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10739
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Overview

Michael E. Adams is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Neuroscience, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on subfields such as Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Pharmacology.

The main topics covered by their work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Insect and Pesticide Research, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Healthcare and Venom Research, and Bee Products Chemical Analysis.

Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Michael E. Adams has collaborated regularly with several coauthors:

  • Frédéric Libersat
  • Amit Rana
  • Matthew R. Meiselman
  • Anindya Ganguly
  • Anupama Dahanukar

Key publications include:

  • Regulation of Drosophila Long-Term Courtship Memory by Ecdysis Triggering Hormone, 2021, Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Parasitoid wasp venom re-programs host behavior through downmodulation of brain central complex activity and motor output, 2023, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Parasitoid wasp venom manipulates host innate behavior via subtype-specific dopamine receptor activation, 2022, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Endocrine modulation of primary chemosensory neurons regulates Drosophila courtship behavior, 2022, PLoS Genetics
  • Suppression of host nocifensive behavior by parasitoid wasp venom, 2022, Frontiers in Physiology

Best Publications

  • CALCIUM CHANNEL DIVERSITY AND NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE : THE OMEGA -CONOTOXINS AND OMEGA -AGATOXINS

    Baldomero M. Olivera;George P. Miljanich;J. Ramachandran;Michael E. Adams

  • P-type calcium channels blocked by the spider toxin ω-Aga-IVA

    Isabelle M. Mintz;Virginia J. Venema;Kristine M. Swiderek;Terry D. Lee

  • P-type calcium channels in rat central and peripheral neurons

    Isabelle M. Mintz;Michael E. Adams;Bruce P. Bean

  • Ablation of P/Q-type Ca(2+) channel currents, altered synaptic transmission, and progressive ataxia in mice lacking the alpha(1A)-subunit.

    Kisun Jun;Erika S. Piedras-Rentería;Erika S. Piedras-Rentería;Stephen M. Smith;Stephen M. Smith;David B. Wheeler

  • Distinctive biophysical and pharmacological properties of class A (BI) calcium channel α1 subunits

    W.A. Sather;T. Tanabe;T. Tanabe;J.-F. Zhang;Y. Mori

  • Identification of G protein-coupled receptors for Drosophila PRXamide peptides, CCAP, corazonin, and AKH supports a theory of ligand-receptor coevolution

    Yoonseong Park;Young-Joon Kim;Michael E. Adams

  • Calcium channels coupled to glutamate release identified by omega-Aga-IVA

    Timothy J. Turner;Michael E. Adams;Kathleen Dunlap

  • Three types of Ca2+ channel trigger secretion with different efficacies in chromaffin cells

    Cristina R. Artalejo;Michael E. Adams;Aaron P. Fox

  • Multiple Ca2+ channel types coexist to regulate synaptosomal neurotransmitter release.

    Timothy J. Turner;Michael E. Adams;Kathleen Dunlap

  • Peptide cotransmitter at a neuromuscular junction.

    Michael E. Adams;Michael O'Shea

  • Identification of Ecdysis-Triggering Hormone from an Epitracheal Endocrine System

    Dusan Zitnan;Timothy G Kingan;John L Hermesman;Michael E Adams

  • Lycotoxins, antimicrobial peptides from venom of the wolf spider Lycosa carolinensis.

    Lizhen Yan;Michael E. Adams

  • Differential activation of adenosine receptors decreases N-type but potentiates P-type Ca2+ current in hippocampal CA3 neurons

    David J. Mogul;Michael E. Adams;Aaron P. Fox

  • A Command Chemical Triggers an Innate Behavior by Sequential Activation of Multiple Peptidergic Ensembles

    Young-Joon Kim;Dušan Žitňan;Dušan Žitňan;C. Giovanni Galizia;Kook-Ho Cho

  • Purification and characterization of two classes of neurotoxins from the funnel web spider, Agelenopsis aperta.

    W S Skinner;M E Adams;G B Quistad;H Kataoka

  • Corazonin receptor signaling in ecdysis initiation

    Young-Joon Kim;Ivana Spalovská-Valachová;Kook-Ho Cho;Inka Zitnanova

  • Functional duality and structural uniqueness of depressant insect-selective neurotoxins.

    E. Zlotkin;M. Eitan;V. P. Bindokas;M. E. Adams

  • Steroid induction of a peptide hormone gene leads to orchestration of a defined behavioral sequence.

    Dus̆an Z̆itn̆an;Dus̆an Z̆itn̆an;Linda S. Ross;Inka Z̆itn̆anova;Inka Z̆itn̆anova;John L. Hermesman

  • Pentapeptide (proctolin) associated with an identified neuron

    Michael O'Shea;Michael E. Adams

  • Complex steroid–peptide–receptor cascade controls insect ecdysis

    Zitnan D;Kim Yj;Zitnanová I;Zitnanová I;Roller L

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarjeet S. Gill
Sarjeet S. Gill University of California, Riverside
Baldomero M. Olivera
Baldomero M. Olivera University of Utah
David A. Schooley
David A. Schooley University of Nevada Reno
Michael Gurevitz
Michael Gurevitz Tel Aviv University
Ronald J. Nachman
Ronald J. Nachman United States Department of Agriculture
Eliahu Zlotkin
Eliahu Zlotkin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Bruce P. Bean
Bruce P. Bean Harvard University
Michael O'Shea
Michael O'Shea University of Sussex
Anthony A. James
Anthony A. James University of California, Irvine
Mariana F. Wolfner
Mariana F. Wolfner Cornell University

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