By Adjunct Professor Brett Anthony Neilan

Journal articles

Burns B; Neilan B, 2008, 'Session 18. Functional Complexity of Modern Stromatolites and Microbial Mats', Astrobiology, 8, pp. 378 - 383, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/ast.2008.1242

Ingrey SD; Neilan BA, 2008, 'The genetic basis for bioactivity in the traditional medicine plants of Australia', Planta Medica, 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1083891

Pearson LA; Moffitt MC; Ginn H; Neilan BA, 2008, 'The Molecular Genetics and Regulation of Cyanobacterial Peptide Hepatotoxin Biosynthesis', Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 38, pp. 847 - 856

Pearson LA; Neilan BA, 2008, 'The molecular genetics of cyanobacterial toxicity as a basis for monitoring water quality and public health risk', Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 19, pp. 281 - 288, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2008.03.002

Roberts AA; Pearson LA; Copp JN; Neilan BA, 2008, 'Unnatural production of natural products: Heterologous expression and combinatorial biosynthesis of novel cyanobacterial-derived compounds', Planta Medica, 74, http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0028-1083946

Goh F; Jeon YJ; Barrow K; Neilan BA; Burns BP, 2007, 'Osmoadaptation of microorganisms from stromatolites', , pp. 203 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.11490/isea.2005.0.203.0

Leuko S; Goh F; Allen MA; Burns BP; Walter MR; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Analysis of intergenic spacer region length polymorphisms to investigate the halophilic archaeal diversity of stromatolites and microbial mats', Extremophiles, 11, pp. 203 - 210

Izaguirre G; Jungblut A; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Benthic cyanobacteria (Oscillatoriaceae) that produce microcystin-LR, isolated from four reservoirs in southern California', Water Research, 41, pp. 492 - 498

Kellmann R; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Biochemical characterization of paralytic shellfish toxin biosynthesis in vitro', Journal of Phycology, 43, pp. 497 - 508

Marshall C; Leuko S; Coyle C; Walter MR; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Carotenoid analysis of halophilic archaea by resonance Raman Spectroscopy', Astrobiology, 7, pp. 631 - 643

Copp JN; Roberts A; Marahiel M; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Characterization of PPTNs, a cyanobacterial phosphopantetheinyl transferase from Nodularia spumigena NSOR10', Journal of Bacteriology, 189, pp. 3133 - 3139

Pearson LA; Barrow KD; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Characterization of the 2-hydroxy-acid dehydrogenase Mcyl, encoded within the microcystin biosynthesis gene cluster of Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806', The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 282, pp. 4681 - 4692

Nakasugi K; Alexova R; Svenson CJ; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Functional analysis of PilT from the toxic cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806', Journal of Bacteriology, 189, pp. 1689 - 1697

Munchhoff J; Hirose E; Maruyama T; Sunairi M; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Host specificity and phylogeography of the prochlorophyte Prochloron sp., an obligate symbiont in didemnid ascidians', Environmental Microbiology, 9, pp. 890 - 899

Leuko S; Walter MR; Rogoff D; Rothschild L; Neilan BA, 2007, 'Modern stromatolites: What can they tell us about the evolution of life?', Astrobiology, 7, pp. 489 - 489

Sertan-de Guzman A; Predicala R; Bernardo EB; Neilan BA; Elardo S; Mangalindan G; Tasdemir D; Ireland C; Barraquio W; Concepcion G, 2007, 'Pseudovibrio denitrificans strain Z143-1, a heptylprodigiosin-producing bacterium isolated from a Philippine tunicate', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 277, pp. 188 - 196

Jungblut A; Hoeger S; Mountfort D; Hitzfeld B; Dietrich D; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Characterization of microcystin production in an Antarctic cyanobacterial mat community', Toxicon, 47, pp. 271 - 278

Pomati F; Kellmann R; Cavaliere R; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Comparative gene expression of PSP-toxin producing and non-toxic Anabaena circinalis strains', Environment International, 32, pp. 743 - 748, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2006.03.010

Crispim C; Gaylarde PM; Gaylarde CC; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Deteriogenic cyanobacteria, on historic buildings in Brazil detected by culture and molecular techniques', International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation, 57, pp. 239 - 243

