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  1. Heterotypic intercellular adhesion tunes efficiency of cell-on-cell migration

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2026, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  2. oskar acts with the transcription factor Creb to regulate long-term memory in crickets

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  3. A Comprehensive Reference Transcriptome Resource for the Common House Spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum

    Article • PLOS One, August 2014, PLOS

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  4. Ablation of a Single Cell From Eight-cell Embryos of the Amphipod Crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

    Article • Journal of Visualized Experiments, March 2014, MyJove Corporation

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  5. Insulin signalling underlies both plasticity and divergence of a reproductive trait in Drosophila

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2014, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  6. Patterns of molecular evolution of the germ line specification gene oskar suggest that a novel domain may contribute to functional divergence in Drosophila

    Article • Development Genes and Evolution, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  7. Subdivision of arthropod cap-n-collar expression domains is restricted to Mandibulata

    Article • EvoDevo, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  8. Live long and prosper: “Germline stem cell maintenance revisited” (retrospective on DOI: 10.1002/bies.201000085)

    Article • BioEssays, June 2013, Wiley

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  9. Distal‐less and dachshund pattern both plesiomorphic and apomorphic structures in chelicerates: RNA interference in the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones)

    Article • Evolution & Development, May 2013, Wiley

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  10. Developmental Gene Discovery in a Hemimetabolous Insect: De Novo Assembly and Annotation of a Transcriptome for the Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

    Article • PLOS One, May 2013, PLOS

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  11. Germ Cell Specification Requires Zygotic Mechanisms Rather Than Germ Plasm in a Basally Branching Insect

    Article • Current Biology, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  12. Evidence against a germ plasm in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus, a hemimetabolous insect

    Article • Biology Open, April 2013, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  13. Convergent evolution of a reproductive trait through distinct developmental mechanisms in Drosophila

    Article • Developmental Biology, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  14. oskar Predates the Evolution of Germ Plasm in Insects

    Article • Current Biology, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  15. ASGARD: an open-access database of annotated transcriptomes for emerging model arthropod species

    Article • Database, November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  16. Evolution of the chelicera: a dachshund domain is retained in the deutocerebral appendage of Opiliones (Arthropoda, Chelicerata)

    Article • Evolution & Development, November 2012, Wiley

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  17. Hox gene expression in the harvestman Phalangium opilio reveals divergent patterning of the chelicerate opisthosoma

    Article • Evolution & Development, September 2012, Wiley

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  18. The roles of cell size and cell number in determining ovariole number in Drosophila

    Article • Developmental Biology, March 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  19. De novo assembly and characterization of a maternal and developmental transcriptome for the emerging model crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

    Article • BMC Genomics, November 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour, William Browne

  20. Patterns of cell lineage, movement, and migration from germ layer specification to gastrulation in the amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

    Article • Developmental Biology, November 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  21. Notch/Delta signalling is not required for segment generation in the basally branching insect Gryllus bimaculatus

    Article • Development, October 2011, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  22. Oskar predates the evolution of insect germ plasm

    Article • Developmental Biology, August 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  23. Long-Lost Relative Claims Orphan Gene: oskar in a Wasp

    Article • PLoS Genetics, April 2011, PLOS

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  24. Counting in oogenesis

    Article • Cell and Tissue Research, March 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  25. The maternal and early embryonic transcriptome of the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus

    Article • BMC Genomics, January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  26. Redefining Stem Cells and Assembling Germ Plasm

    Article • December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  27. The molecular machinery of germ line specification

    Article • Molecular Reproduction and Development, November 2009, Wiley

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  28. Oogenesis: Making the Mos of Meiosis

    Article • Current Biology, June 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  29. Are we there yet? Tracking the development of new model systems

    Article • Trends in Genetics, July 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Arkhat Abzhanov, Dr Cassandra G Extavour, Professor Antonia Monteiro

  30. Vasa protein expression is restricted to the small micromeres of the sea urchin, but is inducible in other lineages early in development

    Article • Developmental Biology, February 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  31. Gray anatomy: phylogenetic patterns of somatic gonad structures and reproductive strategies across the Bilateria

    Article • Integrative and Comparative Biology, June 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  32. Evolution of the bilaterian germ line: lineage origin and modulation of specification mechanisms

    Article • Integrative and Comparative Biology, June 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  33. vasa and nanos expression patterns in a sea anemone and the evolution of bilaterian germ cell specification mechanisms

    Article • Evolution & Development, May 2005, Wiley

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  34. The fate of isolated blastomeres with respect to germ cell formation in the amphipod crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

    Article • Developmental Biology, January 2005, Elsevier

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  35. Hold the germ cells, I'm on duty

    Article • BioEssays, November 2004, Wiley

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  36. Book review: Crustacean Issues 15: Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Crustacea

    Article • BioEssays, October 2004, Wiley

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  37. Mechanisms of germ cell specification across the metazoans: epigenesis and preformation

    Article • Development, October 2003, The Company of Biologists

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  38. Germ cell selection in genetic mosaics in Drosophila melanogaster

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2001, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour

  39. Urbisexuality: the evolution of bilaterian germ cell specification and reproductive systems

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Cassandra G Extavour