Alan D. Shirras

Neuroscience · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research(36), Insect Resistance and Genetics(17), Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms(14), Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive Peptides(14), Insect Utilization and Effects(12)

Publications71 total

Nep2 peptidase (insect)
Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes·2025
Corrigendum: Reduced insulin signaling targeted to serotonergic neurons but not other neuronal subtypes extends lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience·2023Open Access
Reduced Insulin Signaling Targeted to Serotonergic Neurons but Not Other Neuronal Subtypes Extends Lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience·2022· 4 citedOpen Access
Loss of angiotensin-converting enzyme-related (ACER) peptidase disrupts behavioural and metabolic responses to diet in <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
Journal of Experimental Biology·2019· 15 citedOpen Access
Development of a Real-Time qPCR Assay for Quantification of Covert Baculovirus Infections in a Major African Crop Pest
Insects·2015· 12 citedOpen Access
The Drosophila Insulin Receptor Independently Modulates Lifespan and Locomotor Senescence
PLoS ONE·2015· 35 citedOpen Access
Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A (Invertebrate)
Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes·2012· 2 cited
Nep2 Peptidase (Insect)
Handbook of Proteolytic Enzymes·2012
A stress‐specific calcium signature regulating an ozone‐responsive gene expression network in Arabidopsis
The Plant Journal·2012· 61 citedOpen Access
lemmingA encodes the Apc11 subunit of the APC/C in Drosophila melanogaster that forms a ternary complex with the E2-C type ubiquitin conjugating enzyme, Vihar and Morula/Apc2
Cell Division·2012· 14 citedOpen Access
Cytoplasmic male sterility in Drosophila melanogaster associated with a mitochondrial CYTB variant
Heredity·2011· 78 citedOpen Access
Loss of Angiotensin-converting enzyme-related (ACER) peptidase disrupts night-time sleep in adult <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i>
Journal of Experimental Biology·2011· 32 citedOpen Access
<i>Drosophila</i> male sex peptide inhibits siesta sleep and promotes locomotor activity in the post-mated female
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2009· 283 citedOpen Access
Increased fragmentation of night-time sleep in Drosophila melanogaster lacking the angiotensin-converting enzyme-related (ACER) peptidase
Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University)·2009
Using African armyworm NPV as a strategic biological control agent: will studying pathogen ecology provide the answers?
Proceedings of the IOBC/WPRS Working Group "Insect Pathogens and Insect Parasitic Nematodes" and COST Action 862 "Bacterial Toxins for Insect Control", Pamplona, Spain, 22-25 June 2009.·2009
Neuropeptidases and the metabolic inactivation of insect neuropeptides
General and Comparative Endocrinology·2008· 63 cited
Locomotor and geotactic behavior of Drosophila melanogaster over-expressing neprilysin 2
Peptides·2008· 29 cited
Metabolic inactivation of the circadian transmitter, pigment dispersing factor (PDF), by neprilysin-like peptidases in <i>Drosophila</i>
Journal of Experimental Biology·2007· 25 cited
Male accessory glands of <i>Drosophila melanogaster</i> make a secreted angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ANCE), suggesting a role for the peptide-processing enzyme in seminal fluid
Journal of Experimental Biology·2007· 49 citedOpen Access
An unsuspected ecdysteroid/steroid phosphatase activity in the key T‐cell regulator, Sts‐1: Surprising relationship to insect ecdysteroid phosphate phosphatase
Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics·2007· 26 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

R. Elwyn Isaac(18), R. Elwyn Isaac(10), Richard J. Siviter(10), David Coates(8), Christine A. Taylor(7), Mary Bownes(4), Caroline M Rylett(4), Nicholas D. Bland(4), Ahmet Çarhan(4), J Thomas(4), Dick R. Nässel(3), M. Paulina Dani(3), Neil Audsley(3), Alistair M. Hetherington(3), Anthony J. Turner(3), Susan Broughton(3), Patrick Stancombe(3), Christine Shirras(3), Åsa M.E. Winther(2), Ronald J. Nachman(2)