Publications

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Flatt, T. Min, K.J., D’Alterio, C., Villa-Cuesta, E., Cumbers, J., Lehmann, R., Jones, D.L., and Tatar, M. 2008. Drosophila germ-line modulation of insulin signaling and lifespan. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 105: 6368-6373.

Min, K.J, Yamamoto, R., Buch, S. Pankratz, M., Tatar, M. 2008. Drosophila lifespan control by dietary restriction independent of insulin-like signaling. Aging Cell. 7: 199-206.

O’Brien, D., Min, K.J., Tatar, M. 2008. Use of stable isotopes to examine how dietary restriction extends Drosophila lifespan. Current Biology. 18: R155-156.

Lee, K-S., Kwon, O-Y., H. Lee, J.H. Kwon, K., Min, K-J. Jung, S-A., Kim, A-K., You, K-H., Tatar, M. and Yu, K. 2008. Drosophila short neuropeptide F signaling regulates growth by ERK mediated insulin signaling. Nature Cell Biology. 10: 468-475.

Tatar, M. 2007. Diet restriction in Drosophila melanogaster. Design and analysis. Interdiscip Top Gerontol. 35:115-36..

Gershman, B., Puig, O., Hang, L., Peitzsh, R., Tatar, M. Garofalo, R. 2007. High resolution dynamics of the transcriptional response to nutrition in Drosophila: a key role for dFOXO. Physiological Genomics. 29(1): 24-34. Min, K.J., Tatar, M. 2007. Counting calories in Drosophila diet restriction. Experimental Gerontology. 42(3): 247-251

Min, K.J., Hogan, M.F., Tatar, M., O’Brien, D.M 2006. Resource allocation to reproduction and soma in Drosophila: stable isotope analysis of carbon from dietary sugar. Journal of Insect Physiology. 52(7):763-70

Zerofsky, M., Heral, H., Silverman, N., Tatar, M. 2005. Aging of the innate immune response in Drosophila melanogaster. Aging Cell. 4:103-108.

Tu, M.-P., Yin, C.-M., Tatar, M. 2005. Insulin signal regulation of juvenile hormone synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 142: 347-356.

Hwangbo, D.S, Gershman, B., Tu, M-P., Palmer, M. Tatar, M. 2004. Drosophila dFOXO controls lifespan and regulates insulin signaling in brain and fat body. Nature 420:562-566.

Wessels, R.J., Fitzgerald, E., Cypser, J.R. Tatar, M., Bodmer, R. 2004. Insulin regulation of heart function in aging Drosophila. Nature Genetics, 36:1275-1281.

Wood, J.G., Rogina, B., Lavu, S., Howitz, K., Helfand, S.L., Tatar, M., Sinclair, D. 2004. Sirtuin activators mimic calorie restriction and delay aging in metazoans. Nature. 429:562-566.

Kingan, S.B., Tatar, M. Rand, D.M. 2003. Reduced polymorphism in the Chimpanzee semen coagulating protein, Semenogelin I. Journal Molecular Evolution 57:159-169.

Tatar, M., Bartke, A., Antebi, A. 2003. The endocrine regulation of aging by insulin-like signals. Science, 299: 1346-1351.

Tu, M.-P., Tatar, M. 2003. Aging in a nutrient-induced phenocopy of D. melanogaster insulin signal mutations. Developmental Biology, submitted.

Tatar, M., Bartke, A., Antebi, A. 2003. The endocrine regulation of aging by insulin-like singals. Science, 299: 1346-1351.

Tu, M.-P., Yin, C.-M., Tatar, M. 2002. Impaired ovarian ecdysone synthesis of Drosophila melanogaster insulin receptor mutants. Aging Cell, 2: 158-160.

Bronikowski, A.M., Alberts, S.C., Altman, J., Packer, C., Carey, K.D., Tatar, M. 2002. The aging baboon: Comparative demography in a nonhuman primate. PNAS, 99: 9591-9595.

Tu, M.-P., Epstein, D., Tatar, M. 2002. The demography of slow aging in male and female Drosophila mutant for the insulin-receptor substrate homolog chico. Aging Cell, 1: 75-80.

Tatar, M. 2002. Germ-line stem cells call the shots. Trends in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 17: 297-298.

Tatar, M., Rand, D. 2002. Dietary advice on Q. Science. 295: 54-55.

Good, T.P., Tatar, M. 2001. Age-specific mortality and reproduction respond to adult dietary restriction in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Insect Physiology 47: 1467-1473.

Herman, W.S., Tatar, M. 2001. Juvenile hormone regulates longevity during reproductive diapause in the migratory monarch butterfly. Proceeding Royal Society, B. London. 268: 2509-2514.

Linnen, C., Tatar, M., Promislow, D. 2001. Cultural artifacts: a comparison of senescence in natural, laboratory-adapted and artificially selected lines of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolutionary Ecology Research. 3: 877-888.

Tatar, M., Kopelman, A., Epstein, D., Tu, M.-P., Yin, C.-M., Garofalo, R.S. 2001. A mutant Drosophila insulin receptor homolog that extends lifespan and impairs neuroendocrine function. Science. 292: 107-110.

