Professor Jonathan Bacon
Publications (since 1998)
Drosophila Giant-Fibre Circuit and Innexin Proteins
1. Phelan P, Stebbings LA, Baines RA, Bacon JP, Davies JA, Ford CC (1998) Drosophila Shaking-B protein forms gap junctions in paired Xenopus oocytes. Nature 391: 181-184
2. Phelan P, Bacon JP, Davies JA, Stebbings LA, Todman MG, Avery L, Baines RA, Barnes TM, Ford C, Hekimi S, Lee R, Shaw JE, Starich TA,Curtin KD, Sun Y-a, Wyman RJ (1998) Innexins: a family of invertebrate gap junction proteins. TIG 14: 348-349
3. Blagburn JM, Alexopoulos H, Davies JA, Bacon JP (1999) Null mutation in shaking-B eliminates electrical, but not chemical, synapses in the Drosophila giant fibre system: a structural study. J Comp Neurol 404: 449-458
4. Todman MG, Baines RA, Stebbings LA, Davies JA, Bacon JP (1999) Gap-junctional communication between developing Drosophila muscles is essential for their normal development Dev Gen 24: 57-68
5. Jacobs K, Todman MG, Allen MJ, Davies JA, Bacon JP (2000) Synaptogenesis in the Giant-Fibre System of Drosophila: interaction of the Giant Fibre and its major motorneuronal target. Development 127: 5203-5212
6. Stebbings LA, Todman MG, Phelan P, Bacon JP, Davies JA (2000) Two Drosophila innexins are expressed in overlapping domains and cooperate to form gap-junction channels. Mol Biol Cell 11: 2459-2470
7. Stebbings LA, Todman MG, Phillips R, Greer CE, Tam J, Phelan P, Jacobs K, Bacon JP, Davies JA (2002) Gap junctions in Drosophila: development of the entire innexin gene family. Mech Development 113: 197-205
8. Dykes IM, Freeman FM, Bacon JP, Davies JA (2004) Molecular basis of gap-junctional communication in the CNS of the leech Hirudo medicinalis. J Neurosci 24: 886-94
9. Alexopoulos H, Böttger A, Fischer S, Levin A, Wolf A, Fujisawa T, Hayakawa S, Gojobori T, Davies JA, David CN, Bacon JP (2004) Evolution of gap junctions: the missing link? Current Biology 14: 879-880
10. Ducret E, Alexopoulos H, Le Feuvre Y, Davies JA, Meyrand P, Bacon JP, Fénelon VS (2006) Innexins in the lobster stomatograstic nervous system: cloning, phylogenetic analysis, developmental changes and expression within adult identified dye and electrically coupled neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience 24: 3119-3133
11. Phelan P, Goulding LA, Tam JLY, Dawber RJ, Davies JA, Bacon JP (2008) Molecular mechanism of rectification at an identified electrical synapse in the Drosophila Giant Fibre System. Current Biology 18: 1955-1960
12. Mu L, Ito K, Bacon JP, Strausfeld NJ (2012) Optic glomeruli and their inputs in Drosophila share an organizational ground pattern with the antennal lobes. J Neurosci 32: 6061-6071
13. Mu L, Bacon JP, Ito K, Strausfeld NJ (2014) Responses of Drosophila Giant Descending Neurons to Visual and Mechanical Stimuli. J Exp Biol 217: 2121-2129
14. Pézier AP, Jezzini SH, Bacon JP, Blagburn JM (2016) Shaking B Mediates Synaptic Coupling between Auditory Sensory Neurons and the Giant Fiber of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One 11: e015221
Sensory Neuron determination in the Cockroach
1. Marie B, Bacon JP, Blagburn JM (2000) Double-stranded RNA interference shows that Engrailed controls the synaptic specificity of identified sensory neurons. Current Biology 10: 289-292
2. Marie B, Bacon JP (2000) Two engrailed-related genes in the cockroach: cloning, phylogenetic analysis, expression and isolation of splice variants. Genes Dev Evol 210: 436-448
3. Blagburn JM, Bacon JP (2004) Control of Central Synaptic Specificity in Insect Sensory Neurons. Ann Rev Neurosci 27: 29-51
4. Domenici P, Booth D, Blagburn JM, Bacon JP (2008) Cockroaches keep predators guessing by using preferred escape trajectories. Current Biology 18, 1792-1796
5. Booth D, Marie B, Domenici P, Blagburn JM, Bacon JP (2009) Transcriptional control of behaviour: engrailed knockout changes cockroach escape trajectories. J Neurosci 29: 7181-7190
6. Domenici P, Booth D, Blagburn JM, Bacon JP (2009) Escaping away from and towards a threat: the cockroach’s strategy for staying alive. Commun Integr Biol 2: 497-500
7. Domenici P, Blagburn JM, Bacon JP (2011) Animal escapology I: Theoretical issues and emerging trends in escape. J Exp Biol 214: 2463-2473
8. Domenici P, Blagburn JM, Bacon JP (2011) Animal escapology II: Review of escape trajectory case studies. J Exp Biol 214: 2474-2494
Ant Foraging Trail Networks
1. Broom M, Nouvellet P, Bacon JP, Waxman D (2007) Parameter-free testing of the shape of a probability distribution. BioSystems 90: 509-515
2. Nouvellet P, Bacon JP, Waxman D (2009) Fundamental insights into the random movement of animals from a single distance-related statistic. American Naturalist 174: 506-514
3. Nouvellet P, Bacon JP, Waxman D (2010) Testing the level of ant activity associated with quorum sensing: an empirical approach leading to the establishment and test of a null-model. J Theoretical Biol 266: 573-583
4. Nouvellet P, Bacon JP, Waxman D (2011) Testing the level of ant activity associated with quorum sensing: An empirical approach leading to the establishment and test of a null-model (response to the comment of Richardson et al.). J Theoretical Biology 280: 191-193
Other Topics
1. Wenseleers T, Bacon JP, Alves DA, Couvillon MJ, Kärcher MH, Nascimento FS, Nogueira-Neto P, Robinson EJH, Tofilski A, Ratnieks FLW (2013) Bourgeois behaviour and freeloading in the colonial orb- web spider Parawixia bistriata (Araneae, Araneidae) American Naturalist 182: 120-129
2. Grinsted L, Bacon JP (2014) Task differentiation by personality in spider groups. Current Biology 24: 749-751
3. Kent HR, Bacon JP (2016) Microsco-pi; a novel and inexpensive way of merging biology and IT. School Science Review 98: 75-82.