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Jan A. Veenstra

Jan A. Veenstra

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
13400
World Ranking
11348
National Ranking
410

Overview

Jan A. Veenstra is affiliated with the University of Bordeaux in France. Their work spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, with a focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, insect science, plant science, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The researcher has published extensively on topics including neurobiology and insect physiology research, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, insect utilization and effects, insect-plant interactions and control, plant parasitism and resistance, and circadian rhythm and melatonin.

Among Jan A. Veenstra's recent publications are:

  • "Genome-enabled insights into the biology of thrips as crop pests" (2020, BMC Biology)
  • "Arthropod IGF, relaxin and gonadulin, putative orthologs of Drosophila insulin-like peptides 6, 7 and 8, likely originated from an ancient gene triplication" (2020, PeerJ)
  • "Prediction Rules for Ruling Out Endocarditis in Patients With Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia" (2021, Clinical Infectious Diseases)
  • "Genomics- and Peptidomics-Based Discovery of Conserved and Novel Neuropeptides in the American Cockroach" (2020, Journal of Proteome Research)
  • "Gonadulins, the fourth type of insulin-related peptides in decapods" (2020, General and Comparative Endocrinology)

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PeerJ
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd
  • BMC Biology

Jan A. Veenstra collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Jan M. Prins
  • Yoonseong Park
  • Thomas W. van der Vaart
  • Robin Soetekouw
  • G. van Twillert

Best Publications

  • Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

  • The genome of Tetranychus urticae reveals herbivorous pest adaptations

    Miodrag Grbić;Miodrag Grbić;Thomas Van Leeuwen;Richard M. Clark;Stephane Rombauts

  • Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle

    Ewen F. Kirkness;Brian J. Haas;Brian J. Haas;Weilin Sun;Henk R. Braig

  • Regulatory peptides in fruit fly midgut

    Jan A. Veenstra;Hans-Jürgen Agricola;Azza Sellami

  • Mono- and dibasic proteolytic cleavage sites in insect neuroendocrine peptide precursors.

    Jan A. Veenstra

  • Isolation and structure of corazonin, a cardioactive peptide from the American cockroach.

    Jan A. Veenstra

  • Immunocytochemical identification of neural elements in the central nervous systems of a snail, some insects, a fish, and a mammal with an antiserum to the molluscan cardio-excitatory tetrapeptide FMRF-amide.

    H. H. Boer;L. P. C. Schot;J. A. Veenstra;Dagmar Reichelt

  • Two nitridergic peptides are encoded by the gene capability in Drosophila melanogaster

    Laura Kean;William Cazenave;Laurence Costes;Kate E. Broderick

  • AKH-producing neuroendocrine cell ablation decreases trehalose and induces behavioral changes in Drosophila.

    Guillaume Isabel;Jean-René Martin;Saad Chidami;Jan A. Veenstra

  • Neurohormones and neuropeptides encoded by the genome of Lottia gigantea, with reference to other mollusks and insects.

    Jan A. Veenstra

  • Mapping peptidergic cells in Drosophila: where DIMM fits in.

    Dongkook Park;Jan A. Veenstra;Jae H. Park;Paul H. Taghert

  • Isolation and characterization of a leucokinin-like peptide of Drosophila melanogaster

    S. Terhzaz;F.C. O'Connell;V.P. Pollock;L. Kean

  • The neuropeptide SIFamide modulates sexual behavior in Drosophila.

    Selim Terhzaz;Philippe Rosay;Stephen F. Goodwin;Jan A. Veenstra

  • Control of Lipid Metabolism by Tachykinin in Drosophila

    Wei Song;Wei Song;Jan A. Veenstra;Norbert Perrimon;Norbert Perrimon

  • Allatostatin C and its paralog allatostatin double C: the arthropod somatostatins.

    Jan A. Veenstra

  • The Dh gene of Drosophila melanogaster encodes a diuretic peptide that acts through cyclic AMP.

    Pablo Cabrero;Jonathan C. Radford;Kate E. Broderick;Laurence Costes

  • Peptidergic paracrine and endocrine cells in the midgut of the fruit fly maggot

    Jan A. Veenstra

  • Intrinsic neurons of Drosophila mushroom bodies express short neuropeptide F: relations to extrinsic neurons expressing different neurotransmitters.

    Helena A.D. Johard;Lina E. Enell;Elisabeth Gustafsson;Pierre Trifilieff

  • The contribution of the genomes of a termite and a locust to our understanding of insect neuropeptides and neurohormones

    Jan A. Veenstra

  • Isolation and structure of two gastrin/CCK-like neuropeptides from the American cockroach homologous to the leucosulfakinins.

    J.A. Veenstra

Frequent Co-Authors

Dick R. Nässel
Dick R. Nässel Stockholm University
Guy Smagghe
Guy Smagghe Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Marc Tatar
Marc Tatar Brown University
Robert M. Waterhouse
Robert M. Waterhouse Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Matthew T. Weirauch
Matthew T. Weirauch Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Hugh M. Robertson
Hugh M. Robertson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kim C. Worley
Kim C. Worley Baylor College of Medicine
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine
Richard A. Gibbs
Richard A. Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine

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