Bird, D.McK., Williamson, V.M., Abad, P., McCarter, J., Danchin, E., Castagnone-Serrano, P., and Opperman, C.H. 2009. Genome analyis of sedentary endoparasitic plant-parasitic nematodes. Annual Review of Phytopathology.

Schaff, J.E., Mauchline, T., Opperman, C.H., and Davies, K.G. 2009. Exploiting the genomes of  root-knot nematode and Pasteuria penetrans to develop novel biocontrol strategies. In: Biological Control of Nematodes. Spiegel, I., and Davies, K.G., eds.

Abad, P., and Opperman, C.H. 2009. The genomes of Meloidogyne incognita and M. hapla. In: Root-Knot Nematodes, Perry, R.N., Moens, M., and Starr, J., eds. CABI, in press.

Bird, D. McK., and C. H. Opperman. 2008. The secret(ion) life of worms. Genome Biology, in press.

Torto-Alalibo, T., Collmer, C. W., Lindeberg, M., Bird, D. McK., Collmer, A., and B. M. Tyler, 2008. Common and contrasting themes in host-cell-targeted effectors from bacterial, fungal, oomycete and nematode plant symbionts described using the Gene Onology. BMC Microbiology, in press.

Kalat S. H., Burke M. H., Scholl E. H., Lommel S. A. and Opperman C. H. 2008. A novel basecaller-trimmer algorithm adds superior base calling quality for genomic sequencing projects.  In revision, BioData Mining.

Schaff, J. E., Mbeunkui, F., Blackburn, K., Bird, D. McK., and M. B. Goshe. 2008. SILIP: A novel stable isotope labeling method for in planta quantitative proteomic analysis. The Plant Journal, 56: 840-854.

Opperman, C. H., Bird, D. McK., Williamson, V. M., Rohksar, D. S., Burke, M., Cohn, J., Cromer, J., Diener, S., Gajan, J., Graham, S., Houfek, T. D., Liu, Q.-L., Mitros, T., Schaff, J. E., Schaffer, R., Scholl, E., Sosinski, B. R., Thomas, V. P., and E. Windham. 2008. Sequence and genetic map of Meloidogyne hapla: A compact nematode genome for plant parasitism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 105: 7.

Dhandaydham, M., Charles, L., Zhu, H., Starr, J.L., Huguet, T., Cook, D.R., Properi, J-M. Bird, D.M., and Opperman, C.H. 2008. Identification, characterization and mapping of a root-knot nematode resistance gene in Medicago truncatula.  Journal of Nematology, 40: 46-54.

Elling, A. E., Mitreva, M., Recknor, J., Gai, X., Martin, J., Maier, T. R., McDermott, J. P., Hewezi, T., Bird, D. McK., Davis, E. L., Hussey, R. S., McCarter, J. P., and T. J. Baum. 2007. Divergent evolution of arrested development in the dauer stage of Caenorhabditis elegans and the infective stage of Heterodera glycines. Genome Biology, 8: 211.1-211.19.

Schaff, J. E., Scholl, E. H., Nielsen, D. M., Smith, C. P. and D. McK. Bird. 2007. Comprehensive transcriptome profiling in tomato reveals a role for glycosyltransferase in Mi-mediated nematode resistance. Plant Physiology, 144: 1079-1092.

Opperman, C.H., Burke, M., and Lommel, S.A. 2007 Sequencing and analysis of the Nicotiana tabacum genome. Advances in Tobacco Science 33: 5-14.

Snyder, D. W., Opperman, C. H. and D. McK. Bird. 2006. A method for generating Meloidogyne incognita males. Journal of Nematology, 38: 192-194.

Waterman, J. T., Bird, D. McK. and C. H. Opperman. 2006. A rapid method for isolating Pasteuria. Journal of Nematology 38.

Davies, K.G., and Opperman, C.H. 2006. A potential role for collagen in the attachment of Pasteuria penetrans to the nematode cuticle. Multitrophic Interactions in the Soil and Integrated Control. IOBC wprs Bulletin 29 (2) 11-15.

Opperman, C.H., Bird, D.M. and Schaff, J.E. 2008. Genome characterization and analysis of root-knot nematodes. in: Cell Biology of Plant-Nematode Interactions, R. H. Berg and C. G. Taylor (Eds), Springer, Heidelberg, in press.