ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-111219-3
Mechaly, Alejandro
Email: alejandro.mechaly@sydney.edu.au
URL: http://sydney.edu.au/bmri/research/neurobiology-genomics/index.php
Affiliation: Becker Lab
Address: Developmental Neurobiology and Genomics Brain and Mind Research Institute University of Sydney 100 Mallet Street Camperdown, NSW 2050 Australia
Country: Australia
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS


PUBLICATIONS
Mechaly, A.S., Richardson, E., Rinkwitz, S. (2017) Activity of etv5a and etv5b genes in the hypothalamus of fasted zebrafish is influenced by serotonin. General and comparative endocrinology. 246:233-240
Ishibashi, M., Manning, E., Shoubridge, C., Krecsmarik, M., Hawkins, T.A., Giacomotto, J., Zhao, T., Mueller, T., Bader, P.I., Cheung, S.W., Stankiewicz, P., Bain, N.L., Hackett, A., Reddy, C.C., Mechaly, A.S., Peers, B., Wilson, S.W., Lenhard, B., Bally-Cuif, L., Gecz, J., Becker, T.S., Rinkwitz, S. (2015) Copy number variants in patients with intellectual disability affect the regulation of ARX transcription factor gene. Human genetics. 134(11-12):1163-82
Ishibashi, M., Mechaly, A.S., Becker, T.S., and Rinkwitz, S. (2013) Using zebrafish transgenesis to test human genomic sequences for specific enhancer activity. Methods (San Diego, Calif.). 62(3):216-25
Nocillado, J.N., Mechaly, A.S., and Elizur, A. (2013) In silico analysis of the regulatory region of the Yellowtail Kingfish and Zebrafish Kiss and Kiss receptor genes. Fish physiology and biochemistry. 39(1):59-63

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS
Nocillado J.N., Biran J., Lee Y.Y., Levavi-Sivan B., Mechaly A.S., Zohar Y., Elizur A. 2012. The Kiss2 receptor (Kiss2r) gene in Southern Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus maccoyii, and in Yellowtail Kingfish, Seriola lalandi – functional analysis and isolation of transcript variants. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 362: 211-220.

Mechaly A.S., Viñas J., Piferrer F. 2012. Sex-specific changes in the expression of kisspeptin, kisspeptin receptor, gonadotropins and gonadotropins receptors in the Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis) during a full reproductive cycle. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A. 162: 364-371

Mechaly A.S., Viñas J., Piferrer F. 2011. Characterization and gene structure analysis of two splice variant of kisspeptin-2 (kiss2) in Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis): Implications of fasting conditions as an activator of the reproductive axis. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 339: 14-24.

Mechaly A.S., Viñas J., Murphy C., Reith M., Piferrer F. 2010. Gene structure and regulation of the kiss-1 receptor-2 (kiss1r-2) in the Atlantic halibut: Insights into the evolution and regulation of Kiss1r genes. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, 317: 78-89.

Mechaly A.S., Viñas J., Piferrer F. 2009. Identification of two isoforms of kisspeptin-1 receptor (kiss1r) generated by alternative splicing in a modern teleost, the Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis). Biology of reproduction, 80: 60-69.

Viñas J., Navarro L., Mechaly, A.S., Piferrer F. 2007. The use of laser microdissection coupled with semiquantitative PCR to study cell-specific gene expression during European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) spermatogenesis. Aquaculture, 272.1, S316.