Refereed Journals 

Currently in PubMed 

S. O. Regeai, K. M. Dolan, D.A. Fitzpatrick, J. A. Browne, J. T. Jones and A. M. Burnell. Novel primers for the amplification of nuclear DNA introns in the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora and their cross-amplification in seven other Heterorhabditis species. In press

Fitzpatrick DA, Logue ME, Butler G. Evidence of recent interkingdom horizontal gene transfer between bacteria and Candida parapsilosis. BMC Evol Biol. 2008 Jun 24;8:181.

Fitzpatrick D.A, Logue ME, Stajich JE, Butler G. A Fungal phylogeny based on 42 complete genomes derived from supertree and combined gene analysis. BMC Evol Biol. 2006 6(1):99

Johnston CR, O'dushlaine C, Fitzpatrick D.A., Edwards RJ, Shields DC. Evaluation Of Whether Accelerated Protein Evolution In Chordates Has Occurred Before, After Or Simultaneously With Gene Duplication. Mol Biol Evol. 2006 Oct 25; [Epub ahead of print]

*Fitzpatrick, D.A., O'Halloran, D.M. and Burnell, A.M. Multiple Lineage Specific Expansions in the Guanylyl Cyclase Gene Family. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2006, 6:26.

O'Halloran, D.M., *Fitzpatrick, D.A., McCormack, G.P., McInerney, J.O. and Burnell, A.M. The Molecular Phylogeny and Functional Significance of a Nematode Specific Clade of Heterotrimeric G-protein α-Subunit Genes. J Mol Evol. 2006 Jul;63(1):87-94

Fitzpatrick DA, Creevey CJ and McInerney JO (2005). An α-proteobacterial molecular phylogeny using a supertree approach and a place for the mitochondria among the α-proteobacteria. Molecular Biology and Evolution 23(1) 74-85.

Fitzpatrick DA, Creevey CJ and McInerney JO (2005). Evidence of positive Darwinian selection in putative meningococcal vaccine antigens. Journal of Molecular Evolution 60 (1), 90-98.

Shannon, A. Browne, JA. Boyd, J. Fitzpatrick, DA and Burnell, AM (2005). The anhydrobiotic potential and molecular phylogenetics of species and strains of Panagrolaimus Journal of Experimental Biology 208:2433-2445.

Fitzpatrick DA and McInerney JO (2005). Evidence of positive Darwinian selection in Omp85, a highly conserved bacterial outer membrane protein essential for cell viability. Journal of Molecular Evolution 60(2) 268-73.

Creevey, C. J., Fitzpatrick, D. A., Philip, G. K., Kinsella, R. J., O’Connell, M. J., Pentony, M. M., Travers, S. A., Wilkinson, M. and McInerney, J. O. (2004) A tree-like phylogeny only exists at the tips in the prokaryotes. Proceedings of the Royal Society London, B series: Biological Sciences 271 (1557): 2551-8.

Kinsella RJ, Fitzpatrick DA, Creevey CJ, McInerney JO (2003) Fatty acid biosynthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: lateral gene transfer, adaptive evolution, and gene duplication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 100:10320-5

* Joint first author 

Book Chapters

O’Halloran, DM. Fitzpatrick, DA and Burnell, AM. Chemoreception and Chemoreceptor Genes in Nematodes (2006), In: Chemical Communication: from Genes to Ecosystems. Eds Marcel Dicke and Willem Takken (Frontis Publishing).

McInerney, J.O., Pisani, D., O’Connell, M.J., Fitzpatrick, D.A. and Creevey,C.J. (2006). A Prokaryotic Phylogenetic Tree: Yes or No? In: Towards the Tree of Life: taxonomy and systematics of large and species rich taxa. Eds: Trevor Hodkinson, John Parnell and Steve Waldren. Systematic Association special volume, CRC Press.

 

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