Peter Luykx

• A.B., Harvard, 1959
• Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley), 1964
• University of Minnesota, Zoology Department, 1964-1967
• University of Miami, Biology Department, 1967-present.

Research interests:

Selected Publications:

Luykx, P., Bajic, I. V., and Khuri, S., 2006. NXSensor web tool for evaluating DNA for nucleosome exclusion sequences and accessibility to binding factors. Nucleic Acids Research 34 (Web Server issue): W560-W565. http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/34/suppl_2/W560

Nalepa, C. A., Luykx, P., Klass, K.-D., and Dietz, L. L., 2002. Distribution of karyotypes of the Cryptocercus punctulatus species complex (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae) in the southern Appalachians: relation to habitat and history. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 95:276-287. http://titania.esa.catchword.org/vl=22819863/cl=14/nw=1/rpsv/cw/esa/00138746/v95n3/s2/p276

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]

Luykx, P., Hoppenrath, M. and Robinson, D. G., 1997. Osmoregulatory mutants that affect the function of the contractile vacuole in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Protoplasma 200:99-111.

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

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

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