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2000, 'The human colon: A reservoir for Helicobacter species.', GUT, 47, pp. A2 - A3, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000090131200011&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2000, 'Geographical segregation of the neurotoxin-producing cyanobacterium Anabaena circinalis.', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, pp. 4468 - 4474
,2000, 'Light and the transcriptional response of the microcystin biosynthesis gene cluster', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, pp. 3387 - 3392
,2000, 'Nonribosomal peptide antibiotics', Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Patents, 10, pp. 1583 - 1591
,2000, 'Optimized rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) for mapping bacterial mRNA transcripts.', BioTechniques, pp. 448 - 456
,2000, 'Structural organisation of the microcystin biosynthesis in Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806: An integrated peptide-polyketide synthetase system', Chemistry and biology, pp. 753 - 764
,2000, 'The expansion of mechanistic and organismic diversity associated with non-ribosomal peptides', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 191, pp. 159 - 167
,2000, 'The freshwater cyanobacterium Planktothrix sp FP1: molecular identification and detection of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins.', Journal of Phycology, pp. 553 - 562
,2000, 'The Helicobacter pylori pyrB gene encoding aspartate carbamoyltransferase is essential for bacterial survival', Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 380, pp. 78 - 84
,2000, 'Xanthogenate nucleic acid isolation from cultured and environmental cyanobacteria', Journal of Phycology, pp. 251 - 258
,1999, 'An improved method for the purification of large DNA fragments from agarose gels using Wizard Plus SV columns', Analytical Biochemistry, pp. 218 - 219
,1999, 'Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii: tracking down toxin genes', Microbiology Australia, 20, pp. 19
,1999, 'Enzyme-free cloning: a rapid method to clone PCR products independent of vector restriction enzyme sites', Nucleic Acids Research, pp. e26
,1999, 'n-butanol purification of dye terminator sequencing reactions', BioTechniques, pp. 606 - 610
,1999, 'Nonribosomal peptide synthesis and toxigenicity of cyanobacteria', Journal of Bacteriology, 181, pp. 4089 - 4097
,1999, 'Pathogenic cyanobacteria and blue-green algal blooms', Microbiology Australia, 20, pp. 32 - 35
,1999, 'Toxin biosynthesiis in cyanobacteria: a blue print for combinatorial drug design', Microbiology Australia, 20, pp. 15 - 17
,1999, 'Two morphological forms of Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii (cyanobacteria) isolated from Solomon Dam, Palm Island, Queensland', Journal of Phycology, pp. 599 - 606
,1998, 'Small-scale preparation of the single-copy bacterial artificial chromosome vector pBeloBAC11', BioTechniques, 24, pp. 568 - 572, http://dx.doi.org/10.2144/98244bm10
,1998, 'A novel method of extracting plasmid DNA from Helicobacter species.', Helicobacter, pp. 269 - 277
,1998, 'A rapid small-scale preparation of the single copy bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) vector: pBeloBAC11', BioTechniques, pp. 568 - 570
,1998, 'Characterization, differentiation and identification of wild-type', Systematic and Applied Microbiology, pp. 599 - 608
,1998, 'Pseudoalteromonas tunicata sp. nov., a bacterium that produces antifouling agaents', International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, pp. 1205 - 1212
,1997, 'Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Lactobacillus using multiplex RAPD-PCR', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 153, pp. 191 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1097(97)00260-7
,1997, 'Improved methods for in situ enzymatic amplification and detection of low copy number genes in bacteria', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 152, pp. 65 - 73, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0378-1097(97)00180-8
,1997, 'rRNA sequences and evolutionary relationships among toxic and nontoxic cyanobacteria of the genus Microcystis', International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, 47, pp. 693 - 697, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-3-693
,1997, 'A Rhodococcus species that thrives on medium saturated with liquid benzene', Microbiology, 143, pp. 2975 - 2981
,1997, 'A universal procedure for primer labelling of amplicons', Nucleic Acids Research, pp. 2938 - 2939
,1997, 'Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Lactobacillus using a multiplex RAPD-PCR', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 153, pp. 191 - 197
,1997, 'Improved methods for in situ enzymatic amplification and detection of low copy genes in bacteria', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 152, pp. 65 - 73
,1997, 'Insertional mutagenesis of a peptide synthetase gene which is responsible for hepatotoxin production in the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806', Molecular Microbiology, pp. 779 - 787
,1997, 'Ribosomal RNA sequences and evolutionary relationships among the toxigenic cyanobacteria of genus Microcystis', International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, pp. 693 - 697
,1997, 'Specific amplification and restriction polymorphisms of the cyanobacterial rRNA operon spacer region', Systematic and Applied Microbiology, 20, pp. 612 - 621
,1997, 'Universal primer labelling of PCR amplicons', Nucleic Acids Research, pp. 2938 - 2939
,1996, 'Genetic characterisation of strains of cyanobacteria using PCR-RFLP of the cpcBA intergenic spacer and flanking regions', Journal of Phycology, pp. 445 - 451
,1996, 'Sequence analysis of the reverse transcriptase region of HIV type 1 isolates from Sydney', AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 12, pp. 1731 - 1732
,1995, 'Identification and phylogenetic analysis of toxigenic cyanobacteria by multiplex randomly amplified polymorphic DNA PCR', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 61, pp. 2286 - 2291, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.61.6.2286-2291.1995
,1995, 'Long-term preservation of DNA in agarose gels using 70% ethanol', BioTechniques, 19, pp. 892 - 894
,1995, 'Characterisation of the V3 region of HIV-1 isolated from Sydney, Australia', AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 11, pp. 423 - 425
,1995, 'Genetic diversity and phylogeny of toxic cyanobacteria determined by DNA polymorphism within the phycocyanin locus', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, pp. 3875 - 3883
,1995, 'Identification and phylogenetic analysis of toxigenic cyanobacteria using a multiplex RAPD PCR', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, pp. 2269 - 2274
,1994, '16s ribosomal RNA gene sequence and phylogeny of toxic microcystis sp. (cyanobacteria)', Mitochondrial DNA, 4, pp. 333 - 337, http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/10425179409020861
,1994, 'Exploiting biological materials in forensic science.', Australasian biotechnology, 4, pp. 88 - 91
,1994, 'Microsatellite genome screening: Rapid non-denaturing, non-isotopic dinucleotide repeat analysis', BioTechniques, 17
,1994, 'The evolution of molecular analyses in forensic science', Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 26, pp. 47 - 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00450619409411308
,1994, 'Towards a molecular taxonomy for the bloom-forming cyanobacteria', Marine and Freshwater Research, 45, pp. 869 - 873, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MF9940869
,1993, 'Rapid preparation of limited biological samples for small-volume PCR', Genome Research, 2, pp. 261 - 262
,1993, 'Rapid preparation of limited biological samples for small-volume PCR', Genome Research, 2, pp. 261 - 262, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/gr.2.3.261
,1993, 'The rapid analysis of dystrophin gene deletions shows variable electrophoretic mobility', Journal of Medical Genetics, 30, pp. 60 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jmg.30.1.60
,1992, 'Direct PCR Sequencing of Dystrophin Polymorphic CACA Alleles after Purification to Remove Shadow Bands', DNA and Cell Biology, 11, pp. 637 - 640, http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/dna.1992.11.637
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