Recent Publications

2003

Lohar, D. P. and D. McK. Bird. Lotus japonicus: A new model to study root-parasitic nematodes. Plant and Cellular Physiology under revision.

Bird, D. McK., Opperman, C. H. and K. G. Davies. 2003. Interactions between bacteria and plant-parasitic nematodes: Now and then. International Journal for Parasitology 33: in press.

Bird, D. McK. and I. Kaloshian. 2003. Are roots special?: Nematodes have their say. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 62: 115-123.

Scholl, E. H., Thorne, J. L., McCarter, J. P. and D. McK. Bird. 2003. Horizontally transferred genes in plant-parasitic nematodes: A high-throughput genomic approach. Genome Biology 4: R39.1-R39.12.

McCarter, J. P., Mitreva, M. D., Martin, J., Dante, M., Wylie, T., Rao, U., Pape, D., Bowers, Y., Theising, B., Murphy, C., Kloek, A. P., Chiapelli, B., Clifton, S. W., Bird, D. McK. and R. Waterston. 2003. Analysis and functional classification of transcripts from the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita. Genome Biology 4: R26.1-R26.19.

Hirsch, A. M., Bauer, W. D., Bird, D. McK., Cullimore, J., Tyler, B. and J.I. Yoder. 2003. Molecular signals and receptors—controlling rhizosphere interactions between plants and other organisms. Ecology 84: 858-868.

2002

Koltai, H. and D. McK. Bird. 2002. Recovery and sequence validation of the histological signal following in situ RT-PCR localization of plant gene transcripts. Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 20 20: 391-397.

Bird, D. McK., Clifton, S. W., Kepler, T., Kieber, J.J., Thorne, J. and C. H. Opperman 2002. Genomic dissection of a nematode-plant interaction: A tool to study plant biology. Plant Physiology 129: 394-395.

McCarter, J. P., Clifton, S. W., Bird, D. McK and R. Waterston. 2002. Nematode gene sequences; Update for March 2002. Journal of Nematology 34:71-74.

2001

Koltai, H., Dhandaydham, M., Opperman, C., Thomas, J. and D. McK. Bird. 2001. Overlapping plant signal transduction pathways induced by a parasitic-nematode and a rhizobial endosymbiont. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 14: 1168-1177.
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McCarter, J., Bird, D., Clifton, S. and R. Waterston. 2001. Nematode gene sequences; Update for December 2000. Journal of Nematology 32: 331-333.
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Bird, D. McK. and A. F. Bird. 2001. Plant parasitic nematodes. Chapter 8 in: Parasitic Nematodes: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Immunology, M. W. Kennedy and W. Harnett (Eds), pp139-166. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK.

Opperman, C. H. and D. McK. Bird. 2001. Nematode genetics. Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology. Maloy, O. C. and T. D. Murray (Eds), pp 696-698. Wiley and Sons, New York.

McCarter, J. A., Abad, P., Jones. J and D. McK. Bird. 2000. Rapid gene discovery in plant parasitic nematodes via Expressed Sequence Tags. Nematology 2: 719-731.

2000

Bird, D. McK and H. Koltai. 2000. Plant parasitic nematodes: Habitats, hormones and horizontally-acquired genes. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 19: 183-194.
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Koltai, H. and D. McK. Bird. 2000. High throughput cellular localization of specific plant mRNAs by liquid-phase in situ RT-PCR of tissue sections. Plant Physiology 123: 1203-1212.
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Koltai, H. and D. McK. Bird. 2000. Epistatic repression of PHANTASTICA and class 1 KNOTTED genes is uncoupled in tomato. The Plant Journal 22: 455-459.
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1997-1999

Bird, D. McK., Opperman, C. H., Jones, S. J. M. and D. L. Baillie. 1999. The Caenorhabditis elegans genome: A guide in the post genomics age. Annual Review of Phytopathology 37: 247-265.
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Bird, D. McK. and C. H. Opperman. 1998. Caenorhabditis elegans: A Genetic Guide to Parasitic Nematode Biology. Journal of Nematology 30: 299-308.

Opperman, C. H. and D. McK. Bird. 1998. The soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines: a genetic model system for the study of plant-parasitic nematodes. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 1: 342-346.
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Bird, D. McK., Kaloshian, I. and S. Molinari. 1997. Promoter structure of the RNA polymerase II large subunit gene in Caenorhabditis elegans and C. briggsae. Journal of Nematology 29: 114-152.

Blaxter, M. and D. McK. Bird. Parasitic nematodes. 1997. In: C. elegans II, D. L. Riddle, T. Blumenthal, B. Meyer and J. Priess (Eds). pp 851-878. Cold Spring Harbor Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY.
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