Charles Robin

Genomic and transcriptomic analyses in Drosophila suggest that the ecdysteroid kinase-like (EcKL) gene family encodes the 'detoxification-by-phosphorylation' enzymes of insects

Jack L Scanlan, Rebecca S Gledhill-Smith, Paul Battlay, Charles Robin

Journal article  |  2020  |  INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Phosphorylation is a phase II detoxification reaction that, among animals, occurs near exclusively in insects, but the enzymes res..

Sublethal larval exposure to imidacloprid impacts adult behaviour in Drosophila melanogaster

Helen K Young, Shane M Denecke, Charles Robin, Alexandre Fournier-Level

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Pesticides are now chronically found in numerous ecosystems incurring widespread toxic effects on multiple organisms. For insects,..

Extracellular endonucleases in the midgut of Myzus persicae may limit the efficacy of orally delivered RNAi

Amol Bharat Ghodke, Robert Trygve Good, John F Golz, Derek A Russell, Dwain Edwards, Charles Robin

Journal article  |  2019  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Myzus persicae is a major pest of many crops including canola and Brassica vegetables, partly because it vectors plant viruses. Pr..

Reconciliation of a gene network and species tree

Yao-ban Chan, Charles Robin

Journal article  |  2019  |  JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The phylogenetic trees of genes and the species which they belong to are similar, but distinct due to various evolutionary process..

Cis- and trans-acting variants contribute to survivorship in a naive Drosophila melanogaster population exposed to ryanoid insecticides

Llewellyn Green, Paul Battlay, Alexandre Fournier-Level, Robert T Good, Charles Robin

Journal article  |  2019  |  PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insecticide resistance is a paradigm of microevolution, and insecticides are responsible for the strongest cases of recent selecti..

The spread of resistance to imidacloprid is restricted by thermotolerance in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Alexandre Fournier-Level, Robert T Good, Stephen A Wilcox, Rahul Rane, Michelle Schiffer, Wei Chen, Paul Battlay, Trent Perry, Philip Batterham, Ary A Hoffmann, Charles Robin

Journal article  |  2019  |  NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Imidacloprid, the world's most used insecticide, has caused considerable controversy due to harmful effects on non-pest species an..

What can genetic association panels tell us about evolutionary processes in insects?

Charles Robin, Paul Battlay, Alexandre Fournier-Level

Journal article  |  2019  |  CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE

If we are to fully comprehend the evolution of insect diversity at a genomic level we need to understand how natural selection can..

Mining insect genomes for functionally affiliated genes

Caitlyn Perry, Jack Scanlan, Charles Robin

Journal article  |  2019  |  CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE

Several hundred insect genome assemblies are already publicly available, and this total grows on a weekly basis. A major challenge..

Editorial overview: Revisiting Dobzhansky and the 'modern synthesis' in light of insect evolutionary genomics.

John G Oakeshott, Charles Robin, Karl Hj Gordon

Journal article  |  2019  |  Curr Opin Insect Sci

The spread of resistance to imidacloprid is restricted by thermotolerance in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster

Alexandre Fournier-Level, Robert Good, Stephen Wilcox, Rahul Rane, Michelle Schiffer, Wei Chen, Paul Battlay, Trent Perry, Philip Batterham, Ary Hoffmann, Charles Robin

Journal article  |  2019

Imidacloprid, the world’s most utilised insecticide 1 , has raised considerable controversy due to its harmful effects on non-pest..