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Germ Cells

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    Colonnetta M, Schedl P, Deshpande G. Germline/soma distinction in embryos requires regulators of zygotic genome activation. Elife. 2023;12. PMCID: PMC9812407
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    Valentino M, Ortega B, Ulrich B, Doyle D, Farnum E, Joiner D, Gavis E, Niepielko M. Computational modeling offers new insight into Drosophila germ granule development. Biophys J. 2022;121(8):1465–1482. PMCID: PMC9072583
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    Colonnetta M, Goyal Y, Johnson H, Syal S, Schedl P, Deshpande G. Preformation and epigenesis converge to specify primordial germ cell fate in the early Drosophila embryo. PLoS Genet. 2022;18(1):e1010002. PMCID: PMC8765614
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    Diegmiller R, Doherty C, Stern T, Alsous J, Shvartsman S. Size scaling in collective cell growth. Development. 2021;148(18). PMCID: PMC8489028
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    Moore R, Kaletsky R, Lesnik C, Cota V, Blackman E, Parsons L, Gitai Z, Murphy C. The role of the Cer1 transposon in horizontal transfer of transgenerational memory. Cell. 2021;184(18):4697–4712.e18. PMCID: PMC8812995
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    Shao B, Diegmiller R, Shvartsman S. Collective oscillations of coupled cell cycles. Biophys J. 2021;120(19):4242–4251. PMCID: PMC8516640
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    Doherty C, Diegmiller R, Kapasiawala M, Gavis E, Shvartsman S. Coupled oscillators coordinate collective germline growth. Dev Cell. 2021;56(6):860–870.e8. PMCID: PMC8265018
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    Eichler C, Hakes A, Hull B, Gavis E. Compartmentalized degradation in the germ plasm safeguards germline development. Elife. 2020;9. PMCID: PMC6986870
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    Bialistoky T, Manry D, Smith P, Ng C, Kim Y, Zamir S, Moyal V, Kalifa R, Schedl P, Gerlitz O, Deshpande G. Functional analysis of Niemann-Pick disease type C family protein, NPC1a, in . Development. 2019;146(10). PMCID: PMC6550021
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    Lebedeva L, Yakovlev K, Kozlov E, Schedl P, Deshpande G, Shidlovskii Y. Transcriptional quiescence in primordial germ cells. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol. 2018;53(6):579–595. PMCID: PMC8729227
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    Niepielko M, Eagle W, Gavis E. Stochastic Seeding Coupled with mRNA Self-Recruitment Generates Heterogeneous Drosophila Germ Granules. Curr Biol. 2018;28(12):1872–1881.e3. PMCID: PMC6008217
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    Deshpande G, Barr J, Gerlitz O, Lebedeva L, Shidlovskii Y ii, Schedl P. Cells on the move: Modulation of guidance cues during germ cell migration. Fly (Austin). 2017;11(3):200–207. PMCID: PMC5552272
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    Deshpande G, Manry D, Jourjine N, Mogila V, Mozes H, Bialistoky T, Gerlitz O, Schedl P. Role of the ABC transporter Mdr49 in Hedgehog signaling and germ cell migration. Development. 2016;143(12):2111–20. PMCID: PMC4920174
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    Lerit D, Shebelut C, Lawlor K, Rusan N, Gavis E, Schedl P, Deshpande G. Germ Cell-less Promotes Centrosome Segregation to Induce Germ Cell Formation. Cell Rep. 2017;18(4):831–839. PMCID: PMC5327791
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    Mattingly H, Chen J, Arur S, Shvartsman S. A Transport Model for Estimating the Time Course of ERK Activation in the C. elegans Germline. Biophys J. 2015;109(11):2436–45. PMCID: PMC4675862
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    Tanentzapf G, Devenport D, Godt D, Brown N. Integrin-dependent anchoring of a stem-cell niche. Nat Cell Biol. 2007;9(12):1413–8. PMCID: PMC3529653
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    Deshpande G, Nouri A, Schedl P. Wnt Signaling in Sexual Dimorphism. Genetics. 2016;202(2):661–73. PMCID: PMC4788241
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