Conlon, F.L., Barth, K.S., and Robertson, E.J. (1991) A Novel Retrovirally Induced Embryonic Lethal Mutation In The Mouse: Assessment Of The Developmental Fate Of Embryonic Stem Cells Homozygous For The 413.d Proviral Integration. Development 111, 969-981.

Robertson, E.J., Conlon, F.L., Barth, K.S., Costantini, F., and Lee, J. (1992) Use of Embryonic Stem Cells to Study Recessive Lethal Mutations in the Mouse. In Post-implantation Development In The Mouse. CIBA Foundation Symposium 165, pp 237-250. J Marsh Ed. John Wiley and Sons Ltd.

Conlon, F.L., Lyons, K.M., Takaesu, N., Barth, K.S., Kispert, A., Herrmann, B., and Robertson, E.J. (1994) A Primary Requirement for nodal in the Formation and Maintenance of the Primitive Streak in the Mouse. Development 120, 1919-1928.

Ruiz, J.C., Conlon, F.L., and Robertson, E.J. (1994) Identification of a Novel Protein Kinase Expressed in the Myocardium of the Developing Heart. Mechanisms of Development 48, 153-164.

Conlon, F.L., Wright, C.V.E., and Robertson, E.J. (1995) Effects of the TWis Mutation on Notochord Formation and Mesodermal Patterning. Mechanisms of Development 49, 201-209.

Conlon, F.L. and Beddington, R. (1995) Mouse Gastrulation from a Frog's Prospective. Seminars in Developmental Biology. 6: 249-256.

Morgan, B.A., Conlon, F.L., Manzanares, M., Millar, J.B.A., Krumlauf, R., Smith, J. C., and Sedgwick, S. (1996) Transposon Tools for Recombinant DNA Manipulation: Characterization of Transcriptional Regulation from Yeast, Xenopus and Mouse. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93, 2801-2806.

Conlon, F.L., Jones, C. M. and Smith, J.C. (1996) From Mouse to Frogs: identification and functional analysis of genes required for formation and patterning of the mesoderm. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 7, 95-101.

Conlon, F.L., Sedgwick, S., Weston, K., and Smith, J.C. (1996) Inhibition of Xbra Transcriptional Activation Causes Defects in Mesodermal Patterning and Reveals Autoregulation of Xbra in Dorsal Mesoderm. Development 122, 2427-2435.

Smith, J.C., Armes, N.A.,Conlon, F.L., Tada, M., Umbhauer, K.M., Weston, K. (1997) Upstream and downstream of Brachyury, a gene required for vertebrate mesoderm formation. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 62, 337-46.

Casey, E., O'Reilly, M-A., Conlon, F.L. and Smith, J.C. (1998) The T-box transcription factor Brachyury regulates expression of eFGF through binding to a non-palindromic response element. Development 125, 3887-3894.

Conlon, F.L. and Smith, J.C. (1999) Interference with Xbra/Brachyury Signalling leads to Program Cell Death and Reveals Separate Functions in the FGF and Activin Pathways. Developmental Biology 123, 85-100.

Smith, J.C., Conlon, F.L., Saka, Y. and Tada, M. (2000) Xwnt11 and the regulation of gastrulation in Xenopus. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B335, 923-930.

Conlon, F.L. and Kessler, D.S. (2000) Hopping into the new millennium. TIGS 16, 537-540.

Sparrow, D. and Conlon, F.L. Library Construction and Screening: Libraries for isolating interacting proteins. In Methods in Molecular Biology. Chapman & Hall.

Conlon, F.L., Fairclough, L., Price, B. M. J., Casey, E., and Smith, J.C. (2001) Determinants of Tbox Specificity. Development. 2001 Oct; 128(19): 3749-58.

Wilson, V. and Conlon, F. L. (2001) The Tbox family. Genome Biol. 2002;3(6): REVIEWS 3008. Review.

Brown D.D., Binder O., Pagratis M., Parr B.A., Conlon F.L. (2003) Developmental expression of the Xenopus laevis Tbx20 orthologue. Dev Genes Evol. Jan; 212(12): 604-7. (PDF)

Moser, M., Binder, O., Wu, Y., Aitsebaomo, Bode, C., Bautch, V., Conlon, F. L., Patterson, C. (2003) BMPER, a novel endothelial cell precursor-derived protein, antagonizes BMP signaling and endothelial differentiation. Mol Cell Biol. Aug;23(16):5664-79.

Showell, C., Binder, O. and Conlon, F. L. (2004). T-box genes in early embryogenesis. Dev Dyn 229, 201-18. (PDF)

Brown, D. D., Martz, S. N., Binder, O., Goetz, S. C., Price, B. M. J., Smith, J. C. and Conlon, F. L. (2005). Tbx5 and Tbx20 act synergistically to control vertebrate heart morphogenesis. Development 132, 553-563. (PDF) - Recommended read by Faculty of 1000 Biology

Mandel, E. M., Callis, T. E., Wang, D. Z., Conlon, F. L. (2005) Transcriptional mechanisms of congenital heart disease. Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms 2(1), 33-38. (PDF)

Chen, J-F, Mandel, E. M., Thomson, J. M., Wu, Q., Callis, T. E., Hammond, S. M., Conlon, F. L., Wang, D-Z. (2006) The role of microRNAs in skeletal muscle proliferation and differentiation. Nature Genetics 38, 228-233. (PDF) - Recommended read by Faculty of 1000 Biology

Showell, C., Christine, K. S., Mandel, E. M., and Conlon, F. L. (2006) Developmental expression patterns of Tbx1, Tbx2, Tbx5, and Tbx20 in Xenopus tropicalis. Developmental Dynamics 235:1623-1630. (PDF)

