Cassandra G. Extavour

Mechanisms of germ cell specification across the metazoans: epigenesis and preformation.

Hold the germ cells, I'm on duty.

The fate of isolated blastomeres with respect to germ cell formation in the amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis.

vasa and nanos expression patterns in a sea anemone and the evolution of bilaterian germ cell specification mechanisms.

Are we there yet? Tracking the development of new model systems.

The molecular machinery of germ line specification.

The maternal and early embryonic transcriptome of the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus.

Counting in oogenesis.

Long-lost relative claims orphan gene: oskar in a wasp.

Evolution of the bilaterian germ line: lineage origin and modulation of specification mechanisms.

Gray anatomy: phylogenetic patterns of somatic gonad structures and reproductive strategies across the Bilateria.

Patterns of cell lineage, movement, and migration from germ layer specification to gastrulation in the amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis.

Notch/Delta signalling is not required for segment generation in the basally branching insect Gryllus bimaculatus.

De novo assembly and characterization of a maternal and developmental transcriptome for the emerging model crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis.

The roles of cell size and cell number in determining ovariole number in Drosophila.

Hox gene expression in the harvestman Phalangium opilio reveals divergent patterning of the chelicerate opisthosoma.

Convergent evolution of a reproductive trait through distinct developmental mechanisms in Drosophila.

Oskar predates the evolution of germ plasm in insects.

Evolution of the chelicera: a dachshund domain is retained in the deutocerebral appendage of Opiliones (Arthropoda, Chelicerata).

ASGARD: an open-access database of annotated transcriptomes for emerging model arthropod species.

Germ cell specification requires zygotic mechanisms rather than germ plasm in a basally branching insect.

Developmental gene discovery in a hemimetabolous insect: de novo assembly and annotation of a transcriptome for the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus.

Evidence against a germ plasm in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus, a hemimetabolous insect.

Live long and prosper: germline stem cell maintenance revisited (retrospective on DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000085).

Distal-less and dachshund pattern both plesiomorphic and apomorphic structures in chelicerates: RNA interference in the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones).

Identification of a putative germ plasm in the amphipod Parhyale hawaiensis.

Subdivision of arthropod cap-n-collar expression domains is restricted to Mandibulata.

Patterns of molecular evolution of the germ line specification gene oskar suggest that a novel domain may contribute to functional divergence in Drosophila.

Insulin signalling underlies both plasticity and divergence of a reproductive trait in Drosophila.

BMP signaling is required for the generation of primordial germ cells in an insect.