CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME:

John H. Postlethwait

POSITION:

Professor of Biology

PRESENT ADDRESS:

Institute of Neuroscience
1254 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon  97403-1254
Office (541) 346-4538 / Fax (541) 346-4548
E-mail: jpostle@uoneuro.uoregon.edu

EDUCATION:

Purdue University
University of California, Irvine
Case Western Reserve University
Harvard University

B.A.
Predoc
Ph.D.
Postdoc

1966
1968-70
1970
1970-71

Biology
Developmental Genetics
Developmental Genetics
Molecular Genetics

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1971-1977
1977-1981
1977-1978
1981-present
1982-1983
1987-present
1989-1990
1990-present
2009

Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Oregon
Associate Professor of Biology, University of Oregon
Visiting Research Scientist, Institute for Molecular Biology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Salzburg, Austria
Professor of Biology, University of Oregon
Visiting Research Scientist, CNRS, Laboratory of Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics, Strasbourg, France
Affiliate, Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon
Visiting Research Scientist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Oxford University, Oxford, Great Britain
Member, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon
Visiting Researcher, Biozentrum, Universität Würzburg, Germany

AWARDS AND HONORS:


1966
1974-1979
1977
1979
1988
1997
2000
2001
2007
2007
2009

Phi Beta Kappa, Purdue University
Research Career Development Award, National Institutes of Health
Recipient, Fulbright Fellowship
Recipient, Ersted Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Oregon
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Recipient, Kezer Distinguished Teacher Award, Biology Department, University of Oregon
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Purdue University
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Jefferson High School, Lafayette, Indiana
Medical Research Foundation Discovery Award
Oregon Discovers Achievement Award
Humboldt Research Award, Germany

TEACHING AND COMMITTEES 2010-2011
Teaching
2010 Winter: Bi211 General Biology: Cells and Genetics (265 students)
2010 Fall: Bi211 General Biology: Cells and Genetics (328 students)
 
Committees
University committees: Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
Departmental committees: Biology Department Personnel Committee
Institute committees: Institute of Neuroscience Executive Committee

PUBLICATIONS (222 Total)