Goetz, S.C., Brown, D.D., Conlon, F.L., (2006) TBX5 is required for embryonic cardiac cell cycle progression. Development 133: 2575-2584. (PDF)

Brown, D. D., Davis, A. C., and Conlon, F. L. (2006) Xtn3 is a developmentally expressed cardiac and skeletal muscle-specific novex-3 titin isoform. Gene Expression Patterns Oct;6(8):913-8. (PDF)

Showell, C. and Conlon, F. L. (2007) Decoding development in Xenopus tropicalis. Genesis. Jun;45(6):418-26. (PDF)

Brown, D. D., Christine, K., Showell, C., and Conlon, F. L. (2007) The heat shock protein HSP-27 is required for cardiac midline fusion. Genesis 45:667-678. (PDF)

Goetz, S. C. and Conlon, F. L. (2007) Control of embryonic cardiac cell cycle. Cell Cycle. 6:16, 1974-1981, 15 August 2007. (PDF)

Langdon, Y.G.#, Goetz, S.C.#, Berg, A.E., Swanik, J.T. and Conlon, F. L. (2007) SHP-2 is Required for the Maintenance of Cardiac Progenitors. Development Nov;134(22):4119-30. #These authors contributed equally to this work. (PDF)

Christine, K. and Conlon, F. L. (2008) Vertebrate CASTOR is required for differentiation of cardiac precursor cells at the ventral midline. Developmental Cell 14(4):616-23. (PDF)

Showell C. and Conlon F.L. (2009) Tissue sampling and genomic DNA purification from the western clawed frog Xenopus tropicalis. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. Sep;2009(9):pdb.prot5294.

Showell C. and Conlon F.L. (2009) Egg collection and in vitro fertilization of the western clawed frog Xenopus tropicalis. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. Sep;2009(9):pdb.prot5293.

Showell C. and Conlon F.L. (2009) Natural mating and tadpole husbandry in the western clawed frog Xenopus tropicalis. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. Sep;2009(9):pdb.prot5292.

Showell C. and Conlon F.L. (2009) The western clawed frog (Xenopus tropicalis): an emerging vertebrate model for developmental genetics and environmental toxicology. Cold Spring Harb Protoc. Sep;2009(9):pdb.emo131.

Showell, C and Conlon, F. L. (2009) Xenopus tropicalis in Emerging Model Organisms: A Laboratory Manual, Volume 2. Cold Spring Harbor Press.

Mandel E.M*, Kaltenbrun, E.*, Callis, T. E., Thomas, N, Yelon, D., Wang, D. Conlon, F. L.(2010) The BMP Pathway Acts to Directly Regulate Tbx20 in the Developing Heart, Development. Jun;137(11):1919-29. * These authors contributed equally to this work.

Doherty, J. Conlon, F. L., Mack, C., and Taylor, J. (2010) Focal Adhesion Kinase Is Essential for Cardiac Looping and Multi-Chamber Heart Formation. Genesis. 2010 Aug;48(8):492-504.

Conlon, F. L. and Yutzey, K.(2010) T-box factors. In: Heart Development and Regeneration, N. Rosenthal and R. P. Harvey, eds. Academic Press.

Evans, S. E., Yelon, D., Conlon F. L., Kirby, M. L. (2010) Myocardial Lineage Development. Circ Res.Dec 10;107(12):1428-44.

Tandon, P., Christine, K., Showell, C., and Conlon F.L. (2011) Morpholino Injection in Xenopus. Methods in Molecular Biology (In Press).

Kaltenbrun E., Tandon .P, Amin, N.M., Waldron, L., Showell C, Conlon, F.L. (2011) Xenopus: An emerging model for studying congenital heart disease. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2011 Jun;91(6):495-510.

Gee ST, Milgram SL, Kramer KL, Conlon FL, Moody SA. (2011) Yes-Associated Protein 65 (YAP) Expands Neural Progenitors and Regulates Pax3 Expression in the Neural Plate Border Zone. PLoS One. 2011;6(6):e20309.

Guo, Y., Christine, K.S., Conlon F.L., Gessert, S., and Kühl, M. (2011) Expression analysis of epb41l4a during Xenopus laevis embryogenesis. Dev Genes Evol. 2011 Jun;221(2):113-9.

Doherty, J., Lenhart, K.C., Mack, C., Conlon, F. L., and Taylor, J. (2011) Skeletal muscle differentiation and fusion is regulated by the BAR-containing Rho GAP, GRAF1. J Biol Chem. 2011 Jul 22;286(29):25903-21.

Showell, C., Carruthers, S. Hall, A., Pardo-Manuel de Villena, F., Stemple, D. and Conlon, F. L. (2011) A comparative survey of the frequency and distribution of polymorphism in the genome of Xenopus tropicalis. PLoS ONE 6(8): e22392.

Conlon, F.L., Miteva, Y., Kaltenbrun, E., Waldron, L., Greco, T.M., and Cristea, I.M. (2011). Immunoisolation of Protein Complexes from Xenopus. Methods in Molecular Biology (In Press).

Greco, T.M., Yana Miteva, Y., Conlon, F.L., and Cristea, I.M. (2011). Complementary Proteomic Analysis of Protein Complexes. Methods in Molecular Biology (In Press).

Langdon Y. G.#, Tandon, P. #, Paden, E., Duddy, J. Taylor, J. and Conlon, F. L. SHP-2 Acts via ROCK to Regulate the Cardiac Actin Cytoskeleton. Development. (In Press). #These authors contributed equally to this work.

 
 
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