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

 
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Roux CZ: 2011. A family of protein growth curves with extension to other chemical body components together with application to animal nutrition and improvement. Animal, 5 (3), pp 439-449, Full Text

Six DL, Wingfield MJ: 2011. The Role of Phytopathogenicity in Bark Beetle-Fungus Symbioses: A Challenge to the Classic Paradigm. Annual Review of Entomology, 56, pp 255-272, Full Text

de Wet J, Bihon Legesse W, Preisig O, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Characterization of a novel dsRNA element in the pine endophytic fungus Diplodia scrobiculata. Archives of Virology, 156, pp 1199-1208, Full Text

Stassen L, Huismans H, Theron J: 2011. Membrane permeabilization of the African horse sickness virus VP5 protein is mediated by two N terminal amphipathic x helices. Archives of Virology, 156, pp 711-715, Full Text

Bihon Legesse W, Burgess T, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Distribution of Diplodia pinea and its genotypic diversity within asymptomatic Pinus patula trees. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 540-548, Full Text

Chen SF, Barnes I, Chungu D, Roux J, Wingfield MJ, Xie YJ, Zhou XD: 2011. High population diversity and increasing importance of the Eucalyptus stem canker pathogen, Teratosphaeria zuluensis, in South China. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 407-415.

Cortinas MN, Barnes I, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Unexpected genetic diversity revealed in the Eucalyptus canker pathogen Teratosphaeria gauchensis. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 497-503, Full Text

Pegg GS, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield MJ, Drenth A: 2011. Variable resistance to Quambalaria pitereka in spotted gum reveal opportunities for disease screening. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 76-86, Full Text

Zhou XD, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Eucalypt diseases and their management in China. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 339-345.

Pegg GS, Shuey LS, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield MJ, Drenth A: 2011. Potential gains through slecting for resistance in spotted gum to Quambalaria pitereka. Australasian Plant Pathology, 40, pp 197-206, Full Text

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Mlonyeni XOM, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Ahumada R, Klasmer P, Leal I, de Groot P, Slippers B: 2011. Extreme homozygosity in Southern Hemisphere populations of Deladenus siricidicola , a biological control agent of Sirex noctilio. Biological Control, 59, pp 348-353, Full Text

Hussey SG, Mizrachi E, Spokevicius AV, Bossinger G, Berger DK, Myburg AA: 2011. SND2 a NAC transcription factor gene, regulates genes involved in secondary cell wall development in Arabidopsis fibres and increases fibre cell area inEucalyptus. BMC Plant Biology, 11, p. 173, Full Text

Klopper AW, Klopper RR: 2011. Lycopodiophyta: Selaginellaceae Selaginella Nivea, a new Lycophyte record for South Africa, with notes on its habitat. Bothalia, 41 (2), pp 321-323, Full Text

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Bray T, Bennett NC, Bloomer P: 2011. Low levels of polymorphism at novel microsatellite loci developed for bathyergid mole-rats from South Africa. Conservation Genetics Resources, 3 (2), pp 221-224, Full Text

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Wingfield MJ, Roux J, Wingfield BD: 2011. Insect pests and pathogens of Australian acacias grown as non-natives - an experiment in biogeography with far-reaching consequences. Diversity and Distributions, 17, pp 968-977, Full Text

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Lu M, Wingfield MJ, Gillette N, Sun J-H: 2011. Do novel genotypes drive the success of an invasive bark beetle-fungus complex? Implications for potential reinvasion. Ecology, 92 (11), pp 2013-2019, Full Text

Piskur B, Pavlic D, Slippers B, Ogris N, Maresi G, Wingfield MJ, Jurc D: 2011. Diversity and pathogenicity of Botryosphaeriaceae on declining Ostrya carpinifolia in Slovenia and Italy following extreme weather conditions. European Journal of Forest Research, 130, pp 235-249, Full Text

Moleleki N, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD, Preisig O: 2011. Effect of Diaporthe RNA virus 1 (DRV1) on growth and pathogenicity of different Diaporthe species. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 131, pp 261-268, Full Text

Andjic V, Dell B, Barber P, Hardy G, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI: 2011. Plants for planting; indirect evidence for the movement of a serious forest pathogen, Teratosphaeria destructans , in Asia. European Journal of Plant Pathology, 131, pp 49-58, Full Text

