Assessment of food toxicology by Alexander Gosslau

“…A decrease of rodent animal testing with its limitations of high costs, low throughput readouts, inconsistent responses, ethical issues and concerns of extrapolability to humans have led to an increased use of these but also alternative lower hierarchy surrogate animal models (e.g. Drosophila melanogaster; Caenorhabditis elegans or Danio rerio) and efforts to integrate organotypic systems and stem cell-based assays. …”
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P-Body Components, microRNA Regulation, and Synaptic Plasticity by Jens Hillebrand, Scott A. Barbee, Mani Ramaswami

“…In addition, it provides new data to show that Me31B is present on and regulates formation of P-bodies in the Drosophila wing disc, where it has a general role in the regulation of miRNA function. …”
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Dynamics and regulatory roles of RNA m6A methylation in unbalanced genomes by Shuai Zhang, Ruixue Wang, Kun Luo, Shipeng Gu, Xinyu Liu, Junhan Wang, Ludan Zhang, Lin Sun

“…RNA m6A modification in Drosophila has proven to be involved in sex determination regulated by Sxl and may affect X chromosome expression through the MSL complex. …”
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Harnessing Insect Chemosensory and Mechanosensory Receptors Involved in Feeding for Precision Pest Management by Tingwei Mi, Chengwang Sheng, Cassidy Kylene Lee, Peter Nguyen, Yali V. Zhang

“…This review highlights recent advancements in research on feeding-related sensory receptors, covering a wide range of insect species, from the model organism <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> to agricultural and human pests. …”
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RNA helicase MOV10 suppresses fear memory and dendritic arborization and regulates microtubule dynamics in hippocampal neurons by Temirlan Shilikbay, Aatiqa Nawaz, Megan Doon, Stephanie Ceman

“…Cultured hippocampal neurons have elongated distal dendrites, a reported feature of augmin/HAUS over-expression in Drosophila da sensory neurons. In mitotic spindle formation, HAUS is antagonized by the microtubule bundling protein NUMA1. …”
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Comparative analysis of grape berry microbiota uncovers sour rot associates from a Maryland vineyard. by Blaise Jumbam, Magaly Toro, Mengjun Hu

“…Previous studies suggest that damaged fruit skin and feeding insects like Drosophila spp. are required for the disease to occur. …”
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A two-level staging system for the embryonic morphogenesis of the Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly) Ceratitis capitata. by Frederic Strobl, Alexander Schmitz, Marc F Schetelig, Ernst H K Stelzer

“…While the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has long been the primary insect model organism for understanding molecular genetics and embryonic development, the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata, also known as medfly, presents a promising complementary model for studying developmental biology. …”
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VAPB/ALS8 MSP ligands regulate striated muscle energy metabolism critical for adult survival in caenorhabditis elegans. by Sung Min Han, Hajer El Oussini, Jelena Scekic-Zahirovic, Jack Vibbert, Pauline Cottee, Jeevan K Prasain, Hugo J Bellen, Luc Dupuis, Michael A Miller

“…We have shown that C. elegans and Drosophila neurons secrete a cleavage product of VAPB, the N-terminal major sperm protein domain (vMSP). …”
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Ruvbl1 silencing affects reproduction of the corn planthopper, Peregrinus maidis. by César A D Xavier, Clara Tyson, Anna E Whitfield

“…While its role has been well established in model organisms including vertebrates and invertebrates (e.g. mice, Xenopus and Drosophila), putative functions of Ruvbl1 in non-model insect pests have not been addressed. …”
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The Cul3 ubiquitin ligase engages Insomniac as an adaptor to impact sleep and synaptic homeostasis. by Qiuling Li, Kayla Y Lim, Raad Altawell, Faith Verderose, Xiling Li, Wanying Dong, Joshua Martinez, Dion Dickman, Nicholas Stavropoulos

“…Here we implicate Insomniac (Inc), a conserved protein required for normal sleep and synaptic homeostasis in Drosophila, as a Cul3 adaptor. Inc binds Cul3 in vivo, and mutations within the N-terminal BTB domain of Inc that weaken Inc-Cul3 associations impair Inc activity, suggesting that Inc function requires binding to the Cul3 complex. …”
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Enhancing Biocide Safety of Milk Using Biosensors Based on Cholinesterase Inhibition by Lynn Mouawad, Georges Istamboulie, Gaëlle Catanante, Thierry Noguer

