Villacís Núñez CN, Ray AP, Cooper KL, Moore TY (2022). Evolutionary loss of foot muscle during development with characteristics of atrophy and no evidence of cell death.Metatarsal fusion resisted bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289(1984): 20221322.
Saxena A, Sharma V, Muthuirulan P, Neufeld SJ, Tran MP, Gutierrez HL, Erberich JM, Birmingham A, Cobb J, Capellini TD, Hiller M, Cooper KL (2022) Interspecies transcriptomics identify genes that underlie disproportionate foot growth in jerboas. Current Biology 32(2): 289-303.
Weitzel AJ, Grunwald HA, Levina R, Gantz VM, Hedrick SM, Bier E, Cooper KL (2021) Meiotic Cas9 expression mediates gene conversion in the male and female mouse germline. PLoS Biology 19(12): e3001478.
Grunwald HA, Weitzel AJ, and Cooper KL (2021) Applications of and considerations for using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene conversion systems in rodents. Nature Protocols 17: 3–14.
Grunwald HA, Weitzel AJ, and Cooper KL (2021) Applications of and considerations for using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene conversion systems in rodents. Nature Protocols 17: 3–14.
Saxena A and Cooper KL (2021) Diversification of the vertebrate limb: Sequencing the events. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development, 69: 42-47.
Gutierrez HL, Tsutsumi R, Moore TY, Cooper KL (2019) Diversification of the vertebrate limb: Sequencing the events.Convergent metatarsal fusion in jerboas and chickens is mediated by similarities and differences in the patterns of osteoblast and osteoclast activities. Evolution & Development. 21: 320–329. Editor’s Choice article for the issue.
Tran MP, Tsutsumi R, Erberich JM, Chen KD, Flores MD, Cooper KL. (2019) Evolutionary loss of foot muscle during development with characteristics of atrophy and no evidence of cell death. eLife. 8: e50645. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.50645 Highlighted ineLife digest.
Grunwald HA*, Gantz VM*, Poplawski G*, Xu XS, Bier E, Cooper KL. (2019) Super-Mendelian inheritance mediated by CRISPR/Cas9 in the female mouse germline. Nature.566(7742): 105-109. Highlighted in Science News and in Nature News and Comment.
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