Grobler JP, Rushworth I, Brink JS, Bloomer P, Kotze A, Reilly B, Vrahimis S: 2011. Management of hybridization in an endemic species: decision making in the face of imperfect information in the case of the black wildebeest -Connochaetes gnou. European Journal of Wildlife Research, 57, pp 997-1006, Full Text

Wayne ML, Pienaar J, Telonis-Scott M, Sylvestre L-S, Nuzhdin SV, McIntyre LM: 2011. Expression of defense genes in Drosophila evolves under a different selective regime from expression of other genes. Evolution, 65 (4) / Apr, pp 1068-1078.

Nelson RM, Greeff JM: 2011. Evolutionarily stable mixed mating in a variety of genetic systems. Evolutionary Ecology, 25, pp 291-306.

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Heath RN, Roux J, Slippers B, Drenth A, Pennycook SR, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Occurrence and pathogenicity of Neofusicoccum parvum and N. mangiferae on ornamental Tibouchina species. Forest Pathology, 41, pp 48-51, Full Text

Bihon Legesse W, Slippers B, Burgess T, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Diplodia scrobiculata found in the southern hemisphere. Forest Pathology, 41, pp 175-181, Full Text

Barnes I, Kirisits T, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Needle blight of pine caused by two species of Dothistroma in Hungary. Forest Pathology, 41, pp 361-369, Full Text

Bihon Legesse W, Slippers B, Burgess T, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Sources of Diplodia pinea endophytic infections in Pinus patula and P. radiata seedlings in South Africa. Forest Pathology, 41, pp 370-375, Full Text

Begoude BAD, Slippers B, Wingfield MJ, Roux J: 2011. The pathogenic potential of endophytic Botryosphaeriaceous fungi on Terminalia species in Cameroon. Forest Pathology, 41, pp 281-292, Full Text

Luchi N, Pratesi N, Pazzagli M, Capretti P, Scala A, Slippers B, Pinzani P: 2011. High-resolution melting analysis : a new molecular approach for the early detection of Diplodia pinea in Austrian pine. Fungal Biology, 115 (8) / Aug, pp 715-723.

Bergeron J, Leal I, Foord B, Ross G, Davis C, Slippers B, de Groot P, Hamelin RC: 2011. Putative origin of clonal lineages of Amylostereum areolatum, the fungal symbiont associated with Sirex noctilio, retrieved from Pinus sylvestris, in eastern Canada. Fungal Biology, 115 (8), pp 750-758.

De Vos L, Van der Nest MA, Van der Merwe NA, Myburg AA, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Genetic analysis of growth, morphology and pathogenicity in the F 1 progeny of an interspecific cross between Fusarium circinatum and Fusarium subglutinans. Fungal Biology, 115, pp 902-908, Full Text

Roets F, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD, Dreyer LL: 2011. Mites are the most common vectors of the fungus Gondwanamyces proteae in Protea infrictescences. Fungal Biology, 115, pp 343-350, Full Text

Van Wyk M, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Four new Ceratocystis spp. Associated with wounds on Eucalyptus, Schizolobium and Terminalia trees in Ecuador. Fungal Diversity, 46, pp 111-131, Full Text

Hunter GC, Crous PW, Carnegie AJ, Burgess TI, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Mycosphaerella and Teratosphaeria diseases of Eucalyptus ; easily confused and with serious consequences. Fungal Diversity, 50, pp 145-166, Full Text

Martin SH, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Steenkamp ET: 2011. Structure and evolution of the Fusarium mating type locus: New insights from the Gubberella fujikuroi complex. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 48, pp 731-740, Full Text

Van der Nest MA, Steenkamp ET, Slippers B, Mongae A, Van Zyl K, Stenlid J, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Gene expression associated with vegetative incompatibility in Amylostereum areolatum. Fungal Genetics and Biology, 48, pp 1034-1043, Full Text

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Antoniou AC, Kartsonaki C, Sinilnikova OM, Soucy P, McGuffog L, Healey S, Lee A, Peterlongo P, Manoukian S, Jansen van Rensburg E, Sluiter MD, Cattaneo E, Barile M, et al : 2011. Common alleles at 6q25.1 and 1p11.2 are associated with breast cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Human Molecular Genetics, 20 (16), pp 3304-3321.

