The Loss of Adipokine Genes in the Chicken Genome and Implications for Insulin Metabolism

All chromosomes great and small: 10 years on

(2014) Darren Griffin et al.   CHROMOSOME RESEARCH

Discovery and Characterization of the First Genuine Avian Leptin Gene in the Rock Dove (Columba livia)

(2014) Miriam Friedman-Einat et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY

Role of Chicken TL1A on Inflammatory Responses and Partial Characterization of Its Receptor

(2014) T. Takimoto et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Discovery of the Elusive Leptin in Birds: Identification of Several ‘Missing Links’ in the Evolution of Leptin and Its Receptor

(2014) Jeremy W. Prokop et al.   PLoS One

Update on ghrelin biology in birds

(2013) Hiroyuki Kaiya et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Nutritional signals and reproduction

(2013) Joëlle Dupont et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Implications of leptin in neuroendocrine regulation of male reproduction

(2013) David Landry et al.   Reproductive Biology

Leptin and reproductive function

(2012) Gary J. Hausman et al.   BIOCHIMIE

Kisspeptins and the reproductive axis: potential applications to manage reproduction in farm animals

(2012) A. Caraty et al.   DOMESTIC ANIMAL ENDOCRINOLOGY

Characterization of major elements of insulin signaling cascade in chicken adipose tissue: Apparent insulin refractoriness

(2012) Joëlle Dupont et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Proinflammatory Actions of Visfatin/Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase (Nampt) Involve Regulation of Insulin Signaling Pathway and Nampt Enzymatic Activity

(2012) Claire Jacques et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Adipokines, Ghrelin and Obesity-Associated Insulin Resistance in Nondiabetic Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome

(2012) Rocco Barazzoni et al.   Obesity

Kisspeptins and Reproduction: Physiological Roles and Regulatory Mechanisms

(2012) Leonor Pinilla et al.   PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Evolution of Genes Involved in Gamete Interaction: Evidence for Positive Selection, Duplications and Losses in Vertebrates

(2012) Camille Meslin et al.   PLoS One

Visfatin in overweight/obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases: a meta-analysis and systemic review

(2011) Yu-Hung Chang et al.   DIABETES-METABOLISM RESEARCH AND REVIEWS

Molecular coevolution of kisspeptins and their receptors from fish to mammals

(2010) Haet Nim Um et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Genomicus: a database and a browser to study gene synteny in modern and ancestral genomes

(2010) M. Muffato et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Integrative mapping analysis of chicken microchromosome 16 organization

(2010) Romain Solinhac et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Copy number variation, chromosome rearrangement, and their association with recombination during avian evolution

(2010) M. Volker et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation

(2010) Cole Trapnell et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Correlation of the leptin:adiponectin ratio with measures of insulin resistance in non-diabetic individuals

(2009) F. M. Finucane et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Reply to viewpoints by PJ Sharp, IC Dunn, D Waddington and T Boswell [Chicken Leptin: General and Comparative Endocrinology, 158, 2-4 (2008)]

(2009)   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Is there a leptin gene in the chicken genome? Lessons from phylogenetics, bioinformatics and genomics

(2009) Frédérique Pitel et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Yin-Yang Regulation of Adiponectin Signaling by APPL Isoforms in Muscle Cells

(2009) Changhua Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Addition of the microchromosome GGA25 to the chicken genome sequence assembly through radiation hybrid and genetic mapping

(2008) Marine Douaud et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Adipose tissue dysfunction in obesity, diabetes, and vascular diseases

(2008) G. R. Hajer et al.   EUROPEAN HEART JOURNAL

Chicken leptin

(2008) P.J. Sharp et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Insulin signaling in chicken liver and muscle

(2008) J. Dupont et al.   GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Chicken leptin receptor is functional in activating JAK–STATpathway in vitro

(2008) Hiromi Adachi et al.   JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY

Insulin immuno-neutralization in chicken: effects on insulin signaling and gene expression in liver and muscle

(2008) Joëlle Dupont et al.   JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY

Lack of Specificity of Commercially Available Antisera: Better Specifications Needed

(2008) Wisuit Pradidarcheep et al.   JOURNAL OF HISTOCHEMISTRY & CYTOCHEMISTRY

The evolution of the ligand/receptor couple: A long road from comparative endocrinology to comparative genomics

(2008) Gabriel V. Markov et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY

Genome Size Reduction in the Chicken Has Involved Massive Loss of Ancestral Protein-Coding Genes

(2008) A. L. Hughes et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION