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DR ANDREW RAYMOND WEEKS



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Organization: Genetics
Position: RESEARCH FELLOW - AWI STUDENTSHIP
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Homepage: http://www.genetics.unimelb.edu.au/person/academics/aweeks.html
Work: 8344 6497
Building: Chemistry-East Wing
Campus: Parkville

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science (Honours) La Trobe University 20-Dec-1994
Doctor of Philosophy La Trobe University 09-Feb-2000

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Sex, parthenogenesis and adaptation: a novel laboratory 'natural selection' experiment testing the adaptive significance of sexual and asexual ....... Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2003
Population genetics of the lucerne flea with applications for biocontrol Principal Supervisor GRAINS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORP Industry Research Scholarship 30/01/2006
A NOVEL APPROACH TO CONTROL AN INSECT PEST: USING WOLBACHIA TO SUPPRESS POPULATIONS OF SHEEP BLOWFLY Chief Investigator AUST WOOL INNOVATION LTD Scholarship & Studentship Program 01/04/2006
PREDICTING AND MONITORING CLIMATE CHANGE IN INSECTS: FROM GENES TO DISTRIBUTION SHIFTS Chief Investigator DEPT OF THE ENVIRONMENT & HERITAGE Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Significant Projects 20/03/2008
THE ECOLOGY AND POPULATION GENETICS OF THE PLATYPUS, ORNITHORHYNCHUS ANATINUS Principal Supervisor ANZ CHARITABLE TRUSTS Holsworth Wildlife Research Endowment Fund 27/05/2008
Developing and demonstrating the role of alternative chemistries and integrated management for crop establishment pests Chief Investigator GRAINS RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORP Research Grants 01/07/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
0506-441 THE EFFECTS OF WINDBREAK MANAGEMENT ON PEST AND BENEFICIAL INVERTEBRATES Chief Investigator GLENELG HOPKINS CMA 01/07/2005
THE EFFECTS OF WINDBREAK MANAGEMENT ON PEST AND BENEFICIAL INVERTEBRATES Chief Investigator GLENELG HOPKINS CMA 01/07/2005

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Climatic selection on genes and traits after a 100 year-old invasion: a critical look at the temperate-tropical clines in Drosophila melanogaster from eastern Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Genetica
    Volume: 129
    Page numbers: 133-47
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  • From Parasite to Mutualist: Rapid Evolution off Wolbachia in Natural Populations of Drosophila
    Year: 2007
    Journal: PLoS Biology
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 997-1005
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  • High levels of variation despite genetic fragmentation in populations of the endangered mountain pygmy-possum, Burramys parvus, in alpine Australia
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Molecular Ecology
    Volume: 16
    Page numbers: 75-87
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  • Identification of aphid species (Hemiptera: Aphididaw:Aphidinae) using a rapid polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism method based on the cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Australian Journal of Entomology
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 305-12
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  • Is there genetic structure in populations of Helicoverpa armigera from Australia?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
    Volume: 122
    Page numbers: 253-63
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  • Robust clines and robust sampling: a reply to Kyriacou et al.
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 1652-4
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • An independent non-linear latitudinal cline for the sn-glycerol-3-phosphate (a-Gpdh) polymorphism of Drosophila melanogaster from eastern Australia
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Genetical Research
    Volume: 87
    Page numbers: 13-21
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  • In search of clinal variation in the period and clock timing genes in Australian Drosophila melanogaster populations
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of Evolutionary Biology
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 551-557
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  • Microsatellites reveal a lack of structure in Australian populations of the diamond back moth, Plutella xylostella (L.)
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Molecular Ecology
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 107-118
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  • Shelterbelts in agricultural landscapes suppress invertebrates.
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture
    Volume: 46
    Page numbers: 1379-1388
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A rapid shift in a classic clinal pattern in Drosophila reflecting climate change
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Science
    Volume: 308
    Page numbers: 691-693
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  • Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci from the Australian endemic mountain pygmy-possum, Barramys parvus Broom.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Molecular Ecology Notes
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 395-397
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  • Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in the avocado thrips Scirtothrips perseae (Thysanoptera: Thripidae)
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Molecular Ecology Notes
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 644-646
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  • Microsatellites isolated from diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), for studies of dispersal in Australian populations
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Molecular Ecology Notes
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 51-53
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  • Parthenogenesis in the Aspidiotus nerii Complex (Hemiptera: Diaspididae): A Single Origin of a Worldwide, Polyphagous Lineage Associated with Cardinium Bacteria
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Annals of the Entomological Society of America
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 629-635
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  • The latitudinal cline in the In(3R)Payne inversion polymorphism has shifted in the last 20 years in Australian Drosophila melanogaster populations
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Molecular Ecology
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 851-858
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Biology, ecology and control of the Penthaleus species complex (Acari: Penthaleidae)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Experimental & Applied Acarology
    Volume: 34
    Page numbers: 211-237
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  • Chromosomal inversion polymorphisms and adaptation
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Trends in Ecology and Evolution
    Volume: 19
    Page numbers: 482-488
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  • Increased fecundity associated with infection by a Cytophaga-like intracellular bacterium in the predatory mite, Metaseiulus occidentalis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences
    Volume: 271
    Page numbers: 193-195
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  • Integrated strategies could end earth mite plague
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Farming Ahead
    Volume: 153
    Page numbers: 58-59
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Publications in 2003

Book Chapters

  • A New Bacterium from the Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides Phylum That Causes Sex-Ratio Distortion
    Year: 2003
    Book: Insect Symbiosis
    Publisher: CRC Press(Florida)
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Journal Articles

  • Identify the mite to get the spray right
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Farming Ahead
    Volume: 137
    Page numbers: 46-48
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  • Incidence of a new sex-ration distorting endosybiotic bacterium among arthropods
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences
    Volume: 270
    Page numbers: 1857-1865
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Dissecting adaptive clinal variation: markers, inversions and size/stress associations in Drosophila melanogaster from a central field population
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Ecology Letters
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 756-763
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  • Geographic patterns of clonal diversity in the earth mite species penthaleus major with particular emphasis on species margins
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Evolution
    Volume: 56
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1160-1167
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  • Within and between population variation for wolbachia- induced reproductive incompatibility in a haplodiploid mite
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Evolution
    Volume: 56
    Page numbers: 1331-1339
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  • Wolbachia dynamics and host effects: what has (and has not) been demonstrated?
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Trends in Ecology and Evolution
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 257-262
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • A Mite Species That Consists Entirely of Haploid Females
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Science
    Volume: 292
    Page numbers: 2479-2482
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  • Wolbachia-induced parthenogenesis in a genus of phytophagous mites
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences
    Volume: 268
    Page numbers: 2245-2251
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