Robertson, H. M. and H. E. H. Paterson 1982. Mate recognition and mechanical isolation in Enallagma damselflies. Evolution 36, 243-250.
Robertson, H. M. 1982. Mating behaviour and its relationship to
territoriality in Platycypha caligata
(Odonata; Chlorocyphidae). Behaviour 79, 11-27.
Robertson, H. M. 1982. Courtship displays and mating behaviour of three
species of Chlorocyphidae (Zygoptera). Odonatologica 11, 53-58.
Robertson, H. M. and K. J. Tennessen 1984. Precopulatory genital contact in
some Zygoptera. Odonatologica 13,
591-595.
Robertson, H. M. 1984. Pruinosity in odonates reflects U.V. Notulae
Odonatologica 2, 68-69.
Robertson, H.M. 1985. Female dimorphism and mating behaviour in a damselfly,
Ischnura ramburi: females mimicking
males. Animal Behavior 33, 805-809.
Robertson, H. M. 1982. Female courtship summation in Drosophila melanogaster. Animal Behaviour 30, 1105-1117.
Robertson, H. M. 1982. Polygenic autosomal control of male genitalic shape
in D. simulans and D.
mauritiana. Drosophila Information
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Robertson, H. M. 1983. Chemical stimuli eliciting male courtship in Drosophila
melanogaster. Experientia 39,
333-335.
Robertson, H. M. 1983. Mating behavior and the evolution of Drosophila
mauritiana. Evolution 37,
1283-1293.
Robertson, H. M. 1988. Mating asymmetries and phylogeny in the Drosophila
melanogaster species complex. Pacific
Science 42, 72-80.
Engels, W. R., W. K. Benz, C. R. Preston, P. L. Graham, R. W. Phillis and H. M. Robertson 1987. Somatic effects of P element activity in Drosophila melanogaster: Pupal lethality. Genetics 117, 745-757.
Robertson, H.M., C.R. Preston, R.W. Phillis, D.M. Johnson-Schiltz, W.K. Benz
and W.R. Engels. 1988. A stable genomic source of P element transposase in Drosophila
melanogaster. Genetics 118,
461-470.
Robertson, H.M. and W.R. Engels. 1989. Modified P elements that mimic the P
cytotype in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics
123, 815-824.
Gloor, G. B., C. R. Preston, D. M. Johnson-Schlitz, N. A. Nassif, R. W.
Phillis, W. K. Benz, H. M. Robertson and W. R. Engels 1993. Type I repressors
of P element mobility. Genetics 135,
81-95.
Robertson, H. M. 1996. Structure of the stable _2-3(99B) P element in Drosophila
melanogaster. Drosophila Information
Service 77, 99.
O'Neill, S. L., R. Giordano, A. M. E. Colbert, T. L. Karr, and H. M. Robertson 1992. 16S rRNA phylogenetic analysis of the bacterial endosymbionts associated with cytoplasmic incompatibility in insects. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 89, 2699-2702.
Boyle, L., S. L. O'Neill, H. M. Robertson and T. L. Karr 1993. Interspecific
and intraspecific horizontal transfer of Wolbachia in Drosophila. Science 260, 1796-1799.
Giordano, R., S. L. O'Neill, and H. M. Robertson 1995. Wolbachia infections and the expression of cytoplasmic
incompatibility in Drosophila sechellia and D. mauritiana. Genetics
140, 1307-1317.
Giordano, R., J. J. Jackson and H. M. Robertson 1997. The role of Wolbachia bacteria in reproductive incompatibilities and
hybrid zones of Diabrotica
beetles and Gryllus crickets. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 94, 11439-11444.
Robertson, H. M., D. J. Lampe and E. G. MacLeod 1992. A mariner transposable element from a lacewing. Nucleic Acids Research 20, 6409.
Robertson, H. M. 1993. The mariner
transposable element is widely distributed in insects. Nature
362, 241-245.
Robertson, H. M. and E. G. MacLeod 1993. Five major subfamilies of mariner transposable elements in insects, including the
Mediterranean fruit fly, and related arthropods. Insect Molecular Biology
2, 125-139.
Robertson, H. M. and D. J. Lampe 1995a. Recent horizontal transfer of a mariner element between Diptera and Neuroptera. Molecular
Biology and Evolution 12, 850-862
Robertson, H. M. and D. J. Lampe 1995b. Distribution of transposable
elements in arthropods. Annual Review of Entomology 40, 333-357.
Robertson, H. M. 1995. The Tc1-mariner
superfamily of transposons in animals. Journal of Insect Physiology
41, 99-105.
