Dr Megan Wilson
Lecturer, Department of Anatomy, University of Otago
- affiliated to the Centre for Reproduction and Genomics
Email: meganj.wilson@otago.ac.nz
Biographical information
Megan received her PhD at the University of Otago. She then worked at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Brisbane, Australia with Peter Koopman and returned to New Zealand in 2005.
Megan worked with Peter Dearden as a Research Fellow in the Laboratory for Evolution and Development (Department of Biochemistry, University of Otago) until 2011. Megan is now a lecturer in the Department of Anatomy.
Megan’s research is focused on developmental biology and disease (using mouse models) and evolution and development.
Further Information
Department of Anatomy & Structural Biology
Recent publications
Wilson, MJ, and Dearden, PK, (2011). Diversity in insect axis formation: two orthodenticle genes and hunchback act in anterior patterning and influence dorsoventral organization in the honeybee (Apis mellifera). Development, 138, 3497-3507.
Wilson, MJ, Abbott, H, and Dearden, PK, (2011) The evolution of oocyte patterning in insects: Multiplecell signaling pathways are active during honeybee oogenesis and are likely to play a role in axis patterning. Evolution & Development, 13 (2), 127-137.
Shigenobu, S, Bickel, RD, Brisson, JA, Butts, T, Chang, C, Christiaens O, Davis, GK, Duncan, EJ., Ferrier, DEK, Iga, M, Janssen, R, Lin, G, Lu, H, McGregor, AP, Miura, T, Smagghe, G, Smith, JM, van der Zee, M, Velarde, R, Wilson, MJ, Dearden, PK, Stern, DL, (2010). Comprehensive survey of developmental genes in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum: frequent lineage-specific duplications and losses of developmental genes. Insect Molecular Biology, 19, 47-62.
The International Aphid Genemics Consortium (includes Wilson, MJ) (2010). Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum</I>. PLoS Biology, 8 (2), e1000313. Wilson, MJ, Havler, M and Dearden, PK, (2010). Giant, Kruppel and caudal act as gap genes with extensive roles in patterning the honeybee embryo. Developmental Biology, 339 (1), 200-211.
Wilson, MJ, McKelvey, BH, vander Heide, S, and Dearden, PK, (2010). Notch signaling does not regulate segmentation in the honeybee, Apis mellifera. Development Genes and Evolution, 220 (7-8), 179-190.
