User:Marcus McHale

Contact Info

Marcus McHale

• Behaviour and Genetics of Social Insects Laboratory
• School of Biological Sciences
• Macleay Building, A12
• University of Sydney
• NSW, 2006,
• AUSTRALIA
• Email me through OpenWetWare

Education

• 2005, BSc (Hons I) University of Queensland

Research interests

• Development and application of molecular technologies
• Epigenetics (particularly small RNA mediated)
• Agricultural diversity
• Fisheries depletion

Projects

Current

• Investigating the expression of genes related to ovary activation in honey bees (Apis mellifera) using real-time PCR

Past

• Gender assignment (sexing) of Dugong tissue biopsies
• Genetic mark-recapture of Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson) and Dugong (Dugong dugon)
• Durable RNA silencing mediated transgenic virus resistance in plants

Publications

1. A multiplex PCR assay for gender assignment in dugong (Dugong dugon) and West-Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus). M. MCHALE, D. BRODERICK, J . R. OVENDEN and J . M. LANYON. Molecular Ecology Resources (2008) 8, 669–670

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