Publications
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2002. An ascidian engrailed gene.. Dev Genes Evol. 212(8):399-402.
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2005. Ascidian prickle regulates both mediolateral and anterior-posterior cell polarity of notochord cells.. Curr Biol. 15(1):79-85.
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2005. Self- and cross-fertilization in the solitary ascidian Ciona savignyi.. Biol Bull. 209(2):107-12.
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2005. Pigmentation in the sensory organs of the ascidian larva is essential for normal behavior.. J Exp Biol. 208(Pt 3):433-8.
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2004. Noncoding regulatory sequences of Ciona exhibit strong correspondence between evolutionary constraint and functional importance.. Genome Res. 14(12):2448-56.
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2024. Deep homologies in chordate caudal central nervous systems.. bioRxiv.
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2005. Did the first chordates organize without the organizer? Trends Genet. 21(9):506-10.
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2010. Key steps in the morphogenesis of a cranial placode in an invertebrate chordate, the tunicate Ciona savignyi.. Dev Biol. 340(1):134-44.
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2021. Disruption of left-right axis specification in Ciona induces molecular, cellular, and functional defects in asymmetric brain structures.. BMC Biol. 19(1):141.
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2007. A conserved role for FGF signaling in chordate otic/atrial placode formation.. Dev Biol. 312(1):245-57.
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2019. Parallel visual circuitry in a basal chordate.. Elife. 8
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2015. An organismal perspective on C. intestinalis development, origins and diversification.. Elife. 4
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1999. Spatial and temporal properties of ventral blood island induction in Xenopus laevis.. Development. 126(23):5327-37.
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2006. ADMP2 is essential for primitive blood and heart development in Xenopus.. Dev Biol. 299(2):411-23.
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2002. Revisions to the Xenopus gastrula fate map: implications for mesoderm induction and patterning.. Dev Dyn. 225(4):409-21.
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2002. The nodal target gene Xmenf is a component of an FGF-independent pathway of ventral mesoderm induction in Xenopus.. Mech Dev. 118(1-2):45-56.
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2000. FGF signaling restricts the primary blood islands to ventral mesoderm.. Dev Biol. 228(2):304-14.
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2001. Boundaries and functional domains in the animal/vegetal axis of Xenopus gastrula mesoderm.. Dev Biol. 236(2):465-77.
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1999. The origins of primitive blood in Xenopus: implications for axial patterning.. Development. 126(3):423-34.
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2008. Ascidians and the plasticity of the chordate developmental program.. Curr Biol. 18(14):R620-31.
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2004. A functional cellulose synthase from ascidian epidermis.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101(4):986-91.
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1999. Isolation of developmental mutants of the ascidian Ciona savignyi.. Mol Gen Genet. 262(1):199-206.
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1999. Mutations affecting tail and notochord development in the ascidian Ciona savignyi.. Development. 126(15):3293-301.
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2018. Photoreceptor specialization and the visuomotor repertoire of the primitive chordate .. J Exp Biol. 221(Pt 7)

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