Simon Baxter

A haploid diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella L.) genome assembly resolves 31 chromosomes and identifies a diamide resistance mutation

CM Ward, KD Perry, G Baker, K Powis, DG Heckel, SW Baxter

Journal article  |  2021  |  INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), is a highly mobile brassica crop pest with worldwide distribution and can rapidly ..

Varying contributions of three ryanodine receptor point mutations to diamide insecticide resistance in Plutella xylostella

Dong Jiang, Cheng Qian, Danhui Wang, Falong Wang, Shan Zhao, Yihua Yang, Simon W Baxter, Xingliang Wang, Yidong Wu

Journal article  |  2021  |  PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

BACKGROUND: Although decoding the molecular mechanisms underlying insecticide resistance has often proven difficult, recent progre..

Lessons from Drosophila: Engineering Genetic Sexing Strains with Temperature-Sensitive Lethality for Sterile Insect Technique Applications

Thu NM Nguyen, Amanda Choo, Simon W Baxter

Journal article  |  2021  |  INSECTS

A major obstacle of sterile insect technique (SIT) programs is the availability of robust sex-separation systems for conditional r..

White pupae phenotype of tephritids is caused by parallel mutations of a MFS transporter

Christopher M Ward, Roswitha A Aumann, Mark A Whitehead, Katerina Nikolouli, Gary Leveque, Georgia Gouvi, Elisabeth Fung, Sarah J Reiling, Haig Djambazian, Margaret A Hughes, Sam Whiteford, Carlos Caceres-Barrios, Thu NM Nguyen, Amanda Choo, Peter Crisp, Sheina B Sim, Scott M Geib, Frantisek Marec, Irina Haecker, Jiannis Ragoussis, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

Mass releases of sterilized male insects, in the frame of sterile insect technique programs, have helped suppress insect pest popu..

Precise single base substitution in the shibire gene by CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homology directed repair in Bactrocera tryoni

Amanda Choo, Elisabeth Fung, Isabel Y Chen, Robert Saint, Peter Crisp, Simon W Baxter

Journal article  |  2020  |  BMC Genetics

Background Pest eradication using the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) involves high-density releases of sterilized males that mate ..

Disruption of duplicated yellow genes in Bactrocera tryoni modifies pigmentation colouration and impacts behaviour

Thu NM Nguyen, Vivian Mendez, Christopher Ward, Peter Crisp, Alexie Papanicolaou, Amanda Choo, Phillip W Taylor, Simon W Baxter

Journal article  |  2020  |  JOURNAL OF PEST SCIENCE

Irradiated Queensland fruit flies (Bactrocera tryoni) used in Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) programmes are marked with fluorescen..

Resistance toBacillus thuringiensisCry1Ac toxin requires mutations in twoPlutella xylostellaATP-binding cassette transporter paralogs

Zhaoxia Liu, Shu Fu, Xiaoli Ma, Simon W Baxter, Liette Vasseur, Lei Xiong, Yuping Huang, Guang Yang, Shijun You, Minsheng You

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLoS Pathogens

The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella, is a cosmopolitan pest and the first species to develop field resistance to toxins from..

Genome-wide analysis of diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella L., from Brassica crops and wild host plants reveals no genetic structure in Australia

Kym D Perry, Michael A Keller, Simon W Baxter

Journal article  |  2020  |  Scientific Reports

Molecular studies of population structure can reveal insight into the movement patterns of mobile insect pests in agricultural lan..

Variation among 532 genomes unveils the origin and evolutionary history of a global insect herbivore

Minsheng You, Fushi Ke, Shijun You, Zhangyan Wu, Qingfeng Liu, Weiyi He, Simon W Baxter, Zhiguang Yuchi, Liette Vasseur, Geoff M Gurr, Christopher M Ward, Hugo Cerda, Guang Yang, Lu Peng, Yuanchun Jin, Miao Xie, Lijun Cai, Carl J Douglas, Murray B Isman, Mark S Goettel, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  Nature Communications

The diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella is a cosmopolitan pest that has evolved resistance to all classes of insecticide, and co..

De Novo Genome Assembly of the Meadow Brown Butterfly, Maniola jurtina

Kumar Saurabh Singh, David J Hosken, Nina Wedell, Richard Ffrench-Constant, Chris Bass, Simon Baxter, Konrad Paszkiewicz, Manmohan D Sharma

Journal article  |  2020  |  G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS

Meadow brown butterflies (Maniola jurtina) on the Isles of Scilly represent an ideal model in which to dissect the links between g..