Research Publications 2003-Present

Pittendrigh, B.R., J. E. Huesing, L. Sun, V. M. Margam, and P. J. Gaffney.  2007.  Negative Cross Resistance: past present and potential for the future, in Insect Resistance Management.  Ed. David Onstad.  In press.

Pittendrigh, B.R., V. Margam, L. Sun, and J. Huesing.  Resistance in the post-genomics era, in Insect Resistance Management.  Ed. David Onstad.  In press.

Johnston, J.S., K. S. Yoon, J. P. Strycharz,  B. R. Pittendrigh, and J. Marshall Clark.  2007.  Body, Pediculus humanus humanus and head lice, P. humanus capitis (Phthiraptera: Pediculidae), have the smallest genomes of any hemimetabolous insect reported to date.  J. Med. Entom.  In press.

Li, H.-M*, V. Margam, W. Muir, L.L. Murdock, and B.R. Pittendrigh.  2007.  Proteome-wide analysis of Drosophila melanogaster midgut response to Bowman-Birk Inhibitor. Insect Mol. Biol. Accepted. In press.

Tarver, M.R, R.E. Shade, R.H. Shukle, W.J. Moar, W.M. Muir, L.M. Murdock, and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2007.  Pyramiding of insecticidal compounds for control of the cowpea bruchid (Callosobruchus maculatus F.).  Pest Manag. Sci.  63:440-446.

Rothhaar, R., B. R. Pittendrigh , and K.S. Orvis. 2006. The Genomics Analogy Model for Educators (GAME): The Effectiveness of the Lego® Analogy Model in Teaching Gene Sequencing and Biotechnology in High School Classrooms. J. Biol. Educ. 40(4):166-171.

Kuruhganti, S., V. Lam, X. Zhou, G. Bennett, B.R. Pittendrigh, and R. Ganguly.  2007.  High expression of Cyp6g1, a cytochrome P450 gene, does not necessarily confer DDT resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Gene 388(1-2): 43-53.

Sun, W., V. Margam, L. Sun, G. Buczkowski, G. Bennett, B. Schemerhorn, W. M. Muir, and B. R. Pittendrigh.  2006. Genome-wide analysis of phenobarbital-inducible genes in Drosophila melanogaster .  Insect Mol. Biol.  15(4): 455-464. [Request Article]

Pittendrigh, B.R., J. M. Clark, J. S. Johnston, S. H. Lee, J. Romero-Severson, and G. A. Dasch. 2006. Proposed Sequencing of a New Target Genome: The Human Body Louse, Pediculus humanus humanus. J. Med. Entomol.
43(6): 1103-1111.

Tarver, M.R., R.E. Shade, R.D. Tarver, Y. Liang, G. Krishnamurthi, B.R. Pittendrigh , and L.L. Murdock.  2006.  Use of micro-CAT scans to understand cowpea seed resistance to Callosobruchus maculatus .  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. 118(1): 33-39.
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Liu, Y., J.-E. Ahn, S. Datta, R. A. Salzman, J. Moon, B. Huyghues-Despointes, B. Pittendrigh , L. L. Murdock, H. Koiwa, and K. Zhu-Salzman. 2005. Arabidopsis Vegetative Storage Protein Is An Anti-Insect Acid Phosphatase. Plant Physiology. 139 (3): 1545-155.

Pedra, J.H.F., R. A. Festucci-Buselli, W. Sun, W. M. Muir, M. E. Scharf, and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2005. Profiling of abundant proteins associated with dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)-resistance in Drosophila melanogaster. Proteomics. 5(1): 258-269.

Scharf, M.E., Ratliff, C.R., Wu-Scharf, D., Zhou, X., Pittendrigh, B.R. , and G.W. Bennett. 2005. Effects of juvenile hormone III on Reticulitermes flavipes : changes in hemolymph protein composition and gene expression. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 35(3): 207-15.

Festucci-Buselli, R.A., Carvalho-Dias, A.S., de Oliveira-Andrade, M., Caixeta-Nunes, C., Li, H.M., Stuart, J.J., Muir, W., Scharf, M.E., and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2005. Expression of Cyp6g1 and Cyp12d1 in DDT resistant and susceptible strains of Drosophila melanogaster . Insect Mol Biol. 14(1): 69-77.

Scharf, M,E,, Wu-Scharf, D., Zhou, X., Pittendrigh, B.R. , and G.W. Bennett. 2005. Gene expression profiles among immature and adult reproductive castes of the termite Reticulitermes flavipes . Insect Mol Biol. (1): 31-44

Pittendrigh, B.R ., P. J. Gaffney, J. E. Huesing, D. W. Onstad, R. T. Roush, and L. L. Murdock. 2004. "Active" refuges can inhibit the evolution of resistance in insects towards transgenic insect-resistant plants. J. Theor. Biol. 231(4): 461-74.

Scharf, M.E., D.W. Scharf, G.W. Bennett and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2004. Catalytic activity and expression of two flavin-containing monooxygenases from D. melanogaster. Archives. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 57: 28-39.

Pedra, J.H.F., A. Hostetler, P.J. Gaffney, R.A. Reenan, and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2004. Hyper-susceptibility to deltamethrin in para ts-1 DDT resistant Drosophila melanogaster . Pestic. Biochem. Physiol. 78: 58-66.

Pedra, J.H.F., L.M. McIntyre , M.E. Scharf and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2004. Genome-wide transcription profile of field- and laboratory-selected DDT-resistant Drosophila . Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA . 101(18): 7034-7039.

Scharf, M. E. , C. R. Ratliff, J. R. Hoteling, B. R. Pittendrigh and G. W. Bennett. 2003. Responses of Reticulitermes flavipes and R. tibialis to natural juvenile hormone homologs and synthetic juvenoids in two laboratory assays. Insectes Sociaux. 50(4): 346-354.

Scharf , M.E. , D. W. Scharf, B. R. Pittendrigh , and G. W. Bennett. 2003. Caste and development-associated gene expression in a lower termite. Genome Biol. 4:R62.

Pedra, J. H. F., A. Brandt, H. M. Li, R. Westerman, J. Romero-Severson, R. J. Pollack, L.L. Murdock and B.R. Pittendrigh. 2003. Transcriptome identification of putative genes involved in protein catabolism and innate immune response in human body louse (Pediculicidae: Pediculus humanus ). Insect Biochem. Molec. Biol. 33 (11): 1135-1143.

Pedra, J.H.F., A. Brandt, R. Westerman, N. Lobo, H.-M. Li, J. Romero-Severson, L. L. Murdock and B. R. Pittendrigh. 2003. Transcriptome analysis of the cowpea weevil bruchid: identification of putative proteinases and α-amylases associated with food breakdown. Insect Molec. Biol. 12(4): 405-412.

Wu-Scharf, D., M.E. Scharf, B.R. Pittendrigh and G.W. Bennett. 2003. Expressed sequence tags from a polyphenic Reticulitermes flavipes cDNA library. Sociobiology 41(2): 479-490.