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Genomes and GenesSpecies | Alexander W ShingletonSummaryAffiliation: Princeton University Country: USA Publications
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Molecular phylogenetic evidence for multiple gains or losses of ant mutualism within the aphid genus ChaitophorusAlexander W Shingleton
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 26:26-35. 2003..This is the first phylogenetic confirmation that ant tending is an evolutionarily labile trait in aphids...- Body-size regulation: combining genetics and physiologyAlexander W Shingleton
Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Curr Biol 15:R825-7. 2005..New research has revealed that the activity of the insulin-signaling pathway in the prothoracic gland of Drosophila modulates ecdysone release and thereby influences both the duration and rate of larval growth... - The temporal requirements for insulin signaling during development in DrosophilaAlexander W Shingleton
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
PLoS Biol 3:e289. 2005..We hypothesize that the insulin-signaling pathway controls such diverse effects as total developmental time, total body size and organ size through its effects on the rate of cell growth, and proliferation in different organs... - The origin of a mutualism: a morphological trait promoting the evolution of ant-aphid mutualismsAlexander W Shingleton
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Evolution 59:921-6. 2005.... - Diapause in the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) is a slowing but not a cessation of developmentAlexander W Shingleton
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
BMC Dev Biol 3:7. 2003..We investigated developmental aspects of diapause in sexually-produced embryos of the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum... - Developmental origin and evolution of bacteriocytes in the aphid-Buchnera symbiosisChristian Braendle
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
PLoS Biol 1:E21. 2003..The evolutionary transition to a symbiosis in which bacteria and an aphid cell form a functional unit, similar to the origin of plastids, has apparently involved extensive molecular adaptations on the part of the host cell... - Size-correlated division of labour and spatial distribution of workers in the driver ant, Dorylus molestusChristian Braendle
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Naturwissenschaften 90:277-81. 2003..Finally, large workers were more common in open sections of the trail than in covered sections, which are likely to be less exposed to predators... - Imaginal discs regulate developmental timing in Drosophila melanogasterBradley C Stieper
Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Dev Biol 321:18-26. 2008.... - Size and shape: the developmental regulation of static allometry in insectsAlexander W Shingleton
Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, 203 Natural Science, East Lansing, MI 48910, USA
Bioessays 29:536-48. 2007..This model serves as the foundation for a research program that will result in a deeper understanding of the relationship between growth and form, a question that has fascinated biologists for centuries... - Developmental model of static allometry in holometabolous insectsAlexander W Shingleton
Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
Proc Biol Sci 275:1875-85. 2008..By revealing how specific physiological and genetic regulators of size influence allometry, the model serves to identify developmental processes upon which evolution may act to alter scaling relationships...