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List of works by Ernst A Wimmer

A Drosophila homologue of human Sp1 is a head-specific segmentation gene.

scientific article published on December 1993

A conserved function of the zinc finger transcription factor Sp8/9 in allometric appendage growth in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus.

scientific article published on August 2009

Adult neurogenesis in the mushroom bodies of red flour beetles (Tribolium castaneum, HERBST) is influenced by the olfactory environment

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Bicoid-independent formation of thoracic segments in Drosophila.

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Common and diverged functions of the Drosophila gene pair D-Sp1 and buttonhead.

scientific article published in December 1999

Comparative analysis of binary expression systems for directed gene expression in transgenic insects.

scientific article published on 5 December 2006

Consequences of resistance evolution in a Cas9-based sex conversion-suppression gene drive for insect pest management

scientific article published on 29 May 2018

Divergent functions of orthodenticle, empty spiracles and buttonhead in early head patterning of the beetle Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera).

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Divergent role of the Hox gene Antennapedia in spiders is responsible for the convergent evolution of abdominal limb repression

scientific article (publication date: 15 March 2012)

Early development of leg and wing primordia in the Drosophila embryo

scientific article published on March 1, 1991

Eco-friendly insect management.

scientific article published in April 2005

Efficient transformation of the yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti using the piggyBac transposable element vector pBac[3xP3-EGFP afm].

scientific article published on November 2001

Embryonic expression and characterization of a Ptx1 homolog in Drosophila.

scientific article published in November 1997

Erratum to: Size relationships of different body parts in the three dipteran species Drosophila melanogaster, Ceratitis capitata and Musca domestica

scientific article published on 28 May 2016

Erratum to: The whole genome sequence of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), reveals insights into the biology and adaptive evolution of a highly invasive pest species.

scientific article published on 18 January 2017

Fluorescent sperm marking to improve the fight against the pest insect Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann; Diptera: Tephritidae).

scientific article published on 23 April 2008

Fluorescent transformation markers for insect transgenesis.

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High bicoid levels render the terminal system dispensable for Drosophila head development.

scientific article published in September 2000

Highly sensitive, fluorescent transformation marker for Drosophila transgenesis.

scientific article published in December 2000

Hyperactive piggyBac transposase improves transformation efficiency in diverse insect species

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Improvement and use of CRISPR/Cas9 to engineer a sperm-marking strain for the invasive fruit pest Drosophila suzukii

scientific article published on 05 December 2019

Insect biotechnology: controllable replacement of disease vectors.

scientific article published in May 2013

Insect transgenesis by site-specific recombination.

scientific article published in August 2005

Male sex in houseflies is determined by Mdmd, a paralog of the generic splice factor gene CWC22.

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Morphological and Transcriptomic Analysis of a Beetle Chemosensory System Reveals a Gnathal Olfactory Center

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Odoriferous Defensive stink gland transcriptome to identify novel genes necessary for quinone synthesis in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Perspective on the combined use of an independent transgenic sexing and a multifactorial reproductive sterility system to avoid resistance development against transgenic Sterile Insect Technique approaches.

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Plasticity in mRNA expression and localization of orthodenticle within higher Diptera.

scientific article published in November 2008

Pogostick: a new versatile piggyBac vector for inducible gene over-expression and down-regulation in emerging model systems.

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Polyandry in the medfly - shifts in paternity mediated by sperm stratification and mixing.

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Recombination technologies for enhanced transgene stability in bioengineered insects.

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Separable transcriptional regulatory domains within Otd control photoreceptor terminal differentiation events.

scientific article published on 21 August 2010

Site-specific recombination for the modification of transgenic strains of the Mediterranean fruit fly Ceratitis capitata

scientific article published on 14 October 2009

Size relationships of different body parts in the three dipteran species Drosophila melanogaster, Ceratitis capitata and Musca domestica.

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Temporal and spatial control of transgene expression using laser induction of the hsp70 promoter

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The iBeetle large-scale RNAi screen reveals gene functions for insect development and physiology

scientific article published on 28 July 2015

The red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera): a model for studies of development and pest biology.

scientific article published in August 2009

The whole genome sequence of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata (Wiedemann), reveals insights into the biology and adaptive evolution of a highly invasive pest species

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Tissue-specific transcriptomics, chromosomal localization, and phylogeny of chemosensory and odorant binding proteins from the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum reveal subgroup specificities for olfaction or more general functions.

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Trans- and cis-acting requirements for blastodermal expression of the head gap gene buttonhead.

scientific article published in October 1995

Transgenic sexing system for Ceratitis capitata (Diptera: Tephritidae) based on female-specific embryonic lethality.

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Unique establishment of procephalic head segments is supported by the identification of cis-regulatory elements driving segment-specific segment polarity gene expression in Drosophila.

scientific article published on 12 March 2011

buttonhead does not contribute to a combinatorial code proposed for Drosophila head development.

scientific article published in April 1997

piggyBac-based insertional mutagenesis and enhancer detection as a tool for functional insect genomics.

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