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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mary Bownes OBE FRSE FRES FRSB is an English molecular and developmental biologist; she is Vice Principal Community Engagement and Emerita Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Edinburgh. She has taught genetics, molecular biology and developmental biology at all levels and was previously Head of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University from 1998 to 2001.
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- 3-Phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1 (PDK1): structural and functional homology with the Drosophila DSTPK61 kinase (1997) (735)
- Staging the metamorphosis of Drosophila melanogaster. (1981) (539)
- Control of oocyte maturation in sexually mature Drosophila females. (1999) (383)
- Expression of the Genes Coding for Vitellogenin (Yolk Protein) (1986) (214)
- The roles of juvenile hormone, ecdysone and the ovary in the control of Drosophila vitellogenesis (1989) (181)
- Two signalling pathways specify localised expression of the Broad-Complex in Drosophila eggshell patterning and morphogenesis. (1997) (181)
- A photographic study of development in the living embryo of Drosophila melanogaster. (1975) (150)
- Mating and sex peptide stimulate the accumulation of yolk in oocytes of Drosophila melanogaster. (1997) (149)
- Nutritional status affects 20-hydroxyecdysone concentration and progression of oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. (2005) (144)
- Evidence that insect embryogenesis is regulated by ecdysteroids released from yolk proteins. (1988) (132)
- Accumulation and degradation of three major yolk proteins in Drosophila melanogaster. (1977) (130)
- Translating Available Food Into the Number of Eggs Laid by Drosophila melanogaster (2004) (124)
- Sexual phenotype and vitellogenin synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster. (1980) (120)
- The titre of juvenile hormone during the pupal and adult stages of the life cycle of Drosophila melanogaster. (1987) (112)
- Hormonal and Genetic Regulation of Vitellogenesis in Drosophila (1982) (107)
- Class VI unconventional myosin is required for spermatogenesis in Drosophila. (1999) (107)
- The function of the broad-complex during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis. (1999) (102)
- Locomotion defects, together with Pins, regulates heterotrimeric G-protein signaling during Drosophila neuroblast asymmetric divisions. (2005) (95)
- Analysis of the yolk proteins in Drosophila melanogaster (1978) (88)
- Ecdysteroids in adult males and females of Drosophila melanogaster (1984) (79)
- The regulation of the yolk protein genes, a family of sex differentiation genes in Drosophila melanogaster (1994) (78)
- Heat stress affects oogenesis differently in wild‐type Drosophila virilis and a mutant with altered juvenile hormone and 20‐hydroxyecdysone levels (2003) (77)
- Ovarian and fat-body vitellogenin synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster. (2005) (76)
- The effects of a sugar diet and hormones on the expression of the Drosophila yolk-protein genes (1986) (73)
- Dietary components modulate yolk protein gene transcription in Drosophila melanogaster. (1988) (69)
- Why is there sequence similarity between insect yolk proteins and vertebrate lipases? (1992) (68)
- The role of 20-hydroxy-ecdysone in yolk-polypeptide synthesis by male and female fat bodies of Drosophila melanogaster (1982) (64)
- Patterning and morphogenesis of the follicle cell epithelium during Drosophila oogenesis. (1998) (60)
- Effects of dopamine on juvenile hormone metabolism and fitness in Drosophila virilis. (2005) (60)
- The developmental consequences of alternate splicing in sex determination and differentiation in Drosophila. (1995) (59)
- E75A and E75B have opposite effects on the apoptosis/development choice of the Drosophila egg chamber (2006) (59)
- Stress response in a juvenile hormone‐deficient Drosophila melanogaster mutant apterous56f (2003) (58)
