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Amphibians
Grant, R.A., Halliday, T. & Chadwick, E.A (2010). Amphibians and the lunar cycle; review. In preparation.


Grant R.A. and Halliday T.R. (2010) Predicting the unpredictable; evidence of seismic anticipatory behaviour in the common toad. In press 2010  J. Zoology


Grant, R.A.,Chadwick, EA & Halliday, T (2010) Timing is everything; the role of the lunar cycle in amphibian reproduction. In press. Herpetological Journal


Grant, R.A.,Chadwick, EA & Halliday, T (2009) The lunar cycle: a cue for amphibian reproductive phenology? Animal Behaviour 78 (2) 349-357


Marine Molecular Biology


Grant, R.A. & Linse, K (2009) Barcoding Antarctic Biodiversity; current status and the CAML initiative, a case study of marine invertebrates. Polar Biology 32(11): 1629-1637


Linse, K, Brandt, A, Endlerlein, P, Griffiths, HJ, Sands, CJ & Grant, RA. The effect of reproductive mode on CO1 make-up: analysing DNA barcodes of peracarid crustacean and shelled molluscan morphospecies. In preparation.


Grant, R.A., Griffiths, H & Linse, K (2010) Antarctic Barcoding; a drop in the ocean? In preparation.



Evolution


Chen, W.C, Grant, R.A. & Shimeld, S. (2010). Evolutionary origin of the gene regulatory network controlling vertebrate lens differentiation. In preparation.


Biochemistry


R.A.Stockley, R.A.Grant, C.G.Llewellyn Jones, S.L.Hill & Burnett, DH (1994) Neutrophil formyl peptide receptors: Relationship to peptide induced responses and emphysema. American J. Respiratory Critical Care Medicine 149 (2) 464-468


Burnett, DH Adams,DH, Martin, TJM,  Liu, Q, Grant, R.A. , Stockley, RA  and Lord, JM (1994) Inhibition by FK506 of formyl-peptide induced neutrophil activation and associated protein synthesis. Biochemical Pharmacology 48 (6) 1081-1088


Stockley, RA, Grant, RA, Llewellyn Jones, CG & Hill, SL (1993) Relationship of formyl peptide receptors to neutrophil response  and chronic destructive lung disease. American Review of Respiratory Disease 147 (4)


Popular press

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8145000/8145125.stm

http://www.coml.org/news/caml-barcoding-latest-news

http://www.americanscientist.org/science/content1/7116