Gaylarde P; Jungblut A; Gaylarde C; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Endolithic phototrophs from an active geothermal region in New Zealand', Geomicrobiology Journal, 23, pp. 579 - 587

Kellmann R; Neilan BA; Mills T, 2006, 'Functional modeling and phylogenetic distribution of putative cylindrospermopsin biosynthesis enzymes', Journal of Molecular Evolution, 62, pp. 267 - 280

Goh QY; Leuko S; Allen MA; Bowman J; Kamekura M; Neilan BA; Burns BP, 2006, 'Halococcus hamelinensis sp nov., a novel halophilic archaeon isolated from stromatolites in Shark Bay, Australia', International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 56, pp. 1323 - 1329

Fong JC; Svenson CJ; Nakasugi K; Leong C; Bowman J; Chen B; Glenn DR; Neilan BA; Rogers PL, 2006, 'Isolation and characterization of two novel ethanol-tolerant facultative-anaerobic thermophilic bacteria strains from waste compost', Extremophiles, 10, pp. 363 - 372

Hirose E; Hirose M; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Localization of symbiotic cyanobacteria in the colonial ascidian Trididemnum miniatum (Didemnidae, Ascidiacea)', Zoological Science, 23, pp. 435 - 442

Jungblut A; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Molecular identification and evolution of the cyclic peptide hepatotoxins, microcystin and nodularin, synthetase genes in three orders of cyanobacteria', Archives of Microbiology, 185, pp. 107 - 114

Yokobori S; Kurabayashi A; Neilan BA; Maruyama T; Hirose E, 2006, 'Multiple origins of the ascidian-Prochloron symbiosis: Molecular phylogeny of photosymbiotic and non-symbiotic colonial ascidians inferred from 18S rDNA sequences', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40, pp. 8 - 19

Burns BP; Pomati F; Goh F; Yasar S; Neilan BA, 2006, 'Stromatolites as a resource for novel natural products', Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere, 36, pp. 623 - 624

Urai M; Aizawa T; Anzai H; Ogihara J; Iwabuchi N; Neilan BA; Couperwhite I; Nakajima M; Sunairi M, 2006, 'Structural analysis of an extracellular polysaccharide produced by a benzene tolerant bacterium, Rhodococcus sp 33', Carbohydrate Research, 341, pp. 616 - 623

Nakasugi K; Svenson CJ; Neilan BA, 2006, 'The competence gene, comF, from Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 is involved in natural transformation, phototactic motility and piliation', Microbiology, 152, pp. 3623 - 3631

Salmon TP; Rose AL; Neilan BA; Waite TD, 2006, 'The FeL model of iron acquisition: Nondissociative reduction of ferric complexes in the marine environment', Limnology and Oceanography, 51, pp. 1744 - 1754

Copp JN; Neilan BA, 2006, 'The phosphopantetheinyl transferase superfamily: Phylogenetic analysis and functional implications in cyanobacteria', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 72, pp. 2298 - 2305, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.72.4.2298-2305.2006

Hawkins PR; Novic S; Cox P; Neilan BA; Burns BP; Shaw G; Wickramasinghe WA; Peerapornpisal Y; Ruangyuttikarn W; Itayama T; Shaitou T; Mizuochi M; Inamori Y, 2005, 'A review of analytical methods for assessing the public health risk from microcystin in the aquatic environment', Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology, 54, pp. 509 - 518

Fiore M; Neilan BA; Copp JN; Rodrigues J; Tsai S; Lee H; Trevors J, 2005, 'Characterization of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria in the Brazilian Amazon floodplain', Water Research, 39, pp. 5017 - 5026

Gaylarde PM; Crispim C; Neilan BA; Gaylarde CC, 2005, 'Cyanobacteria from Brazilian building walls are distant relatives of aquatic genera', Omics-A Journal of Integrative Biology, 9, pp. 30 - 42

Saker M; Jungblut A; Neilan BA; Rawn D; Vasconcelos VM, 2005, 'Detection of microcystin synthetase genes in health food supplements containing the freshwater cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon flos-aquae', Toxicon, 46, pp. 555 - 562, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6TCS-4GV9S7G-1/2/a1c98ea3d6addbaeb1705832d099840c

