Brian Lazzaro's Publications
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2009

Juneja, P. and B.P. Lazzaro. (2009) “Population genetics of insect immune responses.” In Insect Infection and Immunity, J. Rolff and S. Reynolds eds. [invited book chapter] [request a pdf of the chapter]

Juneja, P. and B.P. Lazzaro. (2009) Providencia sneebia sp. nov. and P. burhodogranareia sp. nov., novel species isolated from wild Drosophila melanogaster. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 59:1108-11. [pdf]

Hardstone, M.C., B.P. Lazzaro and J.G. Scott. (2009) The effect of three environmental conditions on the fitness of cytochrome P450 monooxygenase-mediated permethrin resistance in Culex pipiens quinquefasciatus. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9:42. [pdf]

Lazzaro, B.P. and T.J. Little. (2009) Immunity in a variable world. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, series B - Biology 364:15-26, epub Oct 2008. [Invited Review] [pdf]

2008

Riehle, M.M., J. Xu, B.P. Lazzaro, S.M. Rottschaefer, B. Coulibaly, M. Sacko, O. Niaré, I. Morlais, S.F. Traore and K.D. Vernick. (2008) Anopheles gambiae APL1 is a family of variable LRR proteins required for Rel1-mediated protection from the malaria parasite, Plasmodium berghei. PLoS One 3:e3672.[pdf]

Schlenke, T.A. and B.P. Lazzaro (2008) Fruit flies like a (rotten) banana. Fly, 2:159-164. [Invited Conference Proceedings] [pdf]

Lazzaro, B.P. (2008) Natural Selection on the Drosophila innate immune system. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 11:284-289. [Invited Review] [pdf]

Lazzaro, B.P., H.A. Flores, J.G. Lorigan and C.P. Yourth. (2008) Genotype by environment interactions and adaptation to local temperature affect immunity and fecundity in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Pathogens 4:e1000025. [pdf]

McKean, K.A., C.P. Yourth, B.P. Lazzaro and A.G. Clark. (2008) The evolutionary costs of immunological maintenance and deployment. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:76. [pdf]

2007

Sackton, T.B., B.P. Lazzaro, T.A. Schlenke, J.D. Evans, D. Hultmark and A.G. Clark. (2007) Dynamic evolution of the innate immune system in Drosophila. Nature Genetics 39:1461-1468. [pdf]
[Supplemental Info (.zip archive)]

Drosophila 12 Genomes Consortium. (2007) Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature 450:203-18. [pdf]
[Supplemental Info (.zip archive)]

2006

Lazzaro, B.P., T.B. Sackton and A.G. Clark. (2006) Genetic variation in Drosophila melanogaster resistance to infection: a comparison across bacteria. Genetics 174:1539-1554. [pdf]
Fig S1 (MS Excel) Fig S2 (Ms Excel)

The Honey Bee Genome Sequencing Consortium. (2006) Insights into social insects from the geonome of the honey bee Apis mellifera Nature 443:931-949. [pdf]
[Supplemental Info]

Lazzaro, B.P. and M.R. Galac. (2006) Dispatch. Disease Pathology: Wasting energy fighting infection. Curr. Biol. 16:R964-R965. [Invited Review] [pdf]

Rinkevich, F.D., L. Zhang, R.L. Hamm, S.G. Brady, B.P. Lazzaro and J.G. Scott. (2006) Allele frequencies of Vssc1 and CYP6D1 in house flies from the eastern United States. Insect Mol. Biol. 15:157-167. [pdf]

2005

Braverman, J.M., B.P. Lazzaro, M. Aguadé, and C.H. Langley. (2005) DNA sequence polymorphism and divergence at the erect wing and suppressor of sable loci of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. Genetics 170:1153-65. [pdf]

Lazzaro, B.P. (2005) Elevated polymorphism and divergence in the class C scavenger receptors of Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans. Genetics 169:2023-2034. [pdf]

Vernick, K., F. Oduol, B.P. Lazzaro, J. Glazebrook, J. Xu, M. Riehle and J. Li. (2005) Molecular Genetics of Mosquito Resistance to Malaria Parasites. Curr. Topics. Microbiol. Immunol. 295:383-415. [Review] [pdf]

2004

Lazzaro, B.P., B.K. Sceurman and A.G. Clark. (2004) The genetic basis of natural variation in D. melanogaster antibacterial immunity. Science 303:1873-1876. [pdf]
Fig S1 (MS Excel) Fig S2 (Ms Excel)

2003

Lazzaro, B.P. and A.G. Clark. (2003) Molecular population genetics of inducible antibacterial peptide genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20:914-923. [pdf]

2002

Lazzaro, B.P., B.K. Sceurman, S.L. Carney and A.G. Clark. (2002) fRFLP and fAFLP: Medium throughput genotyping by post-labeling restriction digestions. BioTechniques 33:539-543. [pdf]

2001

Lazzaro, B. P. and A.G. Clark. (2001) Evidence for recurrent paralogous gene conversion and exceptional allelic divergence in the Attacin genes of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 159:659-671. [pdf]
Supplemental Table S1 Supplemental Table S2

2000

Langley, C.H., B.P. Lazzaro, W. Phillips, E. Heikkinen, and J. Braverman. (2000) Linkage disequilibria and the site frequency spectra in the su(s) and su(wa) regions of the Drosophila melanogaster X chromosome. Genetics 156:1837-1852 [pdf]

Carvalho, A.B, B.P. Lazzaro, and A.G. Clark. (2000) Y-chromosomal fertility factors kl-2 and kl-3 of D. melanogaster encode dynein heavy chain polypeptides. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 97:13239-13244 [pdf]

Savolainen, O., C.H. Langley, B.P. Lazzaro, and H. Frèville. (2000) Contrasting patterns of nucleotide polymorphism at the Alcohol Dehydrogenase locus in the outcrossing Arabidopsis lyrata and the selfing Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:645-2000 [pdf]