Department of Biology

Lawrence I. Gilbert References


Gilbert, L.I. and Rewitz, K.F. (2008) The function and evolution of the Halloween genes:the pathway to the arthropod molting homrone. In "Ecdysone Structure and Function", (ed. G.Smagge), Springer,Berlin  (in press)

Gilbert, L.I. (2008) Drosophila as an inclusive  model for human diseases, growth and development. Mol. Cell. Endocrin.  (in press)

Rewitz, K.F. and Gilbert, L.I. (2008) Daphnia halloween genes that encode cytochrome p450s mediating the synthesis of the arthropod molting hormone: evolutionary implications. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8 :60.

Huang, X., Warren, J.T. and Gilbert, L.I. (2008) New players in the regulation of ecdysteroid biosynthesis. J.Genetics and Genomics 35:1-10.

Rewitz, K.F., O'Connor, M.B. and Gilbert, L.I. (2007) Molecular evolution of the insect halloween family of cytochrome P450s: ph;ylogeny, gene organization and functional conservation. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 37:741-753.

McBrayer, Z., Shimell, M.J., Ono, H., Warren, J.T., Thummel, C., Gilbert, L.I. and O'Connor, M.B. (2007) Prothoracicotropic hormone regulates developmental timing and body size in Drosophila. Developmental Cell 13: 857-871.

Huang, X., Warren, J.T. Gilbert, L.I. and Scott, M.P. (2007) Drosophila Niemann-Pick C2 genes control sterol homeostasis and steroid biosynthesis: a model for human neurodegenerative disease. Development 134:3733-3742.

Ono, H., Rewitz, K.F., Shinoda, T., Rybczynski, R., Warren, J.T., Shimell, M.J., Gilbert L.I. and O'Connor, M.B. (2006) Spook and Spookier code for stage specific comounds of the ecdysone pathway in Diptera. Dev. Bio. 298:555-570.

Gilbert, L. I., Rybczynski, R. and Tobe, S. (1996) The endocrine cascade in insect metamorphosis. In "Metamorphosis: Post-Embryonic Reprogramming of Gene Expression in Insect and Amphibian Cells" (eds L. I. Gilbert, B. Atkinson, and J. Tata) p. 59-107, Academic Press, N.Y.

Rybczynski, R. and Gilbert, L. I. (1995) Prothoracicotropic hormone elicits a rapid, developmentally-specific, synthesis of ß tubulin in an insect endocrine gland. Dev. Biol. 169: 15-28.

Song, Q. and Gilbert, L. I. (1995) Multiple phosphorylation of ribosomal protein S6 and specific protein synthesis are required for prothoracicotropic hormone-stimulated ecdysteroid biosynthesis in the prothoracic glands of Manduca sexta. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 25: 591-602.

Warren, J. T., Rybczynski, R. and Gilbert, L. I. (1995) Stereospecific, mechanism-based, suicide inhibition of a cytochrome P450 involved in ecdysteroid biosynthesis in the prothoracic glands of Manduca sexta. Insect Biochem. Mol. Biol. 25: 679-695.

Henrich, V. C., Szekley, A. A., Kim, S. J., Brown, N. E., Antoniewski, C., Hayden, M. A., Lepesant, J.-A. and Gilbert, L. I. (1994) Expression and function of the ultraspiracle (usp) gene during development of Drosophila melanogaster. Dev. Biol. 165: 38-52.


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