Robertson, H. M., K. L. Zumpano, A. R. Lohe and D. L. Hartl 1996.
Reconstruction of the ancient mariners
of humans. Nature Genetics 12, 360-361.
Robertson, H. M. and M. L. Asplund 1996. Bmmar1: a basal lineage of the mariner family of transposable elements in the silkworm
moth, Bombyx mori. Insect
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 26, 945-954.
Avancini, R. M. P., K. K. O. Walden and H. M. Robertson 1996. The genomes of
most animals have multiple members of the Tc1 family of transposable elements. Genetica 98, 131-140.
Lampe, D. J., M. E. A. Churchill and H. M. Robertson. 1996. A purified mariner transposase is sufficient to mediate transposition
in vitro. EMBO Journal 15, 5470-5479.
Robertson, H. M. 1996. Members of the pogo superfamily of DNA-mediated transposons in the human genome. Molecular
and General Genetics 252, 761-766.
Robertson, H. M. 1997. Multiple mariner
transposons in flatworms and hydras are related to those of insects. Journal
of Heredity 88, 195-201.
Robertson, H. M. and K. L. Zumpano 1997. Molecular evolution of an ancient mariner transposon, Hsmar1, in the human genome. Gene 205,
203-217.
Robertson, H. M. and R. Martos 1997. Molecular evolution of the second
ancient human mariner transposon, Hsmar2, illustrates patterns of neutral evolution in the
human genome lineage. Gene 205, 219-228.
Lampe, D. J., T. E. Grant and H. M. Robertson 1998. Factors affecting
transposition of the Himar1 mariner
transposon in vitro. Genetics 149, 179-187.
Robertson, H. M., F. N. Soto-Adames, K. K. O. Walden, R. M. P. Avancini, and
D. J. Lampe. 1998. The mariner
transposons of animals: horizontally jumping genes. In: Horizontal Gene
Transfer. Ed. M. Syvanen and C. Kado. pp 268-284. Chapman and Hall, London.
Akerley, B. J., E. J. Rubin, A. Camilli, D. J. Lampe, H. M. Robertson and J.
J. Mekalanos 1998. Systematic identification of essential genes by in vitro mariner mutagenesis. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, USA 95, 8927-8932.
Zhang, L., U. Sankar, D. J. Lampe, H. M. Robertson, and F. L. Graham 1998.
The Himar1 mariner transposon cloned in
a recombinant adenovirus vector is functional in mammalian cells. Nucleic
Acids Research 26, 3687-3692.
Lampe, D. J., Ackerley, B. J., Rubin, E. J., Mekalanos, J. J. and H. M. Robertson.
1999. Hyperactive transposase mutants of the Himar1 mariner transposon. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science USA 96, 11428-11433.
Reiter, L. T., T. Liehr, B. Rautenstrauss, H. M. Robertson and J. R. Lupski.
1999. Human recombination-associated genetic disorders appear to coincide with
locations of mariner transposons. Genome
Research 9, 839-843.
Grossman, G. L., A. J. Cornel, C. S. Rafferty, H. M. Robertson and F. H.
Collins. 1999. Tsessebe , Topi and Tiang
: three distinct Tc1-like transposable elements in the malaria vector, Anopheles
gambiae . Genetica 105,
69-80.
Robertson, H. M. 1999. Mariner
transposable elements in mites. In: Acarology IX: Volume 2, Symposia. Ed by G.
R. Needham, R. Mitchell, D. J. Horn, and W. C. Welbourn. Ohio Biological
Survey, Columbus, Ohio. pp1-6.
Torti, C. L. M. Gomulski, D. Moralli, E. Raimondi, H. M. Robertson, P. Capy,
G. Gasperi and A. R. Malacrida. 2000. Evolution of different subfamilies of mariner elements within the medfly genome inferred from
abundance and chromosomal distributions. Chromosoma 108, 523-532.
Zhang, J. K., M. A. Pritchett, D. J. Lampe, H. M. Robertson and W. W.
Metcalf. 2000. In vivo transposon mutagenesis of the methanogenic archaeon Methanosarcina
acetivorans C2A using a modified version of
the insect mariner-family
transposable element Himar1. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97, 9665-9970.
Lampe, D. J., K. K. O. Walden, J. M. Sherwood, and H. M. Robertson 2000.
Genetic engineering of insects with mariner
transposons. In: Insect Transgenesis: Methods and Applications. Ed. A. Handler
and T. James. CRC Press.
Lampe, D. J., K. K. O. Walden, and H. M. Robertson. 2001. Loss of
transposase-DNA interaction may underlie the divergence of mariner family transposable element and the ability of more
than one mariner to occupy the
same genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18, 954-961.
