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Professor John B Gibson

Molecular Genetics and Evolution Group
Research School of Biological Sciences
GPO Box 475
Canberra ACT 2601
ph: +61 (02) 6125 5085
fax: +61 (02) 6125 8294

email: gibson@rsbs.anu.edu.au

 

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Current position

Professor


Research interests

The evolution of sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase transcription in insects, particularly Drosophila.

The molecular basis of transvection at the Gpdh locus in Drosophila.

Ethanol tolerance in Drosophila.


Selected Publications

Wilanowski, T.M., Gibson, J.B. (1998). sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in the honey bee Apis mellifera - an unusual phenotype associated with the loss of introns. Gene 209, 71-76.

Wilanowski, T.M., Yoong, S.H.S., Bartoszewski, S. and Gibson, J.B. (1998). Expression of the GDH-4 isozyme of sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase in three genes in three Drosophila species. Heredity 80, 390-395.

Wilanowski, T.M., Hayward, D.C., Gibson, J.B. (1998). Nucleotide sequence and expression of the sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene in Locusta migratoria. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta. 1443, 414-418.

Bartoszewski, S., Gibson, J.B. (1998). Regulation of the expression of the sn-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Biochem. Genet. 36, 329-350.

Wu, Y.H., Wilks, A.V. and Gibson, J.B. (1998). A KP element inserted between the two promoters of the alcohol dehydrogenase gene of Drosophila melanogaster differentially affects expression in larvae and adults. Biochem. Genet. 36, 363-379.

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