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Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
103
Citations
31524
World Ranking
14
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Animal Science and Veterinary in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Ireland Leader Award
  • 2012 - Member of the Royal Irish Academy

Overview

Patrick Lonergan is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland and has contributed extensively to the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences. Their research primarily encompasses Theatre and Performance Studies, Irish and British Studies, and Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature. Additional focus areas include Geographies of human-animal interactions, Posthumanist Ethics and Activism, Samuel Beckett and Modernism, and Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction.

Their recent publications include studies and reviews addressing varied aspects of theatre, performance, and literary theory. Key papers authored by them are:

  • 'A Twisted, Looping Form', 2020, published in Performance Research
  • Review: Sihra, Melissa. Marina Carr: pastures of the unknown. Palgrave, 2019, 2020, Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies
  • 'Now for Our Irish Wars' - Jez Butterworth's The Ferryman and the Irish Dramatic Canon, 2020, Contemporary Theatre Review
  • 'It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home...': Beckett as national performance, 2020, Scene
  • Imperial Encore: The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire, 2021, The Journal of Arts Management Law and Society

They have published books through notable publishers including Bloomsbury Publishing plc and Cambridge University Press. Noteworthy books are:

  • Theatre and Social Media, 2024, Bloomsbury Publishing plc
  • Theatre Revivals for the Anthropocene, 2023, Cambridge University Press

Patrick Lonergan has contributed to a range of publication venues with multiple articles appearing in:

  • Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
  • Irish Studies Review
  • Green Letters
  • Performance Research
  • Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language Literatures in English and Cultural Studies

Their scholarly work intersects with several subfields, notably Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science, Philosophy, and Geography, Planning and Development.

In recognition of their academic contributions, Patrick Lonergan was named a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Consequences of bovine oocyte maturation, fertilization or early embryo development in vitro versus in vivo: implications for blastocyst yield and blastocyst quality.

    Dimitrios Rizos;Fabian Ward;Pat Duffy;Maurice P. Boland

  • Effect of follicle size on bovine oocyte quality and developmental competence following maturation, fertilization, and culture in vitro

    P. Lonergan;P. Monaghan;D. Rizos;M. P. Boland

  • Bovine Embryo Culture in the Presence or Absence of Serum: Implications for Blastocyst Development, Cryotolerance, and Messenger RNA Expression

    D. Rizos;A. Gutiérrez-Adán;S. Pérez-Garnelo;J. de la Fuente

  • Antral Follicle Count Reliably Predicts Number of Morphologically Healthy Oocytes and Follicles in Ovaries of Young Adult Cattle

    J.L.H. Ireland;D. Scheetz;F. Jimenez-Krassel;A.P.N. Themmen

  • Analysis of Differential Messenger RNA Expression Between Bovine Blastocysts Produced in Different Culture Systems: Implications for Blastocyst Quality

    D Rizos;P Lonergan;M P Boland;R Arroyo-García

  • Oocyte and embryo quality: effect of origin, culture conditions and gene expression patterns.

    P Lonergan;D Rizos;A Gutierrez-Adan;T Fair

  • Effect of nutrition on endocrine parameters, ovarian physiology, and oocyte and embryo development.

    M.P. Boland;P. Lonergan;D. O'Callaghan

  • Progesterone-Regulated Changes in Endometrial Gene Expression Contribute to Advanced Conceptus Development in Cattle

    N. Forde;F. Carter;T. Fair;M.A. Crowe

  • Progesterone and conceptus elongation in cattle: a direct effect on the embryo or an indirect effect via the endometrium?

