Plants and animals can live in an amazing number of different environments. The broad goal of my research is to understand how they can do that.
Research Publications
Reynolds JA, Waight EM. 2024. Differentially expressed microRNAs in brains of adult females may regulate the maternal block of diapause in Sarcophaga bullata. Curr Res Insect Sci. 6:100099. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cris.2024.100099
Reynolds JA.2024. MicroRNAs in the developmental toolbox – a comparative approach to understanding their role in regulating insect development. Curr Opin Insect Sci. 66:101256. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2024.101256
Teets NM, Marshall KE, Reynolds JA. 2023. Molecular Mechanisms of Winter Survival. Annu Rev Entomol. 68:319-339. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120120-095233
Li YY, Chen JJ, Liu MY, He WW, Reynolds JA, Wang YN, Wang MQ, Zhang LS. 2022. Enhanced Degradation of Juvenile Hormone Promotes Reproductive Diapause in the Predatory Ladybeetle Coccinella Septempunctata. Front Physiol. 13:877153. DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2022.877153
Reynolds JA, Nachman RJ, Denlinger DL. 2019. Distinct microRNA and mRNA responses elicited by ecdysone, diapause hormone and a diapause hormone analog at diapause termination in pupae of the corn earworm, Helicoverpa zea. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 278:68-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2018.09.013
Bradshaw WE, Burkhart J, Colbourne JK, Borowczak R, Lopez J, Denlinger DL, Reynolds JA, Pfrender ME, Holzapfel CM. 2018. Evolutionary transition from blood feeding to obligate nonbiting in a mosquito. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 115(5):1009-1014. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1717502115
Meuti ME, Bautista-Jimenez R, Reynolds JA. 2018. Evidence that microRNAs are part of the molecular toolkit regulating adult reproductive diapause in the mosquito, Culex pipiens. PLoS One. 13(11):e0203015. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203015
Reynolds JA, Peyton JT, Denlinger DL. 2017. Changes in microRNA abundance may regulate diapause in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga bullata. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 2017 May;84:1-14. DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2017.03.002
Reynolds JA, Bautista-Jimenez R, Denlinger DL.2016. Changes in histone acetylation as potential mediators of pupal diapause in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga bullata. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 76:29-37. DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2016.06.012
Poelchau MF, Huang X, Goff A, Reynolds J, Armbruster P. 2014. An experimental and bioinformatics protocol for RNA-Seq analyses of photoperiodic diapause in the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus. J Vis Exp. 93:e51961. DOI: 10.3791/51961
Reynolds JA, Clark J, Diakoff SJ, Denlinger DL. 2013. Transcriptional evidence for small RNA regulation of pupal diapause in the flesh fly, Sarcophaga bullata. Insect Biochem Mol Biol. 43(10):982-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.ibmb.2013.07.005
Poelchau MF, Reynolds JA, Elsik CG, Denlinger DL, Armbruster PA. 2013. Deep sequencing reveals complex mechanisms of diapause preparation in the invasive mosquito, Aedes albopictus. Proc Biol Sci. 280(1759):20130143. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0143
Reynolds JA, Poelchau MF, Rahman Z, Armbruster PA, Denlinger DL. 2012. Transcript profiling reveals mechanisms for lipid conservation during diapause in the mosquito, Aedes albopictus. J Insect Physiol. 58(7):966-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2012.04.013
Poelchau MF, Reynolds JA, Denlinger DL, Elsik CG, Armbruster PA. 2011. A de novo transcriptome of the Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, to identify candidate transcripts for diapause preparation. BMC Genomics. 12:619. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-619
Reynolds JA, Hand SC. 2009. Embryonic diapause highlighted by differential expression of mRNAs for ecdysteroidogenesis, transcription and lipid sparing in the cricket Allonemobius socius. J Exp Biol. 212(Pt 13):2075-84. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.027367
Reynolds JA, Hand SC. 2009. Decoupling development and energy flow during embryonic diapause in the cricket, Allonemobius socius. J Exp Biol. 212(Pt 13):2065-74. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.027359
Reynolds JA, Hand SC. Differences in isolated mitochondria are insufficient to account for respiratory depression during diapause in artemia franciscana embryos. Physiol Biochem Zool. 77(3):366-77. DOI: 10.1086/420950
Julie A Reynolds, Ph.D. 