. Oakeshott (2000). The Evolution of an a-Esterase Pseudogene Inactivated in the Drosophila melanogaster Lineage. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17 (4): 563-575.

J.G.Oakeshott, C.Claudianos, R.J.Russell, G.C.Robin (1999). Carboxyl/Cholineesterases: A Case Study in the Evolution of a Successful Multigene Family. Bioessays21: (12) p1031-1042.

J.G.Oakeshott, C.Claudianos, P.M.Campbell, G.C.Robin, R.D.Newcomb, W.A.Odgers, R.L.Harcourt, R.J.Russell (1998). Molecular Basis of Esterase Mediated OP Resistance in Two Higher Diptera. In 'Structure and Function of Cholinesterases and Related Proteins'. Doctor at al. (ed.), Plenum Press, New York.

G.C.deQ.Robin, K.M.Medveczky, J.G.Oakeshott and R.J.Russell (1996). Duplication and Divergence of the Genes of the Alpha-Esterase Cluster of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Molecular Evolution43: 241-252.

R.J.Russell, G.C.Robin, P.Kostakos, R.D.Newcomb, T.M.Boyce, K.M.Medveczky and J.G.Oakeshott (1996). Molecular Cloning of an Alpha-Esterase Gene Cluster on Chromosome 3R of Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 26 No. 3 pp. 235-247.