  • DeLaurier A, Nakamura Y, Braasch I, Khanna V, Kato H, Wakitani S, Postlethwait JH, Kimmel CB.  (2012) Histone deacetylase-4 is required during early cranial neural crest development for generation of the zebrafish palatal skeleton.  BMC Dev Biol 2012, 12:16 doi:10.1186/1471-213X-12-16.
  • Eames BF, Amores A, Yan Y-L, Postlethwait JH.  (2012) Evolution of the osteoblast: Skeletogenesis in gar and zebrafish.  BMC Evol Biol. 12:27 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-27
  • Nakamura Y, He X, Kato H, Wakitani S, Kobayashi T, Watanabe S, Iida A, Tahara H, Warman ML, Watanapokasin R, Postlethwait JH.  (2012) Sox9 Is Upstream of MicroRNA-140 in Cartilage.  Appl Biochem Biotechnol. 166:64-71. Epub 2011 Nov 4.
  • Hayato Y, Postlethwait JH. (2011)  “Genome Duplication and Subfunction Partitioning: Sox9 in Medaka and Other Vertebrates.”  Medaka: A Model for Organogenesis, Human Disease and Evolution.  K. Naruse et al. (eds.)  Springer. Japan.  2011.  p 323-337.  Print.  ISBN: 9784431926900.  DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-92691-7.
  • Rodríguez-Marí A, Postlethwait JH. (2011) The Role of Fanconi Anemia/BRCA Genes in Zebrafish Sex Determination. Methods Cell Biol. 105:461-90. PMID: 21951543. 
  • Rodríguez-Marí A, Postlethwait JH. “Chapter 20 – The Role of Fanconi Anemia/BRCA Genes in Zebrafish Sex Determination.”  The Zebrafish: Disease Models and Chemical Screens.  Ed. H. William Detrich, Monte Westerfield, Leonard I. Zon.  Academic Press.  Methods Cell Biol. 2012.  Volume 105 pp. 461-490.  Print.
  • Lenhart KF, Lin SY, Titus TA, Postlethwait JH, Burdine RD. (2011) Two additional midline barriers function with midline lefty1 expression to maintain asymmetric Nodal signaling during left-right axis specification in zebrafish. Development. 138:4405-10. PMC3177310.
  • Catchen JM, Braasch I, Postlethwait JH. (2011) Conserved synteny and the zebrafish genome. Methods Cell Biol. 104:259-85. PMID: 21924168.
  • Clark MD, Guryev V, Bruijn E, Nijman IJ, Tada M, Wilson C, Deloukas P, Postlethwait JH, Cuppen E, Stemple DL. (2011) Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) panels for rapid positional cloning in zebrafish.  Methods Cell Biol. 104:219-35.  PMID21924166. PMCID:  pending
  • Song H, Yan YL, Titus T, He X, Postlethwait JH. (2011) The role of stat1b in zebrafish hematopoiesis.  Mech Dev. 2011 Sep 3. [Epub ahead of print].  PMID21914475.  PMCID:  pending.
  • Eames BF, Yan YL, Swartz ME, Levic DS, Knapik EW, Postlethwait JH, Kimmel CB. (2011) Mutations in fam20b and xylt1 Reveal That Cartilage Matrix Controls Timing of Endochondral Ossification by Inhibiting Chondrocyte Maturation.  PLoS Genet. 2011 Aug;7(8):e1002246. Epub 2011 Aug 25.  PMC3161922.
  • Garcia TI, Shen Y, Catchen J, Amores A, Schartl M, Postlethwait J, Walter RB. (2011) Effects of short read quality and quantity on a de novo vertebrate transcriptome assembly.  Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol. 2011 Jun 1. [Epub ahead of print].  NIHMS320384.  PMCID:  pending.
  • Bhattacharya P, Yan Y-L, Postlethwait J, Rubin DA. (2011) Evolution of the vertebrate pth2 (tip39) gene family and the regulation of PTH type-2 Receptor (pth2r) and its endogenous ligand pth2 by Hedgehog signaling in zebrafish development.  J Endocrinol. 2011 Sep 1. [Epud ahead of print]NIHMSID #323234.  PMC Journal:  pending.
  • He X, Yan Y-L, Eberhart JK, Herpin A, Wagner TU, Schartl M, Postlethwait JH.  (2011) miR-196 regulates axial patterning and pectoral appendage initiation.  Dev Bio.  In press. July 20, 2011 [Epub ahead of print]  doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.07.014. NIHMS:  313046, PMCID:  pending
  • Catchen, J., Amores, A., Hohenlohe, P., Cresko, W., and Postlethwait, J.H. (2011) Stacks: building and genotyping loci de novo from short-read sequences. G3 1:171-182.  doi: 10.1534/g3.111.000240. PMCID:  pending
  • Amores, A., Catchen, J., Ferrara, A., Fontenot, Q. and Postlethwait, J.H. (2011) Genome evolution and meiotic maps by massively parallel DNA sequencing: Spotted gar, an outgroup for the teleost genome duplication. Genetics. 188:1-10.  PMCID:  pending
  • Shen Y, Catchen J, Garcia T, Amores A, Beldorth I, Wagner J, Zhang Z, Postlethwait J, Warren W, Schartl M, Walter RB. (2011) Identification of transcriptome SNPs between Xiphophorus lines and species for assessing allele specific gene expression within F(1) interspecies hybrids. Comp Biochem Physiol C Toxicol Pharmacol. 2011 Apr 3.  NIHMS293807.  PMCID:  pending
  • Hochheiser H, Aronow BJ, Artinger K, Beaty TH, Brinkley JF, Chai Y, Clouthier D, Cunningham ML, Dixon M, Donahue LR, Fraser SE, Hallgrimsson B, Iwata J, Klein O, Marazita ML, Murray JC, Murray S, de Villena FP, Postlethwait J, Potter S, Shapiro L, Spritz R, Visel A, Weinberg SM, Trainor PA. (2011) The FaceBase Consortium: A comprehensive program to facilitate craniofacial research.  Dev Biol. 2011 Mar 31. [Epub ahead of print].
  • Rodríguez-Marí A, Wilson C, Titus TA, Cañestro C, BreMiller RA, et al. (2011) Roles of brca2 (fancd1) in Oocyte Nuclear Architecture, Gametogenesis, Gonad Tumors, and Genome Stability in Zebrafish. PLoS Genet 7(3):e1001357.  PMCID:  PMC3069109.
  • Braasch I, Postlethwait JH. (2011) The teleost agouti-related protein 2 gene is an ohnolog gone missing from the tetrapod genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(13):E47-8. PMCID: pending
  • Nakamura Y, Yamamoto K, He X, Otsuki B, Kim Y, Murao H, Soeda T, Tsumaki N, Deng JM, Zhang Z, Behringer RR, Crombrugghe B, Postlethwait JH, Warman ML, Nakamura T, Akiyama H. (2011) Wwp2 is essential for palatogenesis mediated by the interaction between Sox9 and mediator subunit 25.Nat Commun. 2:251.    PubMed PMID: 21427722.
  • He X, Yan Y-L, DeLaurier A, Postlethwait, JH (2011) Observation of miRNA gene expression in zebrafish embryos by in situ hydridization to microRNA primary transcripts. Zebrafish.  8(1):1-8.
  • Denoeud F, Henriet S, Mungpakdee S, Aury JM, Da Silva C, Brinkmann H, Mikhaleva J, Olsen LC, Jubin C, Cañestro C, Bouquet JM, Danks G, Poulain J, Campsteijn C, Adamski M, Cross I, Yadetie F, Muffato M, Louis A, Butcher S, Tsagkogeorga G, Konrad A, Singh S, Jensen MF, Cong EH, Eikeseth-Otteraa H, Noel B, Anthouard V, Porcel BM, Kachouri-Lafond R, Nishino A, Ugolini M, Chourrout P, Nishida H, Aasland R, Huzurbazar S, Westhof E, Delsuc F, Lehrach H, Reinhardt R, Weissenbach J, Roy SW, Artiguenave F, Postlethwait JH, Manak JR, Thompson EM, Jaillon O, Du Pasquier L, Boudinot P, Liberles DA, Volff JN, Philippe H, Lenhard B, Roest Crollius H, Wincker P, Chourrout D. (2010) Plasticity of animal genome architecture unmasked by rapid evolution of a pelagic tunicate. Science. 330(6009):1381-5.   PMCID:  n/a
  • Rodríguez-Marí A, Cañestro C, Bremiller RA, Nguyen-Johnson A, Asakawa K, Kawakami K, Postlethwait JH. (2010)  Sex reversal in zebrafish fancl mutants is caused by Tp53-mediated germ cell apoptosis.  PLoS Genet. 6(7):e1001034.  PMC2908690.
  • Eames BF, Singer A, Smith GA, Wood ZA, Yan YL, He X, Polizzi SJ, Catchen JM, Rodriguez-Mari A, Linbo T, Raible DW, Postlethwait JH (2010) UDP xylose synthase 1 is required for morphogenesis and histogenesis of the craniofacial skeleton.  Dev Biol. 341(2):400-15.  PMC2888048
  • Cañestro C, Albalat R, Postlethwait JH. (2010) Oikopleura dioica alcohol dehydrogenase class 3 provides new insights into the evolution of retinoic acid synthesis in chordates.  Zoolog Sci. 27(2):128-33.  PMC Journal:  pending
  • Wang S, Peatman E, Abernathy J, Waldbieser G, Lindquist E, Richardson P, Lucas S, Wang M, Li P, Thimmapuram J, Liu L, Vullaganti D, Kucuktas H, Murdock C, Small BC, Wilson M, Liu H, Jiang Y, Lee Y, Chen F, Lu J, Wang W, Xu P, Somridhivej B, Baoprasertkul P, Quilang J, Sha Z, Bao B, Wang Y, Wang Q, Takano T, Nandi S, Liu S, Wong L, Kaltenboeck L, Quiniou S, Bengten E, Miller N, Trant J, Rokhsar D, Liu Z; Catfish Genome Consortium (2010) Assembly of 500,000 inter-specific catfish expressed sequence tags and large scale gene-associated marker development for whole genome association studies.  Genome Biol. 11(1):R8.  PMC2847720
  • Albertson RC, Yan YL, Titus TA, Pisano E, Vacchi M, Yelick PC, Detrich HW 3rd, Postlethwait JH. (2010) Molecular pedomorphism underlies craniofacial skeletal evolution in Antarctic notothenioid fishes.  BMC Evol Biol. 10:4.  PMC2824663
  • Esain, V, Postlethwait, JH, Charnay, P, Julien Ghislain, J (2010) FGF-receptor signalling in the zebrafish hindbrain controls the formation of discrete radial glial domains and the generation of neural cell diversity.  Development 137(1):33-42.  PMC2796930
  • Jovelin, R, Yan, Y-L, He, X., Catchen, J, Amores, A, Canestro, C, Yokoi, H, Postlethwait, JH (2010) Evolution of developmental regulation in the vertebrate FgfD subfamily. JEZ Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution.  J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 314(1):33-56.  PMC Journal:  pending.
