PUBLICATIONS

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.

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.

Moore TY, Cooper KL, Biewener AA, Vasudevan R.(2017)Unpredictability of escape trajectory explains predator evasion ability and microhabitat preference of desert rodents. Nat Commun. 8(1):440.

Cooper KL. (2017) Decoding the evolution of species. Perspective in Science. 356(6341):904-905.

Saxena A, Towers M, Cooper KL. (2017) The origins, scaling and loss of tetrapod digits. Review in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 372(1713). pii: 20150482.

Saxena A, Cooper KL. (2016) Evolutionary biology: Fin to limb within our grasp. News and Views in Nature. 537(7619):176-177.

Moore TY, Organ CL, Edwards SV, Biewener AA, Tabin CJ, Jenkins FA Jr, Cooper KL. (2015) Multiple Phylogenetically Distinct Events Shaped the Evolution of Limb Skeletal Morphologies Associated with Bipedalism in the Jerboas. Curr Biol. 25(21): 2785-94.

Cooper KL, Shapiro MD. (2015) Preface to the special issue on evolution and morphological diversity. Dev Dyn. 244(10): 1181-3.

Cooper KL. (2015) Self-organization in the limb: a Turing mechanism for digit development. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 32: 92-7.

Cook JA, Edwards SV, Lacey E, Guralnick RP, Soltis PS, Soltis DE, Welch CK, Bell KC, Galbreath KE, Himes C, Allen JM, Heath TA, Carnaval AC, Cooper KL , Liu M, Hanken J, Ickert-Bond S. (2014) Aiming Up: Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Undergraduate Education in Biology. Bioscience. 64(8): 725-734.

Cooper KL, Sears KE, Uygur A, Maier J, Baczkowski KS, Brosnahan M, Antczak D, Skidmore JA, Tabin CJ. (2014) Patterning and post-patterning modes of evolutionary digit loss in mammals. Nature. 511(7507): 41-45.

Wang Z, Dai M, Wang Y, Cooper KL, Zhu T, Dong D, Zhang Z, Zhang S. (2014) Unique expression patterns of multiple key genes associated with the evolution of mammalian flight. Proc Biol Sci. 281(1783).

Cooper KL, Oh S, Sung Y, Dasari R, Kirschner MK, Tabin CJ (2013) Multiple phases of chondrocyte enlargement underlie differences in skeletal proportions. Nature. 495(7441): 375-378.

Cooper KL (2011) The Lesser Egyptian Jerboa, Jaculus jaculus: A unique rodent model for evolution and development. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. (12):1451-1456.

Jordan B, Vercammen P, Cooper KL (2011) Husbandry and breeding of the Lesser Egyptian Jerboa, Jaculus jaculusCold Spring Harbor Protocols. (12):1457-1461.

Cooper KL*, Hu J*, ten Berge D, Fernandez-Teran M, Ros M, Tabin CJ (2011) Initiation of proximal-distal patterning of the vertebrate limb by signals and growth. Science. 332(6033): 1083-1086.

Cooper KL, Tabin CJ (2009) “Developmental patterning of the limb skeleton” The Skeletal System. Ed. Olivier Pourquié. Cold Spring Harbor: Cold Spring Harbor Press. 19-39.

Cooper KL, Tabin CJ (2008) Understanding of bat wing evolution takes flight. Perspective in Genes Dev . 22(2): 121-124.

Cooper KL, Armstrong J, Moens CB (2005) Zebrafish foggy/spt5 is required for migration of facial branchiomotor neurons but not for their survival. Dev Dyn. 234(3): 651-658.

Cooper KL, Leisenring WM, Moens CB (2003) Autonomous and nonautonomous functions for Hox/Pbx in branchiomotor neuron development.Dev Biol. 253(2): 200-213.

Wilkin MB, Becker MB, Mulvey D, Phan I, Chao A, Cooper KL, Chung HJ, Campbell ID, Baron M, MacIntyre R (2000) Drosophila dumpy is a gigantic extracellular protein required to maintain tension at epidermal-cuticle attachment sites. Curr Biol. 10: 559-567.