Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology,
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
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Mechanisms of germ cell specification across the metazoans: epigenesis and preformation.
Development (Cambridge, England) Dec, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 14597570
Hold the germ cells, I'm on duty.
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology Dec, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15551270
The fate of isolated blastomeres with respect to germ cell formation in the amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis.
Developmental biology Jan, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15617682
vasa and nanos expression patterns in a sea anemone and the evolution of bilaterian germ cell specification mechanisms.
Evolution & development May-Jun, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15876193
Are we there yet? Tracking the development of new model systems.
Trends in genetics : TIG Jul, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18514356
The molecular machinery of germ line specification.
Molecular reproduction and development Jan, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 19790240
The maternal and early embryonic transcriptome of the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus.
BMC genomics , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21266083
Counting in oogenesis.
Cell and tissue research May, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21384182
Long-lost relative claims orphan gene: oskar in a wasp.
PLoS genetics Apr, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21552332
Evolution of the bilaterian germ line: lineage origin and modulation of specification mechanisms.
Integrative and comparative biology Nov, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 21669758
Gray anatomy: phylogenetic patterns of somatic gonad structures and reproductive strategies across the Bilateria.
Integrative and comparative biology Sep, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 21672850
Patterns of cell lineage, movement, and migration from germ layer specification to gastrulation in the amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis.
Developmental biology Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21827744
Notch/Delta signalling is not required for segment generation in the basally branching insect Gryllus bimaculatus.
Development (Cambridge, England) Nov, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22028033
De novo assembly and characterization of a maternal and developmental transcriptome for the emerging model crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis.
BMC genomics , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22118449
The roles of cell size and cell number in determining ovariole number in Drosophila.
Developmental biology Mar, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22200592
Hox gene expression in the harvestman Phalangium opilio reveals divergent patterning of the chelicerate opisthosoma.
Evolution & development Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22947318
Convergent evolution of a reproductive trait through distinct developmental mechanisms in Drosophila.
Developmental biology Dec, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23022298
Oskar predates the evolution of germ plasm in insects.
Current biology : CB Dec, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23122849
Evolution of the chelicera: a dachshund domain is retained in the deutocerebral appendage of Opiliones (Arthropoda, Chelicerata).
Evolution & development Nov-Dec, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23134210
ASGARD: an open-access database of annotated transcriptomes for emerging model arthropod species.
Database : the journal of biological databases and curation , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23180770
Germ cell specification requires zygotic mechanisms rather than germ plasm in a basally branching insect.
Current biology : CB May, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23623552
Developmental gene discovery in a hemimetabolous insect: de novo assembly and annotation of a transcriptome for the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.
PloS one , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23671567
Evidence against a germ plasm in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus, a hemimetabolous insect.
Biology open Jun, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23789106
Live long and prosper: germline stem cell maintenance revisited (retrospective on DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000085).
BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23801082
Distal-less and dachshund pattern both plesiomorphic and apomorphic structures in chelicerates: RNA interference in the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones).
Evolution & development Jul-Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23809698
Identification of a putative germ plasm in the amphipod Parhyale hawaiensis.
EvoDevo , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 24314239
Subdivision of arthropod cap-n-collar expression domains is restricted to Mandibulata.
EvoDevo , 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24405788
Patterns of molecular evolution of the germ line specification gene oskar suggest that a novel domain may contribute to functional divergence in Drosophila.
Development genes and evolution Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24407548
Insulin signalling underlies both plasticity and divergence of a reproductive trait in Drosophila.
Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24500165
BMP signaling is required for the generation of primordial germ cells in an insect.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Mar, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24591634
Samantha K. Barry1,
Taro Nakamura2,
Yuji Matsuoka3,
Christoph Straub4,
Hadley W. Horch4,
Cassandra G. Extavour5
1, Colby College,
2Division of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, National Institute for Basic Biology,
3Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore,
4Department Biology and Department of Neuroscience, Bowdoin College,
5Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University