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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

Instructions

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

A

Feller L, Wood NH, Sluiter MD, Noffke C, Raubenheimer EJ, Lemmer J, Jansen van Rensburg E: 2008. Report of a Black South African Child With Oculodentodigital Dysplasia and a Novel GJA1 Gene Mutation. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, 146A, pp 1350-1353.

Burgess TI, Andjic V, Wingfield MJ, St J Hardy GE: 2008. The eucalypt leaf blight pathogen Kirramyces destructans discovered in Australia. Australasian Plant Disease Notes, 2, pp 141-144.

Nakabonge G, Burgess TI, Gryzenhout M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Roux J: 2008. Population structure of the fungal pathogen Holocryphia eucalypti in Australia and South Africa. Australasian Plant Pathology, 37, pp 154-161.

Wingfield MJ, Hammerbacher A, Ganley RJ, Steenkamp ET, Gordon TR, Wingfield BD, Coutinho TA: 2008. Pitch canker caused by Fusarium circinatum - a growing threat to pine plantations and forest worldwide. Australasian Plant Pathology, 37, pp 319-334.

B

Hurley BP, Slippers B, Croft PK, Hatting HJ, van der Linde MJ, Morris AR, Dyer C, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Factors influencing parasitism of Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) by the nematode Deladenus siricidicola (Nematoda: Neotylenchidae) in summer rainfall areas of South Africa. Biological Control, 45, pp 450-459.

Klopper RR, Klopper AW, Baijnath H, Smith GF: 2008. ASPHODELACEAE: ALOOIDEAE. Bulbine triebneri, an earlier name for Bulbine alba, as well as additional and new localities in eastern and northern Cape, South Africa. Bothalia, 38 (1), pp 67-69.

Klopper RR, Nel J, Klopper AW, Smith GF: 2008. Pteridophyta: Aspleniaceae Asplenium Lobatum Var. Pseudo-Abyssinicum. a new record for South Africa. Bothalia, 38 (2), pp 144-146.

C

Van der Nest MA, Slippers B, Stenlid J, Wilken PM, Vasaitis R, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2008. Characterization of the systems governing sexual and self-recognition in the white rot homobasidiomycete Amylostereum areolatum. Current Genetics, 53, pp 323-336.

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Oberholster PJ, Botha AM, Cloete TE: 2008. Biological and chemical evaluation of sewage water pollution in the Rietvlei nature reserve wetland area, South Africa. Environmental Pollution, 156, pp 184-192.

Legesse BW, Myburg AA, Pixley KV, Twumasi-Afriyie S, Botha AM: 2008. Relationship between hybrid performance and AFLP based genetic distance in highland maize inbred lines. Euphytica, 162 (3), pp 313-323, Full Text

Kvas M, Steenkamp ET, Al Adawi AO, Deadman ML, Al Jahwari AA, Marasas WFO, Wingfield BD, Ploetz RC, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Fusarium mangiferae associated with mango malformation in the Sultanate of Oman. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 121, pp 195-199, Full Text

Jousselin E, van Noort S, Berry V, Rasplus JY, Ronsted N, Erasmus JC, Greeff JM: 2008. One fig to bind them all: Host conservatism in a fig wasp community unraveled by conspeciation analyses among pollinating and nonpollinating fig wasps. Evolution, 62 (7), pp 1777-1797.

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Barnes I, Kirisits T, Akulov A, Chhetri D B, Wingfield BD, Bulgakov TS, Wingfield MJ: 2008. New host and country records of the Dothistroma needle blight pathogens from Europe and Asia. Forest Pathology, 38, pp 178-195, Full Text

Lombard L, Bogale M, Montenegro F, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. A new bark canker disease of the tropical hardwood tree Cebrelinga cateniformis in Ecuador. Fungal Diversity, 31, pp 73-81.

Rodas CA, Roux J, Van Wyk M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Ceratocystis neglecta sp. nov., infecting Eucalyptus trees in Colombia. Fungal Diversity, 28, pp 73-84.

Zhou XD, Xie YJ, Chen SF, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Diseases of eucalypt plantations in China: challenges and opportunities. Fungal Diversity, 32, pp 1-7.

J

Momtaz S, Mapunya MB, Houghton PJ, Edgerly C, Hussein AA, Naidoo S, Lall N: 2008. Tyrosinase inhibition by extracts and constituents of Sideroxylon inerme L. stem bark, used in south Africa for skin lightening. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 119, pp 507-512.