“…Acetylcholinesterase from <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> (DM AChE) and butyrylcholinesterase from horse serum (BChE) were immobilized by entrapment in a photocrosslinkable polymer on the surface of carbon screen-printed electrodes. …”
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Sensory quiescence induces a cell-non-autonomous integrated stress response curbed by condensate formation of the ATF4 and XRP1 effectors by Shashank Shekhar, Charles Tracy, Peter V. Lidsky, Raul Andino, Katherine J. Wert, Helmut Krämer

“…Abstract Sensory disabilities have been identified as significant risk factors for dementia but underlying molecular mechanisms are unknown. In different Drosophila models with loss of sensory input, we observe non-autonomous induction of the integrated stress response (ISR) deep in the brain, as indicated by eIF2αS50 phosphorylation-dependent elevated levels of the ISR effectors ATF4 and XRP1. …”
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Food hardness preference reveals multisensory contributions of fly larval gustatory organs in behaviour and physiology. by Nikita Komarov, Cornelia Fritsch, G Larisa Maier, Johannes Bues, Marjan Biočanin, Clarisse Brunet Avalos, Andrea Dodero, Jae Young Kwon, Bart Deplancke, Simon G Sprecher

“…While it was assumed that sensory neurons respond to one or few closely related stimuli, more recent findings challenge this notion and support evidence that certain sensory neurons are more broadly tuned. In the Drosophila taste system, gustatory neurons respond to cues of opposing hedonic valence or to olfactory cues. …”
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Heterogeneities in infection outcomes across species: sex and tissue differences in virus susceptibility by Roberts, Katherine E, Longdon, Ben

“…Here, we first take a comparative approach to examine sex differences in susceptibility across 31 species of Drosophilidae infected with Drosophila C Virus (DCV). We found a strong positive inter-specific correlation in viral load between males and females, with a close to 1:1 relationship, suggesting that susceptibility to DCV across species is not sex specific. …”
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Insulin signaling regulates R2 retrotransposon expression to orchestrate transgenerational rDNA copy number maintenance by Jonathan O. Nelson, Alyssa Slicko, Amelie A. Raz, Yukiko M. Yamashita

“…Germline rDNA CN expansion is best understood in Drosophila melanogaster, which relies on unequal sister chromatid exchange (USCE) initiated by DNA breaks at rDNA. …”
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Regulatory logic of endogenous RNAi in silencing de novo genomic conflicts. by Jeffrey Vedanayagam, Ching-Jung Lin, Ranjith Papareddy, Michael Nodine, Alex S Flynt, Jiayu Wen, Eric C Lai

“…Although the biological utilities of endogenous RNAi (endo-RNAi) have been largely elusive, recent studies reveal its critical role in the non-model fruitfly Drosophila simulans to suppress selfish genes, whose unchecked activities can severely impair spermatogenesis. …”
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Fear of mating out (FOMO): voyeurism does not increase mating propensity in fruit flies by Regina Vega-Trejo, Krish Sanghvi, Biliana Todorova, Irem Sepil, Eleanor Bath

“…As such, whether conspecifics are copulating or not could inform ‘observers’ about the availability of mates, or even stimulate observers to mate themselves. Using Drosophila melanogaster, we tested whether exposure to the visual cue of a mating pair would increase the mating propensity of an observer pair (i.e., voyeur). …”
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Using insecticidal compounds to elucidate the potential role of neurotransmitters in Lepidoptera pupal ecdysis by Niranjana Krishnan, Cassandra Gorman, Jillian Stewart, Steven Bradbury, Russell Jurenka

“…An analysis of ecdysis movements showed that neonicotinoid-treated lepidopteran larvae exhibited similar disruptions as observed in CCAP neuron-knockout Drosophila larvae. Based on findings to date, we hypothesize that acetylcholine regulates lepidopteran pupal ecdysis directly through CCAP neurons or by activating their upstream efferent inhibitory (likely GABA-releasing) neurons. …”
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Spherical harmonics texture extraction for versatile analysis of biological objects. by Oane Gros, Josiah B Passmore, Noa O Borst, Dominik Kutra, Wilco Nijenhuis, Timothy Fuqua, Lukas C Kapitein, Justin M Crocker, Anna Kreshuk, Simone Köhler

“…The Spherical Texture extraction characterizes biologically defined gene expression patterns in Drosophila melanogaster embryos, giving a quantitative read-out for pattern formation. …”
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Characterization of Nora Virus Structural Proteins via Western Blot Analysis by Brad L. Ericson, Darby J. Carlson, Kimberly A. Carlson

“…To determine the polypeptide composition of Nora virus virions, polypeptides from purified virus were compared to polypeptides detected in Nora virus infected Drosophila melanogaster. Nora virus was purified from infected flies and used to challenge mice for the production of antisera. …”
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