Professor Philip Batterham

Recent Publications 2002 - 2008

Tay, W.T., Behere, G.T., Heckel, D.G., Lee, S.F. and P. Batterham (2008).  Exon-primed intron crossing (EPIC) markers of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)  Bulletin Ent Res. (in press)

Perry*, T. Heckel, D.G., McKenzie*, J.A. and P. Batterham (2008).  Mutations in Dα1 or Dβ2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits can confer resistance to neonicotinoids in Drosophila melanogaster.  Insect Biochem Mol. Biol. (in press)

Behere, G.T., Tay, W.T., Russell, D.A. and P. Batterham (2008). Molecular markers to discriminate among four pest species of Helicoverpa (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae).  Bulletin Ent Res. (in press)

Willoughby, L., Batterham, P. and P. J. Daborn. (2007). Piperonyl butoxide induces the expression of cytochrome P450 and glutathione S-transferase genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Pest Management Science 63: 803-808.

Perry, T., McKenzie JA, Batterham P. (2007) A Dalpha6 knockout strain of Drosophila melanogaster confers a high level of resistance to spinosad. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 37(2):184-8.

Norgate, M., Southon, A., Zou, S., Zhan, M., Sun, Y., Batterham, P. and J. Camakaris (2007). Copper homeostasis gene discovery in Drosophila melanogaster. Biometals 20: 683-697.

Low, W.Y., Ng, H.L., Morton, C.J., Parker, M.W., Batterham, P. and C. Robin (2007).  Molecular evolution of glutathione s-transferases in the genus Drosophila.  Genetics 177:1363-75.

Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium (including P. Batterham)(2007).  Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.  Nature 450:203-18.

Daborn, P.J., Lumb, C., Boey, A., Wong, W., Blasetti, A., ffrench-Constant, R.H. and P. Batterham. (2007). Evaluating the insecticide resistance potential of eight Drosophila melanogaster cytochrome P450 genes by transgenic over-expression.  Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 37: 512-519

Chung, H., Bogwitz, M. R., McCart, C., Andrianopoulos, A., ffrench-Constant, R.H., Batterham, P. and P. J. Daborn (2007). Cis-regulatory elements in the Accord retrotransposon result in tissue-specific expression of the Drosophila melanogaster insecticide resistance gene Cyp6g1.  Genetics 175:1071-1077.

Behere, G.T., Tay, W.T., Russell, D., Heckel, D.G., Appleton, B.R., Kranthi, K.R. and P. Batterham (2007).  Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Field Populations of Helicoverpa armigera (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) and Phylogenetic Analysis of the Genus Helicoverpa.  BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 117 – 126.

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.

H. Chung, M. R. Bogwitz, C. McCart, A. Andrianopoulos, R. H. ffrench-Constant, P. Batterham and P. J. Daborn (2006). Tissue Specific Enhancers in the Accord Retrotransposon Result in Insecticide Resistance in Drosophila melanogaster Genetics (In Press)

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

Van de Wouw, A. P., Batterham, P. and 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.

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

Chen, Z., Robin, C., Damiano, J., Lydall, J., Lumb, C., Smith, K., Blasetti, A., Daborn, P.J., Heckel, D., McKenzie, J.A. and P. Batterham. (2006). Positional cloning of a cyromazine resistance gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Mol Biol. 15:181-6

Batterham, P., Hill-Williams, A., Levot, G., Sales, N. and J. A. McKenzie. (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

Milton C.C., Batterham, P., McKenzie, J.A. and A.A. Hoffmann (2005). Effect of E(sev) and Su(Raf) Hsp83 mutants and trans-heterozygotes on bristle trait means and variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 171(1): 119-30.

Jackson Behan, K., Fair, J., Singh, S., Bogwitz, M., Perry, T., Grubor, V., Cunningham, F., Nichols, C.D., Cheung, T.L., Batterham, P. and J.A. Pollock (2005). Alternative splicing removes an Ets interaction domain from Lozenge during Drosophila eye development. Dev. Genes Evol. 215(8):423-35.

Chen, Z., Smith, K.R., Batterham, P., and C. Robin (2005). Smg1 nonsense mutations do not abolish nonsense-mediated mRNA decay in Drosophila melanogaster.  Genetics 171(1): 403-6.

Bogwitz, M.R., Chung, H., Magoc, L., Rigby, S., Wong, W., O’Keefe, M., McKenzie, J.A., Batterham, P. and P.J. Daborn (2005). Cyp12a4 confers lufenuron resistance in a natural population of Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 102(36):12807-12.

Magoc, L., J. L. Yen, A. Hill-Williams, J. A. McKenzie, P. Batterham and P. J. Daborn. (2005). Cross-resistance to dicyclanil in cyromazine-resistant mutants of Drosophila melanogaster and Lucilia cuprina. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology 81: 129-135.

MacDonald, SS., Rako, L., Batterham, P., Hoffmann, AA., (2004). Dissecting chill coma recovery as a measure of cold resistance: evidence for a biphasic response in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology. 50: 687-766.

Southon, A., Burke, R., Norgate, MB., Batterham, P., Camakaris, J., (2004). Copper homeostasis in Drosophila melanogaster S2 cells. Biochemical Journal. 383:303-309.

Pyke, FM., Bogwitz, MR., Perry, T., Monk, AC., Batterham, P., McKenzie, JA., (2004). The genetic basis of resistance to diazinon in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica. 121:13-24.

Milton, CC., Huynh, B., Batterham, P., Rutherford, SL., Hoffmann, AA., (2003). Quantitative trait symmetry independent of Hsp90 buffering:Distinct modes of genetic canalisation and developmental stability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 100:13396-13401.

Tan-Kristanto, AM., Hoffmann, AA., Woods, R., Batterham, P., Cobbett, CS., Sinclair, C., (2003). Translational asymmetry as a sensitive indicator of cadmium stress in plants: a laboratory test with wild-type and mutant Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist. 159:471-477.

Siddall, NA., Behan, JK., Crew, JR., Cheung, LT., Fair, JA., Batterham, P., Pollock, AJ., (2003). Mutations in lozenge and D-Pax2 invoke ectopic patterned cell death in the developing Drosophila eye using distinct mechanisms. Development Genes and Evolution. 213:107-119.

Daborn, JP., Yen, LJ., Bogwitz, MR., Goff, LG., Feil, E., Jeffers, S., Tijet, N., Perry, T., Heckel, DG., Batterham, P., Feyereisen, R., Wilson, GT.,French-Constant, HR., (2002). A single P450 allele associated with insecticide resistance in Drosophila. Science. 297:2253-2256.