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Department of Zoology

 

 

In Press

Brena, C. and M. Akam, The embryonic development of the centipede Strigamia maritima. Developmental Biology, in press.

Pavlopoulos, A. and Akam, M. (2011). The Hox gene Ultrabithorax subtly regulates distinct sets of target genes at successive stages of haltere morphogenesis and differentiation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA

2010

Steinmetz, P. R. H., Urbach, R., Posnien, N., Eriksson, J., Kostyuchenko, R. P., Brena, C., Guy, K., Akam, M., Bucher, G. and Arendt, D. (2010)  Six3 demarcates the anterior-most developing brain region in bilaterian animals.   Evo-Devo 1, 14.

Eriksson, J., Tait, N. N., Budd, G. E., Janssen, R. and Akam, M. (2010) Head patterning and Hox gene expression in an onychophoran and its implications for the arthropod head problem. Dev. Genes Evol. 22, 117-122

Garcia-Solache, M., Jaeger, J. and Akam, M. (2010) A systematic analysis of the gap gene system in the moth midge Clogmia albipunctata. Dev. Biol. 344, 306-318

Janssen, R., Eriksson, B.J., Budd, G., Akam, M., and Prpic, N. (2010)  Gene expression patterns in an onychophoran reveal that regionalisation predates limb segmentation in pan-arthropods. Evolution and Development 12, 363-372.

Vedel, V., Apostolou, Z., Arthur, W., Akam, M. and Brena, C. (2010)  An early temperature sensitive period for the variation in segment number in the centipede Strigamia maritima. Evolution and Development 12, 347-352.

Reed, H.C., Hoare, T., Thomsen, S., Weaver, S., Akam, M. and Alonso, C. (2010) Alternative splicing modulates Ubx protein function in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 184, 745-758.

Jostins, L. and Jaeger, J. (2010) Reverse engineering a gene network using a parallel asynchronous evolutionary strategy. BMC Systems Biology, 2010. 4, 17

2009

Ashyraliyev, M., Siggens, K., Janssens, H., Blom, J., Akam, M. and Jaeger, J., (2009) Gene circuit analysis of the terminal gap gene huckebein. PLOS Comp. Biol. 5, e1000548

Pavlopoulos, A., Kontarakis, Z., Liubicich, D. M., Serano, J. M., Akam, M., Patel, N. H. and Averof, M. (2009) Probing the evolution of appendage specialisation by Hox gene  misexpression in an emerging model crustacean. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 13897-13902.

Eriksson, B. J., Tait, N. N., Budd, G. E., and Akam, M. (2009) The  involvement of engrailed and wingless during segmentation in the onychophoran Euperipatoides kanangrensis (Peripatopsidae: Onychophora) (Reid 1996). Dev. Genes Evol. 219, 249-264.

Vedel, V., Brena, C. and Arthur, W. (2009) Demonstration of a heritable component of the variation in segment number in the centipede Strigamia maritima. Evol. Dev. 11, 434-440.
Jaeger, J.  Modelling the Drosophila embryo. Molecular Biosystems 2009, 1549-1568.

Liubicich, D. M., Serano, J. M., Pavlopoulos, A., Kontarakis, Z., Protas, M. E., Kwan, E., Chatterjee, S., Tran, K. D., Averof, M. and Patel, N. H. (2009). Knockdown of Parhyale Ultrabithorax recapitulates evolutionary changes in crustacean appendage morphology. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 13892-13896.

Panfilio, K. A. (2009). Late extraembryonic morphogenesis and its zenRNAi-induced failure in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus. Dev. Biol. 333, 297-311.

 

2008

Vedel, V., Chipman, A. D., Akam, M. and Arthur, W. (2008) Temperature dependent plasticity of segment number in an arthropod species: the centipede Strigamia maritima. Evolution and Development 104, 487-492.

Chipman, A. D. and Akam, M. (2008) The segmentation cascade in the centipede Strigamia maritima:   Involvement of the Notch pathway and pair-rule gene homologues. Dev. Biol. 319, 160-169.

Dacks, J. B., Walker, G. and Field, M. (2008) Implications of the new eukaryotic systematics for parasitologists. Parasitology International  57, 97-104.

Darlington, J. P. E. C., Benson, R. B., Cook, C. E. and Walker, G. (2008) Resolving relationships in some African fungus-growing termites (Termitidae, Macrotermitinae) using molecular phylogeny, morphology, and field parameters. Insectes Sociaux 55, 256-265.

Jaeger, J., Irons, D. and Monk, N. (2008) Regulative feedback in pattern formation:  towards a general relativistic theory of pattern formation. Development 135, 3175-3183.

Kulakova, M., Cook, C. E. and Andreeva, T. F. (2008) Parahox gene expression in larval and postlarval development of the polychaete Nereis virens (Annelida, Lophotrochozoa). BMC Developmental Biology  8, 61.

