Journals
Aminergic and peptidergic modulation of Insulin-Producing Cells in Drosophila
2024
eLife
Martina Held, Rituja S. Bisen, Meet Zandawala, Alexander S. Chockley, Isabella S. Balles, Selina Hilpert, Sander Liessem, Federico Cascino-Milani and Jan M. Ache
Another fly diuretic hormone: tachykinins increase fluid and ion transport by adult Drosophila melanogaster Malpighian ‘renal’ tubules
2024
Journal of Experimental Biology
Marishia Agard, Meet Zandawala and Jean-Paul Paluzzi
Anti-diuretic hormone ITP signals via a guanylate cyclase receptor to modulate systemic homeostasis in Drosophila
2024
eLife
Jayati Gera, Marishia Agard, Hannah Nave, Farwa Sajadi, Leena Thorat, Shu Kondo, Dick R. Nässel, Jean-Paul V. Paluzzi and Meet Zandawala
This important study provides a comprehensive analysis of ITP neuropeptide and its role as an anti-diuretic and metabolic hormone in the fruit fly Drosophila....
Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain
2024
Nature
Sven Dorkenwald, Arie Matsliah, Amy R. Sterling, Philipp Schlegel, Szi-chieh Yu, Claire E. McKellar, Albert Lin, Marta Costa, Katharina Eichler, Yijie Yin, Will Silversmith, Casey Schneider-Mizell, Chris S. Jordan, Derrick Brittain, Akhilesh Halageri, Kai Kuehner, Oluwaseun Ogedengbe, Ryan Morey, Jay Gager, Krzysztof Kruk, Eric Perlman, Runzhe Yang, David Deutsch, Doug Bland, Marissa Sorek, Ran Lu, Thomas Macrina, Kisuk Lee, J. Alexander Bae, Shang Mu, Barak Nehoran, Eric Mitchell, Sergiy Popovy
Proteome-wide neuropeptide identification using NeuroPeptide-HMMer (NP-HMMer)
2024
General and Comparative Endocrinology
Meet Zandawala, Muhammad Bilal Amir, Joel Shin, Won Cheol Yim and Luis Alfonso Yáñez-Guerra
The neuropeptide pigment-dispersing factor signals independently of Bruchpilot-labelled active zones in daily remodelled terminals of Drosophila clock neurons
2024
European Journal of Neuroscience
Benedikt Hofbauer, Meet Zandawala, Nils Reinhard, Dirk Rieger, Christian Werner, Jan Felix Evers and Christian Wegener
Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell typing of Drosophila
2024
Nature
Philipp Schlegel, Yijie Yin, Alexander S. Bates, Sven Dorkenwald, Katharina Eichler, Paul Brooks, Daniel S. Han, Marina Gkantia, Marcia dos Santos, Eva J. Munnelly, Griffin Badalamente, Laia Serratosa Capdevila, Varun A. Sane, Alexandra M. C. Fragniere, Ladann Kiassat, Markus W. Pleijzier, Tomke Stürner, Imaan F. M. Tamimi, Christopher R. Dunne, Irene Salgarella, Alexandre Javier, Siqi Fang, Eric Perlman, Tom Kazimiers, Sridhar R. Jagannathan, Arie Matsliah, Amy R. Sterling, Szi-chieh Yu, Claire
Characterization of clock-related proteins and neuropeptides in Drosophila littoralis and their putative role in diapause
2023
Journal of Comparative Neurology
Giulia Manoli, Meet Zandawala, Taishi Yoshii and Charlotte Helfrich-Förster
Discovery of Paralogous GnRH and Corazonin Signaling Systems in an Invertebrate Chordate
2023
Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2023, evad108
Luis Alfonso Yañez Guerra and Meet Zandawala
Receptor deorphanization in an echinoderm reveals kisspeptin evolution and relationship with (SALMFamide) neuropeptides
2022
BMC Biol (2022). 20(1) 187
Nayeli Escudero Castelán, Dean C. Semmens, Luis Alfonso Yañez Guerra, Meet Zandawala, Mario dos Reis, Susan E. Slade, James H. Scrivens, Cleidiane G. Zampronio, Alexandra M. Jones, Olivier Mirabeau and Maurice R. Elphick
A neuroendocrine pathway modulating osmotic stress in Drosophila
2021
PLOS Genetics (2021). 17(3) 1–31
Meet Zandawala, Thomas Nguyen, Marta Balanyà Segura, Helena A. D. Johard, Mirjam Amcoff, Christian Wegener, Jean-Paul Paluzzi and Dick R. Nässel
Characterization of a set of abdominal neuroendocrine cells that regulate stress physiology using colocalized diuretic peptides in Drosophila
2018
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (2018). 75(6) 1099–1115.
Meet Zandawala, Richard Marley, Shireen A. Davies and Dick R. Nässel
Discovery of novel representatives of bilaterian neuropeptide families and reconstruction of neuropeptide precursor evolution in ophiuroid echinoderms
2017
Open Biology 7(9) 170129
Meet Zandawala, Ismail Moghul, Luis Alfonso Yañez Guerra, Jérôme Delroisse, Nikara Abylkassimova, Andrew F. Hugall, Timothy D. O'Hara and Maurice R. Elphick
Modulation of Drosophila post-feeding physiology and behavior by the neuropeptide leucokinin
2017
in PLOS Genetics (2018). 14(11) 1–31
Meet Zandawala, Maria E. Yurgel, Michael J. Texada, Sifang Liao, Kim F. Rewitz, Alex C. Keene and Dick R. Nässel