Position

Professor

Research interests

1) Systematics of parasitic flatworms using both morphological and molecular approaches;
2) Molecular taxonomy of lung-flukes and blood-flukes;
3) Population genetics of blood-flukes in Asia;
4) Genomics and mitogenomics of parasitic flatworms;
5) Evolutionary biology of parasites.

Qualifications

BSc Glasgow (1971), PhD (Glasgow, 1974)

Ten Most Significant Publications

Yin, M.B. Hu,W., Mo,X., Wang,S.Y., Brindley,P.J., McManus,D.P., Davis,G.M., Feng,Z., Blair,D. (2008). Multiple near-identical genotypes of Schistosoma japonicum can occur in snails and have implications for population-genetic analyses. International Journal for Parasitology, 38, 1681-1691. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.05.015

Sewell, K.B., Cannon, L.R.G. & Blair, D. (2006) A review of Temnohaswellia and Temnosewellia (Platyhelminthes: Temnocephalida) ectosymbionts from Australian crayfish Euastacus (Parastacidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 52 (1) 199-280.

Blair, D. (2006) Ribosomal DNA variation in parasitic flatworms. In (A. Maule, Ed.) Parasitic Flatworms: Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology and Control CABI. pages 96-123

Blair, D., Chang, Z.S., Chen, M.G., Cui, A.I., Wu, B., Agatsuma, T., Iwagami, M., Corlis, D., Fu, C.B. & Zhan, X.M. (2005) Paragonimus skrjabini Chen, 1959 (Digenea: Paragonimidae) and related species in eastern Asia: a combined molecular and morphological approach to identification and taxonomy. Systematic Parasitology 60, 1-21.

Le, T.H., Pearson, M.S., Blair, D., Dai, N., Zhang, L.H. & McManus, D.P. (2002). Complete mitochondrial genomes confirm the distinctiveness of the horse-dog and sheep-dog strains of Echinococcus granulosus. Parasitology 124; 97-112.

Blair, D., Davis, G.M., & Wu, B. (2001) Evolutionary relationships between trematodes and snails emphasising schistosomes and paragonimids. Parasitology 123, S229-S243.

Le, T.H., Blair, D. & McManus, D.P. (2000). Mitochondrial DNA sequences of human schistosomes: the current picture. International Journal for Parasitology 30; 283-290.

Le, T.H., Blair, D., Agatsuma, T., Humair, P-F., Campbell, N.J.H., Iwagami. M., Littlewood, D.T.J., Peacock, B., Johnston, D.A., Bartley, J., Rollinson, D., Herniou, E.A., Zarlenga, D.S. & McManus, D.P. (2000). Phylogenies inferred from mitochondrial gene orders - a cautionary tale from the parasitic flatworms. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 17: 1123-1125

Blair, D., Xu, Z.B. & Agatsuma, T. (1999). Paragonimiasis and the genus Paragonimus. Advances in Parasitology. 42: 113-222.

Bowles, J., Blair, D. & McManus, D.P. (1995) A molecular phylogeny of the human schistosomes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 4; 103-109.

Currently Held Grants

Marine and Tropical Sciences Research Facility 2007-2010 Understanding threats and impacts of invasive species on the Great Barrier Reef. Blair, Heimann.