Panfilio, K. (2008) Extraembryonic development in insects and the acrobatics of blastokinesis. Dev. Biol. 313, 471-491.

Peel, A.D. (2008) The evolution of developmental gene networks. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B. Biol. Sci. 363, 1539-1547.

2007

Pavlopoulos, A. and Akam, M. (2007) Hox go omics:  Insights from Drosophila on Hox gene function. Genome Biology  8, 208.

Peel, A. and Akam, M. (2007) The dynamics of yolk deposition in the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. J. Insect Physiol. 53, 436-443.

Panfilio, K. and Akam, M. (2007) A comparison of Hox3 and Zen protein coding sequences in taxa that span the Hox3/ zen divergence. Dev. Genes. Evol. 217, 323-349.

Kulakova, M., Bakalenko, N., Novikova, E., Cook, C. E., Eliseeva, E., Steinmetz, P., Kostyuchenko, R. P., Dondua, A., Arendt, D., Akam, M. and Andreeva, T.  (2007) Hox gene expression in larval development of the polychaetes Nereis virens and Platynereis dumerilii (Annelida, Lophotrochozoa. Dev. Genes. Evol.. 217, 39-54.

2006

Brena, C., Chipman, A. D., Minelli, A. and Akam, M. (2006) The expression of trunk Hox genes in the centipede Strigamia maritima: Sense and antisense transcripts. Evol. Dev. 8, 252-265.

Peel, A. D., Telford, M.J. and Akam, M. (2006) The evolution of hexapod engrailed-family genes:  Evidence for conservation and concerted evolution. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 273, 1733-1742.

Panfilio, K., Liu, P., Akam, M. and Kaufmann, T. (2006) Oncopeltus fasciatus zen is essential for serosal tissue function in katatrepsis. Dev. Biol. 292, 226-243.

Chipman, A. D. and Stollewerk, A. (2006). Specification of neural precursor identity in the geophilomorph centipede Strigamia maritima. Dev. Biol. 290, 337-350.

Jaeger, J. and Reinitz, J. (2006). On the dynamic nature of positional information. BioEssays 28, 1102-1111.

Stollewerk, A. and Chipman, A. D. (2006). Neurogenesis in myriapods and chelicerates and its importance for understanding arthropod relationships. Integrative and Comparative Biology 46, 195-206.

2005

Peel, A. D., Chipman, A. D. and Akam, M. (2005). Arthropod segmentation:  Beyond the Drosophila paradigm. Nature Rev. Genet. 6, 905-916.

Negre, B., Casillas, S., Suzanne, M., Sanchez-Herrero, E., Akam, M., Nefedov, M., Barbadilla, A., de Jong, P. and Ruiz, A. (2005) Conservation of regulatory sequences and gene expression patterns in the disintegrating Drosophila Hox complex. Genome Research 15, 692-700

Cook, C.E., Q.-Y. Yue and Akam, M. (2005) Mitochondrial genomes suggest that hexapods and crustaceans are mutually paraphyletic. Proc. Roy Soc. 272, 1295-1304.

Mirth, C. K. (2005). Ecdysteroid control of metamorphosis in the differentiating adult leg structures of Drosophila melanogaster. Dev. Biol. 278, 163-174.

Extavour, C. G. (2005). The fate of blastomeres with respect to germ cell formation in the amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis. Dev. Biol. 277, 387-402.

Extavour, C., Pang, K., Matus, D. Q. & Martindale, M. Q.  (2005) vasa and nanos expression patterns in a sea anemone and the evolution of bilaterian germ cell specification mechanisms Evolution and Development 7, 201-215

Cook, C. E. (2005). The complete mitochodrial genome of the stomatopod crustacean Squilla mantis. BMC Genomics 6:105

Arthur, W. and Chipman, A. D. (2005) How does arthropod segment number evolve?  Some clues from centipedes. Evol. Dev. 7, 600-607.

Arthur, W. and Chipman, A. D. (2005). The centipede Strigamia maritima:  What it can tell us about the development and evolution of segmentation. BioEssays 27, 653-660

2004

Chipman, A. D., Arthur, W. and Akam, M. (2004) A double segment periodicity underlies segment generation in centipede development. Current Biology 14, 1250-1255.

Cook, C. E., Jiménez, E., Akam, M. and Saló, E. (2004) The Hox gene complement of acoel flatworms, a basal bilaterian clade. Evol. Dev. 6:154-163.

Chipman, A. D., Arthur, W. and Akam, M. (2004) Early Development and Segment Formation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima (Geophilomorpha). Evol. Dev. 6, 78-89

Extavour, C. G. (2004) Hold the germ cells, I'm on duty. BioEssays 26, 1263-1267.

