For the most up-to-date list of publications see Liz's google scholar page or her Research Gate page.
Names of students are underlined.
- Knapp RA*, Norman VC*, Rouse JL*, Duncan EJ: Environmentally Responsive Reproduction: Neuroendocrine Signalling and the Evolution of Eusociality. Submitted *equal contributions
- Lovegrove, M.R., Duncan, E.J., Dearden, P.K., 2021. Honeybee Queen mandibular pheromone induces starvation in Drosophila melanogaster, implying a role for nutrition signalling in the evolution of eusociality. bioRxiv, 2021.2004.2008.439099. Under review
- Whittaker IC, Rennie S, Houlston T, Taylor J, Duncan EJ: Sensing the geomagnetic field: an interdisciplinary re-evaluation of the evidence for magnetosense in honeybees. 2022.Submitted
- Addison, F.I., Dally, T., Duncan, E.J., Rouse, J., Evans, W.L., Hassall, C., Neely, R.R., 2022. Simulation of the Radar Cross Section of a Noctuid Moth. Remote Sensing 14.
- Colgan, T.J., Arce, A.N., Gill, R.J., Ramos Rodrigues, A., Kanteh, A., Duncan, E.J., Li, L., Chittka, L., Wurm, Y., 2022. Genomic Signatures of Recent Adaptation in a Wild Bumblebee. Molecular Biology and Evolution 39, msab366.
- Karunaraj, P., Tidswell, O., Duncan, E.J., Lovegrove, M.R., Jefferies, G., Johnson, T.K., Beck, C.W., Dearden, P.K., 2022. Noggin proteins are multifunctional extracellular regulators of cell signaling. Genetics, iyac049.
- Duncan EJ, Cunningham CB, Dearden PK: Phenotypic plasticity: what’s DNA methylation got to do with it ? Insects 2022.
- Van Eeckhoven J, Horsburgh GJ, Dawson DA, Mayer K, Bretman A, Duncan EJ: Development of a multiplex microsatellite marker set for the study of the solitary red mason bee, Osmia bicornis (Megachilidae). Molecular Biology Reports 2021.
- Lukach M, Dally T, Evans W, Hassall C, Duncan E, Bennett L, Addison F, Kunin W, Chapman J, Neely III RR: Assessment of nocturnal insect abundance and diversity using dual-polarisation X-band weather radar. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 2021.
- Leask M, Lovegrove M, Walker A, Duncan E, Dearden P: Evolution and genomic organization of the insect sHSP gene cluster and coordinate regulation in phenotypic plasticity. BMC Ecology and Evolution 2021, 21:154
- Lovegrove, M.R., Knapp, R.A., Duncan, E.J. & Dearden, P.K. 2020 Drosophila melanogaster and worker honeybees (Apis mellifera) do not require olfaction to be susceptible to honeybee queen mandibular pheromone. J Insect Physiol, 104154.
- Harrop, T.W.R., Guhlin, J., McLaughlin, G.M., Permina, E., Stockwell, P., Gilligan, J., Le Lec, M.F., Gruber, M.A.M., Quinn, O., Lovegrove, M., Duncan, E.J., Remnant, E.J., Van Eeckhoven, J., Graham, B., Knapp, R.A., Langford, K.W., Kronenberg, Z., Press, M.O., Eacker, S.M., Wilson-Rankin, E.E., Purcell, J., Lester, P.J., Dearden, P.K., 2020. High-Quality Assemblies for Three Invasive Social Wasps from the Vespula Genus. G3 (Bethesda) 10, 3479-3488.
- Rouse, J., McDowall, L., Mitchell, Z., Duncan, E.J., Bretman, A., 2020. Social competition stimulates cognitive performance in a sex-specific manner. Proc Biol Sci 287, 20201424
- Sheridan, K.J., Duncan, E.J., Eaton-Rye, J.J. & Summerfield, T.C. 2020 The diversity and distribution of D1 proteins in cyanobacteria. Photosynth Research.
- Oeyen JP et al., (includes Duncan, E.J.) “Sawfly genomes reveal evolutionary acquisitions that fostered the mega-radiation of parasitoid and eusocial Hymenoptera”. Genome Biol Evol 2020.
- Duncan, E. J., M. P. Leask and P. K. Dearden (2020). "Genome Architecture Facilitates Phenotypic Plasticity in the Honeybee (Apis mellifera)." Molecular Biology and Evolution.
