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Publications (10 years)

  1. Adamson CS, Chibale K, Goss RJM, Jaspars M, Newman DN, Dorrington RA. 2021. Antiviral drug discovery: Preparing for the next pandemic. Chemical Society Reviews. DOI: 10.1039/D0CS01118E.
  2. Kalinski J-CJ, Krause RWM, Parker-Nance S, Waterworth SC, Dorrington RA. 2021. Unlocking the diversity of pyrroloiminoquinones produced by latrunculid sponge species. Marine Drugs, 19(2): 68. DOI: 10.3390/md19020068.
  3. Waterworth SC, Isemonger EW, Dorrington RA, Kwan J. 2021. Metabolic specializations within a bacterial community to create living rocks. Environmental Microbiology Reports. DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12916.
  4. Büttner S, Isaacs M, Isemonger EW, van Niekerk D, Sipler RE, Dorrington RA. 2021. Living phosphatic stromatolites raise questions about global phosphate cycling. Geobiology, 19:35-47. DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12415.
  5. Chau JH, Mtsi NI, Münbergová Z, Greve M, le Roux PC, Mairal M, Le Roux JJ, Dorrington RA, van Vuuren BJ. 2020. An update on the indigenous vascular flora of sub-Antarctic Marion Island: taxonomic changes, sequences for DNA barcode loci, and genome size data. Polar Biology, 43(11): 1817-28. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-020-02747-7.
  6. Rishworth GM, Dodd C, Perissinotto R, Bornman TG, Adams JB, Anderson CR, Cawthra HC, Dorrington RA, du Toit H, Edworthy C, Gibb R-LA, Human LRD, Isemonger EW, Lemley DA, Miranda NAF, Peer N, Raw JL, Smith AM, Steyn P-P, Strydom NA, Teske PR, Welman S. 2020. Modern supratidal microbialites fed by groundwater: functional drivers, value and trajectories. Earth-Science Reviews: 210: 103364. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103364.
  7. Dorrington RA, Jiwaji M, Awando JA, Bruyn MM. 2019. Advances in tetravirus research: New insight into the infectious virus lifecycle and an expanding host range. Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 34: 145-162.  DOI: 10.21775/cimb.034.145.
  8. Parker-Nance S, Hilliar SH, Waterworth SC, Walmsley TA, Dorrington RA. 2019. New species in the genus Tsitsikamma (Poecilosclerida, Latrunculiidae) from South Africa.  ZooKeys, 874: 101–126. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.874.32268.
  9. Jiwaji M, Matcher GF, de Bruyn M-M, Awando JA, Moodley H, Waterworth D, Jarvie RA, Dorrington RA. 2019. Providence virus: an animal virus that replicates in plants or a plant virus that infects and replicates in animals? PloS One, 14(6): e0217494. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217494.
  10. Lombard AT, Dorrington RA, Ortega-Cisneros K, Penry GS, Pichegru L, Reed JR, Smit KP, Vermeulen EA, Witteveen M, Sink KJ, McInnes AM, Ginsburg T. 2019. Key challenges in advancing an ecosystem-based approach to marine spatial planning under economic growth imperatives. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6: 146. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00146.
  11. Kalinski J-CJ, Waterworth SC, Siwe-Noundou X, Jiwaji M, Parker-Nance S, Krause RWM, McPhail KL, Dorrington RA. 2019. Molecular networking reveals two distinct chemotypes in pyrroloiminoquinone-producing Tsitsikamma favus sponges. Marine Drugs, 17(1): 60. DOI: 10.3390/md17010060.
  12. Bate GC, Matcher GF, Venkatachalam S, Meiklejohn I, Dorrington RA. 2019. Microalgae in two freshwater lakes and an estuary as a result of groundwater contamination from households. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa, 74(2): 115-125. DOI: 10.1080/0035919X.2019.1586785.
  13. Venkatachalam S, Matcher GF, Lamont T, van den Berg M, Ansorge IJ, Dorrington RA. 2019. Influence of oceanographic variability on nearshore microbial communities of the sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Islands.  Limnology and Oceanography, 64(1): 258-271. DOI: 10.1002/lno.11035.
  14. Dorrington RA, Lombard AT, Bornman TG, Adams JB, Cawthra HC, Deyzel SHP, Goschen WS, Liu K, Mahler-Coetzee J, Matcher GF, McQuaid C, Parker-Nance S, Paterson A, Perissinotto R, Porri F, Roberts M, Snow B, Vrancken P. 2018. Working together for our oceans: A marine spatial plan for Algoa Bay, South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 114(3-4): 18-23. DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2018/a0247.
  15. Matcher GF, Froneman PW, Meiklejohn KI, Dorrington RA. 2018. Distinct responses of bacterial communities to agricultural and urban impacts in temperate southern African estuaries. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 200:224-233. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2017.11.015.
  16. Venkatachalam S, Ansorge IJ, Mendes A, Melato LI, Matcher G, Dorrington, RA. 2018. A pivotal role for ocean eddies in the distribution of microbial communities across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. PloS One, 12(8): e0183400. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183400.
  17. Ansorge IJ, Skelton P, Bekker A, de Bruyn PJN, Butterworth D, Cilliers P, Cooper J, Cowan DA, Dorrington RA, Fawcett S, Fietz S, Findlay KP, Froneman PW, Grantham GH, Greve M, Hedding D, Hofmeyr GJG, Kosc M, le Roux P, Lucas M, MacHutchon K, Meiklejohn I, Nel W, Pistorius P, Ryan P, Stander J, Swart S, Treasure A, Vichi M, Jansen van Vuuren B. 2017. Exploring South Africa’s southern frontier: A 20-year vision for polar research through the South African National Antarctic Programme. South African Journal of Science, 113(5/6): 1-7. DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2017/a0205.
