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SELECTED SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS & BOOK-CHAPTERS

 

 

Luykx, P., 2022. THE PATCHWORK HUMAN: TWO BILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION. McFarland & Co., Jefferson, North Carolina

 

Luykx, P., 2000. “Contractile vacuoles” -- Ch. 3 (pp. 43-70) in Robinson, D. G. and Rogers, J. C., eds., VACUOLAR COMPARTMENTS, Annual Plant Reviews, Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield, England [book chapter]

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Luykx, P., 1970. CELLULAR MECHANISMS OF CHROMOSOME DISTRIBUTION, Academic Press, New York

 

Luykx, P., 1983. Genetic relations among castes in lower termites, pp. 17-25, in Watson, J.A.L., Okot-Kotber, B.M., and Noirot, C., eds., CASTE DIFFERENTIATION IN SOCIAL INSECTS (Current Themes in Tropical Science, Vol. 3), Pergamon Press, Oxford. [book chapter]

 

Luykx, P., 1974. “The organization of meiotic chromosomes” -- pp. 163-207, in Busch, H., ed., THE CELL NUCLEUS, Academic Press, New York. [book chapter]

 

 


 

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES

 

Nalepa, C.A, Shimada, K., Maekawa, K., and Luykx, P., 2017. Distribution of karyotypes of the Cryptocercus punctulatus species complex (Blattodea: Cryptocercidae) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Journal of Insect Science 17(3):1-11.

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Radwan, A., Younis, A., Luykx, P., and Khuri, S., 2008. Prediction and analysis of nucleosome exclusion regions in the human genome. BMC Genomics, 9:186 (22 Apr 2008).

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Luykx, P., Hoppenrath, M. and Robinson, D. G., 1997. Structure and behavior of contractile vacuoles in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Protoplasma 198:73-84.

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Luykx, P., 1993.  Turnover in termite colonies: a genetic study of Incisitermes schwarzi headed by replacement reproductives.  Insectes Sociaux 40:191-205.

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Luykx, P., 1991. Behaviour of egg and sperm centrioles in fertilized eggs of Urechis caupo. Cytobios 66:7-19.

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Luykx, P., 1990. A cytogenetic survey of twenty-five species of lower termites from Australia.  Genome 33:80-88.

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Luykx, P., 1987. Variation in sex-linked interchange heterozygosity in the termite Incisitermes schwarzi Banks (Insecta:Isoptera) on the island of Jamaica. Genome 29:319-325.

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Luykx, P., 1986. Termite colony dynamics as revealed by the sex- and caste-ratios of whole colonies of Incisitermes schwarzi Banks (Isoptera:Kalotermitidae).  Insectes Sociaux 33:221-248.

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Crozier, R. H. and Luykx, P., 1985. The evolution of termite eusociality is unlikely to have been based on a male-haploid analogy. American Naturalist 126:867-869.

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Luykx, P. and Syren, R. M., 1979. The cytogenetics of Incisitermes schwarzi and other Florida termites. Sociobiology 4:191-209.

 

 

OTHER ARTICLES

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Luykx, P., 1969-1981. Encyclopedia Americana entries: "Cloning," "Meiosis," "Membrane," "Mitosis," "Mutation," "Variation"

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