- Van Eeckhoven, J. and E. J. Duncan (2020). "Mating status and the evolution of eusociality: Oogenesis is independent of mating status in the solitary bee Osmia bicornis." Journal of Insect Physiology 121: 104003.
- Lovegrove, M.R., Dearden, P.K., Duncan, E.J., (2019). Ancestral hymenopteran queen pheromones do not share the broad phylogenetic repressive effects of honeybee queen mandibular pheromone. Journal of Insect Physiology, 119: 103968.
- Panfilio, K et al., (includes Duncan, E.J.) (2019) “Molecular evolutionary trends and feeding ecology diversification in the Hemiptera, anchored by the milkweed bug genome” Genome Biology 20(1): 64.
- Skelly, J, Pushparajan C, Duncan E.J., Dearden P.K (2019) “Evolution of the Torso activation cassette, a pathway required for terminal patterning and moulting” Insect molecular biology 28(3): 392-408.
- Armisen, D., et al., (includes Duncan, E.J.), (2018). The genome of the water strider Gerris buenoi reveals expansions of gene repertoires associated with adaptations to life on the water. BMC Genomics 19(1): 832.
- Wu, C et. al., (includes Duncan, E.J.) (2017) “Analysis of the genome of the New Zealand giant collembolan (Holacanthella duospinosa) sheds light on hexapod evolution”. BMC Genomics 18, 795.
- Duncan, E.J., Hyink, O and Dearden, P.K. (2016) Notch signalling mediates reproductive constraint in the adult worker honeybee. Nat Commun 7: 12427.
- Smith, L.M., Parr-Brownlie, L.C., Duncan, E.J., Black, M.A., Gemmell, N.J., Dearden, P.K. and Reynolds, J.N. (2016) Striatal mRNA expression patterns underlying peak dose L-DOPA-induced dyskinesia in the 6-OHDA hemiparkinsonian rat. Neuroscience 324: 238-51.
- Chatterjee, A, Lagisz, M, Rodger, E.J., Zhen, L, Stockwell, P.A., Duncan, E.J., Horsfield, JA, Jeyakani, J, Mathavan, S, Ozaki, Y and Nakagawa, S (2016) Sex differences in DNA methylation and expression in zebrafish brain: a test of an extended 'male sex drive' hypothesis. Gene 590: 307-16.
- Benoit et. al., (includes Duncan, E.J.) (2015) “Unique features of a global human ectoparasite identified through sequencing of the bed bug genome” Nat Commun 7: 10165.
- Chatterjee A., Stockwell P.A., Rodger E.J., Duncan E.J., Parry M.F., Weeks R.J., Morison I.M. (2015) “Genome-wide DNA methylation map reveals widespread epigenetic variation in healthy individuals” Scientific Reports 5: 17328.
- Paten A.M., Duncan, E.J., Pain S.J., Peterson. S.W., Kenyon P.R., Blair H.T., Dearden P.K (2015) “Functional development of the adult ovine mammary gland – insights from gene expression profiling” BMC Genomics 16(1): 748.
- Ha, M., Kleffmann, T., Sabherwal, M., Duncan, E.J., Stevens, S., Stockwell, P.A., McConnell, M., El-Din Bekhit, A., Carne, A. (2015) “In-Depth Characterization of Sheep (Ovis aries) Milk Whey Proteome and Comparison with Cow (Bos taurus)” PLoS ONE 10(10): e0139774. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0139774
- Cridge A.G., Leask M.P. , Duncan, E.J. *, Dearden P.K. (2015) “What do studies of insect polyphenisms tell us about nutritionally-triggered epigenomic changes and their consequences?” Nutrients, 7(3):1787-1797.
