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Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
School of Biological Sciences
Department of Genetics
Research articles in refereed specialist journals

Journal Title

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Select the first letter of the journal title from the alphabetical list.

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Oberholster PJ, Botha AM: 2007. Use of PCR based technologies for risk assessment of a winter cyanobacterial bloom in Lake Midmar, South Africa. African Journal of Biotechnology, 6 (15) / Aug, pp 1794-1805, Full Text

Hurley BP, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ: 2007. A comparison of control results for the alien invasive woodwasp, Sirex noctilio, in the southern hemisphere. Agricultural and Forest Entomology, 9, pp 159-171, Full Text

Greeff JM: 2007. Deconstructing Jaco: genetic heritage of an Afrikaner. Annals of Human Genetics, 71, pp 674-688, Full Text

Richardson DM, Rundel PW, Jackson ST, Teskey RO, Aronson J, Bytnerowicz A, Wingfield MJ, Proches S: 2007. Human Impacts in Pine Forest: Past, Present, and Future. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, 38 / Aug, pp 275-297.

Van Wyk M, Pegg G, Lawson S, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Ceratocystic atrox sp. nov. associated with Phoracantha acanthocera infestations on Eucalyptus grandis in Australia. Australasian Plant Pathology, 36, pp 1-8.

Andjic V, Barber PA, Carnegie AJ, Pegg GS, Hardy GE S, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI: 2007. Kirramyces viscidus sp. Nov., a new eucalypt pathogen from tropical Australia closely related to the serious leaf pathogen, Kirramyces destructans. Australasian Plant Pathology, 36, pp 478-487.

Glen M, Alfenas AC, Zauza EAV, Wingfield MJ, Mohammed C: 2007. Puccinia psidii: a threat to the Australian environment and economy - a review. Australasian Plant Pathology, 36, pp 1-16.

Payn KG, Dvorak WS, Myburg AA: 2007. Chloroplast DNA phylogeography reveals the island colonisation route of Eucalyptus urophylla(Myrtaceae). Australian Journal of Botany, 55 (7) / Nov, pp 673-683.

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Aanen DK, Ros VID, De Fine Licht HH, Mitchell J, de Beer ZW, Slippers B, Rouland-LeFevre C, Boomsma JJ: 2007. Patterns of interaction specificity of fungus-growing termites and Termitomyces symbionts in South Africa. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7 (115), pp 1-11.

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Romon P, Zhou X-D, Iturrondobeitia JC, Wingfield MJ, Goldarazena A: 2007. Ophiostoma species (Ascomycetes: Ophiostomatales) associated with bark beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) colonizing Pinus radiata in northern Spain. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, 53, pp 756-767.

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De Fine Licht HH, Boomsma JJ, Aanen DK: 2007. Asymmetric interaction specificity between two sympatric termites and their fungal symbionts. Ecological Entomology, 32, pp 76-81.

Roets F, Roets F, Wingfield MJ, Crous PW, Dreyer L: 2007. Discovery of Fungus-Mite Mutualism in a Unique Niche. Environmental Entomology, 36 (5), pp 1226-1237.

Legesse BW, Myburg AA, Pixley KV, Twumasi-Afriyie S, Botha AM: 2007. Relationship between hybrid performance and AFLP based genetic distance in highland maize inbred lines. Euphytica, pp 1-11 (Online).

Adawi AO, Deadman M L, Al Rawahi AK, Al Maqbali YM, Al Jahwari AA, Al Saadi BA, Al Amri IS, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Aetiology and causal agents of mango sudden decline disease in the Sultanate of Oman. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 116, pp 247-254.

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Andjic V, Hardy GE S, Cortinas MN, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI: 2007. Multiple gene genealogies reveal important relationships between species of Phaeophleospora infecting Eucalyptus leaves. Fems Microbiology Letters, 268 / Jan, pp 22-33, Full Text

Bogale M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Steenkamp ET: 2007. Species-specific primers for Fusarium redolens and a PCR-RFLP technique to distinguish among three clades of Fusarium exysporum. Fems Microbiology Letters, 271, pp 27-32, Full Text

Roux J, Heath RN, Labuschagne L, Nkuekam GK, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Occurrence of the wattle wilt pathogen, Ceratocystis albifundus on native South African trees. Forest Pathology, 37, pp 292-302.