Jungblut A; Hawes I; Mountfort D; Hitzfeld B; Dietrich D; Burns BP; Neilan BA, 2005, 'Diversity within cyanobacterial mat communities in variable salinity meltwater ponds of McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica', Environmental Microbiology, 7, pp. 519 - 529

Burns BP; Seifert A; Goh F; Pomati F; Jungblut A; Yasar SA; Neilan BA, 2005, 'Genetic potential for secondary metabolite production in stromatolite communities', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 243, pp. 293 - 301, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T2W-4F3FBHT-3/2/d650a0cb2be4dfcc17a343948e716905

Wilson AW; Sarnelle O; Neilan BA; Salmon TP; Gehringer MM; Hay M, 2005, 'Genetic variation of the bloom-forming cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa within and among lakes: Implications for harmful algal blooms', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, pp. 6126 - 6133

Nakasugi K; Neilan BA, 2005, 'Identification of pilus-like structures and genes in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 71, pp. 7621 - 7625

Dasey M; Ryan N; Wilson J; McGregor G; Fabbro L; Neilan BA; Burns BP; Kankaanpaa H; Morrison L; Codd G; Rissik D; Bowling L, 2005, 'Investigations into the taxonomy, toxicity and ecology of benthiccyano bacterial accumulations in Myall Lake, Australia', Marine and Freshwater Research, 56, pp. 45 - 55

Robertson BR; O Rourke JL; Neilan BA; Vandamme P; On S; Fox J; Lee A, 2005, 'Mucispirillum schaedleri gen. nov., sp nov., a spiral-shaped bacterium colonizing the mucus layer of the gastrointestinal tract of laboratory rodents', International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 55, pp. 1199 - 1204

Aizawa T; Neilan BA; Couperwhite I; Urai M; Anzai H; Iwabuchi N; Nakajima M; Sunairi M, 2005, 'Relationship between Extracellular Polysaccharide and Benzene Tolerance of Rhodococcus sp. 33', Actinomycctologica, 19, pp. 1 - 6

Rose AL; Salmon TP; Lukondeh T; Neilan BA; Waite TD, 2005, 'Use of superoxide as an electron shuttle for iron acquisition by the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula', Environmental Science and Technology, 39, pp. 3708 - 3715

Etchegaray A; Rabello E; Dieckmann R; Moon D; Fiore M; von Dohren H; Tsai S; Neilan BA, 2004, 'Algicide production by the filamentous cyanobacterium Fischerella spCENA 19', Journal of Applied Phycology, 16, pp. 237 - 243

Gehringer MM; Shephard EG; Downing T; Wiegand C; Neilan BA, 2004, 'An investigation into the detoxification of microcystin-LR by theglutathione pathway in Balb/c mice', International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, 36, pp. 931 - 941

Toh M; Moffitt MC; Raftery MJ; Barrow KD; Cox J; Marquis C; Neilan BA, 2004, 'Cereulide, the emetic toxin of Bacillus cereus, is putatively a product of nonribosomal peptide synthesis', Journal of Applied Microbiology, pp. 992 - 1000

Moffitt MC; Neilan BA, 2004, 'Characterization of the nodularin synthetase gene cluster and proposed theory of the evolution of cyanobacterial hepatotoxins', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70, pp. 6353 - 6362, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WVB-4DRN1NP-1RV/2/37a5df11f86a618dbec3194ed0a55f16

Rohrlack T; Christoffersen K; Kaebernick M; Neilan BA, 2004, 'Cyanobacterial protease inhibitor microviridin J causes a lethalmolting disruption in Daphnia pulicaria', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70, pp. 5047 - 5050

O Rourke JL; Solnick JV; Neilan BA; Seidel K; Hayter R; Hansen L; Lee A, 2004, 'Description of `Candidatus Helicobacter heilmannii` based on DNA sequence analysis of 16S rRNA and urease genes', International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 54, pp. 2203 - 2211, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WVB-4DTKDN7-29V/2/b81087aca6da5e5c85d47c503fe7fa6a

Burns BP; Neilan BA; Goh QY, 2004, 'Dynamics of cyanobacterial communities in living stromatolites.', Current Trends in Microbiology, 1, pp. 103 - 106

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