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  1. Low calorie sweeteners and gut microbiota

    Article • Physiology & Behavior, October 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  2. Draft Genome Sequence of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia SBo1 Isolated from Bactrocera oleae

    Article • Genome Announcements, September 2016, ASM Journals

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  3. Evaluation of Lysis Methods for the Extraction of Bacterial DNA for Analysis of the Vaginal Microbiota

    Article • PLoS ONE, September 2016, PLOS

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  4. Genome sequence of Candidatus Arsenophonus lipopteni, the exclusive symbiont of a blood sucking fly Lipoptena cervi (Diptera: Hippoboscidae)

    Article • Standards in Genomic Sciences, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  5. Draft Genome Sequence of theBactrocera oleaeSymbiont “CandidatusErwinia dacicola”

    Article • Genome Announcements, September 2016, ASM Journals

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  6. The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element

    Article • Nature, June 2016, Nature

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  7. Revised Genome Sequence of the Purple Photosynthetic Bacterium Blastochloris viridis

    Article • Genome Announcements, January 2016, ASM Journals

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby, Luning Liu

  8. A comprehensive benchmarking study of protocols and sequencing platforms for 16S rRNA community profiling

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  9. Supergroup C Wolbachia , mutualist symbionts of filarial nematodes, have a distinct genome structure

    Article • Open Biology, December 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  10. Transcriptome sequencing of human breast cancer reveals aberrant intronic transcription in amplicons and dysregulation of alternative splicing with major therapeutic implications

    Article • International Journal of Oncology, October 2015, Spandidos Publications

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  11. Bacterial sensing underlies artificial sweetener-induced growth of gutLactobacillus

    Article • Environmental Microbiology, August 2015, Wiley

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  12. Complete Genome Sequence ofLeptospira interrogansSerovar Bratislava, Strain PigK151

    Article • Genome Announcements, June 2015, ASM Journals

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  13. Acetogenesis from H 2 plus CO 2 and nitrogen fixation by an endosymbiotic spirochete of a termite-gut cellulolytic protist

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2015, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  14. Taking the pseudo out of pseudogenes

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, February 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  15. Divergence of a strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa during an outbreak of ovine mastitis

    Article • Veterinary Microbiology, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Carlo Viti, Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  16. Iron Necessity: The Secret of Wolbachia's Success?

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, October 2014, PLOS

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  17. Novel Host-Related Virulence Factors Are Encoded by Squirrelpox Virus, the Main Causative Agent of Epidemic Disease in Red Squirrels in the UK

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2014, PLOS

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  18. Dietary supplementation with lactose or artificial sweetener enhances swine gutLactobacilluspopulation abundance

    Article • British Journal Of Nutrition, January 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  19. Integrated transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of the global response of Wolbachia to doxycycline-induced stress

    Article • The ISME Journal, October 2013, Nature

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  20. Characterisation of the genomes of four putative vesiculoviruses: tench rhabdovirus, grass carp rhabdovirus, perch rhabdovirus and eel rhabdovirus European X

    Article • Archives of Virology, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  21. Investigation of the Bacterial Communities Associated with Females of Lutzomyia Sand Fly Species from South America

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2012, PLOS

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  22. Comparative genomics of Brachyspira pilosicoli strains: genome rearrangements, reductions and correlation of genetic compliment with phenotypic diversity

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Julian Parkhill, Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby, Emeritus Professor David John Hampson

  23. Comparative genomics of Shiga toxin encoding bacteriophages

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Paul CM Fogg, Dr Heather Elizabeth Allison

  24. Cryptic Diversity within the Major Trypanosomiasis Vector Glossina fuscipes Revealed by Molecular Markers

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, August 2011, PLOS

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  25. Genomic Analysis of Highly Virulent Georgia 2007/1 Isolate of African Swine Fever Virus

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, April 2011, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Chris Upton, Dr Alistair C Darby

  26. A De Novo Expression Profiling of Anopheles funestus, Malaria Vector in Africa, Using 454 Pyrosequencing

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2011, PLOS

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  27. Molecular characterization of the uncultivatable hemotropic bacterium Mycoplasma haemofelis

    Article • Veterinary Research, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  28. Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) analysis of closely related wild and captive tsetse fly (Glossina morsitans morsitans) populations

    Article • Parasites & Vectors, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  29. The inherited microbiota of arthropods, and their importance in understanding resistance and immunity

    Article • June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  30. Symbiosis Research as a Novel Strategy for Insect Pest Control

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  31. Fast forward genetics

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, November 2008, Nature

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  32. Visualization of pseudogenes in intracellular bacteria reveals the different tracks to gene destruction

    Article • Genome Biology, January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  33. The genomic and metabolic diversity of Rickettsia

    Article • Research in Microbiology, December 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  34. Intracellular pathogens go extreme: genome evolution in the Rickettsiales

    Article • Trends in Genetics, October 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  35. Factors Affecting Trypanosome Maturation in Tsetse Flies

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2007, PLOS

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  36. Symbiont culture

    Article • June 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Alistair C Darby

  37. The rapid isolation and growth dynamics of the tsetse symbiont Sodalis glossinidius

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, July 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  38. Linking the bacterial community in pea aphids with host-plant use and natural enemy resistance

    Article • Ecological Entomology, February 2004, Wiley

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby

  39. An aphid-borne bacterium allied to the secondary symbionts of whitefly

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Ecology, June 2001, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alistair C Darby, Dr Alistair C Darby