G. P. Brownrigg

This study identifies sex differences in beta cell stress responses, showing female beta cells are more resilient to ER stress in both human and mouse models.

This study shows that a low sugar diet increases body size in both male and female Drosophila larvae, but affects their insulin/TOR signaling and metabolism differently.

This study shows that altering insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling (IIS) activity in Drosophila larvae has sex-biased effects on body size, with inhibition reducing female size more than males and augmentation increasing male size more than females.

The paper identifies a female-specific increase in insulin pathway activity as the mechanism behind sex differences in nutrient-dependent body size plasticity in Drosophila.