  • Sullivan C, Charette J, Catchen J, Lage CR, Giasson G, Postlethwait JH, Millard PJ, Kim CH. (2009) The Gene History of Zebrafish tlr4a and tlr4b Is Predictive of Their Divergent Functions.  J Immunol;183(9):5896-908. PMC2819326
  • Catchen, JM, Conery, JS, Postlethwait, JH (2009) Automated identification of conserved synteny after whole genome duplication, Genome Research19(8):1497-505.  PMC2720179
  • Cañestro, C, Catchen, JM, Rodríguez-Marí, A, Yokoi, H, Postlethwait, JH (2009) Consequences of Lineage-specific Gene Loss on Functional Evolution of Surviving Paralogs: ALDH1A and Retinoic Acid Signaling in Vertebrate Genomes. PLoS Genet. 5(5):e1000496.  PMC2682703.
  • Titus, T., Yan, Y.-L., Wilson, C., Starks, A., Frohnmayer, J., Canestro, C.,  Rodriguez-Mari, A., He, X.,  Postlethwait, J.H. (2009) The Fanconi anemia/BRCA gene network in zebrafish: Embryonic expression and comparative genomics.  Mutat Res. 668(1-2):117-32.   PMC2714409
  • Albertson, R.C., Cresko, W., Detrich, III, H.W., Postlethwait, J.H. (2009) Evolutionary Mutant Models for Human Disease. Trends in Genetics, 25(2):74-81.  PMC2828043
  • He, X., Eberhart, J.K., Postlethwait, J.H. (2009) MicroRNAs and micromanaging the skeleton in disease, development, and evolution. J Cell Mol Med. 13(4):606-18.  PMC2828950
  • Yokoi, H., Yan, Y.-L., Miller, M.R., BreMiller, RA., Catchen, J.M., Johnson. E., and Postlethwait, J.H. (2009) Expression profiling of zebrafish sox9 mutants reveals that Sox9 is required for retinal differentiation. Dev Bio 329:1–15.  PMC2706370.
  • Nakamura, Y., He, X., Kobayashi, T., Yan, Y.-L., Postlethwait, J.H., Warman, M.L. (2008) Unique roles of microRNA140 and its host gene WWP2 in cartilage biology.  J Musculoskelet Neuronal Interact. 8(4):321-2.  PMC2757261.
  • Rotllant, J., Liu, D., Yan, Y.-L., Postlethwait, J. H., Westerfield, M., Du, S.-J. (2008) Sparc (Osteonectin) functions in morphogenesis of the pharyngeal skeleton and inner ear.  Matrix Biology 27:561-72. PMC2642737.
  • Cañestro, C., Bassham, S., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2008) Evolution of the thyroid: anterior-posterior regionalization of the Oikopleura endostyle revealed by Otx, Pax2/5/8, and Hox1 expression.  Developmental Dynamics 237:1490-9. 
  • Eberhart, J. K., He, X., Swartz, M. E., Yan, Y.-L., Song, H., Boling, T. C., Kunerth, A. K., Walker, M. B., Kimmel, C. B., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2008) MicroRNA Mirn140 modulates Pdgf signaling during palatogenesis. Nature Genetics 40:290-8.  PMC2747601.
  • Lewis, Z.R., McClellan, M.C., Postlethwait, J.H., Cresko, W., Kaplan, R. (2008) Female-specific increase in primordial germ cells marks sex differentiation in threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus). J. Morphol. 269:909-21.
  • Bassham, S.,  Cañestro, C.,  and Postlethwait, J.H. (2008) Evolution of developmental roles of Pax2/5/8 paralogs after independent duplication in urochordate and vertebrate lineages.  BMC Biol. 6:35. PMC2532684.
  • Bussmann, J., Lawson, N., Zon, L., Schulte-Merker, S., Ekker, M., Mullins, M., Postlethwait, J., Westerfield, M., etal (2008) Zebrafish VEGF receptors: A guideline to nomenclature.  PLoS Genet. 4(5):e1000064.
  • Miller, M. R., Atwood, T. S., Eames, B. F., Eberhart, J. K., Yan, Y.-L., Postlethwait, J. H. and Johnson, E. A. (2007) RAD marker microarrays enable rapid mapping of zebrafish mutations. Genome Biology 8(6):R105.  PMC2394753.
  • Cresko, W. A., McGuigan, K. L., Phillips, P. C. and Postlethwait, J. H. (2007) Studies of threespine stickleback developmental evolution: progress and promise. Genetica 129:105-26.
  • Cañestro, C., Yokoi, H., and John H. Postlethwait (2007) Evolutionary developmental biology and genomics. Nature Review Genetics 12:932-42.
  • Jovelin, R., He, X., Amores, A., Yan, Y.-L., Shi, R., Qin, B., Roe, B., Cresko, W. A., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2007) Duplication and divergence of fgf8 functions in teleost development and evolution. J. Exper. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 308B:1-14.
  • Catchen, J. M., Conery, J. S., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2007) Inferring Ancestral Gene Order. In:Methods in Molecular Biology: Bioinformatics 452:365-83. Editor: Jonathan Keith. Humana Press, Totowa, New Jersey.
  • Cañestro, C. and Postlethwait, J. H. (2007) Development of a chordate anterior-posterior axis without classical retinoic acid signaling. Dev. Biol. 15:522-38.
  • Sakata, S.I., Yan, Y., Satou, Y., Momoi, A., Ngo-Hazelett, P., Nozaki, M., Furutani-Seiki, M., Postlethwait, J. H., Yonehara, S., and Sakamaki, K. (2007) Conserved function of caspase-8 in apoptosis during bony fish evolution. Gene 396:134-48.  PMC2064871
  • Sullivan, C., Lage, C., Millard, P., Postlethwait, J. H., and Kim, C. H. (2007). Evidence for evolving TICAM function in vertebrates. Journal of Immunology 178:4517-27.
  • Postlethwait, J. H. (2007) The zebrafish genome in context: Ohnologs gone missing. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol. 308(5):563-77.
  • Nolte, C., Rastegar, M., Amores, A., Bouchard, M., Grote, D., Maas, R., Kovacs, E., Postlethwait, J., Rambaldi, I., Rowan, S., Yan, Y.L., Zhang, F., and Featherstone, M. (2006) Stereospecificity and PAX6 function direct Hoxd4 neural enhancer activity along the antero-posterior axis. Developmental Biology 299:582-593.
  • Postlethwait, J. H. (2006) The zebrafish genome: A review and case study of msx genes.  Genome Dynamics 2:183-197.
  • Leveille, F., Ferrer, M., Medhurst, A. L., Laghmani, E. H., Rooimans, M. A., Bier, P. Steltenpool, J., Titus, T. A., Postlethwait, J. H., Hoatlin, M. E., Joenje, H., and de Winter, J. P. (2006) The nuclear accumulation of the Fanconi anemia protein FANCE depends on FANCC. DNA Repair 5:556-565.
  • Titus, T. A., Selvig, D. R., Quin, B., Wilson, I., Starks. A., Roe, B. A. and J. H. Postlethwait (2006) The Fanconi anemia gene network is conserved from zebrafish to human. Gene 371:211-223.
  • Bromee T., Venkatesh, B., Brenner, S., Postlethwait, J.H., Yan, Y.-L., and Larhammar, D. (2006) Uneven evolutionary rates of bradykinin B1 and B2 receptors in vertebrate lineages. Gene 373:00-108.
  • Cañestro, C., Postlethwait, J. H., Gonzalez-Duarte, R. and Albalat, R. (2006) Is retinoic acid genetic machinery a chordate innovation?  Evol. Devel 8:394-406.
  • Phillips, R. B., Amores, A., Morasch, M. R., Wilson, C., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2006) Assignment of zebrafish genetic linkage groups to chromosomes. Cytogenet Genome Res 114:155-62.
  • Tallafuss, A., Hale, L. A., Yan, Y. L., Dudley, L., Eisen, J. S., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2006) Characterization of retinoid-X receptor genes rxra, rxrba, rcrbb and rxrg during zebrafish development. Gene Expr. Patterns 6:556-565.
  • Hale, L. A., Tallafuss, A., Yan, Y. L., Dudley, L., Eisen, J. S., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2006) Characterization of the retinoic acid receptor genes raraa, rarab and rarg during zebrafish development. Gene Expr. Patterns 6:546-555.
  • Bassham, S. and Postlethwait, J. (2005) The evolutionary history of placodes: a molecular genetic investigation of the larvacean urochordate Oikopleura dioica. Development 132:4259-72.
  • Woods, I. G., Wilson, C., Friedlander, B., Chang, P., Reyes, D. K., Nix, R., Kelly, R. D., Chu, F., Postlethwait, J. H., and Talbot, W. S. (2005) The zebrafish gene map defines ancestral vertebrate chromosomes. Genome Research 15, 1307-1314.  PMC1199546.
  • Canestro, C., Bassham, S., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2005) Development of the central nervous system in the larvacean Oikopleura dioica and the evolution of the chordate brain. Devel. Bio. 285:298-315.
  • Albertson, R. C., Payne-Ferreira, T. L., Postlethwait, J., and P. C. Yelick (2005) Zebrafish acvr2a and acvr2b exhibit distinct roles in craniofacial development.Dev. Dyn. 233:1405-18.
  • Kimmel, C., Ullmann, B., Walker, C., Wilson, C., Currey, M., Phillips, P., Bell, M. A., Postlethwait, J. H., and Cresko, W. (2005) Evolution and development of facial bone morphology in threespine stickleback. PNAS 102:5791-6.  PMC556121.
  • Lagerstrom, M., Fredriksson, R., Bjarnadottier, T., Fridmanis, D., Holmquist, T., Andersson, J., Yan, Y., Raudsepp, T., Zoorob, R., Kukkonen, J. P., Lundin, L., Klovins, J., Chowdhary, B., and Postlethwait, J. (2005) Origin of the prolactin-releasing hormone (PRLH) receptors: Evidence of coevolution between PRLH and a redundant neuropeptide Y receptor during vertebrate evolution. Genomics 85:688-703.
  • Tanaka, M., Hale, L., Amores, A., Yan, Y., Cresko, W., Suzuki, T., and Postlethwait, J. (2005) Developmental genetic basis for the evolution of pelvic fin loss in the pufferfish Takifugu rubripes. Dev Biol. 281:227-39. 