Robertson, H. M. 2002. Evolution of DNA transposons in eukaryotes. In:
Mobile DNA II, edited by N. L. Craig, R. Craigie, M. Gellert, and A. M. Lambowitz.
pp1093-1110. ASM Press, Washington, DC.
Robertson, H. M. and K. K. O. Walden. 2003. Bmmar6, a second mori subfamily mariner transposon from the
silkworm moth Bombyx mori. Insect
Molecular Biology 12, 167-171.
Lampe, D. J., D. J. Witherspoon, F. N. Soto-Adames, and H. M. Robertson.
2003. Recent horizontal transfer of mellifera subfamily mariner transposons into insect lineages representing four
different orders shows that selection acts only during horizontal transfer. Molecular
Biology and Evolution 20, 554-562.
Witherspoon, D. J. and H. M. Robertson. 2003. Neutral evolution of ten types
of mariner transposons in the genomes of
Caenorhabditis elegans and C.
briggsae. Journal of Molecular Evolution56,
751-769.
Sarkar, A., C. Sim, Y. S. Hong, J. R. Hogan, M. J. Fraser, H. M. Robertson,
and F. H. Collins. 2003. Molecular evolutionary analysis of the widespread piggyBac transposon family and related domesticated genes. Molecular
and General Genetics 270, 173-180.
Robertson, H. M. 1998. Two large families of chemoreceptor genes in the
nematodes Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis
briggsae reveal extensive gene duplication,
diversification, movement, and intron loss. Genome Research 8, 449-463.
Robertson, H. M. 2000. The large srh
family of chemoreceptor genes in Caenorhabditis nematodes reveals processes of genome evolution
involving large duplications and deletions and intron gains and losses. Genome
Research 10, 192-203
Robertson, H. M. 2001. Updating the str
and srj(stl) families of
chemoreceptors in Caenorhabditis
nematodes reveals frequent gene movement within and between chromosomes. Chemical
Senses 26, 151-159.
Thomas, J. H., J. L. Kelley, H. M. Robertson, K. Ly, and W. J. Swanson.
2005. Adaptive evolution in the srz chemoreceptor families of Caenorhabditis
elegans and Caenorhabditis
briggsae. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, USA 102,
4476-4481.
Robertson H. M. and J. H. Thomas. 2005. The chemoreceptor genes of Ceanorhabditis elegans.
In: The WormBook, edited by Iva Greenwald et al., WormBase, Cold Spring Harbor,
NY.
Robertson, H. M., R. Martos, C. R. Sears, E. Z. Todres, K. K. O. Walden, and
J. B. Nardi. 1999. Diversity of odorant binding proteins revealed by an
expressed sequence tag project on male Manduca sexta moth antennae. Insect Molecular Biology
8, 501-518.
Robertson, H. M. 2001. Taste: Independent origins of chemoreception coding
systems? Current Biology 11, R560-562.
Fox, A. N., R. J. Pitts, H. M. Robertson, J. R. Carlson, and L. J. Zwiebel.
2001. Candidate odorant receptors from the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles
gambiae and evidence of down-regulation in
response to blood feeding. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences,
USA. 98, 14693-14697.
Hill, C. A., A. N. Fox, R. J. Pitts, L. B. Kent, P. L. Tan, M. A. Chrystal,
A. Cravchik, F. H. Collins, H. M. Robertson and L. J. Zwiebel. 2002. G-protein-coupled
receptors in Anopheles gambiae. Science
298, 176-178.
Nardi, J. B., L. A. Miller, K. K. O. Walden, S. Rovelstad, K. Ramsdell, L.
Wang, J. C. Frye, L. S. Deem, and H. M. Robertson. 2003. Expression patterns of
odorant binding proteins in the antennae of Manduca sexta moths. Cell and Tissue Research 313,
321-333.
Robertson, H. M., C. G. Warr, and J. R. Carlson. 2003. Molecular evolution
of the insect chemoreceptor superfamily in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
USA. 100 Suppl 2, 14537-14542.
Robertson, H. M. and K. W. Wanner. 2006. The chemoreceptor superfamily in
the honey bee Apis mellifera: expansion of the odorant, but not gustatory,
receptor family. Genome Research 16,
1395-1403.
Todres, E.., J. B. Nardi, and H. M. Robertson. 2000. The tetraspanin
superfamily in insects. Insect Molecular Biology 9, 581-590.
Whitfield, C. W., M. R. Band, M. F. Bonaldo, C. G. Kumar, L. Liu, J. R.
