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  1. Skeletogenic Expression of Integrin Alpha, Talin and Npnt Genes and Npnt Role in Sea Urchin Skeletogenesis

    Article • Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution, August 2025, Wiley

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  2. Possible role of microtubules in vesicular transport of matrix protein during sea urchin larval biomineralization

    Article • Developmental Dynamics, August 2025, Wiley

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  3. Regulatory feedback between VEGF and ERK pathways controls tip-cell expression during sea urchin skeletogenesis

    Article • Development, July 2025, The Company of Biologists

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  4. Mechanosesning circuit activated by rigidity drives calcification in humans and sea urchins

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  5. Expression and Transcriptional Targets of TGFβ‐RII in Paracentrotus lividus Larval Skeletogenesis

    Article • genesis, August 2024, Wiley

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  6. ROCK and the actomyosin network control biomineral growth and morphology during sea urchin skeletogenesis

    Article • eLife, April 2024, eLife

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  7. ROCK and the actomyosin network control biomineral growth and morphology during sea urchin skeletogenesis

    Article • eLife, April 2024, eLife

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  8. ROCK and the actomyosin network control biomineral growth and morphology during sea urchin skeletogenesis

    Article • March 2024, eLife

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  9. ROCK and the actomyosin network control biomineral growth and morphology during sea urchin skeletogenesis

    Article • March 2024, eLife

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  10. Actomyosin remodeling regulates biomineral formation, growth and morphology during eukaryote skeletogenesis

    Article • September 2023, eLife

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  11. ROCK and the actomyosin network control biomineral growth and morphology during sea urchin skeletogenesis

    Article • December 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  12. Distinct regulatory states control the elongation of individual skeletal rods in the sea urchin embryo

    Article • Developmental Dynamics, April 2022, Wiley

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  13. The Evolution of Biomineralization through the Co-Option of Organic Scaffold Forming Networks

    Article • Cells, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  14. The biological regulation of sea urchin larval skeletogenesis – From genes to biomineralized tissue

    Article • Journal of Structural Biology, December 2021, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  15. VEGF signaling activates the matrix metalloproteinases, MmpL7 and MmpL5 at the sites of active skeletal growth and MmpL7 regulates skeletal elongation

    Article • Developmental Biology, May 2021, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  16. The tolerance to hypoxia is defined by a time-sensitive response of the gene regulatory network in sea urchin embryos

    Article • Development, April 2021, The Company of Biologists

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  17. Calcium-vesicles perform active diffusion in the sea urchin embryo during larval biomineralization

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, February 2021, PLOS

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  18. Calcium-vesicles perform active diffusion in the sea urchin embryo during larval biomineralization

    Article • August 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  19. The tolerance to hypoxia is defined by a time-sensitive response of the gene regulatory network in sea urchin embryos

    Article • August 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  20. Developmental transcriptomes of the sea star, Patiria miniata, illuminate how gene expression changes with evolutionary distance

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  21. Possible cooption of a VEGF-driven tubulogenesis program for biomineralization in echinoderms

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  22. Developmental transcriptomes of the sea star, Patiria miniata, illuminate the relationship between conservation of gene expression and morphological conservation

    Article • March 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  23. Possible co-option of a VEGF-driven tubulogenesis program for biomineralization in echinoderms

    Article • February 2019, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  24. Parallel embryonic transcriptional programs evolve under distinct constraints and may enable morphological conservation amidst adaptation

    Article • Developmental Biology, October 2017, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  25. Regulatory heterochronies and loose temporal scaling between sea star and sea urchin regulatory circuits

    Article • The International Journal of Developmental Biology, January 2017, UBC Press

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  26. Mature maternal mRNAs are longer than zygotic ones and have complex degradation kinetics in sea urchin

    Article • Developmental Biology, June 2016, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  27. Quantitative developmental transcriptomes of the Mediterranean sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus

    Article • Marine Genomics, February 2016, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  28. Comparative Study of Regulatory Circuits in Two Sea Urchin Species Reveals Tight Control of Timing and High Conservation of Expression Dynamics

    Article • PLoS Genetics, July 2015, PLOS

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  29. Gene regulatory control in the sea urchin aboral ectoderm: Spatial initiation, signaling inputs, and cell fate lockdown

    Article • Developmental Biology, February 2013, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  30. The conserved role and divergent regulation of foxa, a pan-eumetazoan developmental regulatory gene

    Article • Developmental Biology, September 2011, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  31. Perturbation analysis analyzed—mathematical modeling of intact and perturbed gene regulatory circuits for animal development

    Article • Developmental Biology, August 2010, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  32. Information processing at the foxa node of the sea urchin endomesoderm specification network

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 2010, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  33. Experimentally based sea urchin gene regulatory network and the causal explanation of developmental phenomenology

    Article • WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine, September 2009, Wiley

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  34. The endoderm specification, a view from the foxa cis-regulatory modules

    Article • Developmental Biology, July 2009, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  35. Modeling the dynamics of transcriptional gene regulatory networks for animal development

    Article • Developmental Biology, January 2009, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  36. The regulatory genome and the computer

    Article • Developmental Biology, October 2007, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  37. Gene Regulation: Gene Control Network in Development

    Article • Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure, June 2007, Annual Reviews

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  38. Deciphering the Underlying Mechanism of Specification and Differentiation: The Sea Urchin Gene Regulatory Network

    Article • Science s STKE, November 2006, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  39. Porous silicon substrates for neurons culturing and bio‐photonic sensing

    Article • phys stat sol (a), June 2005, Wiley

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  40. Neurons culturing and biophotonic sensing using porous silicon

    Article • Applied Physics Letters, May 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  41. Mott transition, biexciton crossover, and spin ordering in the exciton gas in quantum wells

    Article • Physical Review B, June 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  42. The spin structure of quasi–two-dimensional biexcitons in quantum wells

    Article • EPL (Europhysics Letters), September 2002, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  43. Phase Diagram of Quasi Two-Dimensional Electron-Hole Gas in Single and Coupled Quantum Wells

    Article • phys stat sol (a), April 2002, Wiley

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  44. Exciton-exciton interactions in quantum wells: Optical properties and energy and spin relaxation

    Article • Physical Review B, March 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  45. InAs/GaSb interfaces; the problem of boundary conditions

    Article • Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, October 1998, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon

  46. Energy spectrum of heterostructures

    Article • Solid State Communications, November 1997, Elsevier

    Smadar Ben-Tabou De-Leon