  • Rodriguez-Mari, A., Yan, Y., BreMiller, R., Wilson, C., Canestro, C., and Postlethwait, J. (2005) Characterization and expression pattern of zebrafish Anti-Mullerian hormone (amh) relative to sox9a, sox9b, and cyp19a during gonad development. Gene Expr. Patterns 5:655-667.
  • Yan, Y. L., Willoughby, J., Liu, D., Crump, J. G., Wilson, C., Miller, C. T., Singer, A., Kimmel, C., Westerfield, M., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2005) A pair of Sox: distinct and overlapping functions of zebrafish sox9 co-orthologs in craniofacial and pectoral fin development. Development 132:1069-83.
  • Kuo, M., Postlethwait, J., Lee, W., Lour, S., Chan, W., and Chung, B. (2005) Gene duplication gene loss and evolution of expression domains in the vertebrate nuclear receptor NR5A (Ftz-F1) family. Biochem J. 389:19-26.  PMC 1184535.
  • Gloriam, D., Bjarnadottier, T., Yan, Y., Postlethwait, J., Schioth, H. B., and Fredriksson, R. (2005) The repertoire of trace amine G-protein coupled receptors: Large expansion in zebrafish. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 35:470-82.
  • Kuo MW, Lou SW, Postlethwait J, Chung BC. (2005) Chromosomal organization, evolutionary relationship, and expression of zebrafish GnRH family members. J Biomed Sci. 4:629-39.
  • Postlethwait, J. (2004) Evolution of the Zebrafish Genome. In "Fish Development and Genetics: the Zebrafish and Medaka Models" (Z. Gong and V. Korzh, Eds.), pp. 688. World Scientific Publishing Company.
  • Ruuskanen, J. O., Xhaard, H., Marjamaki, A., Salaneck, E., Salminen, T., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J. H., Johnson, M. S., Larhammar, D., and Scheinin, M. (2004) Identification of duplicated fourth alpha2-adrenergic receptor subtype by cloning and mapping of five receptor genes in zebrafish. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21(1):14-28.
  • Postlethwait, J., Amores, A., Cresko, W., Singer, A., and Yan, Y. L. (2004) Subfunction partitioning, the teleost radiation and the annotation of the human genome. Trends Genet. 20:481-90.
  • Dodou, E., Barald, K. F. and Postlethwait, J. H. (2004) Ventralized zebrafish embryo rescue by overexpression of Zic2a. Zebrafish 1(3):239-256.
  • Postlethwait, J., Ruotti, V., Carvan, M. J., and Tonellato, P. J. (2004) Automated analysis of conserved syntenies for the zebrafish genome. Methods Cell. Biol. 77:255-71.
  • Papasani, M. R., Gensure, R. C., Yan, Y. L., Gunes, Y., Postlethwait, J. H., Ponugoti, B., John, M. R., Juppner, H., and Rubin, D. A. (2004) Identification and characterization of the zebrafish and fugu genes encoding tuberoinfundibular peptide 39. Endocrinology 145(11):5294-304.
  • Naruse, K., Tanaka, M., Mita, K., Shima, A., Postlethwait, J., and Mitani, H. (2004) A medaka gene map: the trace of ancestral vertebrate proto-chromosomes revealed by comparative gene mapping. Genome Res. 14(5):820-8.  PMC479108.
  • McGuigan, K., Phillips, P. C., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2004) Evolution of sarcomeric myosin heavy chain genes: evidence from fish. Mol Biol Evol. 21(6):042-56.
  • Fredriksson, R., Larson, E. T., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J. H., and Larhammar, D. (2004) Novel neuropeptide Y Y2-like receptor subtype in zebrafish and frogs supports early vertebrate chromosome duplications. J Mol Evol. 58(1):106-14.
  • Flores, M. V., Tsang, V. W., Hu, W., Kalev-Zylinska, M., Postlethwait, J., Crosier, P., Crosier, K., and Fisher, S. (2004) Duplicate zebrafish runx2 orthologues are expressed in developing skeletal elements. Gene Expr Patterns 4:573-81.
  • Cresko, W. A., Amores, A., Wilson, C., Murphy, J., Currey, M., Phillips, P., Bell, M. A., Kimmel, C. B., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2004) Parallel genetic basis for repeated evolution of armor loss in Alaskan threespine stickleback populations. PNAS USA 101:6050-5.  PMC395921.
  • Cao, Y., Zhao, J., Sun, Z., Zhao, Z., Postlethwait, J., and Meng, A. (2004) fgf17b, a novel member of Fgf family, helps patterning zebrafish embryos. Dev. Biol. 271:130-43.
  • Amores, A., Suzuki, T., Yan, Y. L., Pomeroy, J., Singer, A., Amemiya, C., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2004) Developmental roles of pufferfish Hox clusters and genome evolution in ray-fin fish. Genome Res. 14:1-10.  PMC314266.
  • Zhao, C. T., Shi, K. H., Su, Y., Liang, L. Y., Yan, Y., Postlethwait, J., and Meng, A. M. (2003) Two variants of zebrafish p100 are expressed during embryogenesis and regulated by Nodal signaling. FEBS Lett 543:190-5.
  • Zhao, J., Cao, Y., Zhao, C., Postlethwait, J., and Meng, A. (2003) An SP1-like transcription factor Spr2 acts downstream of Fgf signaling to mediate mesoderm induction. Embo. J. 22:6078-88.  PMC275448. 
  • Rhinn, M., Lun, K., Amores, A., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J. H., and Brand, M. (2003) Cloning, expression and relationship of zebrafish gbx1 and gbx2 genes to Fgf signaling. Mech. Dev. 120:919-36.
  • Paw, B. H., Davidson, A. J., Zhou, Y., Li, R., Pratt, S. J., Lee, C., Trede, N. S., Brownlie, A., Donovan, A., Liao, E. C., Ziai, J. M., Drejer, A. H., Guo, W., Kim, C. H., Gwynn, B., Peters, L. L., Chernova, M. N., Alper, S. L., Zapata, A., Wickramasinghe, S. N., Lee, M. J., Lux, S. E., Fritz, A., Postlethwait, J. H., and Zon, L. I. (2003) Cell-specific mitotic defect and dyserythropoiesis associated with erythroid band 3 deficiency. Nat. Genet. 34:59-64.
  • Nolte, C., Amores, A., Nagy Kovacs, E., Postlethwait, J., and Featherstone, M. (2003) The role of a retinoic acid response element in establishing the anterior neural expression border of Hoxd4 transgenes. Mech. Dev. 120:325-35.
  • Masumoto, J., Zhou, W., Chen, F., Su, J., Kuwada, E., Hidaka, T., Katsuyama, J., Sagara, S., Taniguchi, P., Ngo-Hazelett, P., and Postlethwait, J. (2003) Caspy: A zebrafish caspase, activated by ASC oligomerization required for pharyngeal arch development.J. Biol. Chem. 278(6):4268-4276.
  • Liu, D., Chu, H., Maves, L., Yan, Y. L., Morcos, P. A., Postlethwait, J. H., and Westerfield, M. (2003) Fgf3 and Fgf8 dependent and independent transcription factors are required for otic placode specification. Development 130:2213-24.
  • Kalev-Zylinska, M. L., Horsfield, J. A., Flores, M. V., Postlethwait, J. H., Chau, J. Y., Cattin, P. M., Vitas, M. R., Crosier, P. S., and Crosier, K. E. (2003) Runx3 is required for hematopoietic development in zebrafish. Dev. Dyn. 228:323-36.
  • Cresko, W. A., Yan, Y. L., Baltrus, D. A., Amores, A., Singer, A., Rodriguez-Mari, A., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2003) Genome duplication, subfunction partitioning, and lineage divergence: Sox9 in stickleback and zebrafish. Dev. Dyn. 228:480-9.
  • Canestro, C., Bassham, S., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2003) Seeing chordate evolution through the Ciona genome sequence. Genome Biol. 4:208.  PMC153453.
  • Postlethwait, J., Amores, A., Yan, Y., and Austin, C. A. (2002) Duplication of a portion of human chromosome 20q containing topoisomerase (top1) and snail genes provides evidence on genome expansion and the radiation of teleost fish. In "Aquatic Genomics" (N. Shimizu, T. Aoki, I. Hirono, and F. Takashima, Eds.) Springer, Tokyo.
  • Willot, V., Mathieu, J., Lu, Y., Schmid, B., Sidi, S., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J. H., Mullins, M., Rosa, F., and Peyrieras, N. (2002) Cooperative action of ADMP- and BMP-mediated pathways in regulating cell fates in the zebrafish gastrula. Dev. Biol. 241:59-78.
  • Udovic, D., Morris, D., Dickeman, A., Postlethwait, J., and Wetherwax, P. (2002) Workshop Biology: Demonstrating the effectiveness of active learning in an introductory biology course. BioScience 272-281.
  • Ringholm, A., Fredriksson, R., Poliakova, N., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J. H., Larhammar, D., and Schioth, H. B. (2002) One melanocortin 4 and two melanocortin 5 receptors from zebrafish show remarkable conservation in structure and pharmacology. J. Neurochem. 82:6-18.
  • Rajarao, J. R., Canfield, V. A., Loppin, B., Thisse, B., Thisse, C., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J. H., and Levenson, R. (2002) Two Na,K-ATPase beta 2 subunit isoforms are differentially expressed within the central nervous system and sensory organs during zebrafish embryogenesis.Dev. Dyn. 223:254-61.
  • Pratt, S., Drejer, A. H., Foott, H., Barut, B., Brownlie, A., Postlethwait, J., Kato, Y., Yamamoto, M., and Zon, L. I. (2002) Isolation and characterization of zebrafish NFE2. Physiol Genomics 91-98.
  • Kalev-Zylinska, M. L., Horsfield, J. A., Flores, M. V., Postlethwait, J. H., Vitas, M. R., Baas, A. M., Crosier, P. S., and Crosier, K. E. (2002) Runx1 is required for zebrafish blood and vessel development and expression of a human RUNX1-CBF2T1 transgene advances a model for studies of leukemogenesis. Development 129:2015-30.
