Dramatic Expansion and Developmental Expression Diversification of the Methuselah Gene Family During Recent Drosophila Evolution

How different are recently diverged species? More than 150 phenotypic differences have been reported for theD. melanogasterspecies subgroup.

(2014) Virginie Orgogozo et al.   FLY

Large-scale RNAi screen of G protein-coupled receptors involved in larval growth, molting and metamorphosis in the red flour beetle

(2011) Hua Bai et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Hematopoiesis at the onset of metamorphosis: terminal differentiation and dissociation of the Drosophila lymph gland

(2011) Melina Grigorian et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life

(2011) B. M. Wiegmann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Drosophila genes CG14593 and CG30106 code for G-protein-coupled receptors specifically activated by the neuropeptides CCHamide-1 and CCHamide-2

(2010) Karina K. Hansen et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

The serendipitous origin of chordate secretin peptide family members

(2010) João CR Cardoso et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Hematopoietic progenitors and hemocyte lineages in the Drosophila lymph gland

(2010) Joanna Krzemien et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Drosophila melanogaster transcriptome by paired-end RNA sequencing

(2010) B. Daines et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The G protein-coupled receptors in the silkworm, Bombyx mori

(2010) Yi Fan et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Evolution of GPCR: Change and continuity

(2010) Rainer Strotmann et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Phenotypic robustness conferred by apparently redundant transcriptional enhancers

(2010) Nicolás Frankel et al.   NATURE

The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster

(2010) Brenton R. Graveley et al.   NATURE

In the Absence of Frazzled Over-Expression of Abelson Tyrosine Kinase Disrupts Commissure Formation and Causes Axons to Leave the Embryonic CNS

(2010) Joy N. Dorsten et al.   PLoS One

New Genes in Drosophila Quickly Become Essential

(2010) S. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Mobyle: a new full web bioinformatics framework

(2009) B. Neron et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Single-copy nuclear genes resolve the phylogeny of the holometabolous insects

(2009) Brian M Wiegmann et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Latrophilin Signaling Links Anterior-Posterior Tissue Polarity and Oriented Cell Divisions in the C. elegans Embryo

(2009) Tobias Langenhan et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

The structure and function of G-protein-coupled receptors

(2009) Daniel M. Rosenbaum et al.   NATURE

TheDrosophilaG protein-coupled receptor, Methuselah, exhibits a promiscuous response to peptides

(2009) William W. Ja et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

The atypical cadherin Flamingo is required for sensory axon advance beyond intermediate target cells

(2008) Martin C. Steinel et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Functional Characterization of Three G Protein-coupled Receptors for Pigment Dispersing Factors inCaenorhabditis elegans

(2008) Tom Janssen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The Secretin GPCRs Descended from the Family of Adhesion GPCRs

(2008) K. J. V. Nordstrom et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Functional Significance of Allelic Variation at methuselah, an Aging Gene in Drosophila

(2008) Annalise B. Paaby et al.   PLoS One

Cloning and identification of an oxytocin/vasopressin-like receptor and its ligand from insects

(2008) E. Stafflinger et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A genome-wide inventory of neurohormone GPCRs in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

(2007) Frank Hauser et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY