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Mark R. Brown is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields, including insect science, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, immunology, and genetics.

The primary topics of Mark R. Brown's research focus on neurobiology and insect physiology, insect utilization and effects, invertebrate immune response mechanisms, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, mosquito-borne diseases and control, insect resistance and genetics, as well as gut microbiota and health.

Mark R. Brown has published in several notable venues, such as:

  • Parasites & Vectors
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Cell Host & Microbe
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mark R. Brown include:

  • Michael R. Strand
  • Kangkang Chen
  • Ruby E. Harrison
  • Xiaoyi Dou
  • Luca Valzania

Among recent publications, several papers stand out, reflecting a focus on mosquito biology and microbial interactions:

  • "Riboflavin instability is a key factor underlying the requirement of a gut microbiota for mosquito development" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Whole blood and blood components from vertebrates differentially affect egg formation in three species of anautogenous mosquitoes" (2021), published in Parasites & Vectors
  • "Maternal cecal microbiota transfer rescues early-life antibiotic-induced enhancement of type 1 diabetes in mice" (2021), published in Cell Host & Microbe
  • "Predaceous Toxorhynchites mosquitoes require a living gut microbiota to develop" (2020), published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "The mosquito Aedes aegypti requires a gut microbiota for normal fecundity, longevity and vector competence" (2023), published in Communications Biology

Best Publications

  • SIGNALING AND FUNCTION OF INSULIN-LIKE PEPTIDES IN INSECTS

    Qi Wu;Mark R. Brown

  • Mosquitoes rely on their gut microbiota for development.

    Kerri L. Coon;Kevin J. Vogel;Mark R. Brown;Michael R. Strand

  • Neuropeptides and Peptide Hormones in Anopheles gambiae

    Michael A. Riehle;Stephen F. Garczynski;Joe W. Crim;Catherine A. Hill

  • Identification of a Drosophila brain-gut peptide related to the neuropeptide Y family.

    Mark R Brown;Joe W Crim;Ryan C Arata;Haini N Cai

  • Mosquitoes host communities of bacteria that are essential for development but vary greatly between local habitats.

    Kerri L. Coon;Mark R. Brown;Michael R. Strand

  • An insulin-like peptide regulates egg maturation and metabolism in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

    Mark R. Brown;Kevin D. Clark;Monika Gulia;Zhangwu Zhao

  • Localization of an insulin-like peptide in brains of two flies.

    Chun Cao;Mark R. Brown

  • Identification of a Steroidogenic Neurohormone in Female Mosquitoes

    Mark R. Brown;Rolf Graf;Kristine M. Swiderek;Dan Fendley

  • Characterization of a functional neuropeptide F receptor from Drosophila melanogaster.

    Stephen F. Garczynski;Mark R. Brown;Ping Shen;Thomas F. Murray

  • Insulin stimulates ecdysteroid production through a conserved signaling cascade in the mosquito Aedes aegypti

    Michael A Riehle;Mark R Brown

  • Insulin-Like Peptides and the Target of Rapamycin Pathway Coordinately Regulate Blood Digestion and Egg Maturation in the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

    Monika Gulia-Nuss;Anne E. Robertson;Mark R. Brown;Michael R. Strand

  • Neuropeptidomics of the Mosquito Aedes aegypti

    Reinhard Predel;Susanne Neupert;Stephen F Garczynski;Joe W Crim

  • Gut bacteria differentially affect egg production in the anautogenous mosquito Aedes aegypti and facultatively autogenous mosquito Aedes atropalpus (Diptera: Culicidae)

    Kerri L. Coon;Mark R. Brown;Michael R. Strand

  • Bacteria-mediated hypoxia functions as a signal for mosquito development

    Kerri L. Coon;Luca Valzania;David A. McKinney;Kevin J. Vogel

  • Gonadal ecdysteroidogenesis in arthropoda: occurrence and regulation.

    Mark R Brown;Douglas H Sieglaff;Huw H Rees

  • Ultrastructure of the encapsulation of Plasmodium cynomolgi (B strain) on the midgut of a refractory strain of Anopheles gambiae.

    Susan M. Paskewitz;Mark R. Brown;Arden O. Lea;Frank H. Collins

  • Molecular characterization of insulin-like peptides in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti: Expression, cellular localization, and phylogeny

    Michael A. Riehle;Yongliang Fan;Chun Cao;Mark R. Brown

  • Ultrastructure of midgut endocrine cells in the adult mosquito, Aedes aegypti.

    Mark R. Brown;Alexander S. Raikhel;Arden O. Lea

  • FMRFamide- and pancreatic polypeptidelike immunoreactivity of endocrine cells in the midgut of a mosquito

    Mark R. Brown;Joe W. Crim;Arden O. Lea

  • Regulation of carbohydrate metabolism and flight performance by a hypertrehalosaemic hormone in the mosquito Anopheles gambiae

    Christian Kaufmann;Mark R. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael R. Strand
Michael R. Strand University of Georgia
Frank H. Collins
Frank H. Collins University of Notre Dame
Michael J. Adang
Michael J. Adang University of Georgia
Jan Pohl
Jan Pohl Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Reinhard Predel
Reinhard Predel University of Cologne
Ronald J. Nachman
Ronald J. Nachman United States Department of Agriculture
Francesco Pennacchio
Francesco Pennacchio University of Naples Federico II
Akinori Suzuki
Akinori Suzuki University of Tokyo
Murray S. Blum
Murray S. Blum University of Georgia

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