- Sadd et al., (includes Duncan, E.J.) (2015) “The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organisation.” Genome Biology 16:76
- The Strigamia Genome Sequencing Consortium (includes Duncan, E.J.) (2014) “Prototypical Arthropod Gene Content and Genome Organisation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima” PLoS Biology 12(11): e1002005. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002005
- Paten A.M., Pain S.J., Peterson S.W., Blair H.T., Kenyon P.R., Dearden P.K, Duncan E.J+. (2014) “Identification of reference genes for RT-qPCR in ovine mammary tissue during late-pregnancy, lactation and in response to maternal nutritional programming.” Physiological Genomics 46(15): 560-70 + denotes corresponding author
- Duncan E.J., Johnson, T.K., Whisstock, J.C., Warr, C. G., Dearden P.K. (2014) “Capturing embryonic development from metamorphosis: How did the terminal patterning signalling pathway of Drosophila evolve?” Current Opinion in Insect Science 1: 45-51
- Duncan E.J., Gluckman P.D., Dearden, P.K. (2014) “Epigenetics, Plasticity and Evolution: How do we move from correlation to causation?” Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 322(4):208-20
- Cameron R.C., Duncan, E.J., Dearden, P.K. (2013) “Biased gene expression in early honeybee larval development” BMC Genomics 14:903
- Duncan, E.J., Benton, M.A., Dearden, P.K. (2013) “Canonical terminal patterning is an evolutionary novelty” Developmental Biology 377(1): 245-61
- Duncan, E.J., Leask, M.P., Dearden, P.K. (2013) “The pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum) genome encodes two divergent early developmental programs” Developmental Biology 377(1): 245-61
- Cameron, R.C., Duncan, E.J., Dearden, P.K., 2013. Stable reference genes for the measurement of transcript abundance during larval caste development in the honeybee. Apidologie 44, 357-366.
- Chua, J.P., Wallace, E.J., Yardley, J.A., Duncan, E.J., Dearden, P.K., Summerfield, T.C., 2012. Gene expression indicates a zone of heterocyst differentiation within the thallus of the cyanolichen Pseudocyphellaria crocata. New Phytol 196, 862-872.
- Shigenobu, S., Bickel, R.D., Brisson, J.A., Butts, T., Chang, C.C., Christiaens, O., Davis, G.K., Duncan, E.J., Ferrier, D.E., Iga, M., Janssen, R., Lin, G.W., Lu, H.L., McGregor, A.P., Miura, T., Smagghe, G., Smith, J.M., van der Zee, M., Velarde, R.A., Wilson, M.J., Dearden, P.K., Stern, D.L., 2010. Comprehensive survey of developmental genes in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum: frequent lineage-specific duplications and losses of developmental genes. Insect Mol Biol 19 Suppl 2, 47-62.
- International Aphid Genomics, Consortium [includes Duncan, E.J.], 2010. Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum. PLoS Biol 8, e1000313.
- Gerardo, N.M., Altincicek, B., Anselme, C., Atamian, H., Barribeau, S.M., de Vos, M., Duncan, E.J., Evans, J.D., Gabaldon, T., Ghanim, M., Heddi, A., Kaloshian, I., Latorre, A., Moya, A., Nakabachi, A., Parker, B.J., Perez-Brocal, V., Pignatelli, M., Rahbe, Y., Ramsey, J.S., Spragg, C.J., Tamames, J., Tamarit, D., Tamborindeguy, C., Vincent-Monegat, C., Vilcinskas, A., 2010. Immunity and other defenses in pea aphids, Acyrthosiphon pisum. Genome Biol 11, R21.
- Duncan, E.J., Dearden, P.K., 2010. Evolution of a genomic regulatory domain: the role of gene co-option and gene duplication in the Enhancer of split complex. Genome Res 20, 917-928.
- Hendrick, P., Bond, C., Duncan, E., Hale, L., 2009. Clinical reasoning in musculoskeletal practice: students' conceptualizations. Phys Ther 89, 430-442.
- Duncan, E.J., Wilson, M.J., Smith, J.M., Dearden, P.K., 2008. Evolutionary origin and genomic organisation of runt-domain containing genes in arthropods. BMC Genomics 9, 558.
- Duncan, E.J., Dodds, K.G., Henry, H.M., Thompson, M.P., Phua, S.H., 2007. Cloning, mapping and association studies of the ovine ABCG2 gene with facial eczema disease in sheep. Anim Genet 38, 126-131.
- Duncan, E.J., Thompson, M.P., Phua, S.H., 2005. Zinc protection of HepG2 cells from sporidesmin toxicity does not require de novo gene transcription. Toxicol Lett 159, 164-172.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
- Osborne, A.J., Duncan, E.J., Cridge, A.G., Dearden, P.K., 2014. Chapter 4 - Epigenetics and the Maternal Germline A2 - Tollefsbol, Trygve, Transgenerational Epigenetics. Academic Press, Oxford, pp. 27-41.
- Dearden, P.K., Duncan, E.J., Wilson, M.J., 2009. The honeybee Apis mellifera. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009, pdb emo123.