- A microarray analysis of genes involved in relating egg production to nutritional intake in Drosophila melanogaster (2005) (58)
- Sex Determination in Drosophila melanogaster (1990) (53)
- Effects of octopamine on reproduction, juvenile hormone metabolism, dopamine, and 20-hydroxyecdysone contents in Drosophila. (2007) (52)
- A targeted gene silencing technique shows that Drosophila myosin VI is required for egg chamber and imaginal disc morphogenesis. (1999) (52)
- The nucleotide sequence of the gene coding for Drosophila melanogaster yolk protein 3. (1987) (50)
- 20-Hydroxyecdysone, but not juvenile hormone, regulation of yolk protein gene expression can be mapped to cis-acting DNA sequences. (1996) (49)
- Dopamine and octopamine regulate 20-hydroxyecdysone level in vivo in Drosophila. (2007) (48)
- Transfer of molecules from ejaculate to females in Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila pseudoobscura (1987) (46)
- 20-hydroxyecdysone stimulates tissue-specific yolk-protein gene transcription in both male and female Drosophila. (1983) (45)
- Identification and phylogenetic analysis of Drosophila melanogaster myosins. (2002) (44)
- The role of juvenile hormone in the control of reproductive function in Drosophila virilis under nutritional stress. (2004) (44)
- Myosin VI plays a role in cell–cell adhesion during epithelial morphogenesis (2004) (44)
- The use of yolk protein variations in Drosophila species to analyse the control of vitellogenesis. (1980) (41)
- Synthesis of yolk proteins in Drosophila melanogaster (1978) (39)
- The use of an inhibitor of protein synthesis to investigate the roles of ecdysteroids and sex-determination genes on the expression of the genes encoding the Drosophila yolk proteins. (1987) (39)
- The Mirror transcription factor links signalling pathways in Drosophila oogenesis (2000) (38)
- The role of the ovary and nutritional signals in the regulation of fat body yolk protein gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster (1990) (36)
- Regulation of vitellogenesis in Drosophila (1993) (36)
- Specificity and localization of lipolytic activity in adult Drosophila melanogaster. (1994) (35)
- Embryonic defects in Drosophila eggs after partial u.v. irradiation at different wavelengths. (1974) (35)
- cricklet: A locus regulating a number of adult functions of Drosophila melanogaster. (1989) (35)
- Expression of fringe is down regulated by Gurken/Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor signalling and is required for the morphogenesis of ovarian follicle cells. (2000) (35)
- Cloning and analysis of expression of a ubiquitin carboxyl terminal hydrolase expressed during oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. (1993) (35)
- Ecdysteroid titers during Drosophila metamorphosis (1988) (34)
- Experimental manipulations of early Drosophila embryos. I. Adult and embryonic defects resulting from microcautery at nuclear multiplication and blastoderm stages. (1974) (34)
- Genetic analysis of vitellogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: the identification of a temperature-sensitive mutation affecting one of the yolk proteins. (1978) (32)
- Blood vessel/epicardial substance (bves) expression, essential for embryonic development, is down regulated by Grk/EFGR signalling. (2007) (30)
- Adult deficiencies and duplications of head and thoracic structures resulting from microcautery of blastoderm stage Drosophila embryos. (1975) (29)
- Three genes for three yolk proteins in Drosophila melanogaster (1979) (28)
- Ultrastructural analysis of Drosophila ovarian follicles differing in yolk polypeptide (yps) composition. (1993) (28)
- Preferential insertion of P elements into genes expressed in the germ-line ofDrosophila melanogaster (1990) (25)
- Sex determining genes and vitellogenin synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster (2004) (25)
- Differential control of yolk protein gene expression in fat bodies and gonads by the sex‐determining gene tra‐2 of Drosophila. (1990) (25)
