Publications

Moreland, R.T., Schnitzler, C.E., Zhang, S., Singh, S., Wolfsberg, T.G., Baxevanis, A.D. The Hydractinia Genome Project Portal: multi-omic annotation and visualization of Hydractinia genomic datasets. Bioinform Adv. 2025 Oct 15;5(1):vbaf215. doi: 10.1093/bioadv/vbaf215. [PubMed Central]

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. The genome of the colonial hydroid Hydractinia reveals that their stem cells use a toolkit of evolutionarily shared genes with all animals. Genome Res. 2024 Apr 25;34(3):498-513. doi: 10.1101/gr.278382.123. [PubMed Central]

Quiroga-Artigas, G., Duscher, A., Lundquist, K., Waletich, J., Schnitzler, C.E. Gene knockdown via electroporation of short hairpin RNAs in embryos of the marine hydroid Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus. Sci Rep. 2020 Jul 30;10(1):12806. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-69489-8. [PubMed Central]

Frank, U., Nicotra, M.L., Schnitzler, C.E. The colonial cnidarian Hydractinia. Evodevo. 2020 Mar 26;11:7. doi: 10.1186/s13227-020-00151-0. [PubMed Central]

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. Transcription factor AP2 controls cnidarian germ cell induction. Science. 2020 Feb 14;367(6479):757-762. doi: 10.1126/science.aay6782. [PubMed Central]

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. CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene knockin in the hydroid Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus. BMC Genomics. 2018 Sep 3;19(1):649. doi: 10.1186/s12864-018-5032-z. [PubMed Central]

Flici, H., Schnitzler, C.E., Millane, R.C., Govinden, G., Houlihan, A., Boomkamp, S.D., Shen, S., Baxevanis, A.D., Frank, U. An Evolutionarily Conserved SoxB-Hdac2 Crosstalk Regulates Neurogenesis in a Cnidarian. Cell Rep. 2017 Feb 7;18(6):1395-1409. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.01.019. [PubMed Central]

Gahan, J.M., Schnitzler, C.E., DuBuc, T.Q., Doonan, L.B., Kanska, J., Gornik, S.G., Barreira, S., Thompson, K., Schiffer, P., Baxevanis, A.D., Frank, U. Functional studies on the role of Notch signaling in Hydractinia development. Dev Biol. 2017 Aug 1;428(1):224-231. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.06.006. [PubMed Central]

Török, A., Schiffer, P.H., Schnitzler, C.E., Ford, K., Mullikin, J.C., Baxevanis, A.D., Bacic, A., Frank, U., Gornik, S.G. The cnidarian Hydractinia echinata employs canonical and highly adapted histones to pack its DNA. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2016 Sep 6;9(1):36. doi: 10.1186/s13072-016-0085-1. [PubMed Central]