  • Housworth, E. A., and Postlethwait, J. (2002) Measures of synteny conservation between species pairs. Genetics 162:441-8.  PMC1462247.
  • Yan, Y. L., Yan, Y. L., Miller, C. T., Nissen, R. M., Singer, A., Liu, D., Kirn, A., Draper, B., Willoughby, J., Morcos, P. A., Amsterdam, A., Chung, B. C., Westerfield, M., Haffter, P., Hopkins, N., Kimmel, C., Postlethwait, J. H. (2002) A zebrafish sox9 gene required for cartilage morphogenesis.Development 129(21):5065-79.
  • Force, A., Amores, A., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2002) Hox cluster organization in the jawless vertebrate Petromyzon marinus. J Exp Zool. 294:30-46.
  • Duner, T., Conlon, J. M., Kukkonen, J. P., Akerman, K. E., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J. H., and Larhammar, D. (2002) Cloning, structural characterization and functional expression of a zebrafish bradykinin B2-related receptor. Biochem. J. 364:817-24.  PMC1222631.
  • Singer, A., H. Perlman, Y.-L. Yan, C. Walker, G. Corley-Smith, B. Brandhorst, and J.H. Postlethwait (2002) Sex-specific recombination rates in zebrafish (Danio rerio). Genetics 160:649-657.  PMC1461993.
  • Canfield, V. A., Loppin, B., Thisse, B., Thisse, C., Postlethwait, J. H., Mohideen, M. A., Rajarao, S. J., and Levenson, R. (2002) Na,K-ATPase alpha and beta subunit genes exhibit unique expression patterns during zebrafish embryogenesis. Mech. Dev. 116:51-9.
  • Varga, Z. M., Amores, A., Lewis, K. E., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J. H., Eisen, J. S., and Westerfield, M. (2001) Zebrafish smoothened functions in ventral neural tube specification and axon tract formation. Development 128:3497-509.
  • Topczewski, J., Sepich, D. S., Myers, D. C., Walker, C., Amores, A., Lele, Z., Hammerschmidt, M., Postlethwait, J., and Solnica-Krezel, L. (2001) The zebrafish glypican knypek controls cell polarity during gastrulation movements of convergent extension.Dev. Cell 1:251-64.
  • Rajarao, S. J., Canfield, V. A., Mohideen, M. A., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J. H., Cheng, K. C., and Levenson, R. (2001) The repertoire of Na,K-ATPase alpha and beta subunit genes expressed in the zebrafish, Danio rerio. Genome Res. 11, 1211-20.  PMC311090.
  • Payne, T. L., Postlethwait, J. H., and Yelick, P. C. (2001) Functional characterization and genetic mapping of alk8. Mech. Dev. 100:275-89.
  • Oates, A. C., Pratt, S. J., Vail, B., Yan, Y., Ho, R. K., Johnson, S. L., Postlethwait, J. H., and Zon, L. I. (2001) The zebrafish klf gene family. Blood 98, 1792-801.
  • Kalev, M. L., Horsfield, J. A., Flores, M. C., Postlethwait, J. H., Vitas, M. R., Baas, A. M., Crosier, P. S., and Crosier, K. E. (2001) Runt family transcription factors are required for zebrafish hematopoiesis, and heir function is disrupted by a human RUNX1-CBF2T transgene. Blood 98, 1892.
  • Henry, C. A., Crawford, B. D., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J., Cooper, M. S., and Hille, M. B. (2001) Roles for zebrafish focal adhesion kinase in notochord and somite morphogenesis. Dev. Biol. 240, 474-87.
  • Crosier, P. S., Bardsley, A., Horsfield, J. A., Krassowska, A. K., Lavallie, E. R., Collins-Racie, L. A., Postlethwait, J. H., Yan, Y. L., McCoy, J. M., and Crosier, K. E. (2001) In situ hybridization screen in zebrafish for the selection of genes encoding secreted proteins. Dev. Dyn. 222, 637-44.
  • Chiang, E. F., Pai, C. I., Wyatt, M., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J., and Chung, B. (2001) Two sox9 genes on duplicated zebrafish chromosomes: expression of similar transcription activators in distinct sites. Dev. Biol. 229, 149-163.
  • Chiang, E. F., Yan, Y. L., Guiguen, Y., Postlethwait, J., and Chung, B. (2001) Two Cyp19 (P450 aromatase) genes on duplicated zebrafish chromosomes are expressed in ovary or brain. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18, 542-50.
  • Chiang, E. F., Yan, Y. L., Tong, S. K., Hsiao, P. H., Guiguen, Y., Postlethwait, J., and Chung, B. C. (2001) Characterization of duplicated zebrafish cyp19 genes. J. Exp. Zool. 290, 709-14.
  • Bertrand, C., Chatonnet, A., Takke, C., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J., Toutant, J. P., and Cousin, X. (2001) Zebrafish acetylcholinesterase is encoded by a single gene localized on linkage group 7. Gene structure and polymorphism; molecular forms and expression pattern during development. J. Biol. Chem. 276, 464-74.
  • Amemiya, C. T., Amores, A., Ota, T., Mueller, G., Garrity, D., Postlethwait, J. H., and Litman, G. W. (2001) Generation of a P1 artificial chromosome library of the Southern pufferfish. Gene 272, 283-9.
  • Woods, I. G., Kelly, P. D., Chu, F., Ngo-Hazelett, P., Yan, Y. L., Huang, H., Postlethwait, J. H., and Talbot, W. S. (2000) A comparative map of the zebrafish genome. Genome Res. 10, 1903-14.  PMC313070.
  • Soderberg, C., Wraith, A., Ringvall, M., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J. H., Brodin, L., and Larhammar, D. (2000) Zebrafish genes for neuropeptide Y and peptide YY reveal origin by chromosome duplication from an ancestral gene linked to the homeobox cluster. J. Neurochem. 75, 908-18.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., Woods, I. G., Ngo-Hazelett, P., Yan, Y. L., Kelly, P. D., Chu, F., Huang, H., Hill-Force, A., and Talbot, W. S. (2000) Zebrafish comparative genomics and the origins of vertebrate chromosomes. Genome Res. 10:1890-1902.
  • Liao, W., Ho, C. Y., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J., and Stainier, D. Y. (2000) Hhex and scl function in parallel to regulate early endothelial and blood differentiation in zebrafish. Development 127, 4303-13.
  • Kelly, P. D., Chu, F., Woods, I. G., Ngo-Hazelett, P., Cardozo, T., Huang, H., Kimm, F., Liao, L., Yan, Y. L., Zhou, Y., Johnson, S. L., Abagyan, R., Schier, A. F., Postlethwait, J. H., and Talbot, W. S. (2000) Genetic linkage mapping of zebrafish genes and ESTs. Genome Res. 10, 558-67.  PMC310859.
  • de Martino, S., Yan, Y. L., Jowett, T., Postlethwait, J. H., Varga, Z. M., Ashworth, A., and Austin, C. A. (2000) Expression of sox11 gene duplicates in zebrafish suggests the reciprocal loss of ancestral gene expression patterns in development. Dev. Dyn. 217, 279-92.
  • Brand, M., Lun, K., Reifers, F., Thisse, B., Thisse, C., Amores, A., Yan, Y. L., and Postlethwait, J. H. (2000) Subdivision of the early zebrafish neural primordium in response to posteriorizing signals. Eur. J. Neurosci. 12, 60.
  • Bassham, S., and Postlethwait, J. (2000) Brachyury (T) expression in embryos of a larvacean urochordate, Oikopleura dioica, and the ancestral role of T. Dev. Biol. 220, 322-32.
  • Starback, P., Lundell, I., Fredriksson, R., Berglund, M. M., Yan, Y. L., Wraith, A., Soderberg, C., Postlethwait, J. H., and Larhammar, D. (1999) Neuropeptide Y receptor subtype with unique properties cloned in the zebrafish: the zYa receptor. Brain Res. Mol. Brain Res. 70, 242-52.
  • Postlethwait, J., Amores, A., Force, A., and Yan, Y. L. (1999) The zebrafish genome. Methods Cell Biol. 60, 149-63.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., Yan, Y. L., and Gates, M. A. (1999) Using random amplified polymorphic DNAs in zebrafish genomic analysis. Methods Cell Biol. 60, 165-79.
  • Oates, A. C., Wollberg, P., Pratt, S. J., Paw, B. H., Johnson, S. L., Ho, R. K., Postlethwait, J. H., Zon, L. I., and Wilks, A. F. (1999) Zebrafish stat3 is expressed in restricted tissues during embryogenesis and stat1 rescues cytokine signaling in a STAT1-deficient human cell line. Dev. Dyn. 215, 352-70.
  • Oates, A. C., Brownlie, A., Pratt, S. J., Irvine, D. V., Liao, E. C., Paw, B. H., Dorian, K. J., Johnson, S. L., Postlethwait, J. H., Zon, L. I., and Wilks, A. F. (1999) Gene duplication of zebrafish JAK2 homologs is accompanied by divergent embryonic expression patterns: only jak2a is expressed during erythropoiesis. Blood 94, 2622-36.
  • O'Brien, S. J., Eisenberg, J. F., Miyamoto, M., Hedges, S. B., Kumar, S., Wilson, D. E., Menotti-Raymond, M., Murphy, W. J., Nash, W. G., Lyons, L. A., Menninger, J. C., Stanyon, R., Wienberg, J., Copeland, N. G., Jenkins, N. A., Gellin, J., Yerle, M., Andersson, L., Womack, J., Broad, T., Postlethwait, J., Serov, O., Bailey, E., James, M. R., Marshall Graves, J. A., and et al. (1999) Genome maps 10. Comparative genomics. Mammalian radiations. Wall chart. Science 286, 463-78.
  • Konig, C., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J., Wendler, S., and Campos-Ortega, J. A. (1999) A recessive mutation leading to vertebral ankylosis in zebrafish is associated with amino acid alterations in the homologue of the human membrane-associated guanylate kinase DLG3. Mech. Dev. 86, 17-28.