- Regulative Properties of Wing Discs from the Vestigial Mutant of Drosophila melanogaster (1981) (24)
- Ovarian yolk-protein synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster (1982) (24)
- Mouse staufen genes are expressed in germ cells during oogenesis and spermatogenesis. (2000) (24)
- Experimental manipulations of early Drosophila embryos. II. Adult and embryonic defects resulting from the removal of blastoderm cells by pricking. (1974) (23)
- Cloning and characterization of three Musca domestica yolk protein genes (1997) (23)
- The regulation of yp3 expression in the Drosophila melanogaster fat body (2003) (23)
- Mutant yolk proteins lead to female sterility in Drosophila. (1992) (21)
- The Drosophila RGS protein Loco is required for dorsal/ventral axis formation of the egg and embryo, and nurse cell dumping (2001) (20)
- Genetically modified yolk proteins precipitate in the adult Drosophila fat body (1991) (20)
- Pleiotropic effects of the ‘ecdysoneless-1’ mutation of Drosophila melanogaster (1983) (20)
- Egg production and fertility in Drosophila depend upon the number of yolk-protein gene copies (1991) (19)
- Two independent cis-acting elements regulate the sex- and tissue-specific expression of yp3 in Drosophila melanogaster. (1995) (18)
- Expression of the yolk-protein genes in the mutant doublesex dominant (dsxD) of Drosophila melanogaster. (1983) (18)
- Developmental effects of exposing Drosophila embryos to ether vapour. (1977) (18)
- Pattern regulation in fragments of Drosophila wing discs which show variable wound healing. (1985) (17)
- Misexpression of argos, an inhibitor of EGFR signaling in oogenesis, leads to the production of bicephalic, ventralized, and lateralized Drosophila melanogaster eggs. (1999) (17)
- Larval and adult abdominal defects resulting from microcautery of blastoderm staged Drosophila embryos. (1976) (17)
- Identification of an essential gene encoding a class-V unconventional myosin in Drosophila melanogaster. (1998) (17)
- Is regeneration inDrosophila the result of epimorphic regulation? (1980) (16)
- Analysis of P[gal4] insertion lines of Drosophila melanogaster as a route to identifying genes important in the follicle cells during oogenesis. (1997) (16)
- Nutritional response in aDrosophila yolk protein gene promoter (1995) (16)
- Conservation and divergence in the control of yolk protein genes in dipteran insects (1997) (15)
- Yolk protein induction in males of several Drosophila species (1986) (15)
- The sequence and expression pattern of the Calliphora erythrocephala yolk protein A and B genes (1994) (14)
- Acquisition of differentiative capacity in imaginal wing discs of Drosophila melanogaster. (1979) (13)
- The RNA product of the Doc retrotransposon is localized on the Drosophila oocyte cytoskeleton (1998) (12)
- The Dstpk61 locus of Drosophila produces multiple transcripts and protein isoforms, suggesting it is involved in multiple signalling pathways. (2000) (12)
- Mutant fs(1) 1163 of Drosophila melanogaster alters yolk protein secretion from the fat body (1980) (12)
- Reduced stability of RNA coding for yolk polypeptide 3 in Drosophila melanogaster ovary. (1986) (11)
- Metabolism of 20-hydroxyecdysone in adult Drosophila melanogaster (1985) (11)
- The development of Drosophila embryos after partial u.v. irradiation. (1976) (11)
- Drosophila yolk protein produced in E. coli is accumulated by mosquito ovaries (2002) (11)
- The regulation of yolk protein gene expression in Drosophila melanogaster. (1983) (11)
- Cis-regulatory sequences leading to female-specific expression of yolk protein genes 1 and 2 in the fat body of Drosophila melanogaster (1993) (10)
- A testis-specifically expressed gene is embedded within a cluster of maternally expressed genes at 89B in Drosophila melanogaster (1998) (10)
- The yolk proteins and their genes in Drosophila. (1990) (9)
- Defective development after puncturing the periplasm of nuclear multiplication stage Drosophila embryos. (1976) (9)