Tsopelas P, Barnes I, Wingfield MJ, Xenopoulos S: 2007. Seiridium cardinale on Juniperus species in Greece. Forest Pathology, 37, pp 338-347.

Kirisits T, Konrad H, Halmschlager E, Stauffer C, Wingfield MJ, Chhetri D B: 2007. Sirococcus shoot blight onPicea spinulosain Bhutan. Forest Pathology, 37, pp 40-50, Full Text

Slippers B, Wingfield BD: 2007. Botryosphaeriaceae as endophytes and latent pathogens of woody plants: diversity, ecology and impact Fungal Biology Reviews. Fungal Biology Reviews, 21, pp 90-106.

Van Wyk M, Adawi AO, Khan IA, Deadman M L, Al Jahwari AA, Wingfield BD, Ploetz R, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Ceratocystis manginecanssp. nov., causal agent of a destructive mango wilt disease in Oman and Pakistan. Fungal Diversity, 27, pp 213-230.

Zhou X-D, de Beer ZW, Xie Y-J, Pegg GS, Wingfield MJ: 2007. DNA-based identification of Quambalaria pitereka causing severe leaf blight of Corymbia citriodora in China. Fungal Diversity, 25 / Apr, pp 245-254.

Mohali SR, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Identification of Botryosphaeriaceae from Eucalyptus, Acacia and Pinus in Venezuela. Fungal Diversity, 25, pp 103-125.

De Vos L, Myburg AA, Wingfield MJ, Desjardins AE, Gordon TR, Wingfield BD: 2007. Complete genetic linkage maps from an interspecific cross between Fusarium circinatum and Fusarium subglutinans. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 44, pp 701-714, Full Text

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Legesse BW, Myburg AA, Pixley KV, Botha AM: 2007. Genetic diversity of African maize inbred lines revealed by SSR markers. Hereditas, 144, pp 10-17.

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Swartz ER, Skelton PH, Bloomer P: 2007. Sea-level changes, river capture and the evolution of populations of the Eastern Cape and fiery redfins (Pseudobarbus afer and Pseudobarbus phlegethon, Cyprinidae) across multiple river systems in South Africa. Journal of Biogeography, 34, pp 2086-2099, Full Text

Lapitan N, Li Y, Peng J, Botha AM: 2007. Fractional Extracts of Russian Wheat Aphid Eliciting Defense Responses in Wheat. Journal of Economic Entomology, 100 (3) / Jun, pp 990-999.

Delport W, Crowe TM, Lloyd P, Bloomer P: 2007. Population Growth Confounds Phylogeopraphic Inference in Namaque Sandgrouse. Journal of Heredity, 98 (2) / Dec, pp 158-164.

Arita K, Jacyk WK, Wessagowit V, Jansen van Rensburg E, Chaplin T, Mein A, Akiyama M, Shimizu H, Happle R, McGrath JA: 2007. The South African 'Bathing Suit Ichthyosis' is a form of Lamellar Ichthyosis caused by a homozygous missense mutation, p.R315L, in Transglutaminase 1. Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 127 (1), pp 490-493.

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Oberholster PJ, Botha AM, Cloete TE: 2007. Ecological implications of artificial mixing and bottom-sediment removal for a shallow urban lake, Lake Sheldon, Colorado. Lakes & Reservoirs: Research and Management, 12, pp 73-86, Full Text

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Zhou X, Burgess TI, de Beer ZW, Lieutier F, Yart A, Klepzig K, Carnegie A, Portales JM, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2007. High intercontinental migration rates and population admixture in the sapstain fungus Ophiostoma ips. Molecular Ecology, 16, pp 89-99, Full Text

Wright LP, Wingfield BD, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Cylindrocladium pauciramosum. Molecular Ecology Notes, 7, pp 343-345, Full Text

Carnegie AJ, Burgess TI, Beilharz V, Wingfield BD: 2007. New species of Mycosphaerella from Myrtaceae in plantations and native forests in eastern Australia. Mycologia, 99 (3), pp 461-474.

