Publications

May 2012

Rayner, M. J., Taylor, G. A., Gummer, H. D., Phillips, R. A., & Thompson, D. R.

The breeding cycle, year-round distribution and activity patterns of the endangered Chatham Petrel (Pterodroma axillaris)

Emu

April 2012

Brennan, M., McLean, J. P., Altaner, C., Ralph, J., Harris, P. J.

Cellulose microfibril angles and cell-wall polymers in different wood types of Pinus radiata

Cellulose In Press

Hsieh, Y. S. Y., Harris, P. J.

Structures of xyloglucans in primary cell walls of gymnosperms, monilophytes (ferns sensu lato) and lycophytes

Phytochemistry In Press

Ferguson, L. R., Zhu, S., Han, D. Y., Harris, P. J.

Inhibition or enhancement by four Pacific Island food plants against cancers induced by 2 amino–3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline in male Fischer 344 rats

Nutrition and Cancer 64, 218–227

March 2012

Smith, K.F., Stefaniak, L., Saito, Y., Gemmill, C.E.C., Cary, S.C., Fidler A.E.

Increased inter-colony fusion rates are associated with reduced COI haplotype diversity in an invasive colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum

PLoS ONE (in press)

Fidler A.E., Holland, P.T., Reschly, E.J., Ekins, S., Krasowski, M.D.

Activation of a tunicate (Ciona intestinalis) xenobiotic receptor orthologue by both natural toxins and synthetic toxicants

Toxicon 59, 365–372

Colby Chiang, Jessie C. Jacobsen, Carl Ernst, Carrie Hanscom, Adrian Heilbut, Ian Blumenthal, Ryan E. Mills, Andrew Kirby, Amelia M. Lindgren, Skye R. Rudiger, Clive J. McLaughlan, C. Simon Bawden, Suzanne J. Reid, Richard L. M. Faull, Snell R G, Ira M. Hall, Yiping Shen, Toshiro K. Ohsumi, Mark L. Borowsky, Mark J. Daly, Charles Lee, Cynthia C. Morton, Marcy E. MacDonald, James F. Gusella, and Michael E. Talkowski

Complex genomic reorganization and a predominance of non-homologous repair following chromosomal breaks in apparently balanced genomic rearrangements

Nature Genetics 2012 - in press

Mathew Littlejohn, Snell R G

Non-replication of genome-wide-based associations of efficient food conversion in dairy cows

Animal Genetics 2012 - in press

February 2012

Lusk C, Perez-Millaqueo M, Saldaña A, Burns B, Laughlin DC, Falster D

Seedlings of temperate rainforest conifer and angiosperm trees differ in self-shading and leaf area display

Annals of Botany doi:10.1093/aob/mcs095

Manpreet K Dhami, Gardner-Gee R, Houtte JV, Villas-Boas SG and Beggs JR

Species-specific chemical signatures from scale insect honeydew

Journal of Chemical Ecology 37(11): 1231-41

January 2012

Bailey, G. B., Hyun, J-K., Mitra, A. K. and Kingston, R.L.

A structural model for the generation of continuous curvature on the surface of a retroviral capsid

J. Mol. Biol. In the Press

Radjainia, M., and Mitra, A. K.

Repertoire of antibodies for countering anthrax toxin and their modes of action. Invited Review

Curr. Pharm. Design. In the Press

December 2011

Goldstone, D.C., Ennis-Adeniran, V., Hedden, J.J., Groom, H.C.T., Rice, G.I., Christodoulou, E., Walker, P.A., Kelly, G., Haire, L.F., Yap, M.W., et al

HIV-1 restriction factor SAMHD1 is a deoxynucleoside triphosphate triphosphohydrolase

Nature 480, 379–382

Kirs, M., Harwood, V.J., Fidler A.E., Gillespie P.A., Fyfe W.A. Blackwood A.D., Cornelisen, C.D.

Source tracking faecal contamination in an urbanised and rural waterway in the Nelson-Tasman region, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 45, 43-58

Ferguson, L. R., Harris, P. J., Kestell, P., Zhu, S., Munday, R., Munday, C. M.

Comparative effects in rats of intact wheat bran and two wheat bran fractions on the disposition of the mutagen 2-amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline

Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis 716, 59- 65

Mathew Littlejohn, Talia Grala, Kathryn Sanders, Caroline Walker, Garry Waghorn, Kevin Macdonald, Wouter Coppieters, Michel Georges, Richard Spelman, Eric Hillerton, Stephen Davis, Snell R G

Genetic variation in PLAG1 associates with early life body weight and peri-pubertal weight and growth in Bos Taurus

Animal Genetics, (Online Dec 7 2011)

November 2011

Hilditch, L., Matadeen, R., Goldstone, D.C., Rosenthal, P.B., Taylor, I.A., and Stoye, J.P

Ordered assembly of murine leukemia virus capsid protein on lipid nanotubes directs specific binding by the restriction factor, Fv1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, 5771 –5776

Ismar S.M.H., Igic B., Chong N.L., Bair K., Ortiz-Catedral L., Fidler A.E., Hauber M.E.

Morphology, coloration and visual sensitivity of red-tailed tropicbirds Phaeton rubricauda breeding on the Kermadec Islands

New Zealand Journal of Zoology 38, 29-42

Bootten, T. J., Joblin, K. N., McArdle, B. H., Harris, P. J.

Degradation of lignified secondary cell walls of lucerne (Medicago sativa L.) by rumen fungi growing in methanogenic co-culture

Journal of Applied Microbiology 111 1086-1096

October 2011

Bootten, T. J., Harris, P. J., Melton, L. D., Newman, R. H.

Using solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy to study the molecular organisation of primary plant cell walls

In: Popper, Z. A. (Ed.), The Plant Cell Wall: Methods and Protocols. Humana Press, New York, pp. 179-196