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2024, 'Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) dysregulates neurodevelopmental pathways in cerebral organoids', Communications Biology, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-05923-1
,2024, 'Continued improvement in the development of the SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequencing proficiency testing program', Pathology, 56, pp. 717 - 725, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pathol.2024.02.010
,2024, 'Emerging viral threats in Australia', Microbiology Australia, 45, pp. 32 - 37, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/MA24010
,2024, 'Clinical, Genomic, and Immunological Characterization of RSV Surge in Sydney, Australia, 2022', Pediatrics, 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2023-063667
,2024, 'Shrinking in the dark: Parallel endosymbiont genome erosions are associated with repeated host transitions to an underground life', Insect Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.13339
,2023, 'Emergence and antibody evasion of BQ, BA.2.75 and SARS-CoV-2 recombinant sub-lineages in the face of maturing antibody breadth at the population level', eBioMedicine, 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104545
,2023, 'Persistence of a Frameshifting Deletion in SARS-CoV-2 ORF7a for the Duration of a Major Outbreak', Viruses, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v15020522
,2023, 'Bioinformatic investigation of discordant sequence data for SARS-CoV-2: insights for robust genomic analysis during pandemic surveillance', Microbial Genomics, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001146
,2022, 'Differential transcriptomic responses to heat stress in surface and subterranean diving beetles', Scientific Reports, 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20229-0
,2022, 'SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.5: Evolving tropism and evasion of potent humoral responses and resistance to clinical immunotherapeutics relative to viral variants of concern', eBioMedicine, 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104270
,2022, 'Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variants BA.1 to BA.5: Implications for immune escape and transmission', Reviews in Medical Virology, 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rmv.2381
,2022, 'Persistent high-level shedding of cultivable SARS-CoV-2 Delta virus 33 days after onset of COVID-19 in a hospitalized patient with pneumonia', Journal of Medical Virology, 94, pp. 4043 - 4046, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmv.27832
,2022, 'Stressed out underground?: Illuminating the genomic response to heat stress in surface and subterranean predaceous diving beetles', ARPHA Conference Abstracts, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/aca.5.e90170
,2022, 'Detection of Ganciclovir-Resistant Cytomegalovirus in a Prospective Cohort of Kidney Transplant Recipients Receiving Subtherapeutic Valganciclovir Prophylaxis', Microbiology Spectrum, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/spectrum.02684-21
,2022, 'Platform for isolation and characterization of SARS-CoV-2 variants enables rapid characterization of Omicron in Australia', Nature Microbiology, 7, pp. 896 - 908, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41564-022-01135-7
,2022, 'SARS-CoV-2 N-gene mutation leading to Xpert Xpress SARS-CoV-2 assay instability', Pathology, 54, pp. 499 - 501, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pathol.2022.02.001
,2022, 'Assessment of Inter-Laboratory Differences in SARS-CoV-2 Consensus Genome Assemblies between Public Health Laboratories in Australia', Viruses, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14020185
,2022, 'Different Genes are Recruited during Convergent Evolution of Pregnancy and the Placenta', Molecular Biology and Evolution, 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac077
,2021, 'Phyllodes and bipinnate leaves of Acacia exhibit contemporary continental-scale environmental correlation and evolutionary transition-rate heterogeneity', Australian Systematic Botany, 34, pp. 595 - 608, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SB21009
,2021, 'Simple and reliable protocol for identifying talented junior players in team sports using small-sided games', Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 31, pp. 1647 - 1656, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sms.13969
,2021, 'Assessment of inter-laboratory differences in SARS-CoV-2 consensus genome assemblies between public health laboratories in Australia', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.19.21262296
,2021, 'Background, testing methods, and laboratory approaches to SARS coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and covid19', Pathology, 53, pp. S17 - S17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pathol.2021.05.060
,2021, 'Background, testing methods, and laboratory approaches to SARS coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Covid19', Pathology, 53, pp. S7 - S7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pathol.2021.05.025
,2021, 'Background, testing methods, and laboratory approaches to sars coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and covid19', Pathology, 53, pp. S2 - S3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pathol.2021.05.006
,2021, 'Rapid spread of a SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant with a frameshift deletion in ORF7a', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.18.21262089
,2020, 'Emergence of an evolutionary innovation: Gene expression differences associated with the transition between oviparity and viviparity', Molecular Ecology, 29, pp. 1315 - 1327, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15409
,2020, 'Increased diversification rates are coupled with higher rates of climate space exploration in Australian Acacia (Caesalpinioideae)', New Phytologist, 226, pp. 609 - 622, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.16349
,2020, 'Linking branch lengths across sets of loci provides the highest statistical support for phylogenetic inference', Molecular Biology and Evolution, 37, pp. 1202 - 1210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz291
,2020, 'Paternally-biased gene expression follows kin-selected predictions in female honey bee embryos', Molecular Ecology, 29, pp. 1523 - 1533, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.15419
,2020, 'Phylogenomic Insights into Deep Phylogeny of Angiosperms Based on Broad Nuclear Gene Sampling', Plant Communications, 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2020.100027
,2020, 'Accounting for uncertainty in the evolutionary timescale of green plants through clock-partitioning and fossil calibration strategies', Systematic Biology, 69, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz032
,2019, 'Assemblage accumulation curves: A framework for resolving species accumulation in biological communities using DNA sequences', Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10, pp. 971 - 981, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13181
,2019, 'Digest: The phylogenetic distance effect: Understanding parasite host switching*', Evolution, 73, pp. 1494 - 1495, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/evo.13765
,2018, 'Plastome sequences and exploration of tree-space help to resolve the phylogeny of riceflowers (Thymelaeaceae: Pimelea)', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 127, pp. 156 - 167, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.05.018
,2017, 'Strategies for partitioning clockmodels in phylogenomic dating: Application to the angiosperm evolutionary timescale', Genome Biology and Evolution, 9, pp. 2752 - 2763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evx198
,2017, 'The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification', Nature Communications, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16047
,2017, 'Evaluating the impact of genomic data and priors on Bayesian estimates of the angiosperm evolutionary timescale', Systematic Biology, 66, pp. 338 - 351, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw086
,2017, 'Strategies for Partitioning Clock Models in Phylogenomic Dating: Application to the Angiosperm Evolutionary Timescale', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/144287
,2016, 'Molecular phylogenetics provides new insights into the systematics of Pimelea and Thecanthes (Thymelaeaceae)', Australian Systematic Botany, 29, pp. 185 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SB16013
,2016, 'Estimating the number and assignment of clock models in analyses of multigene datasets', Bioinformatics, 32, pp. 1281 - 1285, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw005
,2016, 'The evolutionary history of flowering plants', Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 149, pp. 65 - 82
,2015, 'Biogeographic calibrations for the molecular clock', Biology Letters, 11, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0194
,2014, 'Molecular data support Orianthera: a new genus of Australian Loganiaceae', Telopea, 16, pp. 149 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.7751/telopea20147853
,2014, 'Molecular systematics and biogeography of Logania R.Br. (Loganiaceae)', Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 78, pp. 324 - 333, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.001
,2013, 'Status of Logania imbricata (Guillaumin) Steenis & Leenh. (Loganiaceae)', Telopea, 15, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.7751/telopea2013001
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