Department of Integrative Biology

K. L. Latham, Liu, Y. S., and Taylor, B. J., “A small cohort of FRUM and Engrailed-expressing neurons mediate successful copulation in Drosophila melanogaster”, Bmc Neuroscience, vol. 14, p. 16, 2013.

M. H. Olcott, Henkels, M. D., Rosen, K. L., Walker, F. L., Sneh, B., Loper, J. E., and Taylor, B. J., “Lethality and Developmental Delay in Drosophila melanogaster Larvae after Ingestion of Selected Pseudomonas fluorescens Strains”, Plos One, vol. 5, p. 12, 2010.

T. R. Shirangi, Taylor, B. J., and McKeown, M., “A double-switch system regulates male courtship behavior in male and female Drosophila melanogaster”, Nature Genetics, vol. 38, pp. 1435-1439, 2006.

L. M. Ditch, Shirangi, T., Pitman, J. L., Latham, K. L., Finley, K. D., Edeen, P. T., Taylor, B. J., and McKeown, M., “Drosophila retained/dead ringer is necessary for neuronal pathfinding, female receptivity and repression of fruitless independent male courtship behaviors”, Development, vol. 132, pp. 155-164, 2005.

D. S. Manoli, Foss, M., Villella, A., Taylor, B. J., Hall, J. C., and Baker, B. S., “Male-specific fruitless specifies the neural substrates of Drosophila courtship behaviour”, Nature, vol. 436, pp. 395-400, 2005.

S. H. Cole, Carney, G. E., McClung, C. A., Willard, S. S., Taylor, B. J., and Hirsh, J., “Two functional but noncomplementing Drosophila tyrosine decarboxylase genes”, Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 280, pp. 14948-14955, 2005.

M. Hedengren-Olcott, Olcott, M. C., Mooney, D. T., Ekengren, S., Geller, B. L., and Taylor, B. J., “Differential activation of the NF-kappa B-like factors relish and Dif in Drosophila melanogaster by fungi and Gram-positive bacteria”, Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 279, pp. 21121-21127, 2004.

K. D. Finley, Edeen, P. T., Cumming, R. C., Mardahl-Dumesnil, M. D., Taylor, B. J., Rodriguez, M. H., Hwang, C. E., Benedetti, M., and McKeown, M., “blue cheese mutations define a novel, conserved gene involved in progressive neural degeneration”, Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 23, pp. 1254-1264, 2003.

H. J. Song and Taylor, B. J., “Fruitless gene is required to maintain neuronal identity in evenskipped-expressing neurons in the embryonic CNS of Drosophila”, Journal of Neurobiology, vol. 55, pp. 115-133, 2003.

G. E. Carney and Taylor, B. J., “logjam encodes a predicted EMP24/GP25 protein that is required for Drosophila oviposition Behavior”, Genetics, vol. 164, pp. 173-186, 2003.

H. J. Song, Billeter, J. C., Reynaud, E., Carlo, T., Spana, E. P., Perrimon, N., Goodwin, S. F., Baker, B. S., and Taylor, B. J., “The fruitless gene is required for the proper formation of axonal tracts in the embryonic central nervous system of drosophila”, Genetics, vol. 162, pp. 1703-1724, 2002.

C. R. B. Boake, Arnold, S. J., Breden, F., Meffert, L. M., Ritchie, M. G., Taylor, B. J., Wolf, J. B., and Moore, A. J., “Genetic tools for studying adaptation and the evolution of behavior”, American Naturalist, vol. 160, pp. S143-S159, 2002.

C. Peterson, Carney, G. E., Taylor, B. J., and White, K., “reaper is required for neuroblast apoptosis during Drosophila development”, Development, vol. 129, pp. 1467-1476, 2002.

B. S. Baker, Taylor, B. J., and Hall, J. C., “Are complex behaviors specified by dedicated regulatory genes? Reasoning from Drosophila”, Cell, vol. 105, pp. 13-24, 2001.

A. Anand, Villella, A., Ryner, L. C., Carlo, T., Goodwin, S. F., Song, H. J., Gailey, D. A., Morales, A., Hall, J. C., Baker, B. S., and Taylor, B. J., “Molecular genetic dissection of the sex-specific and vital functions of the Drosophila melanogaster sex determination gene fruitless”, Genetics, vol. 158, pp. 1569-1595, 2001.

G. Lee, Villella, A., Taylor, B. J., and Hall, J. C., “New reproductive anomalies in fruitless-mutant Drosophila males: Extreme lengthening of mating durations and infertility correlated with defective serotonergic innervation of reproductive organs”, Journal of Neurobiology, vol. 47, pp. 121-149, 2001.

S. F. Goodwin, Taylor, B. J., Villella, A., Foss, M., Ryner, L. C., Baker, B. S., and Hall, J. C., “Aberrant splicing and altered spatial expression patterns in fruitless mutants of Drosophila melanogaster”, Genetics, vol. 154, pp. 725-745, 2000.

G. Lee, Foss, M., Goodwin, S. F., Carlo, T., Taylor, B. J., and Hall, J. C., “Spatial, temporal, and sexually dimorphic expression patterns of the fruitless gene in the Drosophila central nervous system”, Journal of Neurobiology, vol. 43, pp. 404-426, 2000.

K. D. Finley, Edeen, P. T., Foss, M., Gross, E., Ghbeish, N., Palmer, R. H., Taylor, B. J., and McKeown, M., “dissatisfaction encodes a tailless-like nuclear receptor expressed in a subset of CNS neurons controlling Drosophila sexual behavior”, Neuron, vol. 21, pp. 1363-1374, 1998.

K. D. Finley, Taylor, B. J., Milstein, M., and McKeown, M., “dissatisfaction, a gene involved in sex-specific behavior and neural development of Drosophila melanogaster”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 94, pp. 913-918, 1997.

L. C. Ryner, Goodwin, S. F., Castrillon, D. H., Anand, A., Villella, A., Baker, B. S., Hall, J. C., Taylor, B. J., and Wasserman, S. A., “Control of male sexual behavior and sexual orientation in Drosophila by the fruitless gene”, Cell, vol. 87, pp. 1079-1089, 1996.

B. J. Taylor and Knittel, L. M., “SEX-SPECIFIC DIFFERENTIATION OF A MALE-SPECIFIC ABDOMINAL MUSCLE, THE MUSCLE-OF-LAWRENCE, IS ABNORMAL IN HYDROXYUREA-TREATED AND IN FRUITLESS MALE FLIES”, Development, vol. 121, pp. 3079-3088, 1995.

B. J. Taylor, Villella, A., Ryner, L. C., Baker, B. S., and Hall, J. C., “BEHAVIORAL AND NEUROBIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF SEX-DETERMINING FACTORS IN DROSOPHILA”, Developmental Genetics, vol. 15, pp. 275-296, 1994.