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List of works by Alan D Shirras

A stress-specific calcium signature regulating an ozone-responsive gene expression network in Arabidopsis

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An unsuspected ecdysteroid/steroid phosphatase activity in the key T-cell regulator, Sts-1: surprising relationship to insect ecdysteroid phosphate phosphatase

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Ance, a Drosophila angiotensin-converting enzyme homologue, is expressed in imaginal cells during metamorphosis and is regulated by the steroid, 20-hydroxyecdysone

scientific article published on October 2002

Angiotensin-converting enzyme as a target for the development of novel insect growth regulators.

scientific article published on 8 December 2006

Cell fates in the adult abdomen of Drosophila are determined by wingless during pupal development

scientific article published in April 1996

Cytoplasmic male sterility in Drosophila melanogaster associated with a mitochondrial CYTB variant

scientific article published on March 16, 2011

Development of a Real-Time qPCR Assay for Quantification of Covert Baculovirus Infections in a Major African Crop Pest

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Drosophila male sex peptide inhibits siesta sleep and promotes locomotor activity in the post-mated female

scientific article published on 30 September 2009

Drosophila melanogaster NEP2 is a new soluble member of the neprilysin family of endopeptidases with implications for reproduction and renal function

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Expression and functional characterization of a Drosophila neuropeptide precursor with homology to mammalian preprotachykinin A.

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Expression of NEP2, a soluble neprilysin-like endopeptidase, during embryogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 8 December 2006

Extracellular peptidases of imaginal discs of Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published in November 2002

Functional conservation of the active sites of human and Drosophila angiotensin I-converting enzyme.

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Identification of a proctolin preprohormone gene (Proct) of Drosophila melanogaster: expression and predicted prohormone processing

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Locomotor and geotactic behavior of Drosophila melanogaster over-expressing neprilysin 2.

scientific article published on 7 November 2008

Loss of Angiotensin-converting enzyme-related (ACER) peptidase disrupts night-time sleep in adult Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published in February 2011

Loss of angiotensin-converting enzyme-related (ACER) peptidase disrupts behavioural and metabolic responses to diet in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 25 April 2019

Male accessory glands of Drosophila melanogaster make a secreted angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ANCE), suggesting a role for the peptide-processing enzyme in seminal fluid

scientific article published in October 2007

Metabolic inactivation of the circadian transmitter, pigment dispersing factor (PDF), by neprilysin-like peptidases in Drosophila

scientific article published in December 2007

Neuropeptidases and the metabolic inactivation of insect neuropeptides

scientific article published on 24 December 2008

Peptidyl dipeptidases (Ance and Acer) of Drosophila melanogaster: major differences in the substrate specificity of two homologs of human angiotensin I-converting enzyme

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Proctolin in the post-genomic era: new insights and challenges.

scientific article published on 18 September 2004

Proteomic identification of Drosophila melanogaster male accessory gland proteins, including a pro-cathepsin and a soluble gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase

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Structural diversity of angiotensin-converting enzyme

scientific article published in January 2006

The Acer gene of Drosophila codes for an angiotensin-converting enzyme homologue

scientific article published in November 1996

The Drosophila insulin receptor independently modulates lifespan and locomotor senescence.

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

The Orct gene of Drosophila melanogaster codes for a putative organic cation transporter with six or 12 transmembrane domains

scientific article published in November 1997

The angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene family of Anopheles gambiae

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The drosophila angiotensin-converting enzyme homologue Ance is required for spermiogenesis

scientific article published in February 2003

lemmingA encodes the Apc11 subunit of the APC/C in Drosophila melanogaster that forms a ternary complex with the E2-C type ubiquitin conjugating enzyme, Vihar and Morula/Apc2.

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