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Department of Cell Biology

• Aguero T., Kassmer, S., Alberio, R., Johnson, A., and King, M.L. (2015). “Mechanisms of Vertebrate Germ Cell Determination”, Ch 8. In "Early Vertebrate Development: The Egg-to-Embryo Transition", (eds. Francisco Pelegri, Michael Danilchik and Ann E. Sutherland). Springer Press. Accepted.
• Yang, J, Aguero, T., and King, M.L. (2015). “The Xenopus Maternal to Zygotic Transition from the Perspective of the Germline ". In: Current Topics in Developmental Biology: “The Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition” (ed. Howard Lipshitz). Academic Press, N.Y. Accepted.
• King M.L. (2014) “Germ cell Specification in Xenopus” in “Xenopus Development” pp. 75-100. ed by M. Kloc and J.Z. Kubiak. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey.
• Maternal Dead-End1 is required for vegetal cortical microtubule assembly during Xenopus axis specification. Mei W, Jin Z, Lai F, Schwend T, Houston DW, King ML, Yang J. Development. 2013 Jun;140(11):2334-44. doi: 10.1242/dev.094748. Epub 2013 Apr 24. PMID: 23615278
• Repressive translational control in germ cells. Lai F, King ML. Mol Reprod Dev. 2013 Aug;80(8):665-76. doi: 10.1002/mrd.22161. Epub 2013 Mar 18. Review.PMID: 23408501
• Activity of long-chain acyl-CoA synthetase is required for maintaining meiotic arrest in Xenopus laevis. Wang HW, Fang JS, Kuang X, Miao LY, Wang C, Xia GL, King ML, Zhang J. Biol Reprod. 2012 Sep 28;87(3):74. Print 2012 Sep. PMID: 22786823
• Xenopus Nanos1 is required to prevent endoderm gene expression and apoptosis in primordial germ cells. Lai F, Singh A, King ML. Development. 2012 Apr;139(8):1476-86. doi: 10.1242/dev.079608. Epub 2012 Mar 7. PMID: 22399685
• Xenopus germline nanos1 is translationally repressed by a novel structure-based mechanism. Luo X, Nerlick S, An W, King ML. Development. 2011 Feb;138(3):589-98. doi: 10.1242/dev.056705. PMID: 21205802
• Nanos1 functions as a translational repressor in the Xenopus germline. Lai F, Zhou Y, Luo X, Fox J, King ML. Mech Dev. 2011 Jan-Feb;128(1-2):153-63. doi: 10.1016/j.mod.2010.12.001. Epub 2010 Dec 30. PMID: 21195170
• Repression of zygotic gene expression in the Xenopus germline. Venkatarama T, Lai F, Luo X, Zhou Y, Newman K, King ML. Development. 2010 Feb;137(4):651-60. doi: 10.1242/dev.038554. PMID: 20110330
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