- Capillary electrophoresis assay for ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolases with chemically synthesized ubiquitin-valine as substrate. (1997) (9)
- The expression of histone genes during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis (1998) (9)
- Wound healing and regeneration in the imaginal wing disc ofDrosophila (1981) (9)
- Interactions between germ cells and somatic cells in Drosophila melanogaster (1994) (8)
- Developmental analysis of the tumorous head mutation in Drosophila melanogaster. (1978) (8)
- Sex-specific transcripts of the Dstpk61 serine/threonine kinase gene in Drosophila melanogaster. (1999) (8)
- Abnormal oogenesis and embryogenesis resulting from centrifuging Drosophila melanogaster females. (1977) (7)
- Separate DNA sequences are required for normal female and ecdysone-induced male expression of Drosophila melanogaster yolk protein 1 (1987) (7)
- The expression pattern and cellular localisation of Myosin VI during the Drosophila melanogaster life cycle. (2007) (6)
- A yolk protein mutant leads to defects in the secretion machinery of Drosophila melanogaster. (1999) (6)
- Ecdysteroid Action in Insect Reproduction (2003) (5)
- Developmental effects of X-irradiation of early Drosophila embryos. (1977) (5)
- Tumorous head is a maternal-effect homoeotic mutant of Drosophila melanogaster (1978) (5)
- Analysis of vestigialW (νgW): a mutation causing homoeosis of haltere to wing and posterior wing duplications in Drosophila melanogaster (1981) (5)
- Identification and comparisons of the yolk polypeptides and the genes which code for them in D. melanogaster sibling species (1986) (5)
- Characterization, molecular cloning and sequencing of YP3s1, a fertile yolk protein 3 mutant in Drosophila (1991) (5)
- Ecdysteroid Titers During the Stages of Drosophila Metamorphosis (1982) (5)
- Theraspberry locus encodesDrosophila inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase (1995) (5)
- The specificity of yolk protein uptake in cyclorrhaphan diptera is conserved through evolution (1992) (4)
- Identification of a female-sterile mutation affecting yolk protein 2 in Drosophila melanogaster (1987) (4)
- The RGS gene loco is essential for male reproductive system differentiation in Drosophila melanogaster (2008) (4)
- A putative sodium-dependent inorganic phosphate co-transporter from Drosophila melanogaster (2000) (4)
- The temporal and spatial expression pattern of myosin Va, Vb and VI in the mouse ovary. (2006) (4)
- The regulation of expression of the genes coding for the yolk-proteins in Drosophila (1985) (4)
- Drosophila nuclei replicate in Xenopus eggs. (1980) (4)
- emc has a role in dorsal appendage fate formation in Drosophila oogenesis (2005) (4)
- Daughters from daughterless mothers — Rescuing a female-lethal maternal effect by cytoplasmic transplantation inDrosophila embryos (1977) (3)
- The Biology of Mosquitoes , Vol. 1: Development, Nutrition and Reproduction . By A. N. Clements. Chapman & Hall. 1992. 509 pages. Price £69.00. ISBN 0 412 40180 0. (1993) (3)
- Amplification of chloroplast DNA using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR): a practical activity for secondary school students (2006) (3)
- Sequence analysis of a yolk protein secretion mutant of Drosophila melanogaster (1986) (2)
- Yolk-polypeptide synthesis and uptake in ovaries of the Apterous4 mutant of Drosophila melanogaster (1982) (2)
- Ecdysteroids and Juvenile Hormone Control the Early and Late Stages of Oogenesis, Respectively, during Stress in Drosophila (2003) (2)
- The metabolism of 20 hydroxyecdysone in adult male drosophila (1984) (1)
- Sequence and expression of a Drosophila melanogaster cDNA encoding a putative ribosomal protein. (1993) (1)
- Investigation of cis-acting sequences regulating expression of the gene encoding yolk protein 3 in Drosophila melanogaster (1991) (1)
- Ecdysone: from metabolism to regulation of gene expression. Papers from the Seventh Ecdysone Workshop, Edinburgh, UK, 31 March-3 April 1985. (1986) (1)
- Characterisation of a new tumorous-head mutant of Drosophila melanogaster (2004) (1)
