Publications

2024

The Circadian Neuropeptide PDF has Sexually Dimorphic Effects on Activity Rhythms

Aishwarya Ramakrishnan Iyer, Eva Scholz-Carlson, Evardra Bell, Grace Biondi, Shlesha Richhariya, Maria de la Paz Fernandez

2023

Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems: Mechanisms Underlying Responses to Human-Generated Environmental Impacts

Tommi Anttonen, Thiago Burghi, Laura Duvall, Maria P. Fernandez, Gabrielle Gutierrez, Florence Kermen, Christine Merlin and Angie Michaiel

The Drosophila Circadian Clock Gene Cycle Controls Development of Clock Neurons

Glial ebony regulates neurotransmission and diverse Drosophila behaviors

Pantalia M, Lin Z, Tener SJ, Qiao B, Tang G, Ulgherait M, O’Connor R, Delventhal R, Siewert J, Syed S, Canman JC, Fernández MP and Shirazu-Hiza M

Fighting Flies: Quantifying and Analyzing Drosophila Aggression

Comparing Methods for Quantifying and Analyzing Drosophila Aggression

2022

Pre and post synaptic sites of LNds (evening cells)

Connectomic Analysis of the Drosophila Lateral Neuron Clock Cells Reveals the Synaptic Basis of Functional Pacemaker Classes

Orie T Shafer, Gabrielle J Gutierrez. Kimberly Li, Amber Mildenhall, Daphna Spira, Jonathan Marty, Aurel A Lazar, Maria de la Paz Fernandez

PHASE: A MATLAB Based Program for the Analysis of Drosophila Phase, Activity, and Sleep under Entrainment

Pearsons JL, Abhilash L, Lopatkin AJ, Roelofs A, Bell EV, Fernández MP and Shafer OT

Sexually dimorphic peripheral sensory neurons regulate copulation duration and persistence in male Drosophila

Shreyas Jois, Yick-Bun Chan, Maria Paz Fernandez, Narsimha Pujari, Lea Joline Janz, Sarah Parker & Adelaine Kwun-Wai Leung

2021

Sexual Dimorphism in Aggression: Sex-Specific Fighting Strategies Across Species.

Pandolfi M, Scaia MF and Fernández MP

Masculinized Drosophila females adapt their fighting strategies to their opponent.

Rachel E Monyak, Nicole M. Golbari, Yick-Bun Chan, Ausra Pranevicius, Grace Tang, Maria Paz Fernandez, and Edward A.Kravitz

Open-source computational framework for studying Drosophila behavioral phase

Boyan Kostadinov, Hannah Lee Pettibone, Evardra Valerie Bell, Xiaona Zhou, Ausra Pranevicius, Orie Thomas Shafer, Maria Paz Fernandez

Long-term dietary restriction leads to development of alternative fighting strategies

Legros, J, Tang G, Gautrais J, Fernández MP and Trannoy S

2020

Sites of Circadian Clock Neuron Plasticity Mediate Sensory Integration and Entrainment in Drosophila

Fernández MP, Pettibone HL, Bogart JT, Roell CJ, Davey CE, Pranevicius A, Huynh KV, Lennox SM, Kostadinov BS and Shafer OT

2018

Characterization of the Sexually Dimorphic fruitless Neurons That Regulate Copulation Duration

Jois S, Chan YB, Fernandez MP, Leung AK.

2015

Aggression in Drosophila

Kravitz, Edward A., Fernandez, Maria de la Paz

2014

Single serotonergic neurons that modulate aggression in Drosophila

Alekseyenko OV, Chan YB, Fernandez MP, Bülow T, Pankratz MJ, Kravitz EA

Octopamine neuromodulation regulates Gr32a-linked aggression and courtship pathways in Drosophila males

Andrews JC, Fernández MP, Yu Q, Leary GP, Leung AK, Kavanaugh MP, Kravitz EA, Certel SJ

2013

Aggression and courtship in Drosophila: pheromonal communication and sex recognition.

Fernández MP, Kravitz EA.

2010

Pheromonal and behavioral cues trigger male-to-female aggression in Drosophila.

Fernández MP, Chan YB, Yew JY, Billeter JC, Dreisewerd K, Levine JD, Kravitz EA.

2007

The Drosophila circadian network is a seasonal timer

Stoleru D, Nawathean P, Fernández MP, Menet JS, Ceriani MF, Rosbash M

Impaired clock output by altered connectivity in the circadian network

Fernández MP, Chu J, Villella A, Atkinson N, Kay SA and Ceriani MF

2004

Seasonality in a native Mapuche population.

Bekinschtein T, Negro, A, Goldin A, Fernández MP, Rosenbaum S and D.A. Golombek