  • Hukriede, N. A., Joly, L., Tsang, M., Miles, J., Tellis, P., Epstein, J. A., Barbazuk, W. B., Li, F. N., Paw, B., Postlethwait, J. H., Hudson, T. J., Zon, L. I., McPherson, J. D., Chevrette, M., Dawid, I. B., Johnson, S. L., and Ekker, M. (1999) Radiation hybrid mapping of the zebrafish genome. PNAS USA 96, 9745-50.  PMC22281.
  • Force, A., Lynch, M., Pickett, F. B., Amores, A., Yan, Y. L., and Postlethwait, J. (1999) Preservation of duplicate genes by complementary, degenerative mutations. Genetics 151, 1531-45.  PMC1460548.
  • Delot, E., Kataoka, H., Goutel, C., Yan, Y. L., Postlethwait, J., Wittbrodt, J., and Rosa, F. M. (1999) The BMP-related protein radar: a maintenance factor for dorsal neuroectoderm cells? Mech. Dev. 85, 15-25.
  • Davidson, A. J., Postlethwait, J. H., Yan, Y. L., Beier, D. R., van Doren, C., Foernzler, D., Celeste, A. J., Crosier, K. E., and Crosier, P. S. (1999) Isolation of zebrafish gdf7 and comparative genetic mapping of genes belonging to the growth/differentiation factor 5, 6, 7 subgroup of the TGF-beta superfamily. Genome Res. 9, 121-129.
  • Corley-Smith, G. E., Brandhorst, B. P., Walker, C., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1999) Production of haploid and diploid androgenetic zebrafish (including methodology for delayed in vitro fertilization) Methods Cell Biol. 59, 5-60.
  • Amores, A., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1999) Banded chromosomes and the zebrafish karyotype. Methods Cell Biol. 60, 323-38.
  • Yan, Y. L., Talbot, W. S., Egan, E. S., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1998) Mutant rescue by BAC clone injection in zebrafish. Genomics 50, 287-9.
  • Yan, Y. L., Jowett, T., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1998) Ectopic expression of hoxb2 after retinoic acid treatment or mRNA injection: disruption of hindbrain and craniofacial morphogenesis in zebrafish embryos. Dev. Dyn. 213, 370-85.
  • Thompson, M. A., Ransom, D. G., Pratt, S. J., MacLennan, H., Kieran, M. W., Detrich, H. W., 3rd, Vail, B., Huber, T. L., Paw, B., Brownlie, A. J., Oates, A. C., Fritz, A., Gates, M. A., Amores, A., Bahary, N., Talbot, W. S., Her, H., Beier, D. R., Postlethwait, J. H., and Zon, L. I. (1998) The cloche and spadetail genes differentially affect hematopoiesis and vasculogenesis. Dev. Biol. 197, 248-69.
  • Talbot, W. S., Egan, E. S., Gates, M. A., Walker, C., Ullmann, B., Neuhauss, S. C., Kimmel, C. B., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1998) Genetic analysis of chromosomal rearrangements in the cyclops region of the zebrafish genome. Genetics 148, 373-80.  PMC1459804.
  • Risinger, C., Salaneck, E., Soderberg, C., Gates, M., Postlethwait, J. H., and Larhammar, D. (1998) Cloning of two loci for synapse protein Snap25 in zebrafish: comparison of paralogous linkage groups suggests loss of one locus in the mammalian lineage. J. Neurosci. Res. 54, 563-73.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., Yan, Y. L., Gates, M. A., Horne, S., Amores, A., Brownlie, A., Donovan, A., Egan, E. S., Force, A., Gong, Z., Goutel, C., Fritz, A., Kelsh, R., Knapik, E., Liao, E., Paw, B., Ransom, D., Singer, A., Thomson, M., Abduljabbar, T. S., Yelick, P., Beier, D., Joly, J. S., Larhammar, D., Rosa, F., Westerfield, M., Zon, L. I., Johnson, S. L., and Talbot, W. S. (1998) Vertebrate genome evolution and the zebrafish gene map. Nat. Genet. 18, 345-9.
  • Liao, E. C., Paw, B. H., Oates, A. C., Pratt, S. J., Postlethwait, J. H., and Zon, L. I. (1998) SCL/Tal-1 transcription factor acts downstream of cloche to specify hematopoietic and vascular progenitors in zebrafish. Genes Dev. 12, 621-6.  PMC316577.
  • Lee, K., H, Marden, J., Thompson, M., MacLennan, H., Kishimoto, Y., Pratt, S., Schulte-Merker, S., Hammerschmidt, M., Johnson, S., and Postlethwait, J. (1998) Cloning and genetic mapping of zebrafish BMP-2. Dev. Genet. 97-103.
  • Fornzler, D., Her, H., Knapik, E. W., Clark, M., Lehrach, H., Postlethwait, J. H., Zon, L. I., and Beier, D. R. (1998) Gene mapping in zebrafish using single-strand conformation polymorphism analysis. Genomics 51, 216-22.
  • Amores, A., Force, A., Yan, Y. L., Joly, L., Amemiya, C., Fritz, A., Ho, R. K., Langeland, J., Prince, V., Wang, Y. L., Westerfield, M., Ekker, M., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1998) Zebrafish hox clusters and vertebrate genome evolution. Science 282, 1711-4.
  • Schofield, R. M., Postlethwait, J. H., and Lefevre, H. W. (1997) MeV-ion microprobe analyses of whole Drosophila suggest that zinc and copper accumulation is regulated storage not deposit excretion. J. Exp. Biol. 200, 3235-43.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Talbot, W. S. (1997) Zebrafish genomics: from mutants to genes. Trends Genet. 13, 183-90.
  • Halpern, M. E., Hatta, K., Amacher, S. L., Talbot, W. S., Yan, Y. L., Thisse, B., Thisse, C., Postlethwait, J. H., and Kimmel, C. B. (1997) Genetic interactions in zebrafish midline development. Dev. Biol. 187, 154-70.
  • Bingulac-Popovic, J., Figueroa, F., Sato, A., Talbot, W. S., Johnson, S. L., Gates, M., Postlethwait, J. H., and Klein, J. (1997) Mapping of mhc class I and class II regions to different linkage groups in the zebrafish, Danio rerio. Immunogenetics 46, 129-34.
  • Johnson, S. L., Gates, M. A., Johnson, M., Talbot, W. S., Horne, S., Baik, K., Rude, S., Wong, J. R., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1996) Centromere-linkage analysis and consolidation of the zebrafish genetic map. Genetics 142, 1277-88.  PMC1207124.
  • Yan, Y. L., Hatta, K., Riggleman, B., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1995) Expression of a type II collagen gene in the zebrafish embryonic axis. Dev. Dyn. 203, 363-76.
  • Thisse, C., Thisse, B., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1995) Expression of snail2, a second member of the zebrafish snail family, in cephalic mesendoderm and presumptive neural crest of wild-type and spadetail mutant embryos. Dev. Biol. 172, 86-99.
  • Talbot, W. S., Trevarrow, B., Halpern, M. E., Melby, A. E., Farr, G., Postlethwait, J. H., Jowett, T., Kimmel, C. B., and Kimelman, D. (1995) A homeobox gene essential for zebrafish notochord development. Nature 378, 150-7.
  • Johnson, S. L., Africa, D., Horne, S., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1995) Half-tetrad analysis in zebrafish: mapping the ros mutation and the centromere of linkage group I. Genetics 139, 1727-35.  PMC1206498.
  • Halpern, M. E., Thisse, C., Ho, R. K., Thisse, B., Riggleman, B., Trevarrow, B., Weinberg, E. S., Postlethwait, J. H., and Kimmel, C. B. (1995) Cell-autonomous shift from axial to paraxial mesodermal development in zebrafish floating head mutants. Development 121, 4257-64.
  • Thisse, C., Thisse, B., Halpern, M. E., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1994) Goosecoid expression in neurectoderm and mesendoderm is disrupted in zebrafish cyclops gastrulas. Dev. Biol. 164, 420-9.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., Johnson, S. L., Midson, C. N., Talbot, W. S., Gates, M., Ballinger, E. W., Africa, D., Andrews, R., Carl, T., Eisen, J. S., and et al. (1994) A genetic linkage map for the zebrafish. Science 264, 699-703.
  • Johnson, S. L., Midson, C. N., Ballinger, E. W., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1994) Identification of RAPD primers that reveal extensive polymorphisms between laboratory strains of zebrafish. Genomics 19, 152-6.
  • Thisse, C., Thisse, B., Schilling, T. F., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1993) Structure of the zebrafish snail1 gene and its expression in wild-type, spadetail and no tail mutant embryos. Development 119, 1203-15.
  • Yan, Y. L., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1990) Vitellogenesis in Drosophila: sequestration of a yolk polypeptide/invertase fusion protein into developing oocytes. Dev. Biol.140, 281-90.
  • Postlethwait, J., Saul, S., and Postlethwait, J. (1988) The antibacterial immune response of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Certatitis capitata). J. Insect Physiol. 34, 91-96.
  • Yan, Y. L., Kunert, C. J., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1987) Sequence homologies among the three yolk polypeptide (Yp) genes in Drosophila melanogaster. Nucleic Acids Res. 15, 67-85.
  • Postlethwait, J., Saul, S., Robertson, M., Grace, D., Abrams, K., and Brandenburg, E. (1987) Mechanisms of Immunity in Drosophila and Mediterranean Fruit Flies. In "Biotechnology in Crop Protein", Vol. ACS Symposium Series. ACS Publications.
  • Postlethwait, J., and Parker, J. (1987) Regulation of vitellogenesis in Drosophila. UCLA Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology. Molec. Biol. Invert. Devel. 29-42.
  • Postlethwait, J. (1987) Hormone and sex-specific gene regulation in Drosophila. Proceedings of the1st Congress of the Asia and Oceania Society for Comparative Endocrinology. 11-14.
