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CHAPMAN HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Byrne, Frank

Assistant Researcher

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Entomology


Biography

 

Degrees

BA Zoology 1985

Trinity College Dublin

MSc Agricultural Zoology 1986

University College Dublin

PhD Insecticide Resistance 1992

Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, U.K.

Awards

New South Wales Agricultural (Australia) Fellowship 1996-97


Publications


1.ffrench-Constant, R.H., F. J. Byrne, M. F. Stribley, and A. L. Devonshire. 1988. Rapid Identification of the Recently Recognized Myzus persicae (Macchiati) (Hemiptera: Aphididae) by Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis. The Entomologist 107: 20-23.

2.Byrne, F. J. and A. L. Devonshire. 1991. In vivo Inhibition of Esterase and Acetylcholinesterase Activities by Profenofos Treatments in the Tobacco Whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Genn.): Implications for Routine Biochemical Monitoring of These Enzymes. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology 40: 198-204.

3.Byrne, F. J. and A. L. Devonshire. 1993. Insensitive Acetylcholinesterase and Esterase Polymorphism in Susceptible and Resistant Populations of the Tobacco Whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Genn.). Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology 45: 34-42.

4.Byrne, F .J., M. Cahill, I. Denholm, and A. L. Devonshire. 1994. A Biochemical
and Toxicological Study of the Role of Insensitive Acetylcholinesterase in
Organophosphorus Resistant Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) from Israel.
Bulletin of Entomological Research 84: 179-184.

5.Cahill, M., F. J. Byrne, I. Denholm, A. L. Devonshire, and K. Gorman. 1994. Insecticide Resistance in Bemisia tabaci. Pesticide Science 42: 137-139.

6.Byrne, F .J., M. Cahill, I. Denholm, and A. L. Devonshire. 1995. Biochemical Identification of Interbreeding Between B-type and Non B-type Strains of the Tobacco Whitefly Bemisia tabaci. Biochemical Genetics 33: 13-23.

7.Byrne, F. J., I. D. Bedford, A. L. Devonshire, and P. G. Markham. 1995. Esterase Variation and Squash Silverleaf Induction in B-type Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius). Bulletin of Entomological Research 85: 175-179.

8.Cahill, M., F. J. Byrne, K. Gorman, I. Denholm, and A. L. Devonshire. 1995. Pyrethroid and Organophosphate Resistance in the Tobacco Whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae). Bulletin of Entomological Research 85: 181-187.

9.Gunning, R. V., F. J. Byrne, B. D. Conde, M. I. Connelly, K. Hergstrom, and A. L.
Devonshire. 1995. First Report of B-biotype Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)
(Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in Australia. Journal of the Australian Entomological
Society 34: 116.

10.Byrne, F. J. and A. L. Devonshire. 1996. Biochemical Evidence of Haplo-diploidy in the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci. Biochemical Genetics 34: 93-107.

11.Byrne, F. J. and A. L. Devonshire. 1997. Kinetics of Insensitive Acetylcholinesterase in Organophosphate-Resistant Tobacco Whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae). Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology 58: 119-124.

12.Gunning, R. V., F. J. Byrne, and A. L. Devonshire. 1997. Electrophoretic Analysis
of Non-B and B-Biotype Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hemiptera:Aleyrodidae) in
Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 36: 245-249.

13.Byrne, F. J., K. J. Gorman, M. Cahill, I. Denholm, and A. L. Devonshire. 2000. The
Role of B-type Esterases in Conferring Resistance in the Tobacco Whitefly Bemisia
tabaci (Genn.). Pest Management Science 56: 867-874.

14.Byrne, F .J. and N. C. Toscano. 2001. An Insensitive Acetylcholinesterase Confers
Resistance to Methomyl in the Beet Armyworm Spodoptera exigua (Lepidoptera:
Noctuidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 94: 524-528.

15.Byrne, F. J. and N. C. Toscano. 2002. Evaluation of Peracid Activated
Organophosphates in Studies of Insecticide Resistance Conferred by Insensitive
Acetylcholinesterases. Journal of Economic Entomology 95: 425-429.