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Associate Professor Steve McKechnie

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Sydney

Telephone: +61-3-9905-3863
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: steve.mckechnie@sci.monash.edu.au

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Steve McKechnie
Research areas
  • Adaption to climatic stress in Drosophila: the role and molecular genetics of the inducible stress genes.
  • Biochemical genetics of alcohol metabolism and alcohol tolerance in Drosophila.
  • Application of molecular geneic techniques to the study of population structure in agricultural pest species.

Honours projects for prospective students

Selected publications
  • Charlton, K, A. Taylor and S. W. McKechnie (2006) A note on divergent mtDNA lineages of bottlenose dolphins from coastal waters of southern Australia. J. Cetacean Res. Manage.  8(2):173-179.
  • Saw, J, NM Endersby  and  SW McKechnie (2006) Lack of mtDNA diversity among Australian diamondback moth Plutella xylostella (L.) suggests isolation and a founder effect. Insect Science 13: 365-373.
  • Collinge, J.E., Hoffmann, S.W. & McKechnie, S.W. (2006) Altitudinal patterns for latitudinally-varying traits and polymorphic markers in Drosophila melanogaster from eastern Australia. Journal of Evolutionary Biology19: 473-482.
  • Weeks, AR, McKechnie, SW & Hoffmann, AA (2006)  In search of clinal variation in the period and clock timing genes in Australian Drosophila melanogaster populations. J. Evol. Biol. 19:  551-557.
  • Umina, P. A., Hoffmann, A. A., Weeks, A. & McKechnie, S. W. (2006) An independent non-linear latitudinal cline for the sn-glycerol-3-phospate (a-Gpdh) polymorphism of D. melanogaster in eastern Australia.  Genetical Research 86: 1-9.
  • Endersby, N. M., McKechnie, S.W., Ridland, P.M.  & Weeks, A.R. (2006) Lack of structure in populations of diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), in Australia revealed using microsatellite markers. Molecular Ecology 15: 107-118.
  • Johnson, T.K.  McKechnie, S.W. &Clancy, D.J. (2006) Water balance in Drosophila: can early physiological decline predictaging and longevity?Journals of Gerontology series. 61A, 2: 146-151.
  • Umina, P. A., A. R. Weeks, M R. Kearney, S. W. McKechnie & A. A. Hoffmann (2005) A rapid shift in a classic clinal pattern in Drosophila reflecting climate change. Science 308: 691-693.
  • Kellett, M. and McKechnie, S. W. (2005) A cluster of diagnostic Hsp68 amino-acid sites that are identified in Drosophila from the melanogaster species group are concentrated around ß-sheet residues involved with substrate binding. Genome 48: 226-233.
  • Anderson, A.R., Hoffmann, A.A. and McKechnie, S.W. (2005) Response to selection for rapid chill-coma-recovery in Drosophila melanogaster: physiology and life history traits. Genetical Research 85: 15-22.
  • Anderson, A R., Collinge, J., Hoffmann, A. A., Kellett, M., and McKechnie, S. W. (2003) Thermal tolerance trade-offs associated with the right arm of chromosome 3 and marked by the hsr-omega gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity 90: 195-202.
  • Magiafoglou, A., Schiffer, M., Hoffmann, A. A. and McKechnie, S. W. (2003) Immunocontraception for population control: Will resistance evolve? Immunology and Cell Biology 81: 152-159.