Publications
Thomas, V.P., Fudali, S.L., Schaff, J.E., Liu, Q., Scholl, E.H., Opperman, C.H., Bird, D. McK., and Williamson, V.M. 2012. A sequence-anchored linkage map of the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne hapla reveals exceptionally high genome-wide recombination. G3: Genes, Genomes & Genetics, in press.
Pongpanich, M., Tzeng, J-Y, and Nielsen, D.M. Assessing RNA-Seq Differential Expression Levels with Low-confidence Aligned Reads. Under review at Bioinformatics.
Imin N., Radzman N. A. M., Scholl E. H., DiGennaro P. M., Bird, D. McK. and Djordjevic, M. A. 2012. Bioactive RAR peptides mediate root architecture and are exclusive to higher plants and root-knot nematodes, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), submitted.
Dalzell, J.J., McVeigh, P, Warnock, N D, Mitreva, M, Bird, D McK, Abad, P, Mousley, A, Marks, N J, and A G Maule. 2011. RNAi effector diversity in nematodes. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 5(6): e1176.
Scholl, E H and D McK Bird. 2011. Computational and phylogenetic validation of nematode HGT. BMC Biology. 9:9.
Books and book chapters
Bird, D. McK, and P. M. DiGennaro. 2012. The complex armory of plant-parasitic nematodes. Chapter 3 in: Parasitic Nematodes, 2nd edition: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Immunology, M. W. Kennedy and W. Harnett (Eds), pp-. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK.
Bird, D. McK, and P. M. DiGennaro. 2012. Nematode communication with plants is surprisingly complex and multidimensional. Chapter 12 in: Biocommunication in Plants, Witzany G and Baluska F (Eds), Springer.
Goverse, A. and D. McK. Bird. 2011. The role of plant hormones in nematode feeding cell formation. Chapter 16 in: Genomics and Molecular Genetics of Plant-Nematode Interactions. Eds: J. Jones, G. Gheysen and C. Fenoll. Springer: Dordrecht. 557 pp.