Publications

  •  Obara, B., M.T.Veeman, J.H. Choi, W.C. Smith, and B.S. Manjunath. (2010) Segmentation of ascidian notochord cells in DIC timelapse images. Microscopy Research and Technique, in press.
  •  Veeman, M.T., S. Chiba, and W.C. Smith. (2010) Ciona Genetics. Methods in Molecular Biology, in press.
  • Matthew J. Kourakis, Erin Newman-Smith, and William C. Smith. (2010) Key steps in the morphogenesis of a cranial placode in an invertebrate chordate, the tunicate Ciona savignyi  Dev Biol. 2010 April 1; 340(1): 134–144.

  • Tresser, J., S. Chiba, M.T. Veeman, D. El-Nachef, E. Newman-Smith, T. Horie, M. Tsuda, and W.C. Smith. (2010) doublesex/mab3 related-1 (dmrt-1) is esential for development of anterior neural plate derivatives in Ciona. Development 137(13): 2197-203.

  • Veeman, M.T., E. Newman-Smith, D. El-Nachef, and W.C. Smith. (2010) The ascidian mouth opening is derived from the anterior neuropore: reassessing the mouth/neural tube relationship in chordate evolution. Developmental Biology 344(1):138-49.
  • Chiba S, Jiang D, Satoh N, and Smith WC. (2009) brachyury null mutant-induced defects in juvenile ascidian endodermal organs. Development. 136(1):35-39 .
  •  Hill MM, Broman KW, Stupka E, Smith WC, Jiang D, and Sidow A (2008) The C. savignyi genetic map and its integration with the reference sequence facilitates insights into chordate genome evolution. Genome Res. 2008 Aug;18(8):1369-79.
  • Silva N, and Smith WC. (2008) Inverse correlation of population similarity and introduction date for invasive ascidians. PLoS ONE;3(6):e2552.
  • Lemaire P, Smith WC, and Nishida H. (2008) Ascidians and the plasticity of the chordate developmental program. Curr Biol. 2008 Jul 22;18(14):R620-31. Review.
  • Veeman, M., Nakatani, Y., Hendrickson, C., Ericson, V., Lin, C., and Smith, W. (2007) chongmague reveals an essential role for laminin-mediated boundary formation in chordate convergence and extension movements. Development. 2008 Jan;135(1):33-41.
  • Kourakis, M and Smith, W. C. (2007) A conserved role for FGF signaling in chordate otic/atrial placode formation. Dev Biol. 2007 Dec 1;312(1):245-57.
  • Kourakis, M.J. and Smith W. C. (2005) Did the first chordates organize without the organizer? Trends Genet. 21:506-510. Review.
  • Jiang, D. and Smith, W. C. (2005) Self- and cross-fertilization in the solitary ascidian Ciona savingyi. Biol. Bull. 209:107-112.
  • 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., 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.
  • Johnson, D. S., Davidson, B., Brown, C. D., Smith W.C., Sidow A. (2004) Noncoding regulatory sequences of Ciona exhibit strong correspondence between evolutionary constraint and functional importance. Genome Res. 14:2448-56.
  • Deschet, K. and Smith, W. C. (2004) Frimousse--a spontaneous ascidian mutant with anterior ectodermal fate transformation Current Biology, 14, R408-R410.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Jiang, D. and Smith, W. C. (2002) An ascidian engrailed gene. Dev Genes Evol. 212(8):399-402.
  • 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.
  • Christiaen, L, 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.
  • 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)
  • Moody, R., Davis, S., Cubas F., and Smith, W. C. Isolation of developmental mutants of the ascidian Ciona savignyi. (1999) Mol. Gen. Genetics, 262: 199-206.
  • Nakatani, Y., Moody, R. and Smith, W. C. (1999) Mutations affecting tail and notochord development in the ascidian Ciona savignyi. Development, 126: 3293-3301.