Jack Scanlan

Rethinking the ecdysteroid source during Drosophila pupal-adult development

Jack L Scanlan, Charles Robin, Christen K Mirth

Journal article  |  2023  |  INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Ecdysteroids, typified by 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E), are essential hormones for the development, reproduction and physiology of ins..

Ecdysteroid kinase-like (EcKL) paralogs confer developmental tolerance to caffeine in Drosophila melanogaster.

Jack L Scanlan, Paul Battlay, Charles Robin

Journal article  |  2022  |  Curr Res Insect Sci

A unique aspect of metabolic detoxification in insects compared to other animals is the presence of xenobiotic phosphorylation, ab..

Fungicide sensitivity and resistance in the blackleg fungus, Leptosphaeria maculans, across canola growing regions in Australia

AP Van de Wouw, JL Scanlan, SJ Marcroft, AJ Smith, EM Sheedy, NW Perndt, CE Harrison, LM Forsyth, A Idnurm

Journal article  |  2021  |  CROP & PASTURE SCIENCE

Fungicide use has become a fundamental part of many crop protection systems around the world, including to control blackleg diseas..

Epidemiology and management of blackleg of canola in response to changing farming practices in Australia

Angela P Van de Wouw, Stephen J Marcroft, Susan J Sprague, Jack L Scanlan, Peter A Vesk, Alexander Idnurm

Journal article  |  2021  |  AUSTRALASIAN PLANT PATHOLOGY

The Australian canola industry was established in the 1970s and has expanded since that time, particularly in the last two decades..

Genomic and transcriptomic analyses in Drosophila suggest that the ecdysteroid kinase-like (EcKL) gene family encodes the 'detoxification-by-phosphorylation' enzymes of insects

Jack L Scanlan, Rebecca S Gledhill-Smith, Paul Battlay, Charles Robin

Journal article  |  2020  |  INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Phosphorylation is a phase II detoxification reaction that, among animals, occurs near exclusively in insects, but the enzymes res..

The evolutionary and functional characterisation of the ecdysteroid kinase-like (EcKL) gene family in insects

Jack Louis Scanlan

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2020

Many thousands of gene families across the tree of life still lack robust functional characterisation, and thousands more may be u..

Mining insect genomes for functionally affiliated genes

Caitlyn Perry, Jack Scanlan, Charles Robin

Journal article  |  2019  |  CURRENT OPINION IN INSECT SCIENCE

Several hundred insect genome assemblies are already publicly available, and this total grows on a weekly basis. A major challenge..