  18. Waterworth SC, Jiwaji M, Kalinski JCJ, Parker-Nance S, Dorrington RA. 2017. A place to call home: an analysis of the bacterial communities in two Tethya rubra Samaai and Gibbons 2005 populations in Algoa Bay, South Africa.  Marine Drugs, 15(4): 95. DOI: 10.3390/md15040095.
  19. Matcher GF, Waterworth SC, Walmsley TA, Matsatsa T, Parker-Nance S, Davies-Coleman MT, Dorrington RA. 2017. Keeping it in the family: Co-evolution of Latrunculid sponges and their dominant bacterial symbionts.  Microbiology Open, 6(2): e417. DOI: 10.1002/mbo3.417.
  20. Halo I, Dorrington RA, Bornman T, De Villiers S, Fawcett S. 2016. South Africa in the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition: A multi-institutional and interdisciplinary scientific project. South African Journal of Science, 112(9-10): 1-4. DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2016/a0173.
  21. Ansorge IJ, Brundrit G, Brundrit J, Dorrington RA, Fawcett S, Gammon D, Henry T, Hermes J, H?lscher B, d'Hotman J, Meiklejohn I, Morris T, Saunders C, Shabangu FW, de Vos M, Walker DR, Louw G. 2016. SEAmester-South Africa's first class afloat. South African Journal of Science, 112(9-10): 1-4. DOI: 10.17159/sajs.2016/a0171.
  22. Jiwaji M, Short JR, Dorrington RA. 2016. Expanding the host range of small insect RNA viruses: Providence virus (Carmotetraviridae) infects and replicates in a human tissue culture cell line. Journal of General Virology, 97:2763–2768. DOI: 10.1099/jgv.0.000578.
  23. Penkler DL, Jiwaji M, Domitrovic T, Short JR, Johnson JE, Dorrington RA. 2016. Binding and entry of a non-enveloped ?=4 insect RNA virus is triggered by alkaline pH.  Virology, 498: 277-287. DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2016.08.028.
  24. Mendes A, Vlok M, Short JR, Matsui T, Dorrington RA. 2015. An encapsidated viral protein and its role in RNA packaging by a non-enveloped animal RNA virus. Virology, 476: 323–333. DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2014.12.026.
  25. Perissinotto R, Bornman TG, Steyn P-P, Miranda NAF, Dorrington RA, Matcher GF, Strydom N, Peer N. 2014. Tufa stromatolite ecosystems on the South African south coast.  South African Journal of Science, 110(9/10): 1-8. DOI: 10.1590/sajs.2014/20140011.
  26. Amemiya CT, Dorrington RA, Meyer A. 2014. The coelacanth and its genome.  Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 322: 317-321. DOI: 10.1002/jez.b.22521.
  27. Bowker ML, Molwantwa JB, Gilfillin J, Dorrington R, Kirby R, Rose PD. 2013. Technical Note: Development of a gradient tube method for examining microbial population structures in floating sulphur biofilms. Water SA, 39(4): 523-528. DOI: 10.4314/wsa.v39i4.11.
  28. Matcher GF, Jiwaji J, de la Mare JA, Dorrington, RA. 2013. Complex pathways for regulation of pyrimidine metabolism by carbon catabolite repression and quorum sensing in Pseudomonas putida RU-KM3S.  Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 97:5993-6007. DOI: 10.1007/s00253-013-4862-5.
  29. Short JR, Nakayinga R, Walter CT, Huhges GE, Dorrington, RA. 2013.  Providence virus (Family: Carmotetraviridae) replicates vRNA in association with the Golgi apparatus and secretory vesicles.  Journal of General Virology, 94:1073-1078. DOI:10.1099/vir.0.048561-0.
  30. Amemiya CT, Alf?ldi J, Lee AP, Fan S, Brinkmann H, MacCallum I, Braasch I, Manousaki T, Schneider S, Rohner N, Organ C, Chalopin D, Smith JJ, Robinson M, Dorrington RA, Gerdol M, Aken B, Assunta Biscotti M, Barucca M, Baurain D,  Berlin AM, Blatch GL, Buonocore F, Burmester T, Campbell MS, Canapa A, Cannon JP, Christoffels A, De Moro G, Edkins AL, Fan L Fausto AM, Feiner N, Forconi ,  Gamieldien JM, Gnerre S,  Goldstone JV, Haerty W, Hahn ME, Hesse U, Hoffmann S, Johnson J, Karchner SI, Kuraku SI, Lara M, Levin JZ, Litman GW, Mauceli E, Miyake T, Mueller MG, Nelson DR, Nitsche A,  Olmo E, Ota T, Pallavicini A, Panji S, Picone B, Ponting CP, Prohaska SJ, Przybylski D, Saha NR Ravi V, Ribeiro FJ, Tatjana Sauka-Spengler T, Searle SMJ, Sharpe T, Simakov O, Stadler PF, Stegeman JJ, Sumiyama K, Tafer H, Turner-Maier J, van Heusden P, White S, Yandell M, Philippe H, Volff J-N, Tabin CJ, Shubin N, Schartl M, Jaffe D, Postlethwait JH, Venkatesh B, Di Palma F, Lander ES, Meyer A, Lindblad-Toh K. 2013. Comparative analysis of the genome of the African coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae, sheds light on tetrapod evolution.  Nature, 498: 311-318. DOI: 10.1038/nature12027.
  31. Treasure AM, Moloney CL, Bester MN, McQuaid CD, Findlay KP, Best PB, Cowan DA, de Bruyn PJN, Dorrington RA, Fagereng A, Froneman PW, Grantham GH, Hunt BPV, Meiklejohn KI, Pakhomov EA, Roychoudhury AN, Ryan PG, Smith VR, Chown SL, Ansorge IJ. 2013. South African research in the Southern Ocean: new opportunities and challenges. South African Journal of Science, 109(3/4): 1-4.
  32. Short JR, Dorrington RA. 2012. Membrane targeting of an alpha-like tetravirus replicase is directed by a region within the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase domain. Journal of General Virology, 93: 1706 – 1716. DOI: 10.1099/vir.0.038992-0.
  33. Walmsley TA, Matcher GF, Zhang F, Hill RT, Davies-Coleman MT, Dorrington RA. 2012. Diversity of bacterial communities associated with the Indian Ocean sponge Tsitsikamma favus that contains the bioactive pyrroloiminoquinones, Tsitsikammamine A and B.  Marine Biotechnology, 14(6): 681-691.  DOI: 10.1007/s10126-012-9430-y.
  34. Matcher GF, Dorrington RA, Henninger TO, Froneman PW. 2011. A preliminary study on the microbial diversity in a freshwater-deprived permanently open Eastern Cape estuary, using 16S rRNA pyrosequencing analysis. Water SA, 37(3): 381-389.