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Cortinas MN, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Microsatellite markers for the Eucalyptus stem canker fungal pathogen Kirramyces gauchensis. Molecular Ecology Resources, 8, pp 590-592, Full Text

Dos Santos SMR, Klopper AW, Oosthuizen CJ, Bloomer P: 2008. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic tetranucleotide microsatellite loci in the pelagic perciform fish Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) from South Africa. Molecular Ecology Resources, 8, pp 1065-1067, Full Text

Barnes I, Cortinas MN, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2008. Microsatellite markers for the red band needle blight pathogen, Dothistroma septosporum. Molecular Ecology Resources, 8, pp 1026-1029, Full Text

de Wet J, Slippers B, Preisig O, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Phylogeny of the Botryosphaeriaceae reveals patterns of host association. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 46 (1), pp 116-126.

Pavlic D, Wingfield MJ, Barber P, Slippers B, St J Hardy GE, Burgess TI: 2008. Seven new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae from baobab and other native trees in Western Australia. Mycologia, 100 (6), pp 851-866.

Roets F, Roets F, de Beer ZW, Wingfield MJ, Crous PW, Dreyer LL: 2008. Dual affiliation: Roets, F: UP and Stellenbosch Ophiostoma gemellus and Sporothrix variecibatus from mites infesting Protea infructescences in South Africa. Mycologia, 100 (3), pp 496-510.

Yamaoka Y, Masuya H, Chung W-H, Goto H, To-Anun C, Tokumasu S, Zhou X, Wingfield MJ: 2008. The teleomorph of Leptographium yunnanense, discovered in crosses among isolates from Thailand, China and Japan. Mycoscience, 49, pp 233-240.

N

Xu B, Roos JL, Levy S, Jansen van Rensburg E, Gogos JA, Karayiorgou M: 2008. Strong association of de novo copy number mutations with sporadic schizophrenia. Nature Genetics, 40 (7) / July, pp 880-885.

Creux NM, Ranik M, Berger DK, Myburg AA: 2008. Comparative analysis of orthologous cellulose synthase promoters from Arabidopsis, Populus and Eucalyptus: evidence of conserved regulatory elements in angiosperms. New Phytologist, 179 (3), pp 722-737, Full Text

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Zhou X-D, Jacobs K, Kirisits T, Chhetri D B, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Leptographium bhutanense sp. Nov., associated with the root collar weevil Hylobitelus chenkupdorjii on Pinus wallichiana in Bhutan. Persoonia, 21, pp 1-8, Full Text

de Wet J, Preisig O, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Patterns of Multiple Virus Infections in the Conifer Pathogenic Fungi, Diplodia pinea and Diplodia scrobiculata. Phytopathology, 156, pp 725-731, Full Text

Kiula BA, Lyimo NG, Botha AM: 2008. Association between AFLP-based genetic distance and hybrid performance in tropical maize. Plant Breeding, 127, pp 140-144, Full Text

Duran A, Gryzenhout M, Slippers B, Ahumada R, Rotella A, Flores F, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Phytophthora pinifolia sp. nov. associated with a serious needle disease of Pinus radiata in Chile. Plant Pathology, 57, pp 715-727, Full Text

Hunter GC, van der Merwe NA, Burgess TI, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield BD, Crous PW, Wingfield MJ: 2008. Global movement and population biology of Mycosphaerella nubilosa infecting leaves of cold-tolerant Eucalyptus globulus and E. nitens. Plant Pathology, 57, pp 235-242, Full Text

Pegg GS, Dwyer CO, Carnegie AJ, Burgess TI, Wingfield MJ, Drenth A: 2008. Quambalaria species associated with plantation and native eucalypts in Australia. Plant Pathology, 57, pp 702-714, Full Text

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du Preez FB, Myburg AA, Venter E, Botha AM: 2008. Resistance genes in the Triticeae and the dynamics of divergence before duplication. South African Journal of Botany, 74, pp 51-64.

Wingfield MJ, Slippers B, Hurley BP, Coutinho TA, Wingfield BD, Roux J: 2008. Eucalypt pests and diseases: Growing threats to plantation productivity. Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science, 70 (2), pp 139-144.

Myburg AA, Bradfield JR, Cowley EM, Creux NM, De Castro MH, Hatherell TL, Mphahlele MM, ONeill MM, Ranik M, Solomon OL, Victor M, Zhou H, Galloway G, Horsley T, Jones N, Stanger T, Bayley A, Edwards N, Janse B: 2008. Forest and fibre genomics: Biotechnology tools for applied tree improvement. Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science, In Proceedings of the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO) Working Group, 70 (2), CD format and full length paper, Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science, pp 59-68.

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Payn KG, Dvorak WS, Janse BJH, Myburg AA: 2008. Microsatellite diversity and genetic structure of the commercially important tropical tree species Eucalyptus urophylla, endemic to seven islands in eastern Indonesia. Tree Genetics & Genomes, 4, pp 519-530.