Wing

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A switch in the control of growth of the wing imaginal disks of Manduca sexta. 
  • Bombyxin is a growth factor for wing imaginal disks in Lepidoptera. 
  • Cautery-induced colour patterns in Precis coenia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). 
  • Colour pattern modification by coldshock in Lepidoptera. 
  • Context-dependent categorical perception in a songbird. 
  • Contrasting Roles of Transcription Factors Spineless and EcR in the Highly Dynamic Chromatin Landscape of Butterfly Wing Metamorphosis. 
  • Cryptic variation in butterfly eyespot development: the importance of sample size in gene expression studies 
  • Cytokinesis proteins Tum and Pav have a nuclear role in Wnt regulation. 
  • Development of fast singing muscles in a katydid. 
  • Development of polyploidy of scale-building cells in the wings of Manduca sexta. 
  • Developmental constraints on the evolution of wing-body allometry in Manduca sexta. 
  • Developmental evolution: how beetles evolved their shields. 
  • Developmental mechanisms of body size and wing-body scaling in insects. 
  • Differential requirements for segment polarity genes in wingless signaling. 
  • Diverse nanostructures underlie thin ultra-black scales in butterflies. 
  • Drosophila as a model for the identification of genes causing adult human heart disease. 
  • Drosophila betaHeavy-spectrin is essential for development and contributes to specific cell fates in the eye. 
  • Drosophila mutants suggest a strong drive toward complexity in evolution 
  • Elements of butterfly wing patterns. 
  • Evolution of the gene network underlying wing polyphenism in ants. 
  • Evolution: spot on (and off). 
  • Exploring the Role of Insulin Signaling in Relative Growth: A Case Study on Wing-Body Scaling in Lepidoptera. 
  • Fidelity in planar cell polarity signalling. 
  • Focus on butterfly eyespot development. 
  • Genes on the wing. 
  • Genetic DISC-section of regeneration in Drosophila. 
  • Gliding flight: drag and torque of a hawk and a falcon with straight and turned heads, and a lower value for the parasite drag coefficient. 
  • Growth and patterning are evolutionarily dissociated in the vestigial wing discs of workers of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta. 
  • Hormonal control of growth in the wing imaginal disks of Junonia coenia: the relative contributions of insulin and ecdysone. 
  • Independent development of homologous pattern elements in the wing patterns of butterflies. 
  • Inflected wings in flight: Uniform flow of stresses makes strong and light wings for stable flight. 
  • Linearity Versus nonlinearity of offspring-parent regression: an experimental study of Drosophila melanogaster. 
  • Manipulation of insulin signaling phenocopies evolution of a host-associated polyphenism. 
  • Measurement of erythrocyte velocity by use of a periodic differential detector. 
  • Morphogenesis: multitalented GTPases seeking new jobs. 
  • Morphological Murals: The Scaling and Allometry of Butterfly Wing Patterns. 
  • Multi-allelic major effect genes interact with minor effect QTLs to control adaptive color pattern variation in Heliconius erato. 
  • Nonmuscle myosin II is required for cell proliferation, cell sheet adhesion and wing hair morphology during wing morphogenesis. 
  • Ontogeny of the color pattern on the wings of Precis coenia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). 
  • Pattern formation on lepidopteran wings: determination of an eyespot. 
  • Pigmentation pattern formation in butterflies: experiments and models. 
  • Polymorphic mimicry in Papilio dardanus: mosaic dominance, big effects, and origins. 
  • RacGap50C negatively regulates wingless pathway activity during Drosophila embryonic development. 
  • Ras promotes cell survival by antagonizing both JNK and Hid signals in the Drosophila eye. 
  • SOCS36E, a novel Drosophila SOCS protein, suppresses JAK/STAT and EGF-R signalling in the imaginal wing disc. 
  • Self-cleaning of superhydrophobic surfaces by self-propelled jumping condensate. 
  • Sprinter: a novel transmembrane protein required for Wg secretion and signaling. 
  • Structural and functional development of cricket ring muscles. 
  • The cellular and physiological mechanism of wing-body scaling in Manduca sexta. 
  • The control of growth and differentiation of the wing imaginal disks of Manduca sexta. 
  • The development of shape. Modular control of growth in the lepidopteran forewing. 
  • The development of wing shape in Lepidoptera: mitotic density, not orientation, is the primary determinant of shape. 
  • The multistep morphing of beetle horns. 
  • The roles of growth regulation and appendage patterning genes in the morphogenesis of treehopper pronota. 
  • The segment polarity gene porcupine encodes a putative multitransmembrane protein involved in Wingless processing. 
  • Transcriptome analysis reveals novel patterning and pigmentation genes underlying Heliconius butterfly wing pattern variation. 
  • Two insulin receptors determine alternative wing morphs in planthoppers. 
  • Ultrabithorax function in butterfly wings and the evolution of insect wing patterns. 
  • Wing morphogenesis in Lepidoptera. 
  • optix Drives the Repeated Convergent Evolution of Butterfly Wing Pattern Mimicry 
  • speck, First Identified in Drosophila melanogaster in 1910, Is Encoded by the Arylalkalamine N-Acetyltransferase (AANAT1) Gene. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bejsovec, Amy, Associate Professor of Biology, Biology
  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology