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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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