  • Robertson, M., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1986) The humoral antibacterial response of Drosophila adults. Dev Comp Immunol 10, 167-79.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Kunert, C. J. (1986) Endocrine and genetic regulation of vitellogenesis in drosophila. Prog Clin Biol Res 205, 33-52.
  • Giorgi, F., Andolfi, P., Spinettie, I., Masetti, M., and Postlethwait, J. (1986) In Vivo uptake of haemolymph from a female sterile mutant into wild-type ovaries of Drosophila melanogaster. J. Insect Physiol 59-70.
  • Tamura, T., Kunert, C., and Postlethwait, J. (1985) Sex- and cell-specific regulation of yolk polypeptide genes introduced into Drosophila by P-element-mediated gene transfer. PNSA USA 82, 7000-4.  PMC391297.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Giorgi, F. (1985) Vitellogenesis in insects. Dev Biol (N Y 1985) 1:85-126.
  • Minoo, P., and Postlethwait, J. (1985) Biosynthesis of Drosophila yolk polypeptides. Arch Insect Biochem and Physiol 7-27.
  • Minoo, P., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1985) Processing and secretion of a mutant yolk polypeptide in Drosophila. Biochem Genet 23, 913-32.
  • Johns, M. A., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1985) Naturally occurring quantitative variants of acid phosphatase-1 in Drosophila melanogaster. Biochem Genet 23, 465-82.
  • Giorgi, F., and Postlethwait, J. (1985) Yolk polypeptide secretion and vitelline membrane deposition in a female sterile Drosophila mutant. Devel Genet 133-150.
  • Giorgi, F., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1985) Development of gap junctions in normal and mutant ovaries of Drosophila melanogaster. J Morphol 185, 115-29.
  • Zhai, Q., Postlethwait, J., and Bodley, J. (1984) Vitellogenin synthesis in the lady beetle Coccinella septempunctata. Biochem and Physiol 7-27.
  • Shirk, P. D., Minoo, P., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1983) 20-Hydroxyecdysone stimulates the accumulation of translatable yolk polypeptide gene transcript in adult male Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 80, 186-90.  PMC393336.
  • Jowett, T., Postlethwait, J. H., and Roberts, D. B. (1982) Hormonal regulation of a larval haemolymph protein in Drosophila. Prog Clin Biol Res 85 Pt A, 373-380.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Jowett, T. (1981) Regulation of vitellogenesis in Drosophila. In "Scientific Papers of the Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry of Wroclaw Technical University", Vol. No. 22, pp. 591-627.
  • Postlethwait, J., and Shirk, P. D. (1981) Genetic and endocrine regulation of vitellogenesis in Drosophila. Am Zool. 687-700.
  • Jowett, T., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1981) Hormonal regulation of synthesis of yolk proteins and a larval serum protein (LSP2) in Drosophila. Nature 292, 633-5.
  • Postlethwait, J. H. (1980) Genetic analysis of Drosophila vitellogenesis: a molecular weight variant of yolk polypeptide-2 in Drosophila simulans. Mol Gen Genet 178, 253-60.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., Lauge, G., and Handler, A. M. (1980) Yolk protein synthesis in ovariectomized and genetically agametic [X87] Drosophila melanogaster. Gen Comp Endocrinol 40, 385-90.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Jowett, T. (1980) Genetic analysis of the hormonally regulated yolk polypeptide genes in D. melanogaster. Cell 20, 671-8.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., Bownes, M., and Jowett, T. (1980) Sexual phenotype and vitellogenin synthesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Dev Biol 79, 379-87.
  • Jowett, T., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1980) The Regulation of yolk polypeptide synthesis in Drosophila ovaries and fat body by 20-hydroxyecdysone and a juvenile hormone analog. Dev Biol 80, 225-34.
  • Feigen, M. I., Johns, M. A., Postlethwait, J. H., and Sederoff, R. R. (1980) Purification and characterization of acid phosphatase-1 from Drosophila melanogaster. J Biol Chem 255, 10338-43.
  • Postlethwait, J. (1979) Postlethwait, J.H. (1979) Clonal analysis of Drosophila cuticular patterns. In Genetics and Biology of Drosophila, Vol. 2C, Ashburner and Wright, eds. Academic Press: London, pp. 359-442.
  • Postlethwait, J., and Handler, A. M. (1979) The roles of juvenile hormone and ecdysterone during vitellogenesis in isolated abdomens of Drosophila melanogaster. J Insect Physiol 455-460.
  • Postlethwait, J. (1978) Development of cuticular patterns in legs of a cell lethal mutant of Drosophila melanogaster. Whilhelm Roux Arch 37-57.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Jones, G. J. (1978) Endocrine control of larval fat body histolysis in normal and mutant Drosophila melanogaster. J Exp Zool 203, 207-14.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Handler, A. M. (1978) Nonvitellogenic female sterile mutants and the regulation of vitellogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. Dev Biol 67, 202-13.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Kaschnitz, R. (1978) The synthesis of Drosophila melanogaster vitellogenins in vivo, in culture, and in a cell-free translation system. FEBS Lett 95, 247-51.
  • Handler, A. M., and Postlethwait, J. (1978) Regulation of vitellogenin synthesis in Drosophila by ecdysterone and juvenile hormone. J Exp Zool 247-254.
  • Handler, A. M., and Postlethwait, J. H. (1977) Endocrine control of vitellogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster: effects of the brain and corpus allatum. J Exp Zool 202, 389-402.
  • Postlethwait, J., Handler, A. M., and Gray, P. (1976) A genetic approach to the study of juvenile hormone control of vitellogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster. In The Juvenile Hormones (L. Gilbert, Ed.), pp. 449-469. Plenum Press, New York.
  • Postlethwait, J. (1975) Pattern formation in the wing and haltere imaginal discs after irradiation of Drosophila melanogaster first instar larvae. Whilhelm Roux Arch 29-50.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Gray, P. (1975) Regulation of acid phosphatase activity in the ovary of Drosophila melanogaster. Dev Biol 47, 196-205.
  • Postlethwait, J. H. (1974) Development of the temperature-sensitive homoeotic mutant ophthalmoptera of Drosophila melanogaster. Dev Biol 36, 212-7.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Girton, J. R. (1974) Development in genetic mosaics of aristapedia, a homoeotic mutant of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 76, 767-74.  PMC1213103.
  • Postlethwait, J. H. (1974) Juvenile hormone and the adult development of Drosophila. Biol Bull 147, 119-35.
  • Postlethwait, J. (1973) Molting of Drosophila first instar cuticle induced by a metamorphosing host. DIS 186-187.
  • Postlethwait, J. (1973) Effects of juvenile endocrine organs and juvenile hormone on the metamorphosis of Drosophila. DIS 174-176.
  • Postlethwait, J. (1973) A quantitative juvenile hormone assay on Drosophila. DIS 186-187.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Schneiderman, H. A. (1973) Developmental genetics of Drosophila imaginal discs. Annu Rev Genet 7, 381-433.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Schneiderman, H. A. (1973) Pattern formation in imaginal discs of Drosophila melanogaster after irradiation of embryos and young larvae. Dev Biol 32, 345-60.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Weiser, K. (1973) Vitellogenesis induced by juvenile hormone in the female sterile mutant apterous-four in Drosophila melanogaster. Nat New Biol 244, 284-5.
  • Guerra, M., Postlethwait, J. H., and Schneiderman, H. A. (1973) The development of the imaginal abdomen of Drosophila melanogaster. Dev Biol 32, 361-72.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., Bryant, P. J., and Schubiger, G. (1972) The homoeotic effect of "tumorous head" in Drosophila melanogaster. Dev Biol 29, 337-42.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Schneiderman, H. A. (1971) A clonal analysis of development in Drosophila melanogaster: morphogenesis, determination, and growth in the wild-type antenna. Dev Biol 24, 477-519.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Schneiderman, H. A. (1971) Pattern formation and determination in the antenna of the homoeotic mutant Antennapedia of Drosophila melanogaster. Dev Biol 25, 606-40.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., Poodry, C. A., and Schneiderman, H. A. (1971) Cellular dynamics of pattern duplication in imaginal discs of drosophila melanogaster. Dev Biol 26, 125-32.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Schneiderman, H. A. (1970) Induction of metamorphosis by ecdysone analogues. Drosophila imaginal discs cultured in vivo. Biol Bull 138, 47-55.
  • Postlethwait, J. H., and Schneiderman, H. A. (1969) A clonal analysis of determination in Antennapedia a homoeotic mutant of Drosophila melanogaster. PNAS USA 64, 176-83.  PMC286144.

