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Díaz S, Amaro F, Rico D, Campos V, Benítez L, Martín-González A, Hamilton EP, Orias E and Gutiérrez JC. 2007. Tetrahymena Metallothioneins Fall into Two Discrete Subfamilies. PLoS One, 2:e291.

Eisen JA, 46 authors from other research groups, Del Toro C, Ryder HF, Williamson SC, Barbeau RA, Hamilton EP, Orias E. 2006 Macronuclear Genome Sequence of the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a Model Eukaryote. PLoS Biol. 4:e286.

Hamilton EP, Dear PH, Rowland T, Saks K, Eisen JA, Orias E. 2006 Use of HAPPY mapping for the higher order assembly of the Tetrahymena genome. Genomics. 88:443-51.

Miao W, Yu T, Orias E, Wan M and Fu C 2006 Identification of differentially expressed genes in Tetrahymena thermophila responded to Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) by suppression subtractive hybridization. Environmental Microbiology, Online early: doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.00988.x.

Hamilton EP, Williamson S, Dunn S, Merriam V, Lin C, Vong L, Russell-Colantonio J, Orias E. 2006 The Highly Conserved Family of Tetrahymena thermophila Chromosome Breakage Elements Contains an Invariant 10-Base-Pair Core. Eukaryot Cell 2006 5:771-80.

Hamilton E, Bruns P, Lin C, Merriam V, Orias E, Vong L, Cassidy-Hanley D. (2005) Genome-wide characterization of tetrahymena thermophila chromosome breakage sites. I. Cloning and identification of functional sites. Genetics,170(4):1611-21.

Cassidy-Hanley D, Bisharyan Y, Fridman V, Gerber J, Lin C, Orias E, Orias JD, Ryder H, Vong L, Hamilton EP. (2005) Genome-wide characterization of Tetrahymena thermophila chromosome breakage sites. II. Physical and genetic mapping. Genetics,170(4):1623-31.

Turkewitz AP, Orias E, Kapler G. (2002) Functional genomics: the coming of age for Tetrahymena thermophila. Trends Genet,18(1):35-40.

Orias, E. (2000) Toward sequencing the tetrahymena genome: exploiting the gift of nuclear dimorphism. J Eukaryot Microbiol, 47(4):328-33.

Hamilton, EP, Cassidy-Hanley, D, Lin, C, Vong, L., Merriam, V, Bruns, P and Orias, E. (2001) Physical and genetic mapping of chromosome breakage junctions of Tetrahymena Thermophila, in preparation.

Orias, E. (2000) Toward sequencing the tetrahymena genome: exploiting the gift of nuclear dimorphism. J Eukaryot Microbiol, 47(4):328-33.

Orias, E. (2000) Symposium on the genomics of free-living microbial eukaryotes--state of the art and promise: introductory remarks. J Eukaryot Microbiol, 47(4):327

Wong, L, Klionsky, L, Wickert, S, Merriam, V, Orias, E, and Hamilton, EP. (2000) Autonomously replicating macronuclear DNA pieces are the physical basis of genetic coassortment groups in Tetrahymena thermophila.Genetics, 155(3):1119-25.

Wickert S, Nangle L, Shevel S, Orias E. (2000) Tetrahymena macronuclear genome mapping: colinearity Of macronuclear coassortment groups and the micronuclear map on chromosome 1l.Genetics. 154(3):1155-67.

Wickert S, Orias E. (2000)Tetrahymena micronuclear genome mapping. a high-resolution meiotic map of chromosome 1l. Genetics. 2000 154(3):1141-53.

Hamilton EP, Orias E. (2000) Genetically mapping new mutants and cloned genes. Methods Cell Biol. 62:265-80

Orias E, Hamilton EP. (2000)Genetically sorting a collection of Tetrahymena mutants. Methods Cell Biol. 62:253-63.

Hamilton EP, Orias E. (2000)Genetic crosses: setting up crosses, testing progeny, and isolating phenotypic assortants. Methods Cell Biol. 62:219-28.

Orias E, Hamilton EP, Orias JD. (2000) Tetrahymena as a laboratory organism: useful strains, cell culture, and cell line maintenance.Methods Cell Biol. 62:189-211

Orias E. (1998) Mapping the germ-line and somatic genomes of a ciliated protozoan, Tetrahymena thermophila. Genome Res. 8(2):91-9

Allen SL, Zeilinger D, Orias E. (1996) Mapping three classical isozyme loci in tetrahymena: meiotic linkage of EstA to the ChxA linkage group. Genetics. 144(4):1489-96.

Brickner JH, Lynch TJ, Zeilinger D, Orias E. (1996) Identification, mapping and linkage analysis of randomly amplified DNA polymorphisms in Tetrahymena thermophila. Genetics. 143(2):811-21.

Chau MF, Orias E. (1996) An improved method to obtain high molecular weight DNA from purified micro- and macronuclei of Tetrahymena thermophila. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 43(3):198-202.

Chau MF, Orias E. (1996) Developmentally programmed DNA rearrangement in Tetrahymena thermophila: isolation and sequence characterization of three new alternative deletion systems. Biol Cell. 86(2-3):111-20.