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Nutritional status affects 20-hydroxyecdysone concentration and progression of oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster by Terashima, J, Takaki, K, Sakurai, S, Bownes, M

“…Drosophila egg production depends upon the nutritional available to females. When food is in short supply, oogenesis is arrested and apoptosis of the nurse…”
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A microarray analysis of genes involved in relating egg production to nutritional intake in Drosophila melanogaster by Terashima, J, Bownes, M

“…Egg chambers of Drosophila are reabsorbed under conditions of nutritional shortage by inducing apoptosis at stages 8 and 9, midway through oogenesis…”
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E75A and E75B have opposite effects on the apoptosis/development choice of the Drosophila egg chamber by Terashima, J, Bownes, M

“…The number of Drosophila egg chambers is controlled by the nutritional status of the female. There is a developmental checkpoint at stage 8, which is…”
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Effects of octopamine on reproduction, juvenile hormone metabolism, dopamine, and 20-hydroxyecdysone contents in Drosophila by Gruntenko, N.E., Karpova, E.K., Alekseev, A.A., Chentsova, N.A., Bogomolova, E.V., Bownes, M., Rauschenbach, I. Yu

“…The effect of an experimentally increased octopamine content (feeding flies with OA) on the levels of juvenile hormone (JH) degradation, dopamine (DA), and…”
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Two signalling pathways specify localised expression of the Broad-Complex in Drosophila eggshell patterning and morphogenesis by Deng, W M, Bownes, M

“…The Drosophila eggshell, which has a pair of chorionic appendages (dorsal appendages) located asymmetrically along both the anterior/posterior and…”
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Effects of dopamine on juvenile hormone metabolism and fitness in Drosophila virilis by Gruntenko, N.E., Karpova, E.K., Alekseev, A.A., Chentsova, N.A., Saprykina, Z.V., Bownes, M., Rauschenbach, I.Yu

“…The effects of dopamine (DA) on juvenile hormone (JH) metabolism and fitness (estimated as fecundity and viability levels under heat stress (38 °C)) in…”
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Expression of the Genes Coding for Vitellogenin (Yolk Protein) by Bownes, M

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Heat stress affects oogenesis differently in wild-type Drosophila virilis and a mutant with altered juvenile hormone and 20-hydroxyecdysone levels by Gruntenko, N. E., Bownes, M., Terashima, J., Sukhanova, M. Zh, Raushenbach, I. Yu

“…The link between reproduction and environmental signals is poorly understood at the physiological, genetic and molecular levels. We describe a mutant strain of…”
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Why is there sequence similarity between insect yolk proteins and vertebrate lipases? by Bownes, M

“…The major proteins stored in the yolk of developing oocytes are thought to provide a nutritional store for utilization during embryogenesis. They seem to fall…”
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Stress response in a juvenile hormone-deficient Drosophila melanogaster mutant apterous by Gruntenko, N.E, Chentsova, N.A, Andreenkova, E.V, Bownes, M, Segal, D, Adonyeva, N.V, Rauschenbach, I.Y

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The Dstpk61 locus of Drosophila produces multiple transcripts and protein isoforms, suggesting it is involved in multiple signalling pathways by Clyde, D, Bownes, M

“…The Drosophila gene Dstpk61 encodes a serine threonine protein kinase homologous to human phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase (PDK1), and also has…”
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The Mirror transcription factor links signalling pathways in Drosophila oogenesis by Zhao, D, Woolner, S, Bownes, M

“…Many genetic cascades are conserved in evolution, yet they trigger different responses and hence determine different cell fates at specific times and positions…”
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The role of juvenile hormone in the control of reproductive function in Drosophila virilis under nutritional stress by Raushenbach, I.Yu, Gruntenko, N.E, Bownes, M, Adonieva, N.V, Terashima, J, Karpova, E.K, Faddeeva, N.V, Chentsova, N.A

“…To investigate the role of juvenile hormone (JH) in the control of Drosophila reproduction under stress, JH degradation and reproduction were studied under…”
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Expression of fringe is down regulated by Gurken/Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor signalling and is required for the morphogenesis of ovarian follicle cells by Zhao, D, Clyde, D, Bownes, M

“…Signalling by the Gurken/Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (Grk/EGFR) pathway is involved in epithelial cell fate decision, morphogenesis and axis establishment…”
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The developmental consequences of RNA processing. Introduction by Bownes, M

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Drosophila yolk protein produced in E. coli is accumulated by mosquito ovaries by Bownes, M., Hurd, H., Büsgen, T., Servay, D., Alvis, S., Popovic, B., Bruce, S., Burns, I., Rothwell, K., Walkinshaw, Malcolm

“…Despite similar functions, the yolk proteins of the higher dipteran flies and the vitellogenins found in other insects are unrelated at the sequence level and…”
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Stress response in a juvenile hormone-deficient Drosophila melanogaster mutant apterous56f by Gruntenko, N. E., Chentsova, N. A., Andreenkova, E. V., Bownes, M., Segal, D., Adonyeva, N. V., Rauschenbach, I. Yu

“…The apterous56f (ap56f) mutation leads to increases in juvenile hormone (JH) degradation levels and JH‐esterase makes a greater contribution to the increase…”
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Evidence that insect embryogenesis is regulated by ecdysteroids released from yolk proteins by Bownes, M, Shirras, A, Blair, M, Collins, J, Coulson, A

“…That the yolk proteins (YPs), or vitellins, stored in the oocytes of insects are a nutritional store for subsequent embryogenesis has long been assumed…”
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Cloning and characterization of three Musca domestica yolk protein genes by White, N.M, Bownes, M

“…The yolk protein (yp) genes encode the major nutritional polypeptides deposited in developing oocytes for subsequent utilization during embryogenesis, and…”
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