- Comparative aspects of oogenesis (2003) (1)
- Ovogenesis under nutritional stress in Drosophila. (2005) (0)
- The Triumph of the Embryo . By Lewis Wolpert. Oxford University Press. 1991. 211 pages. £14.95. ISBN 0 19 854243 7. (1992) (0)
- Book Review:The Embryonic Development of Drosophila Melanogaster. Jose A. Campos-Ortega, Volker Hartenstein (1986) (0)
- Report on the 17(th) European Drosophila research conference. (2002) (0)
- Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. Volume L. Molecular Biology of Development. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. 1986. 920 pages. Cloth $140. ISBN 0 87969 050 X. Paper $70. ISBN 0 87969 051 8. (1987) (0)
- Drosophila: A practical approach: edited by D. B. Roberts IRL Press, 1986. £26.00/$47.00 (xix + 295 pages) ISBN 0 94746 66 7 (1987) (0)
- The Cellular and Molecular Biology of Invertebrate Development. Proceedings of a Conference Held in 1984 at the Belle Baruch Laboratory, Georgetown, South Carolina.Roger H. Sawyer , Richard M. Showman (1986) (0)
- Public Engagement with Public Policy (2008) (0)
- Book Review:Maternal Effects in Development. D. R. Newth, M. Balls (1982) (0)
- Molecular Biology of Invertebrate Development. Proceedings of a Symposium Held March 15-21, 1987, at Park City, Utah. John D. O'Connor (1988) (0)
- Experimental manipulations of early Drosophila embryos (2008) (0)
- Distribution of plant nutrients in the Kaituna River (1978) (0)
- Book Review:Developmental Biology: A Comprehensive Synthesis. Volume 1: Oogenesis. Leon W. Browder (1986) (0)
- Molecular Genetics of Drosophila Oogenesis. By Paul F. Lasko. CRC Press and R. G. Landes Company, Georgetown, Texas. 1994. 120 pp. Hard cover price £74. ISBN 1 57059 032 X. (1994) (0)
- The developing side of biology (1985) (0)
- Genetic analysis of the spineless-aristapedia homoeotic mutants of Drosophila melanogaster (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Nuclear Transplantation. J. F. Danielli, M. A. DiBerardino (1982) (0)
- Cells, Embryos and Evolution . By John Gerhart and Marc Kirschner. Blackwell Science 1997. ISBN 0 86542 574 4. 642 pages. Price £29.50, paper. (1998) (0)
- Embryos - A Color Atlas of Development. By Jonathan Bard. Woolfe Publishing Ltd. 1994.224 pages. Price £49.95. ISBN 0 7234 1740 7. (1994) (0)
- Determinative Mechanisms in Early Development. Papers Presented at a Meeting of the British Society for Developmental Biology at the University of East Anglia, April 1986.C. C. Wylie (1987) (0)
- Book Review:An Atlas of Insect Morphology. H. Steinmann, L. Zombori (1982) (0)
- The work of dietitians in Great Britain (1993) (0)
- THE GENETIC CONTROL OF ENVIRONMENTALLY INDUCED APOPTOSIS DURING DROSOPHILA OOGENESIS(Developmental Biology)(Proceedings of the Seventy-Third Annual Meeting of the Zoological Society of Japan) : (2002) (0)
- OurEd: Creating an Online Social Responsibility and Sustainability Community (2013) (0)
- Cloning and expression of az2, a putative zinc finger transcription factor from Drosophila melanogaster (1998) (0)
- Drosophila nuclei in Xenopus 185 Living materials (2008) (0)
- Temperature sensitivity ofTumorous head, a homoeotic mutant ofDrosophila melanogaster (1979) (0)
- Book Review:Investigating Chromosomes. A Halsted Press Book. Adrian F. Dyer (1982) (0)
- The making of a fly: The genetics of animal design: by Peter Lawrence, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1992. £16.95 (xiii + 228 pages) ISBN 0 632 03048 8 (1992) (0)
- Molecular Biology of Development. Volume I: Molecular Events. A. A. Neyfakh , M. Ya Timofeeva , M. G. ZimmermanMolecular Biology of Development. Volume II: Problems of Regulation. A. A. Neyfakh , M. Ya Timofeeva , M. G. Zimmerman (1986) (0)
- The developmental consequences of RNA processing. Introduction. (1995) (0)
- The Coiled Spring – How Life Begins. By ETHAN BIER Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. 2000. 252 pages. ISBN 0 87969 562 5. Price $59. (hardback). ISBN 0 87969 563 3. Price $39. (paperback). (2001) (0)
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