Prof David Blair ~ Adjunct Professor

My PhD studies were done at Glasgow University a very long time ago. The topic was the life-cycles of parasites infecting trout in fish-farms.

I have worked at James Cook University for two blocks of time. The first was in the late 1970s and the second started in 1989. In between those times, I was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Queensland (in the then Parasitology Dept) and a lecturer in the Zoology Dept at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Interests

Research

• Evolutionary biology, population genetics, phylogenetics, parasitology, taxonomy and systematics, molecular genetics, genomics, especially mitogenomics.

Teaching

• Evolutionary biology, systematics, conservation genetics.

Research Disciplines

• Evolutionary biology (3104)
• Zoology (3109)
• Genetics (3105)

Socio-Economic Objectives

• Expanding knowledge (2801)

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Journal Articles

• Blair D, Cannon L, Littlewood D, Olson P and Sewell K (2023) The Temnocephalidae (Platyhelminthes): molecular data illuminate the evolution of an ancient group of symbiotic flatworms. Systematics and Biodiversity, 21 (1).
• Blair D (in press) Lung flukes of the genus Paragonimus: ancient and re-emerging pathogens. Parasitology,
• Davis N, Blair D and Brant S (in press) Diversity of Trichobilharzia in New Zealand with a new species and a redescription, and their likely contribution to cercarial dermatitis. Parasitology, 149 (3). pp. 380-395
• Deng Z, Yao Y, Blair D, Hu W and Yin M (2022) Ceriodaphnia (Cladocera: Daphniidae) in China: Lineage diversity, phylogeography and possible interspecific hybridization. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 175.
• Deng Z, Yang W, Blair D, Hu W and Yin M (2022) Diversity of Brachionus plicatilis species complex (Rotifera) in inland saline waters from China: Presence of a new mitochondrial clade on the Tibetan Plateau. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 171.
• Le T, Nguyen K, Pham L, Doan H, Agatsuma T and Blair D (in press) The complete mitogenome of the Asian lung fluke Paragonimus skrjabini miyazakii and its implications for the family Paragonimidae (Trematoda: Platyhelminthes). Parasitology,
• Ma X, Deng Z, Blair D, Bi Y, Hu W and Yin M (2022) Cyanobacterial bloom associated with a complete turnover of a Daphnia population in a warm-temperate eutrophic lake in Eastern China. Freshwater Biology, 67 (3). pp. 508-517
• Pitaksakulrat O, Sithithaworn P, Kopolrat K, Kiatsopit N, Saijuntha W, Andrews R, Petney T and Blair D (2022) Molecular identification of trematode parasites infecting the freshwater snail Bithynia siamensis goniomphalos in Thailand. Journal of Helminthology, 96.
• Sota P, Suttiprapa S, Tangkawattana S, Sripa M, Blair D and Sripa B (in press) Does Opisthorchis viverrini circulate between humans and domestic cats in an endemic area in Thailand? Parasitology,
• Trisakul K, Nonghanphithak D, Chaiyachat P, Kaewprasert O, Sakmongkoljit K, Reechaipichitkul W, Chaiprasert A, Blair D, Clark T and Faksri K (2022) High clustering rate and genotypic drug-susceptibility screening for the newly recommended anti-tuberculosis drugs among global extensively drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates. Emerging Microbes & Infections, 11 (1). pp. 1857-1866
• Yang W, Deng Z, Blair D, Hu W and Yin M (2022) Phylogeography of the freshwater rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus species complex in China. Hydrobiologia, 849. pp. 2813-2829
• Deng Z, Ni Y, Wang J, Ebido C, Odii E, Okoro J, Blair D, Hu W and Yin M (2021) Cryptic diversity and gene introgression of Moinidae (Crustacea: Cladocera) in Nigeria. Contributions to Zoology, 90. pp. 463-486

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