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Selected Publications

Research Articles | Commentary and Reports | Public Outreach

For a complete list of publications search Pubmed for Panfilio-K.

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Selected research articles

Ewen-Campen, B., Shaner, N., Panfilio, K.A., Suzuki, Y., Roth, S., and Extavour C.G. 2011. The maternal and early embryonic transcriptome of the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus. BMC Genomics. 12:61.

Panfilio, K.A.*, and Roth, S. 2010. Epithelial reorganization events during late extraembryonic development in a hemimetabolous insect. Dev. Biol. 340: 100-115.

Panfilio, K.A.* 2009. Late extraembryonic morphogenesis and its zen-RNAi-induced failure in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus. Dev. Biol. 333: 297-311.

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

Panfilio, K. A.*, 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: 323-329.

Panfilio, K.A.*, Liu, P.Z., Akam, M., and Kaufman, T.C. 2006. Oncopeltus fasciatus zen is essential for serosal tissue function in katatrepsis. Dev. Biol. 292: 226-243.

Commentary and reports

Chipman, A., Extavour, C., Khila, A., Panfilio, K. Popadic, A., Suzuki, Y. 2012. Oncopeltus fasciatus and Gerris buenoi: two complementary hemipterans for integrative biology research.
Genome sequencing white paper, hosted at http://arthropodgenomes.org/.

Roth, S.*, and Panfilio, K.A.* 2012. Making waves for segments. Science 336: 306-307.
Perspective piece on Sarrazin, A.F., Peel, A.D., and Averof, M. 2012. A segmentation clock with two-segment periodicity in insects. Science 336: 338-341.

Lynch, J.A., Panfilio, K.A., da Fonseca, R.N. 2009. As Tribolium matures as a model insect, coleopteran community congregates in Cologne. Dev. Genes Evol. 219: 531-533.
Meeting report from co-organizing the biennial European regional Tribolium beetle meeting.

Public outreach

Video interview on doing science and the nature of research discoveries, Significant Details Project, May 2013.

Audio interview on the field of evo-devo biology, Brains Matter Podcast: "Hox genes and evolutionary developmental genetics", Dec. 2009.

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