Refereed journal articles & reviews (Last 5 years)
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- Palacios-Muñoz, A., D. de Paula Moreira, V. Silva, I. E. García, F. Aboitiz, M. Zarrei, G. Campos, O. Rennie, J. L. Howe, E. Anagnostou, P. Ambrozewic, S. W. Scherer, M. R. Passos-Bueno and J. Ewer (2022). Mutations in trpγ, the homologue of TRPC6 autism candidate gene, causes autism-like behavioral deficits in Drosophila. Mol Psychiatry: doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01555-1
- Piñeiro, M., W. Mena, J. Ewer and P. Orio (2021). Extracting temporal relationships between weakly coupled peptidergic and motoneuronal signaling: Application to Drosophila ecdysis behavior. PLoS Comput Biol 17(12): doi: e1008933.10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008933
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- Silva, V., A. Palacios-Muñoz, M. Volonté, L. Frenkel, J. Ewer and S. Ons (2021). Orcokinin neuropeptides regulate reproduction in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 139: doi: 103676.10.1016/j.ibmb.2021.103676
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- Mark, B., L. Bustos-Gonzalez, G. Cascallares, F. Conejera and J. Ewer (2021). The circadian clock gates Drosophila adult emergence by controlling the timecourse of metamorphosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 118(27): doi: 10.1073/pnas.2023249118
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- Anreiter, I., Allen, A.M., Vasquez, O.E., To, L., Douglas, S.J. , Alvarez, J.V., Ewer, J., and Sokolowski, M.B. The Drosophila foraging gene plays a vital role at the start of metamorphosis for subsequent adult emergence. Journal of Neurogenetics. doi: 10.1080/01677063.2021.1914608
- (Review) Cavieres, J. and Ewer, J. Reciprocal relationship between calcium signaling and circadian clocks: implications for calcium homeostasis, clock function, and therapeutics. Front. Mol. Neurosci. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2021.666673
- Silva, V., Palacios-Muñoz. A., Okray, Z., Adair, K.L., Waddell, S., Douglas, A.E., and Ewer, J. (2021). The impact of the gut microbiome on memory and sleep in Drosophila. J Exp Biol 224: 1-11. doi: 10.1242/jeb.233619
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- Robert L. Scott, Fengqiu Diao, Valeria Silva, Sanghoon Park, Haojiang Luan, John Ewer (2020). and Benjamin H. White (2020). Non-canonical Eclosion Hormone-Expressing Cells Regulate Drosophila Ecdysis. iScience 23, 101108, doi.org/10.1016/j.isci. 2020.101108.
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- Flaven-Pouchon, J., J. V. Alvarez, C. Rojas and J. Ewer (2020). The tanning hormone, bursicon, does not act directly on the epidermis to tan the Drosophila exoskeleton. BMC Biol 18(1): 17. doi: 10.1186/s12915-020-0742-5.
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- (Review) Liliana Bustos-González (2020). Shift work-related health problems: causes, effects, and light-based interventions. Sleep Science 13(Supl..2):23-30 doi: 10.5935/1984-0063.20200009
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- Whitlock, KE., Postlethwait, J., and Ewer, J. (2019). Neuroendocrinology of reproduction: Is gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) dispensable?. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology 53 (2019) 100738. doi.org: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2019.02.002.
- Palacios-Muñoz, A. and Ewer, J. (2018). Calcium and cAMP directly modulate the speed of the Drosophila circadian clock. PLoS Genet 14(6): e1007433. doi.org: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1007433.
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- Selcho†, M., Millán†, C., Palacios-Muñoz†, A., Ruf, F., Ubillo, L., Chen, J., Bergmann, G., Ito, C., Silva, V., Wegener*, C., and Ewer*, J (2017). Central and peripheral clocks are coupled by a neuropeptide pathway in Drosophila. Nature Comm 8:15563; doi: 10.1038/ncomms15563 † Equal contribution; * co-corresponding authors.
- Mena, W., S. Diegelmann, C. Wegener and J. Ewer (2016). Stereotyped responses of Drosophila peptidergic neuronal ensemble depend on downstream neuromodulators. eLife 5:e19686 doi: 10.7554/eLife.19686.
- Flaven-Pouchon, J., Farine, J.P., Ewer, J., and Ferveur, J.F. (2016). Regulation of cuticular hydrocarbon profile maturation by Drosophila tanning hormone, bursicon, and its interaction with desaturase activity. Insect Biochem Mol Biol 79:87-96. doi: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2016.10.007.
- Diao, F., W. Mena, J. Shi, D. Park, F. Diao, P. Taghert, J. Ewer and B. H. White (2016). The Splice Isoforms of the Drosophila Ecdysis Triggering Hormone Receptor have developmentally distinct roles. Genetics. 202(1): 175-189. doi: 10.1534/genetics.115.182121.
- (Review) Salazar, C., Valdivia, G., Ardiles, A.O., Ewer, J., Palacios, A,G (2016). Genetic variants associated with neurodegenerative Alzheimer disease in natural models. Biol. Res., 49: 14-22. doi: 10.1186/s40659-016-0072-9.
- (Review) Aspé-Sanchez, M., M. Moreno, M. I. Rivera, A. Rossi and J. Ewer (2016). Oxytocin and Vasopressin Receptor Gene Polymorphisms: Role in Social and Psychiatric Traits. Front Neurosci. 9:510. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00510.
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- (Review) Ewer, J. (2016). Como elegir un horario para Chile. Anales del Museo de Historia Natural de Valparaíso 29: 9-13.
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- Krüger, E., W. Mena, E. C. Lahr, E. C. Johnson and J. Ewer (2015). Genetic analysis of Eclosion hormone action during Drosophila larval ecdysis. Development. 142(24): 4279-4287. doi: 10.1242/dev.126995.
- Diao, F., H. Ironfield, H. Luan, F. Diao, W. C. Shropshire, J. Ewer, E. Marr, C. J. Potter, M. Landgraf and B. H. White (2015). Plug-and-Play Genetic Access to Drosophila Cell Types using Exchangeable Exon Cassettes. Cell Rep. 10(8): 1410-1421. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.01.059.
- (Review) Langenhan, T., Barr, M. M., Bruchas, M. R., Ewer, J., Griffith, L. C., Maiellaro, I., Taghert, P. H., White, B. H. and Monk, K. R. (2015). Model Organisms in GPCR Research. Mol Pharmacol 15(115): 098764. doi: 10.1124/mol.115.098764.
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