Tatar, M., Chien, S., Preist, N. 2001. Negligible senescence during reproductive diapause in Drosophila melanogaster. American Naturalist. 158: 248-258.

Tatar, M., Yin, C.-M. 2001. Slow aging during insect reproductive diapause: Why butterflies, grasshoppers and flies are like worms. Experimental Gerontology. 36: 723-738.

Tatar, M. 2001. Senescence in C. W. Fox, D. A. Roff and D. J. Fairbain, eds. Evolutionary Ecology: Concepts and Case Studies. Oxford University Press, Oxford. Pp 128-141.

Silbermann, R., Tatar, M. 2000. Reproductive costs of transgenic hsp70 overexpression in Drosophila. Evolution. 54: 2038-2045.

Tatar, M. 2000 Transgenic organisms in evolutionary ecology. Trends in Evolution and Ecology. 15: 207-211.

Tatar, M. 1999. Evolution of senescence: Longevity and the expression of heat shock proteins. American Zoologist. 38: 72-81.

Shaw, F., Promislow, D.E.L, Tatar, M. Hughes, K., Geyer, C. 1999. Towards reconciling inferences concerning genetic variation in senescence. Genetics 152: 553-566.

Tatar, M. 1999. Transgenes in the analysis of lifespan and fitness. American Naturalist. 154: S67-81.

Promislow, D.E.L., Tatar, M., Pletcher, S.D., Carey, J.R. 1999. Below-threshold mortality and its impact on studies in evolutionary ecology. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 12: 312-328.

Packer, C., Tatar, M., Collins, A. 1998. Reproductive cessation in female mammals. Nature. 392: 807-811

Promislow, D.E.L., Tatar, M. 1998. Mutation and senescence: Where genetics and demography meet. Genetica. 102/103: 299-314.

Resler A.S, Kelly K., Kantor G., Khazaeli A.A., Tatar M., Curtsinger J.W. 1998. Genetic analysis of extended life span in Drosophila melanogaster - II. Replication of the backcross test and molecular characterization of the N14 Locus. Genetica. 104: 33-39.

Tatar, M., Khazaeli, A.A., Curtsinger, J.W. 1997. Chaperoning extended life. Nature. 390:30.

Tatar, M., Gray, D.W., Carey, J.R. 1997. Altitudinal variation for senescence in Melanoplus grasshoppers. Oecologia. 111:357-364.

Tatar, M., Promislow, D.E.L. 1997. Fitness costs of reproduction. Evolution. 51:1323-1326.

Khazaeli, A.A., Tatar, M., Pletcher, S.D., Curtsinger, J.W. 1997. Heat-induced longevity extension in Drosophila. I. Heat treatment, mortality and thermotolerance. Journal of Gerontology. 52A: B48-B52.

Tatar, M., Promislow, D.E.L., Khazaeli, A., Curtsinger, J.W. 1996. Age-specific patterns of genetic variance in Drosophila melanogaster. II. Fecundity and its relation to mortality. Genetics. 143: 849-858.

Promislow, D.E.L., Tatar, M., Khazaeli, A., Curtsinger, J.W. 1996. Age-specific patterns of genetic variance in Drosophila melanogaster. I. Mortality. Genetics. 143: 839-848.

Tatar, M., Carey, J.R. 1995. Nutrition mediates reproductive costs in the beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. Ecology. 76: 2066-2073.

Curtsinger, J.W., Fukui, H.H., Khazaeli, A., Kirscher, J., Pletcher, S., Promislow, D., Tatar, M. 1995. Genetic variation and aging. Annual Review of Genetics. 29: 553-575.

Tatar, M., Carey, J.R. 1994. Sex mortality differentials in the bean beetle: reframing the question. The American Naturalist. 144:165-175.

Tatar, M., Carey, J.R. 1994. The genetics of mortality in the bean beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. Evolution. 48:1371-1376.

Carey, J.R., Liedo, P., Orozco, D., Tatar, M., Vaupel, J.W. 1994. A male-female longevity paradox in medfly cohorts. Journal of Animal Ecology. 64: 107-116.

Promislow, D., Tatar, M. 1994. Comparative Approaches to the Study of Senescence: Bridging Genetics and Phylogenetics. In The Genetics and Evolution of Aging (eds. C.E. Finch and M.R. Rose). pp. 45-54.

Fox, C.W., Tatar, M. 1994. Oviposition substrate affects adult mortality, independent of reproduction, in the seed beetle Callosobruchus maculatus. Ecological Entomology. 19:108-110.

Tatar, M., Carey, J.R., Vaupel, J.W. 1993. Long term cost of reproduction with and without accelerated senescence in Callosobruchus maculatus: analysis of age-specific mortality. Evolution. 47:1302-1312.

Minkenberg, O.P.J.M., Tatar, M., Rosenheim, J.A. 1992. Egg load as a major source of variability in insect foraging and oviposition behavior. Oikos. 65:134-142.

Tatar, M. 1991. Clutch size in the swallowtail butterfly, Battus philenor: the role of host quality and egg load within and among seasonal flights in California. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 28: 337-344.

Tatar, M. 1989. Swallowtail clutch size reconsidered. Oikos. 55: 135.

Tatar, M. 1984. Protandry in physiological time. Oikos. 43: 413.

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