Christen Mirth

Publications

• Allometry and size control: What can studies of body size regulation teach us about the evolution of morphological scaling relationships?
• Matching complex dietary landscapes with the signalling pathways that regulate life history traits
• The Ol(1)mpiad: concordance of behavioural faculties of stage 1 and stage 3 Drosophila larvae
• A dietary sterol trade-off determines lifespan responses to dietary restriction in Drosophila melanogaster females
• Data from: Differences in larval nutritional requirements and female oviposition preference reflect the order of fruit colonization of Zaprionus indianus and Drosophila simulans
• Data from: Stage-specific plasticity in ovary size is regulated by insulin/insulin-like growth factor and ecdysone signalling in Drosophila
• Coordinating morphology with behaviour during development: an integrative approach from a fly perspective.
• Interacting with change: Diet mediates how larvae respond to their thermal environment
• Insulin-like signalling influences the coordination of Drosophila larval hemocyte number with body size
• The sex-specific effects of diet quality versus quantity on morphology in Drosophila melanogaster
• Torso-Like Is a Component of the Hemolymph and Regulates the Insulin Signalling Pathway in Drosophila.
• Unravelling the diversity of mechanisms through which nutrition regulates body size in insects
• Ecdysone promotes growth of imaginal discs through the regulation of Thor in D-melanogaster
• Drosophila melanogaster larvae make nutritional choices that minimize developmental time
• Differences in larval nutritional requirements and female oviposition preference reflect the order of fruit colonization of Zaprionus indianus and Drosophila simulans.
• The POU Factor Ventral Veins Lacking/Drifter Directs the Timing of Metamorphosis through Ecdysteroid and Juvenile Hormone Signaling
• Nutritional control of body size through FoxO-Ultraspiracle mediated ecdysone biosynthesis
• Juvenile hormone regulates body size and perturbs insulin signaling in Drosophila
• Coordination of Wing and Whole-Body Development at Developmental Milestones Ensures Robustness against Environmental and Physiological Perturbations
• Adaptation to new nutritional environments: larval performance, foraging decisions, and adult oviposition choices in Drosophila suzukii
• Coordinating morphology with behavior during development: an integrative approach from a fly perspective
• Stage-specific plasticity in ovary size is regulated by insulin/insulin-like growth factor and ecdysone signaling in Drosophila
• Turning food into eggs: insights from nutritional biology and developmental physiology of Drosophila
• Coordinating Development: How Do Animals Integrate Plastic and Robust Developmental Processes?
• Disruption of mitochondrial dynamics affects behaviour and lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans
• Neuropeptide F receptor acts in the Drosophila prothoracic gland to regulate growth and developmental timing
• When does diet matter? The roles of larval and adult nutrition in regulating adult size traits
• Food intake and food choice are altered by the developmental transition at critical weight in Drosophila melanogaster
• Amino acid quality modifies the quantitative availability of protein for reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster
• Growth-Blocking Peptides As Nutrition-Sensitive Signals for Insulin Secretion and Body Size Regulation
• Developmental nutrition modulates metabolic responses to projected climate change
• Drosophila melanogaster females prioritise dietary sterols for producing high quality eggs
• Does local adaptation along a latitudinal cline shape plastic responses to combined thermal and nutritional stress?
• A New Role for Neuropeptide F Signaling in Controlling Developmental Timing and Body Size in Drosophila melanogaster
• Growing Up in a Changing World: Environmental Regulation of Development in Insects
• Amino acid quality modifies the quantitative availability of protein for reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster
• Quantification of Macronutrients Intake in a Thermogenetic Neuronal Screen using Drosophila Larvae.
