Alexander W. Shingleton
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 2001
39 Natural Science Building
Office Telephone: 517-353-2253
shingle9@msu.edu
Research Website
Environmental Influences on Genome Development
I study how the environment influences the genome during development. My research is centered on two animals. I am interested in how nutition influences body size, in flies, and how the environment influences developmental progression, in aphids.
Representative Publications
Shingleton, A.W. and P.W. Bates. (----). A growth model of the regulation of nutritional static allometries in holometabolous insects. In prep.
Shingleton, A.W. and C. Estep. (----). Environmental static allometries in Drosophila melanogaster. In prep.
Shingleton, A.W., W.A. Frankino, T. Flatt, H.F. Nijhout, D.J. Emlen. 2007. Size and Shape: The regulation of static allometry in insects. BioEssays, in press.
Shingleton, A.W. 2005. Body-Size Regulation: Combining Genetics and Physiology, Current Biology, 15 (20), R825-R827.
Shingleton, A.W., J. Das, L. Vinicius, and D.L. Stern. 2005. The temporal requirements for insulin signaling during development in Drosophila. PLoS Biology, 3 (9).
See also Research Highlights: Sizing up the fly, Nature Reviews Genetics, 6, 802.
Shingleton, A.W., D.L. Stern,and W.A. Foster. 2005. The origin of a mutualism: a morphological trait promoting the evolution of ant-aphid mutualisms, Evolution, 59 (4), 921-926.