Leslie Pick

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Top papers

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1 Axons guided by insulin receptor in Drosophila visual system. Science 2003 2.10
2 Deletion of Drosophila insulin-like peptides causes growth defects and metabolic abnormalities. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009 1.41
3 Cofactor-interaction motifs and the cooption of a homeotic Hox protein into the segmentation pathway of Drosophila melanogaster. Curr Biol 2005 1.09
4 Transgenic Drosophila models of Noonan syndrome causing PTPN11 gain-of-function mutations. Hum Mol Genet 2006 1.07
5 Conservation and variation in Hox genes: how insect models pioneered the evo-devo field. Annu Rev Entomol 2013 0.87
6 Surprising flexibility in a conserved Hox transcription factor over 550 million years of evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 0.85
7 Insulin stimulates translocation of human GLUT4 to the membrane in fat bodies of transgenic Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One 2013 0.85
8 Rapid transcriptome sequencing of an invasive pest, the brown marmorated stink bug Halyomorpha halys. BMC Genomics 2014 0.84
9 Stripy Ftz target genes are coordinately regulated by Ftz-F1. Dev Biol 2009 0.83
10 Computational identification of Ftz/Ftz-F1 downstream target genes. Dev Biol 2006 0.83
11 Isolation of regulators of Drosophila immune defense genes by a double interaction screen in yeast. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 2006 0.79
12 The POU transcription factor Drifter/Ventral veinless regulates expression of Drosophila immune defense genes. Mol Cell Biol 2010 0.79
13 Variation and constraint in Hox gene evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013 0.79
14 The evolving role of the orphan nuclear receptor ftz-f1, a pair-rule segmentation gene. Evol Dev 2013 0.78
15 ftz evolution: findings, hypotheses and speculations (response to DOI 10.1002/bies.201100019). Bioessays 2011 0.77
16 Functional conservation of Drosophila FTZ-F1 and its mammalian homologs suggests ligand-independent regulation of NR5A family transcriptional activity. Dev Genes Evol 2013 0.76
17 Rapid isolation of gene homologs across taxa: Efficient identification and isolation of gene orthologs from non-model organism genomes, a technical report. Evodevo 2011 0.75
18 Preface. Curr Top Dev Biol 2017 0.75