Recent Publications:

Dick, A., M. Hild, H. Bauer, Y. Imai, H. Maifeld, A.F. Schier, W.S. Talbot, T. Bouwmeester, and M. Hammerschmidt. 2000. Essential role of Bmp7 (snailhouse) and its prodomain in dorsoventral patterning of the zebrafish embryo. Development 127: 343-354..

Gritsman, K., W.S. Talbot, and A.F. Schier. 2000. Nodal signaling patterns the organizer. Development 127: 921-932.

Talbot, W.S. and N. Hopkins. 2000. Zebrafish mutations and functional analysis of the vertebrate genome. Genes and Development 14: 755-762.

Feldman, B, S.T. Dougan, A.F. Schier, and W.S. Talbot. 2000. Nodal-related signals establish mesendodermal fate and trunk neural identity in zebrafish. Current Biology, 10: 531-534.

Kelly, P.D., F. Chu, I.G. Woods, P. Ngo-Hazelett, T. Cardozo, H. Huang, F. Kimm, L. Liao, Y.-L.Yan, Y. Zhou, S.L. Johnson, R. Abagyan, A.F. Schier, J.H. Postlethwait, and W.S. Talbot. 2000. Genetic linkage mapping of zebrafish genes and ESTs. Genome Research 10: 558-567.

Imai, Y., B. Feldman, A.F. Schier, and W.S. Talbot. 2000. Analysis of chromosomal rearrangements induced by postmeiotic mutagenesis with ethylnitrosourea in zebrafish. Genetics 155: 261-272.

Sirotkin, H.I., S.T. Dougan, A.F. Schier, and W.S. Talbot. 2000 bozozok and squint act in parallel to specify dorsal mesoderm and anterior neuroectoderm in zebrafish. Development 127: 2583-2592.

Sirotkin, H.I., M.A. Gates, P.D. Kelly, A.F. Schier, and W.S. Talbot. 2000. fast1 is required for development of dorsal axial structures in zebrafish. Current Biology 10: 1051-1054.

Postlethwait, J.H., I.G. Woods, P. Ngo-Hazelett, Y.-L. Yan, P.D. Kelly, F. Chu, H. Huang, A. Hill, and W.S. Talbot. 2000. Zebrafish comparative genomics and the origins of vertebrate chromosomes. Genome Research 10: 1890-1902.

Woods, I.G., P.D. Kelly, F. Chu, P. Ngo-Hazelett, Y.-L. Yan, H. Huang, J.H. Postlethwait, and W.S. Talbot. 2000. A comparative map of the zebrafish genome. Genome Research 10: 1903-1914.

Schier, A.F. and W.S. Talbot. 2001. Nodal signaling and the zebrafish organizer. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 45: 289-297.

Imai, Y. and W.S. Talbot. 2001. Morpholino phenocopies of the bmp2b/swirl and bmp7/snailhouse mutations. Genesis 30: 160-163.

Imai, Y., M. A. Gates, A.E. Melby, D. Kimelman, A.F. Schier, and W.S. Talbot. 2001. The homeobox genes vox and vent are redundant repressors of dorsal fates in zebrafish. Development 128: 2407-2420.