    M Clemente;J de La Fuente;T Fair;A Al Naib

  • Effect of increasing progesterone concentration from Day 3 of pregnancy on subsequent embryo survival and development in beef heifers

    F Carter;N Forde;P Duffy;M Wade

  • Role of epidermal growth factor in bovine oocyte maturation and preimplantation embryo development in vitro

    P Lonergan;C Carolan;A Van Langendonckt;I Donnay

  • Effect of time interval from insemination to first cleavage on the developmental characteristics, sex ratio and pregnancy rate after transfer of bovine embryos

    P. Lonergan;H. Khatir;F. Piumi;D. Rieger

  • Temporal Divergence in the Pattern of Messenger RNA Expression in Bovine Embryos Cultured from the Zygote to Blastocyst Stage In Vitro or In Vivo

    P. Lonergan;D. Rizos;A. Gutiérrez-Adán;P. M. Moreira

  • Sex determines the expression level of one third of the actively expressed genes in bovine blastocysts

    P. Bermejo-Alvarez;D. Rizos;Detlef Rath;P. Lonergan

  • Changes in the Endometrial Transcriptome During the Bovine Estrous Cycle: Effect of Low Circulating Progesterone and Consequences for Conceptus Elongation

    Niamh Forde;Marijke Eileen Beltman;G. B. Duffy;P. Duffy

  • Follicle numbers are highly repeatable within individual animals but are inversely correlated with FSH concentrations and the proportion of good-quality embryos after ovarian stimulation in cattle.

    J. J. Ireland;F. Ward;F. Jimenez-Krassel;J. L H Ireland

  • Conceptus-Induced Changes in the Endometrial Transcriptome: How Soon Does the Cow Know She Is Pregnant?

    N. Forde;F. Carter;T.E. Spencer;F.W. Bazer

  • Does size matter in females? An overview of the impact of the high variation in the ovarian reserve on ovarian function and fertility, utility of anti-Müllerian hormone as a diagnostic marker for fertility and causes of variation in the ovarian reserve in cattle

    J J Ireland;G W Smith;D Scheetz;F Jimenez-Krassel

  • Oestrous cycles in Bos taurus cattle.

    N. Forde;M.E. Beltman;P. Lonergan;M. Diskin

  • Influence of progesterone on oocyte quality and embryo development in cows.

    Patrick Lonergan

  • Developmental, qualitative, and ultrastructural differences between ovine and bovine embryos produced in vivo or in vitro.

    Dimitrios Rizos;Trudee Fair;Serafeim Papadopoulos;Maurice P. Boland

  • Low numbers of ovarian follicles ≥3 mm in diameter are associated with low fertility in dairy cows

    F. Mossa;S.W. Walsh;S.T. Butler;D.P. Berry

  • Consequences of in vitro culture conditions on embryo development and quality.

    D Rizos;M Clemente;P Bermejo-Alvarez;J de La Fuente

  • Maturation of Oocytes in Vitro.

    Patrick Lonergan;Trudee Fair

  • In vitro-produced bovine embryos: dealing with the warts.

    P. Lonergan;T. Fair

  • Maternal Undernutrition in Cows Impairs Ovarian and Cardiovascular Systems in Their Offspring

    Francesca Mossa;Fiona Carter;Siobhan W. Walsh;David A. Kenny

  • Epigenetic differences between male and female bovine blastocysts produced in vitro.

    Pablo Bermejo-Alvarez;Dimitrios Rizos;Detlef Rath;Patrick Lonergan

  • Timing of the first cleavage post-insemination affects cryosurvival of in vitro-produced bovine blastocysts.

    András Dinnyés;András Dinnyés;Patrick Lonergan;Trudee Fair;Maurice P. Boland

Frequent Co-Authors

Dimitrios Rizos
Dimitrios Rizos Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Trudee Fair
Trudee Fair University College Dublin
Maurice P. Boland
Maurice P. Boland University College Dublin
Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán
Alfonso Gutiérrez-Adán Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria
Sean Fair
Sean Fair University of Limerick
Thomas E. Spencer
Thomas E. Spencer University of Missouri
James F. Roche
James F. Roche University College Dublin
James J. Ireland
James J. Ireland Michigan State University
Pascal Mermillod
Pascal Mermillod INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Fuller W. Bazer
Fuller W. Bazer Texas A&M University

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