Maseko B, Burgess TI, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Two new Phytophthora species from South African Eucalyptus plantations. Mycological Research, 111, pp 1321-1338, Full Text

Andjic V, Barber PA, Carnegie AJ, Hardy GE S, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI: 2007. Phylogenetic reassessment supports accommodation of Phaeophleospora and Colletogloeopsis from eucalyptis in Kirramyces. Mycological Research, 10, pp 1184-1198.

Maier WFA, Wingfield BD, Mennicken M, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Polyphyly and two emerging lineages in the rust genera Puccinia and Uromyces. Mycological Research, 111, pp 176-185, Full Text

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Roux J, Eisenberg B, Kanzler A, Nel A, Coetzee V, Kietzka E, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Testing of selected South African Pinus hybrids and families for tolerance to the pitch canker pathogen, Fusarium circinatum. New Forests, 33 (2) / Mar, pp 109-123.

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Groenewald M, Barnes I, Bradshaw RE, Brown AV, Dale A, Groenewald JZ, Lewis KJ, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Crous PW: 2007. Characterization and Distribution of Mating Type Genes in the Dothistroma Needle Blight Pathogens. Phytopathology, 97 (7), pp 825-834.

Slippers B, Smit WA, Crous PW, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Taxonomy, phylogeny and identification of Botryosphaeriaceae associated with pome and stone fruit trees in South Africa and other regions of the world. Plant Pathology, 56, pp 128-139, Full Text

Pavlic D, Slippers B, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Botryosphaeriaceae occuring on native Syzygium cordatum in South Africa and their potential threat to Eucalyptus. Plant Pathology, 56, pp 624-636, Full Text

Coetzee V, Barrett L, Greeff JM, Henzi P, Perrett DI, Wadee AA: 2007. Common HLA alleles Associated with Health, but Not with Facial Attractiveness. PLOS One, 7 (e640) / July, pp 1-8.

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Ryan PG, Bloomer P, Moloney CL, Grant TJ, Delport W: 2007. Ecological Speciation in South Atlantic Island Finches. Science, 315 / Mar, pp 1420-1423.

Hurley B, Govender P, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Fungus gnats and other Diptera in South African forestry nurseries and their possible association with the pitch canker fungus. South African Journal of Science, 103 (1 & 2) / Jan/Feb, pp 43-46, Full Text

Jacobs A, Coutinho TA, Wingfield MJ, Ahumada R, Wingfield BD: 2007. Characterization of the pitch canker fungus, Fusarium circinatum, from Chile. South African Journal of Science, 103 (5/6) / May/Jun, pp 253-257, Full Text

Nakabonge G, Gryzenhout M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Roux J: 2007. Genetic diversity of Chrysoporthe cubensis in eastern and southern Africa. South African Journal of Science, 103 (5/6) / May/Jun, pp 261-264, Full Text

Hurley BP, Slippers B, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Govender P, Wingfield MJ: 2007. Molecular detection of fungi carried by Bradysia difformis (Sciaridae: Diptera) in South African forestry nurseries. Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal, 69 (2), pp 103-109.

Sneddon JC, Roux CZ, Verryn SD: 2007. Broad- and narrow-sense heritabilities in a South African cloned open-pollinated Eucalyptus grandis breeding population. Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal, 69 (2), pp 81-90.

Chungu D, Muimba-Kankolongo A, Roux J, Malambo FM: 2007. Bark removal for medicinal use predisposes indigenous forest trees to wood degradation in Zambia. Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal, 69 (3) / Dec, pp 157-163.

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Stassen L, Huismans H, Theron J: 2007. Silencing of African horse sickness virus VP7 protein expression in cultured cells by RNA interference. Virus Genes, 35, pp 777-783, Full Text

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Erasmus C, van Noort S, Jousselin E, Greeff JM: 2007. Molecular phylogeny of fig wasp pollinators (Agaonidae, Hymenoptera) of Ficus section Galoglychia. Zoologica Scripta, 36 (1) / Jan, pp 61-78, Full Text