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Von der Heyden S, Bowie RCK, Prochazka K, Bloomer P, Crane NL, Bernardi G: 2011. Phylogeographic patterns and cryptic speciation across oceanographic barriers in South African intertidal fishes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 24, pp 2505-2519.

Nelson RM, Greeff JM: 2011. Sex ratio dependent dispersal when sex ratios vary between patches. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 290, pp 81-87, Full Text

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Martin SH, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Steenkamp ET: 2011. Causes and Consequences of Variability in Peptide Mating Pheromones of Ascomycete Fungi. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28 (7), pp 1987-2003, Full Text

Boissin E, Stohr S, Chenuil A: 2011. Did vicariance and adaptation drive cryptic speciation and evolution of brooding in Ophioderma longicauda (Echinodermata:Ophiuroidea), a common Atlanto-Mediterranean ophiuroid?. Molecular Ecology, 2, pp 4737-4755.

Steane DA, Nicolle D, Sansaloni CP, Petroli CD, Carling J, Kilian A, Myburg AA, Grattapaglia D, Vaillancourt RE: 2011. Population genetic analysis and phylogeny reconstruction in Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) using high-throughput, genome-wide genotyping. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 59, pp 206-224, Full Text

Baumgartner K, Coetzee MPA, Hoffmeister D: 2011. Secrets of the subterranean pathosystem ofArmillaria. Molecular Plant Pathology, 12 (6), pp 515-534, Full Text

Mehl JWM, Slippers B, Roux J, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Botryosphaeriaceae associated with Pterocarpus angolensis (kiaat) in South Africa. Mycologia, 103 (3), pp 534-553, Full Text

Perez CA, Wingfield MJ, Altier NA, Simeto S, Blanchette RA: 2011. Puccinia psidii infecting cultivated Eucalyptusand native myrtaceae in Uruguay. Mycological Progress, 10, pp 273-282, Full Text

Grobbelaar JW, De Beer ZW, Bloomer P, Wingfield MJ, Zhou XD, Wingfield BD: 2011. Discovery of Ophiostoma tsotsi on Eucalyptus wood chips in China. Mycoscience, 52, pp 111-118, Full Text

Van Wyk M, Wingfield BD, Al-Adawi AO, Rossetto CJ, Fumiko Ito M, Wingfield MJ: 2011. Two new Ceratocystis species associated with mango disease in Brazil. Mycotaxon, 117, pp 381-404, Full Text

Hawksworth DL, Crous PW, Redhead SA, Reynolds DR, Samson RA, Seifert KA, Taylor JW, Wingfield MJ, Abaci O, Aime C, Asan A, Slippers B, De Beer ZW, et al : 2011. 2. The Amsterdam Declaration on fungal nomenclature. Mycotaxon, 116, pp 491-500, Full Text

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Oh E, Wingfield BD, Wingfield MJ, Roux J: 2011. First report of Phytophthora cinnamomiassociated with stem cankers ofQuercus cerrisin South Africa. New Disease Reports, 24, p. 11.

Mizrachi E, Mansfield S, Myburg AA: 2011. Cellulose factories: advancing bioenergy production from forest trees. New Phytologist, pp 1-9, Full Text

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Ahmed MZ, De Barro PJ, Greeff JM, Ren S-X, Naveed M, Qiu B-L: 2011. Genetic identity of the Bemisia tabaci species complex and association with high cotton leaf curl disease (CLCuD) incidence in Pakistan. Pest Management Science, 67, pp 307-317.

Mahomed W, Van den Berg N: 2011. EST sequencing and gene expression profiling of defence-related genes from Persea americana infected with Phytophthora cinnamoni. Plant Biology, 11 (167), pp 1-14.

Carmichael DJ, Rey MEC, Naidoo S, Cook G, van Heerden SW: 2011. First Report of Pepino mosaic virus Infecting Tomato in South Africa. Plant Disease, 95 (6), pp 767-767.