Peel, A. (2004) The evolution of arthropod segmentation mechanisms. BioEssays 26, 1108-1116.

Telford, M. J. (2004) The multimeric b-thymosin found in nematodes and arthropods is not a synapomorphy of the Ecdysozoa. Evol. Dev. 6, 90-94.

Littlewood, D. T. L., Telford, M.J. and Bray, R. A. (2004). Protostomes and Platyhelminthes: the worm's turn. In Assembling the Tree of Life,  (ed. M. Donoghue and C. J.). New York: Oxford University Press.

2003

Extavour, C. G. and Akam, M. (2003) Mechanisms of metazoan germ cell specification: epigenesis and preformation. Development 130, 5869-5884.

Peel, A. and Akam, M. (2003) Evolution of segmentation: Rolling back the clock. Current Biology 13, R708-R710

Alonso, C.R. and Akam, M. (2003)  A Hox gene mutation that triggers Nonsense-mediated RNA Decay and affects alternative splicing during Drosophila development. Nucleic Acids Research 203, 3873-3880.

Roch, F., Alonso, C. and Akam, M. (2003) Drosophila miniature and dusky encode ZP proteins required for cytoskeletal reorganisation during wing morphogenesis. J. Cell Science 116, 1199-1207.

Bourlat, S. J., Nielsen, C., Lockyer, A. E., Littlewood, D. T. J. and Telford, M. J. (2003)  Xenoturbella is a deuterostome that eats molluscs. Nature 424, 925-928.

Stern, D. L. (2003) The Hox gene Ultrabithorax modulates the shape and size of the third leg of Drosophila by influencing diverse mechanisms. Developmental Biology 256, 355-366.

Telford, M. J. and Budd, G. E. (2003) The Place of Phylogeny and Cladistics in Evo/Devo research. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 47, 479-490.

Telford, M. J., Lockyer, A. E., Littlewood, D. T. L. and Cartwright-Finch, C. (2003) Acoelomorphs are the most basal bilaterian phylum and are unrelated to other flatworms. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 270, 1077-1083.

2002

Chang, C.-C., Dearden, P. and Akam, M. (2002)  Germ line development in the Locust Schistocerca gregariavasa as a marker. Dev. Biol. 252: 100-118.

Rozowski, M. and Akam, M. (2002)  Hox gene control of segment specific bristle patterns in Drosophila. Genes and Development 16, 1150-1162.

Mirth, C. and Akam, M. (2002)  Joint Development in the Drosophila Leg: Cell Movements and Cell Populations. Developmental Biology 246, 391-406

Alonso, C. (2002). Hox proteins: Sculpting body parts by activating localised cell death. Current Biology 12, R776-R778.

Chang, C.-C. and Cook, C. E. (2002) Trends in genomic 'evo-devo'. Genome Biology 3, 4019

Cook, C. and Mostovski, M. (2002). 16S mitochondrial sequences associate morphologically dissimilar males and females of the family Phoridae (Diptera). Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 77, 267-273.

Rozowski, M. (2002)  Establishing character correspondence for sensory organ traits in flies: Sensory organ development provides insight for reconstructing character evolution. Mol. Phylog. Evol. 24, 400-411.

Telford, M. J. (2002) Cladistic analyses of molecular characters: The good the bad and the ugly. Contr. Zool. 71, 93-100.

2001

Alonso, C., Maxton-Kuechenmeister, J. and Akam, M. (2001)  Evolution of Ftz protein function in insects. Current Biology 11, 1473-1478.

Dearden, P.K. and Akam, M. (2001)  Early embryo patterning in the grasshopper, Schistocerca gregaria:  wg, dpp and caudal expression. Development 128, 3435-3444.

Cook, C., Smith, M.L., Telford, M., Bastianello, A. and Akam, M. (2001)  Hox genes and the phylogeny of the arthropods. Current Biology 11, 759-763.

Andreeva, T.F., Cook, C.E., Korchagina, N.M., Akam, M. and Dondua, A.K. (2001) Cloning and analysis of structural organisation of Hox genes in the polychaete Nereis virens  (in Russian). Ontogenesis 32, 225-233.

2000

Dearden, P. and Akam, M. (2000) Segmentation in silico. Nature 402, 131-132.

Dearden, P., Grbic, M., Falciani, F. and Akam, M. (2000). Maternal expression and early zygotic regulation of the Hox3/zen gene in the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Evol. Dev. 2, 261-270.

Akam, M. (2000). Arthropods: Developmental diversity within a (super) phylum. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97, 4438-4441.

Dearden, P. and Akam, M. (2000)  A role for fringe in segment morphogenesis but not segment formation in the grasshopper Schistocerca gregaria. Dev. Genes Evol. 210, 329-336.

Roch, F. and Akam, M. (2000)  Ultrabithorax and the control of cell morphology in Drosophila halteres. Development 127, 97-107.