• Insulin-Like Signalling Influences the Coordination of Larval Hemocyte Number with Body Size in Drosophila melanogaster
• The Number of Larval Molts Is Controlled by Hox in Caterpillars
• Regulation of ecdysone production in Drosophila by neuropeptides and peptide hormones
• Ecdysone Quantification from Whole Body Samples of Drosophila melanogaster Larvae
• Quantification of macronutrients intake in a thermogenetic neuronal screen using Drosophila larvae
• Ecdysone coordinates plastic growth with robust pattern in the developing wing
• Target of Rapamycin drives unequal responses to essential amino acid depletion in egg laying
• The development of body and organ shape
• Restricting a single amino acid cross-protects D. melanogaster from nicotine poisoning through mTORC1 and GCN2 signalling
• The Biosynthetic Costs of Amino Acids at the Base of the Food Chain Determine Their Use in Higher-order Consumer Genomes
• Nutrigonometry I: using right-angle triangles to quantify nutritional trade-offs in multidimensional performance landscapes
• Maintaining robust size across environmental conditions through plastic brain growth dynamics
• Integrating body and organ size in Drosophila: recent advances and outstanding problems
• A role for juvenile hormone in the prepupal development of Drosophila melanogaster
• The Ecdysone receptor controls the post-critical weight switch to nutrition-independent differentiation in Drosophila wing imaginal discs
• Developmental model of static allometry in holometabolous insects
• Critical weight as a switch in the developmental response to starvation: the role of ecdysone in the maturation of Drosophila wing discs
• Size assessment and growth control: how adult size is determined in insects
• Ecdysteroid control of metamorphosis in the differentiating adult leg structures of Drosophila melanogaster
• The role of the prothoracic gland in determining critical weight to metamorphosis in Drosophila melanogaster
• Joint development in the Drosophila leg: Cell movements and cell populations
• Mechanisms regulating nutrition-dependent developmental plasticity through organ-specific effects in insects
• The developmental control of size in insects
• The roles of juvenile hormone, insulin/target of rapamycin, and ecydsone signaling in regulating body size in Drosophila
• Introgressive hybridization between two species of water striders (Hemiptera: Gerridae: Limnoporus): geographic structure and temporal change of a hybrid zone
• Within population variation in body size plasticity in response to combined nutritional and thermal stress is partially independent from variation in development time
• Ageing impairs protein leveraging in a sex-specific manner in Drosophila melanogaster
• Manuscript preprint: Rethinking the ecdysteroid source during Drosophila pupal–adult development
• Rethinking the ecdysteroid source during Drosophila pupal–adult development
• Genetic variation of macronutrient tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster.
• Within‐population variation in body size plasticity in response to combined nutritional and thermal stress is partially independent from variation in development time
• Restricting a single amino acid cross-protects Drosophila melanogaster from nicotine poisoning through mTORC1 and GCN2 signalling
• Biosynthetic constraints on amino acid synthesis at the base of the food chain may determine their use in higher-order consumer genomes
• Identifying the proximate mechanisms that generate variation in nutritional plasticity for fecundity in Drosophila melanogaster
• Identifying the proximate mechanisms that generate variation in nutritional plasticity for fecundity inDrosophila melanogaster
• Variation in plasticity in response to combined thermal-nutritional stress is genetically independent between sexes and across traits
• Genetic variation of macronutrient tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster
• Nutrigonometry I: Using Right-Angle Triangles to Quantify Nutritional Trade-Offs in Performance Landscapes
• Drosophila melanogaster females prioritise dietary sterols for producing viable eggs
• Target of Rapamycin Drives Unequal Responses to Essential Amino Acid Depletion for Egg Laying in Drosophila Melanogaster
• When does diet matter? The roles of larval and adult nutrition in regulating adult size traits in Drosophila melanogaster
• An integrative approach to dietary balance across the life course
• Evaluating old truths: Final adult size in holometabolous insects is set by the end of larval development
• The proximate sources of genetic variation in body size plasticity: The relative contributions of feeding behaviour and development in Drosophila melanogaster
• Short-term fasting of a single amino acid extends lifespan.
• Short-term fasting of a single amino acid extends lifespan
• GCN2 mediates access to stored amino acids for somatic maintenance duringDrosophilaageing
• Fluctuating temperatures exacerbate nutritional stress during development in Drosophila melanogaster
• Fluctuating temperatures exacerbate the effects of nutritional stress during development inDrosophila melanogaster
• Table S1 from Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate
• Data file from Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate
• Read me text file from Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate
• Supplementary material from "Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate"
• Tables S2 and S3 from Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate
• R code from Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate
• Female counter-singing data from Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate
• Male-female comparison data from Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate
• Female counter-singing analysis script from Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate
• Supplementary methods and figure captions from Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate
• Male-female comparison analysis script from Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate
• Fulton & Wansbrough et al, 2023_Short-term fasting of a single amino acid extends lifespan
• Short-term fasting of a single amino acid extends lifespan_Fulton & Wansbrough et al, 2023
• Transiently restricting individual amino acids protects D. melanogaster against multiple stressors
• Transiently restricting individual amino acids protectsD. melanogasteragainst multiple stressors
• Johnstone et al, 2023_Surviving without an essential aa_supplement & proteomics data
• Johnstone et al, 2023_Surviving without an essential aa_supplement & proteomics data