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Ezal C.H., Marion C.D., Smith W.C. (2000) Primary structure requirements for Xenopus nodal-related 3 and a comparison with regions required by Xenopus nodal-related 2. J. Biol. Chem., 275: 14124-14131.

Kumano G, Smith WC. (2000) FGF signaling restricts the primary blood islands to ventral mesoderm. Dev Biol. 228:304-14.

Kumano G, Ezal C, Smith WC. (2001) Boundaries and functional domains in the animal/vegetal axis of Xenopus gastrula mesoderm. Dev. Biol. 236:465-477.

Sordino, P, Belluzzi, L., De Santis, R. and Smith, W. C. (2001) Developmental genetics in primitive chordates. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London Ser. B, 356(1414):1573-1582. (review)

Christiaen1, Paolo Burighel, William C. Smith, Franck Bourrat, Jean-Stéphane Joly (2002) Pitx genes in tunicates provide new molecular insight into the evolutionary origin of pituitary. Gene, 287(1-2):107-113.

Davis SW, Smith WC. (2002) Expression cloning in ascidians: isolation of a novel member of the asctacin protease family. Dev. Genes. Evol. 212(2):81-86.

Jiang, D. and Smith, W. C. (2002) An ascidian engrailed gene. Dev Genes Evol. 212(8):399-402.

Kumano G, Smith WC. (2002) The nodal target gene Xmenf is a component of an FGF-independent pathway of ventral mesoderm induction in Xenopus. Mech. Dev., 118(1-2):45-56.

Kumano G, Smith WC. (2002) Revisions to the Xenopus gastrula fate map: Implications for mesoderm induction and patterning. Dev Dyn. 225(4):409-21 (review).

Deschet K, Nakatani Y, Smith WC. (2003) Generation of Ci-Brachyury-GFP stable transgenic lines in the ascidian Ciona savignyi. Genesis 2003 Apr;35(4):248-59.

Hendrickson, C., Christiaen, L., Deschet, K., Di Jiang, D., Joly, J.S., Legendre, L., Nakatani, Y., Tresser, J. and Smith, W. C. (2004) Culture of adult ascidians and ascidian genetics. Method. Cell Biol., 74, 143-170.

Deschet, K. and Smith, W. C. (2004) Disruption of anterior neuroectoderm and palp development in the Ciona intestinalis mutant frimousse. Current Biology, 14(11):408-410.

Matthysse, A.G., Descht, K., Williams, M. and C. Smith, W. C. (2004) A Functional Cellulose Synthase Expressed in Ascidian Epidermis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101(4):986-991

Jiang D., Tresser, J.W., Horie, T., Tsuda, M., Smith, W.C. (2005) Pigmentation in the sensory organs of the ascidian larva is essential for normal behavior. J Exp Biol., 208: 433-438.

Jiang D., Munro, E.M., Smith, W.C. (2005) Ascidian prickle regulates both mediolateral and anterior-posterior cell polarity of notochord cells. Curr Biol., 15:79-85.

Jiang, D. and Smith, W. C. (2005) Self- and cross-fertilization in the solitary ascidian Ciona savingyi. Biol. Bull. 209:107-112.

Kourakis, M.J. and Smith W. C. (2005) Did the first chordates organize without the organizer? Trends Genet. 21:506-510.

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