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Moczek AP (2008). On the origin of novelty in development and evolution. Bioessays 5: 432-447.
 Yao, J.G, Weasner, B.M et al. (2008) Differential requirements for the Pax6(5a) genes eyegone and twin of eyegone during eye development in Drosophila. Devel. Biol. 315:535:551 Gibbs, R.A. et al. 2007. Evolutionary and Biomedical Insights from the Rhesus Macaque Genome. Science 316 (5822): 222-234. Weasner, B., Salzer, C. and Kumar, J.P. (2007) Sine oculis, a member of the Six family of transcription factors directs eye formation. Developmental Biology 303:756-771. Xu Tan, Luz Irina A. Calderon-Villalobos, Michal Sharon, Changxue Zheng, Carol V. Robinson, Mark Estelle & Ning Zheng. 2007. Mechanism of auxin perception by the TIR1 ubiquitin ligase. Nature 446: 640-645.
Moczek AP, Rose D, Sewell W, Kesselring BR 2006. Conservation, innovation, and the evolution of horned beetle diversity. Development Genes and Evolution 216: 655 - 665. G. Troy Smith, Graciela A. Unguez, and Christopher M. Weber (2006) Distribution of Kv1-like potassium channels in the electromotor and electrosensory systems of the weakly electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus. Journal of Neurobiology 66(9):1011-1031. F Fiegna, Y-T N Yu, SV Kadam & GJ Velicer. 2006. Evolution of an obligate social cheater to a superior cooperator. Nature 441, 310-314. D. Kearns & R. Losick. 2005. Cell population heterogeneity during growth of Bacillus subtilis. Genes Dev. 19(24): 3083-94. Moczek AP 2005. The Evolution of Novelties, or how Beetles got their Horns. BioScience (November 2005) Vol. 55, No. 11, page 937-951. KD Whitney. 2005. Linking frugivores to the dynamics of a fruit color polymorphism. Am. J. Botany 92:859-867.
Visick, K.L. and C. Fuqua. 2005. Decoding microbial chatter: Cell-cell communication in bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 187:5507-5519.
Moczek AP, Nagy LM 2005. Diverse developmental mechanisms contribute to different levels of diversity in horned beetles. Evolution & Development 7: 175-185. Rockman, M.V., M.W. Hahn, D. Loisel, N. Soranzo, D.B. Goldstein, and G.A. Wray (2004) Positive selection on MMP3 regulation has shaped heart disease risk. Current Biology. 14:1531-1539. Stowe-Evans, E. L. and D. M. Kehoe. 2004. Signal transduction during light quality acclimation in cyanobacteria: a model system for understanding phytochrome response pathways in prokaryotes. Journal of Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 3: 495-502.
James E. Berleman, Benjamin M. Hasselbring, and Carl E. Bauer. 2004. Hypercyst Mutants in Rhodospirillum centenum Identify Regulatory Loci Involved in Cyst Cell Differentiation. J. Bacteriol. 186: 5834-5841.
Ng, W-L., K. M. Kazmierczak and M. E. Winkler. 2004. Defective cell wall synthesis in Streptococcus pneumoniae R6 depleted for the essential PcsB putative murein hydrolase or the VicR (YycF) response regulator. Molecular Microbiology 53:1161-1177.
B. E. Ramey, A. G. Matthysse & C. Fuqua. 2004. The FNR-type transcriptional regulator SinR controls maturation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens biofilms. Molecular Microbiology 52: 1495-1512. Lacy, K.E. and E. P. Martins. 2003. The effects of anthropogenic habitat usage on the social behaviour of a vulnerable species, Cyclura nubila. Animal Conservation, 6: 3-9. Raff, E. C., Popodi, E. M., Kauffman, J.  S., Sly, B. J., Turner, F. R., Morris, V. B., and Raff, R. A. 2003. Regulatory punctuated equilibrium and convergence in the evolution of developmental pathways in direct-developing sea urchins. Evo. Dev., 5:478-493. Balabas, B., Montgomery, B. L., Ong, L. E., and D. M. Kehoe. 2003. CotB is essential for complete activation of green light induced genes during complementary chromatic adaptation in Fremyella diplosiphon. Molecular Microbiology, 50: 781-793. Lance J. Kriegsfeld, Andrew K. Hotchkiss, Gregory E. Demas, Ann-Judith Silverman, Rae Silver and Randy J. Nelson. 2003. Brain mast cells are influenced by chemosensory cues associated with estrus induction in female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). Hormones and Behavior 44:377-384. Alvey, R. M., Karty, J. A., Roos, E., Reilly, J. P., and D. M. Kehoe. 2003. pebAB, the operon encoding 15,16-dihydrobiliverdin oxidoreductase and PEB oxidoreductase, is coordinately regulated with cpeBA during complementary chromatic adaptation in Fremyella diplosiphon. The Plant Cell, 15: 2448-2463.
