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  • 2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Mary Bownes is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their academic career includes recognition as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an award received in 2004.

Information regarding research papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, fields and subfields of study, and main research topics is not available. Therefore, specific details about research output or areas of expertise cannot be provided.

Best Publications

  • 3-Phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1 (PDK1): structural and functional homology with the Drosophila DSTPK61 kinase.

    Dario R. Alessi;Maria Deak;Antonio Casamayor;F. Barry Caudwell

  • Staging the metamorphosis of Drosophila melanogaster

    S. Paul Bainbridge;Mary Bownes

  • Two signalling pathways specify localised expression of the Broad-Complex in Drosophila eggshell patterning and morphogenesis

    Wu-Min Deng;Mary Bownes

  • The roles of juvenile hormone, ecdysone and the ovary in the control of Drosophila vitellogenesis

    Mary Bownes

  • Mating and Sex Peptide Stimulate the Accumulation of Yolk in Oocytes of Drosophila Melanogaster

    Matthias Soller;Mary Bownes;Eric Kubli

  • Evidence that insect embryogenesis is regulated by ecdysteroids released from yolk proteins.

    Mary Bownes;Alan Shirras;Mairead Blair;John Collins

  • Nutritional status affects 20-hydroxyecdysone concentration and progression of oogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster.

    J Terashima;K Takaki;S Sakurai;M Bownes

  • The titre of juvenile hormone during the pupal and adult stages of the life cycle of Drosophila melanogaster.

    Mary Bownes;Heinz Rembold

  • Sexual phenotype and vitellogenin synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster.

    John H. Postlethwait;John H. Postlethwait;Mary Bownes;Trevor Jowett

  • Translating available food into the number of eggs laid by Drosophila melanogaster.

    Jun Terashima;Mary Bownes

  • The Function of the Broad-Complex During Drosophila melanogaster Oogenesis

    George Tzolovsky;Wu-Min Deng;Thomas Schlitt;Mary Bownes

  • Class VI unconventional myosin is required for spermatogenesis in Drosophila.

    Jennifer L. Hicks;Wu-Min Deng;Aaron D. Rogat;Kathryn G. Miller

  • Ecdysteroids in adult males and females of Drosophila melanogaster

    Mary Bownes;Andreas Dübendorfer;Trevor Smith

  • The regulation of the yolk protein genes, a family of sex differentiation genes in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Mary Bownes

  • Sex determining genes and vitellogenin synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster.

    Mary Bownes;Rolf Nöthiger

  • Heat stress affects oogenesis differently in wild-type Drosophila virilis and a mutant with altered juvenile hormone and 20-hydroxyecdysone levels.

    N. E. Gruntenko;M. Bownes;J. Terashima;M. Zh. Sukhanova

  • Locomotion defects, together with Pins, regulates heterotrimeric G-protein signaling during Drosophila neuroblast asymmetric divisions

    Fengwei Yu;Hongyan Wang;Hongliang Qian;Rachna Kaushik

  • Ovarian and Fat‐Body Vitellogenin Synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster

    Peter G. Isaac;Mary Bownes

  • The effects of a sugar diet and hormones on the expression of the Drosophila yolk-protein genes

    Mary Bownes;Mairead Blair

  • Evidence that insect embryogenesis is regulated by ecdysteroids released from yolk proteins (protein degradation/ecdysteroid conjugates/lipase/fatty acid binding)

    Mary Bownes;Alan Shirras;Mairead Blair;John Collins

Frequent Co-Authors

William Chia
William Chia National University of Singapore
John L. Williams
John L. Williams University of Adelaide
Dario R. Alessi
Dario R. Alessi University of Dundee
Robert Layfield
Robert Layfield University of Nottingham
Linda Partridge
Linda Partridge Max Planck Society
Alan Ashworth
Alan Ashworth University of California, San Francisco
Alexander S. Raikhel
Alexander S. Raikhel University of California, Riverside
Brian Charlesworth
Brian Charlesworth University of Edinburgh
Hilary Hurd
Hilary Hurd Keele University

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