Pardinas, H. M. Robertson, M. B. Soares, and G. E. Robinson. 2002. Annotated
expressed sequence tags and cDNA microarrays for studies of brain and behavior
in the honey bee. Genome Research 12,
555-566.
Velarde, R., K. K. O. Walden, C. Sauer, S. E.
Fahrbach, and H. M. Robertson. 2005. Pteropsin: a vertebrate-like lineage of
opsin expressed in the brain of honey bees. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 35, 1367-1377.
Robertson, H. M. 2005. Insect
genomes. American Entomologist 51,
166-171.
Robinson, G. E., J. D. Evans,
R. Maleszka, H. M. Robertson, D. B. Weaver, K. Worley, R. A. Gibbs, and G. M.
Weinstock. 2006. Sweetness and light: illuminating the honey bee genome. Insect
Molecular Biology 15, 535-539.
The Honeybee Genome Sequencing Consortium.
2006. Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Nature
443, 931-949.
Wang, Y., M. Jorda, P.
L. Jones, R. Maleszka, X. Ling, H. M. Robertson, C. A. Mizzen, M. A. Peinado,
and G. E. Robinson. 2006. Functional CpG methylation system in a social insect.
Science 314, 645-647.
Robertson, H. M. and K. H. J.
Gordon. 2006. Canonical TTAGG repeat telomeres and telomerase in the honey bee,
Apis mellifera. Genome Research 16, 1345-1351.
Rubin, E. B. Y. Shemesh, M. Cohen, S. Elgavish, H.
M. Robertson, and G. Bloch. 2006. Molecular and phylogenetic analyses reveal mammalian-like
clockwork in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) and shed new light on the molecular evolution of the circadian clock. Genome
Research 16, 1352-1365.
Soto-Adames, F. N., H. M. Robertson and S. H. Berlocher 1994. Phylogenetic
usefulness of partial DNA sequences of G6pdh in hexapod systematics. Annals
of the Entomological Society of America
87, 723-736.
Walden, K. K. O. and H. M. Robertson 1997. Ancient DNA from amber fossil
bees? Molecular Biology and Evolution
14, 1075-1077.
Chen, C-L., D. J. Lampe, H. M. Robertson and J. B. Nardi. 1997. Neuroglian
is expressed by cells destined to form the prothoracic glands of Manduca embryos as they segregate from surrounding cells and
rearrange during morphogenesis. Developmental Biology 181, 1-13.
Nardi, J. B., R. Martos, K. K. O. Walden, D. J. Lampe and H. M. Robertson.
1999. Expression of lacunin, a large multidomain extracellular matrix protein,
accompanies morphogenesis of epithelial monolayers in Manduca sexta. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
29, 883-897.
Bouzat, J. L., L. K. McNeil, H. M. Robertson, L. F. Solter, J. Nixon, J. E.
Beever, H. R. Gaskin, G. Olsen, S. Subramaniam, M. L. Sogin, and H. A. Lewin.
2000. Phylogenomic analysis of the alpha proteasome gene family from
early-diverging eukaryotes. Journal of Molecular Evolution 51, 532-543.
Chu, P.-J., H. M. Robertson, and P. M. Best. 2001. Calcium channel gamma
subunits provide insights into the evolution of this gene family. Gene 280, 37-48.
Ratcliffe, S. T., H. M. Robertson, C. J. Jones, G. A. Bollero, and R. A.
Weinzierl. 2002. Assessment of parasitism of house fly and stable fly (Diptera:
Muscidae) pupae by pteromalid (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) parasitoids using a
polymerase chain reaction assay. Journal of Medical Entomology 39, 52-60.
Ratcliffe, S. T., D. W. Webb, R. A. Weinzierl, and H. M. Robertson. 2003. PCR-RFLP identification of Diptera (Calliphoridae, Muscidae and Sarcophagidae); a generally applicable method. Journal of Forensic Science 48, 783-785.
Wang, C. M., C. L. Chen, H. M. Robertson, and S. E. Fahrbach. 2003. A new member of the GM130 golgin subfamily is expressed in the optic lobe anlagen of the metamorphosing brain of Manduca sexta. 15pp. Journal of Insect Science 3: 35.
H. M. Robertson. 2004. Genes encoding vitamin-K epoxide reductase (VKOR) are present in Drosophila and trypanosomatid protists. Genetics 168, 1077-1780.
Ting, C. Y., S. Yonekura, P. Chung, S. N. Hsu, H. M. Robertson, A. Chiba, and C. H. Lee. 2005. Drosophila N-cadherin functions in the first stage of the two-stage layer-selection process of R7 photoreceptor afferents. Development 132, 953-963.
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