Allen, E.S. and K. E. Omland. 2003. Novel intron phylogeny supports plumage convergence in Orioles (Icterus). Auk 120: 961-969.
 DeBlasio, S.L, Mullen, J.L., Luesse, D.L. and Hangarter, R.P. 2003 Phytochrome Modulation of Blue-Light-Induced Chloroplast Movements in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 133: 1471-1479.
Takuya Nakazato and Gerald J. Gastony. 2003. Molecular Phylogenetics of Anogramma Species and Related Genera (Pteridaceae: Taenitidoideae). Systematic Biology 28: 490-502.
Marcia M. E. Ireland, Jonathan A. Karty, Ellen M. Quardokus, James P. Reilly, Yves V. Brun. 2002. Proteomic analysis of the Caulobacter crescentus stalk indicates competence for nutrient uptake. Molecular Microbiology 45:1029-1042.
ED Brodie, Jr., BJ Ridenhour, and ED Brodie, III. 2002. THE EVOLUTIONARY RESPONSE OF PREDATORS TO DANGEROUS PREY: HOTSPOTS AND COLDSPOTS IN THE GEOGRAPHIC MOSAIC OF COEVOLUTION BETWEEN GARTER SNAKES AND NEWTS. Evolution 56(10): 2067-2082.
 Masuda, S. & C. E. Bauer. 2002. AppA is a blue-light photoreceptor that anti-represses photosynthesis gene expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides  Cell 110, 613-623.
James D. Bever, Peggy A. Schultz, Anne Pringle, and Joseph B. Morton. 2001. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: More Diverse than Meets the Eye, and the Ecological Tale of Why. Bioscience 51: 923-932. E.M. Quardokus, N.Din, and Y.V. Brun. 2001. Cell cycle and positional constrains on FtsZ localization and the intitation of cell division in Caulobacter crescentus. Molecular Microbiology 39: 949-959 EC Raff, JA Hutchens, H Hoyle, MG Nielsen  and FR Turner.  2000.  Conserved axoneme symmetry altered by a component ß-tubulin.  Current Biology 10: 1391-1394. Xiong J., K. Inoue, M. Nakahara & C. E. Bauer. 2000. Molecular evidence for the early evolution of photosynthesis. Science. 289, 1724-1730. Raff, E. C., E. M. Popodi, B. J. Sly, F. R. Turner, J. T. Villinski, and R. A. Raff. 1999. A novel ontogenetic pathway in hybrid embryos between species with different modes of development. Development 126:1937-1945. Parkinson, C. L., Adams, K. L., and Palmer, J. D. 1999. Multigene analyses identify the three earliest lineages of extant flowering plants. Curr. Biol. 9:1481-1485.
Kehoe, D. M., Villand, P., and S. Somerville. 1999. DNA microarrays for studies of higher plants and other photosynthetic organisms. Trends in Plant Science, 4: 38-41. Jason B. Wolf, Edmund D. Brodie III, James M. Cheverud, Allen J. Moore and Michael J. Wade. 1998. Evolutionary consequences of indirect genetic effects. TREE 13(2):64-69. Moczek AP (1998). Horn polyphenism in the beetle Onthophagus taurus: diet quality and plasticity in parental investment determine adult body size and male horn morphology. Behavioral Ecology 9: 636-641. Aaron J. Kelly, Marcella J. Sackett, Neena Din, Ellen Quardokus, and Yves V. Brun. 1998. Cell cycle-dependent transcriptional and proteolytic regulation of FtsZ in Caulobacter. Genes Dev. 12: 880-893. Titus, R.C., E.D. Ketterson, and V. Nolan Jr. 1997. High testosterone prior to song crystallization inhibits singing behavior in captive yearling dark-eyed juncos, Junco hyemalis. Hormones and Behavior 32:133-140. Kehoe, D. M. and A. R. Grossman. 1996. Similarity of a chromatic adaptation sensor to phytochrome and ethylene receptors. Science, 273: 1409-1412