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North Terrace Campus
Level 2, Molecular Life Sciences
The University of Adelaide
SA 5005
AUSTRALIA
Jeremy Timmis

Telephone: +61 8 8303 4661
Facsimile: +61 8 8303 4362

Lab Publications (since 2003)

  1. Huang, C Y, Ayliffe, M A and Timmis, J N (2003) Direct measurement of the transfer rate of chloroplast DNA into the nucleus. Nature, 422: 72-76
  2. Huang, CY, Ayliffe, MA and Timmis, JN (2003) Organelle evolution meets biotechnology. Nat. Biotechnol., 21: 489–490
  3. Timmis, JN, Ayliffe, MA, Huang, CY and Martin, W (2004) Endosymbiotic gene transfer: organelle genomes forge eukaryotic chromosomes. Nature Reviews Genetics, 5: 123-135
  4. Huang, CY, Ayliffe, MA and Timmis, JN (2004) Simple and complex nuclear loci created by newly transferred chloroplast DNA in tobacco. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA, 101: 9710-9715
  5. Huang, CY, Grünheit, N, Ahmadinejad, N, Timmis, JN and Martin, W (2005) Mutational decay and age of chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes transferred recently to angiosperm nuclear chromosomes. Plant Physiology, 138: 1723-1733
  6. Orford, SJ and Timmis, JN (2000) Expression of a lipid transfer protein gene family during cotton fibre development. Biochim. Biophys. Acta, 1483: 275-284
  7. Harmer, SE, Orford, SJ and Timmis, JN (2002) Characterisation of six a-expansin genes in Gossypium hirsutum (upland cotton). Mol. Genet. Genom., 268: 1-9
  8. Houben, A, Orford, SJ and Timmis, JN (2005) In situ hybridisation to plant tissues. In Darby, IA and Hewitson, TD (eds) “In situ Hybridisation Protocols”, 3rd Edition, Humana Press, pp 203-218
  9. Humphries, JA, Walker, AR, Timmis, JN and Orford, SJ (2005) Two WD-repeat genes from cotton are functional homologues of the Arabidopsis thaliana TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA1 (TTG1) gene. Plant Mol. Biol., 57: 67-81
  10. Orford, SJ, Delaney, SK and Timmis, JN (2007) Genetic modification of cotton. In Gordon, S and Hsieh, Y-L (eds) “Cotton: Science and Technology”, Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, UK, pp 103-129
  11. Delaney, SK, Orford, SJ, Martin-Harris, M and Timmis, JN (2007) The fibre-specificity of the cotton FSltp4 gene promoter is regulated by an AT-rich promoter region and the AT-hook transcription factor GhAT1. Plant Cell Physiol. 48: 1426-1437
  12. Lightfoot, DJ, Malone, KM, Timmis, JN and Orford, SJ (2008) Evidence for alternative splicing of MADS-box transcripts in developing cotton fibre cells. Mol. Genet. Genom., 279: 75-85
  13. Bock, R and Timmis, JN (2008) Reconstructing evolution: gene transfer from plastids to the nucleus. BioEssays 30: 1-11