Items where Author is "Starkie, Melissa L."

Article

Brown, G. W., Starkie, M. L., Fowler, E. V., Blacket, M. J., Royer, J. E., Mayer, D. G., Souza, N. M., Cheesman, J., Missenden, B., Irvine, M. and Schutze, M. K. (2025) Field assessment of current and improved surveillance traps for fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) in Australia. Journal of Economic Entomology, 118 (3). pp. 1344-1353. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toaf085

Starkie, M. L., Fowler, E. V., Piper, A. M., Zhu, X., Wyatt, P. M., Gopurenko, D., Krosch, M. N., Strutt, F., Armstrong, K. F., Patrick, H., Schutze, M. K. and Blacket, M. J. (2024) A novel diagnostic gene region for distinguishing between two pest fruit flies: Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) and Bactrocera neohumeralis (Hardy) (Diptera: Tephritidae). Insect science, 31 . pp. 1285-1295. https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.13299

Starkie, M. L., Cameron, S. L., Krosch, M. N., Sweet, A. D. and Clarke, A. R. (2024) Biogeographic influences on the evolution and historical dispersal of the Australo-Pacific Dacini fruit flies (Tephritidae: Dacinae). Zoologica Scripta, 53 (1). pp. 87-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12631

Fowler, E. V., Starkie, M. L., Blacket, M. J., Mayer, D. G. and Schutze, M. K. (2024) Effect of temperature and humidity on insect DNA integrity evaluated by real-time PCR. Journal of Economic Entomology, 117 (5). pp. 1995-2002. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toae193

Fowler, E. V., Starkie, M. L., Zhu, X., Piper, A. M., Agarwal, A., Rako, L., Gardiner, A., Oczkowicz, S., Gopurenko, D., Schutze, M. K. and Blacket, M. J. (2023) Development of a cost-effective, morphology-preserving method for DNA isolation from bulk invertebrate trap catches: Tephritid fruit flies as an exemplar. PLOS ONE, 18 (2). e0281759. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281759

Charbonnel, E., Chapuis, M.-P., Taddei, A., Schutze, M. K., Starkie, M. L., Benoit, L., Mouttet, R. and Ouvrard, D. (2023) Evaluation of identification methods for cryptic Bactrocera dorsalis (Diptera: Tephritidae) specimens: combining morphological and molecular techniques. Journal of Economic Entomology, 116 (6). pp. 2193-2200. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toad178

Starkie, M. L., Cameron, S.L., Krosch, M.N., Phillips, M. J., Royer, J. E., Schutze, M. K., Strutt, F., Sweet, A.D., Zalucki, M.P. and Clarke, A.R. (2022) A comprehensive phylogeny helps clarify the evolutionary history of host breadth and lure response in the Australian Dacini fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 172 . p. 107481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107481

Agarwal, A., Rako, L., Schutze, M. K., Starkie, M. L., Tay, W. T., Rodoni, B. C. and Blacket, M. J. (2022) A diagnostic LAMP assay for rapid identification of an invasive plant pest, fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Scientific Reports, 12 (1). p. 1116. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04496-x

Starkie, M. L., Fowler, E. V., Zhu, X., Agarwal, A., Rako, L., Schneider, I. C., Schutze, M. K., Royer, J. E., Gopurenko, D., Gillespie, P. and Blacket, M. J. (2022) Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assays for detection of the New Guinea fruit fly Bactrocera trivialis (Drew) (Diptera: Tephritidae). Scientific Reports, 12 (1). p. 12602. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-16901-0

Starkie, M. L., Strutt, F. and Royer, J. E. (2022) New records and a description of a new species of fruit fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) from eastern Australia. Australian Entomologist, 49 (3). pp. 169-180.

Krosch, M. N., Strutt, F., Blacket, M. J., Batovska, J., Starkie, M. L., Clarke, A. R., Cameron, S. L. and Schutze, M. K. (2020) Development of internal COI primers to improve and extend barcoding of fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Dacini). Insect Science, 27 (1). pp. 143-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7917.12612

Thesis

Starkie, M. L. (2021) Systematics and evolution of the Australian Dacini (Diptera: Tephritidae). PhD thesis, QUT, 395 pages.