Publications

Schnitzler C.E., Chang E.S., Waletich J., Quiroga-Artigas G., Wong W.Y., Nguyen A.D., Barreira S.N., Doonan L.B., Gonzalez P., Koren S., Gahan J.M., Sanders S.M., Bradshaw B., DuBuc T.Q., Febrimarsa, de Jong D., Nawrocki E.P., Larson A., Klasfeld S., Gornik S.G., Moreland R.T., Wolfsberg T.G., Phillippy A.M., Mullikin J.C., Simakov O., Cartwright P., Nicotra M., Frank U., Baxevanis A.D. 2024. The genome of the colonial hydroid Hydractinia reveals that their stem cells use a toolkit of evolutionarily shared genes with all animals. Genome Research 34(3):498-513. doi: 10.1101/gr.278382.123. PMCID:[PMC11067881]

Quiroga-Artigas, G., Duscher, A., Lundquist, K., Waletich, J., Schnitzler, C.E. 2020. Gene knockdown via electroporation of short hairpin RNAs in embryos of the marine hydroid Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus. Scientific Reports 10 (12806). PMCID: [PMC7393174].

Frank, U., Nicotra, M.L., Schnitzler, C.E. 2020. The colonial cnidarian Hydractinia. EvoDevo 11 (7). PMCID: [PMC7098123].

DuBuc, T.Q., Schnitzler, C.E., Chrysostomou, E., McMahon, E.T., Febrimarsa, Gahan, J.M., Buggie, T., Gornik, S.G., Hanley, S., Barreira, S.N., Gonzalez, P., Baxevanis, A.D., Frank, U. 2020. Transcription factor AP2 controls cnidarian germ cell induction. Science 367(6479): 757-762. PMCID: [PMC7025884].

Sanders, S.M., Ma, Z., Hughes, J.M., Riscoe, B.M., Gibson, G.A., Watson, A.M., Flici, H., Frank, U., Schnitzler, C.E., Baxevanis, A.D., Nicotra, M.L. 2018. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knockin in the hydroid Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus. BMC Genomics 19:649. PMCID: [PMC6122657].

Flici, H., Schnitzler, C.E., Millane, R.C., Govinden, G., Houlihan, A., Baxevanis, A.D., and Frank, U. 2017. An Evolutionarily Conserved SoxB-Hdac2 Crosstalk Regulates Neurogenesis in a Cnidarian. Cell Rep. 18: 1395-1409. [PMC5312794]

Gahan, J.M., Schnitzler, C.E., Doonan, L.B., Kanska, J., Gornik, S.G., Barreira, S., Thompson, K., Schiffer, P., Baxevanis, A.D., and Frank, U. 2017. Functional Studies on the Role of Notch Signaling in Hydractinia Development. Dev. Biol. 428: 224-231. [PMC5526613]

Török, A, Schiffer, PH, Schnitzler, CE, Ford, K, Mullikin, JC, Baxevanis, AD, Bacic, A, Frank, U, Gornik, SG. 2016. The cnidarian Hydractinia echinata employs canonical and highly adapted histones to pack its DNA. Epigenetics & Chromatin 9:36. PMCID: [PMC5011920].