Coetzer N, Myburg AA, Berger DK: 2011. Maize microarray annotation database. Plant Methods, 7 (31), pp 1-10, Full Text

Pegg GS, Shuey LS, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield MJ, Drenth A: 2011. Variability in aggressiveness of Quambalaria pitereka isolates. Plant Pathology, 60, pp 1107-1117.

Pegg GS, Nahrung H, Carnegie AJ, Wingfield MJ, Drenth A: 2011. Spread and development of quambalaria shoot blight in spotted gum plantations. Plant Pathology, 60, pp 1096-1106, Full Text

Chen SF, Pavlic D, Roux J, Slippers B, Xie YJ, Wingfield MJ, Zhou XD: 2011. Characterization of Botryosphaeriaceae from plantation-grown Eucalyptus species in South China. Plant Pathology, 60, pp 739-751, Full Text

Yurkov A, Kemler M, Begerow D: 2011. Species accumulation curves and incidence-based species richness estimators to appraise the diversity of cultivable yeasts from beech forest soils. Plos One, 6 (8) / Aug, p. e23671.

Coetzee MPA, Bloomer P, Wingfield MJ, Wingfield BD: 2011. Paleogene Radiation of a Plant Pathogenic Mushroom. Plos One, 6 (12), pp e28545 (1-8), Full Text

De Barro P, Ahmed MZ: 2011. Genetic Networking of the Bemisia tabaci Cryptic Species Complex Reveals Pattern of Biological Invasions. Plos One, 6 (10), p. e25579, Full Text

Uyeda JC, Hansen TF, Arnold SJ, Pienaar J: 2011. The million-year wait for macroevolutionary bursts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, / Aug, pp 1-6.

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Tarigan M, Roux J, Van Wyk M, Tjahjono B, Wingfield MJ: 2011. A new wilt and die-back disease of Acacia mangium associated with Ceratocystis manginecans and C. acaciivora sp. nov.in Indonesia. South African Journal of Botany, 77, pp 292-304, Full Text

Wingfield BD: 2011. Can we improve postgraduate degree throughput rates?. South African Journal of Science, 107 (11/12), pp 1-2.

Slippers B, Majozi T, Nelwamondo FV, Steenkamp CM, van Heerden E, Wright CY: 2011. Internet access constrains science development and training at South African universities. South African Journal of Science, 107 (7/8), p. 1, Full Text

Eatwell KA, Verryn SD, Roux CZ, Geerthsen PJM: 2011. A comparison of collinearity mitigation techniques used in predicting BLUP breeding values and genetic gains over generations. Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science (Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal), 73 (3&4), pp 155-163, Full Text

Tarigan M, Wingfield MJ, Van Wyk M, Tjahjono B, Roux J: 2011. Pruning quality affects infection of Acacia mangium and A. crassicarpa by Ceratocystis acaciivora and Lasiodiplodia theobromae. Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science (Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal), 73 (3&4), pp 187-191, Full Text

Coetzee MPA, Wingfield BD, Golani GD, Tjahjono B, Gafur A, Wingfield MJ: 2011. A single dominant Ganoderma species is responsible for root rot of Acacia mangium and Eucalyptus in Sumatra. Southern Forests: A Journal of Forest Science (Southern Hemisphere Forestry Journal), 73 (3&4), pp 175-180, Full Text

Six DL, Poulsen M, Hansen AK, Wingfield MJ, Roux J, Eggleton P, Slippers B, Paine TD: 2011. Anthropogenic effects on interaction outcomes: examples from insect-microbial symbioses in forest and savanna ecosystems. Symbiosis, 53, pp 101-121, Full Text

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Rutkowska DA, Meyer QC, Maree FF, Vosloo W, Fick WC, Huismans H: 2011. The use of soluble African horse sickness viral protein 7 as an antigen delivery and presentation system. Virus Research, 156, pp 35-48, Full Text

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Taylor PJ, Lavrenchenko A, Carleton MD, Verheyen E, Bennett NC, Oosthuizen CJ, Maree S: 2011. Specific limits and emerging diversity patterns in East African populations of laminate-toothed rats, genusOtomys (Muridae: Murinae: Otomyini): a revision of theOtomys typus complex. Zootaxa, 3024, pp 1-66, Full Text

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