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Edwin C. Stephenson
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
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Selected Publications
- Stephenson, E.C. 2004. Localization of swallow-green fluorescent protein in Drosophilaoogenesis and implications for the role of swallow in RNA localization. Genesis 39: 280-287.
- Pokrywka, N.J., L. Meng, K. Debiec and E.C. Stephenson. 2004. Identification of hypomorphic and null alleles of swallow via molecular and phenotypic analyses. Dev. Genes Evol. 214: 185-192.
- Meng, J. and E.C. Stephenson. 2002. Oocyte and embryonic cytoskeletal defects caused by mutations in the Drososphila swallow gene. Dev Genes Evol 212: 239-247.
- Huang, Z., N.J. Pokrywka, J.H. Yoder and E.C. Stephenson (2000) Analysis of a swallowhomologue from Drosophila pseudoobscura. Dev. Genes Evol. 210: 157-161.
- Petrov, D.A., Y.-C. Chao, E.C. Stephenson and D.L. Hartl (1998) High rate of DNA loss in aDrosophila pseudogene. Molecular Biology and Evolution 15: 1562-1567.
- Stephenson, E. C. 1995. Cytoskeletal mechanisms of RNA localization during Drosophilaoogenesis, in Localized RNAs, H. Lipshitz, ed. R. G. Landes Company, Austin.
- Pokrywka, N. J., and E. C. Stephenson. 1995. Microtubules are a general component of mRNA localization systems in Drosophila oocytes. Dev. Biol. 176: 363-370.
- Pokrywka, N. J., and E. C. Stephenson. 1994. Localized RNAs are enriched in cytoskeletal extracts of Drosophila oocytes. Dev. Biol. 166: 210-219.
- Pokrywka, N. J. and E. C. Stephenson. 1991. Microtubules mediate the localization of bicoid RNA during Drosophila oogenesis. Development 113: 55- 66.