BOOKS PUBLISHED (10 total)

    1. Postlethwait, J. and Hopson, J. (2011) Life, 1st Edition.  Brooks Cole Publishing Company.
    2. Postlethwait, J., and Hopson, J. (2006) Modern Biology. Bolt, Rinehart and Winston, Orlando. (A biology textbook for high schools)
    3. Postlethwait, J. and Hopson, J. (2005) Life! RCS Libri S.p.A-Milano. (Italian high school biology text)
    4. Postlethwait, J., and Hopson, J. (2003) Explore Life. Brooks/Cole Thompson Learning.
    5. Postlethwait, J. and Hopson, J. (2000) Corso di Biologia, McGraw-Hill editore, 2000 (In Italian).
    6. Postlethwait, J. and Hopson, J. (1997) Corso di Biologia, McGraw-Hill Italia srl, piazza Emilia, 5, 20129 Milano.  (Italian high school biology text)
    7. Postlethwait, J., Hopson, J., and Veres, R. (1993) Sciencza Della Vita, McGraw-Hill Italia srl, piazza Emilia, 5, 20129 Milano.  (Italian high school biology text)
    8. Postlethwait, J., and Hopson, J. (1992, 1995) The Nature of Life. McGraw Hill, New York.
    9. Postlethwait, J., Hopson, J., and Veres, R. (1992) Biologia, Per Le Scuole Medie Superiori, McGraw-Hill Italia srl, piazza Emilia, 5, 20129 Milano.  (Italian high school biology text).
    10. Postlethwait, J., Hopson, J., and Veres, R. (1991) Biology! Bringing Science to Life. McGraw-Hill, New York.