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Dorrington RA, Domitrovic T, Jiwaji M. 2021. Tetraviruses of Insects. In: Encyclopedia of Virology, 4th Bamford D, Zuckerman M (Eds). Academic Press: Book ISBN 978-0-1281-4515-9; eBook ISBN 978-0-1281-4516-6. (Publication date: 1st March 2021).
  2. Matcher GF, Froneman PW, RA Dorrington. 2015. Aquatic microbial diversity: a sensitive and robust tool for assessing ecosystem health and functioning. Water Research Commission Report: WRC Report No 2038/1/14. ISBN 978-1-4312-0643-8.
  3. Jiwaji M, Matcher GF, Dorrington RA. 2014. Understanding the unseen majority around us: An overview of microbiological technologies. In: Bioinformatics and Data Analysis in Microbiology. Tastan-Bishop O (Ed). Caister Academic Press: pp 1-23.
  4. Matcher GF, Dorrington RA, Burton SG. 2012. Enzymatic production of enantiospecific amino acids from mono-substituted hydantoin substrates. In: Unnatural Amino Acids: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 794). Pollegioni L, Servi S (Eds). Humana Press: pp 37-54.
  5. Dorrington RA, Gorbalenya AE, Gordon KHJ, Lauber C, Ward VK. 2011. Tetraviridae. In: Virus Taxonomy. King AMQ, Adams MJ, Carstens EB, Lefkowitz EJ (Eds). Elsevier: pp. 1091-1102.
  6. Dorrington RA, Short JR. 2010. The Tetraviruses. In: The Insect Viruses. Johnson K, Asgari S, (Eds). Caister Academic Press: pp 283-305

Patents

  1. Dorrington RA, Vlok M, Mendes A. 2010. A method for producing virus-like particles. ZA200905604.  Granted: 19 December 2012.
  2. Dorrington RA, Burton SG, Hartley CJ. 1999. Novel microorganisms, their use and the production of D-amino acids. ZA99/5981.  PCT/ZA00/00173.

Short Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing a tetravirus virus-like particle containing a nucleic acid molecule, the nucleotide molecules and protein encoded thereby and the tetravirus virus-like particles produced thereby

Short Abstract: The invention deals with the application of a novel microbial isolate in the production of a biocatalyst for the synthesis of optically pure amino acids with value in the fine chemicals industry.

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