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Robert K Herman
Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, United States of America

Faculty Member: DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY > Developmental molecular mechanisms [ since 5 July 2001 ]
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Evaluations

The microRNA miR-1 regulates a MEF-2-dependent retrograde signal at neuromuscular junctions.
Simon DJ, Madison JM, …, Kaplan JM, Kim JK
Cell 2008 May 30 133(5):903-15 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 27 Jun 2008

Sensory signaling-dependent remodeling of olfactory cilia architecture in C. elegans.
Mukhopadhyay S, Lu Y, Shaham S, Sengupta P
Dev Cell 2008 May 14(5):762-74 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Ivor Mason / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 2 Jun 2008

Notch signaling and morphogenesis of single-cell tubes in the C. elegans digestive tract.
Rasmussen JP, English K, Tenlen JR, Priess JR
Dev Cell 2008 Apr 14(4):559-69 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Michel Labouesse / Robert K Herman / Benjamin Podbilewicz / Morris Maduro
Evaluated 21 Apr 2008

Protons act as a transmitter for muscle contraction in C. elegans.
Beg AA, Ernstrom GG, …, Davis MW, Jorgensen EM
Cell 2008 Jan 11 132(1):149-60 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Silvana Curci / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 10 Mar 2008

Meiotic crossover number and distribution are regulated by a dosage compensation protein that resembles a condensin subunit.
Tsai CJ, Mets DG, …, Chan A, Meyer BJ
Genes Dev 2008 Jan 15 22(2):194-211 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 27 Feb 2008

The Fox-1 family and SUP-12 coordinately regulate tissue-specific alternative splicing in vivo.
Kuroyanagi H, Ohno G, Mitani S, Hagiwara M
Mol Cell Biol 2007 Dec 27(24):8612-21 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 17 Jan 2008

The sensory circuitry for sexual attraction in C. elegans males.
White JQ, Nicholas TJ, …, Davidson ER, Jorgensen EM
Curr Biol 2007 Nov 6 17(21):1847-57 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 6 Dec 2007

Wnt signaling positions neuromuscular connectivity by inhibiting synapse formation in C. elegans.
Klassen MP, Shen K
Cell 2007 Aug 24 130(4):704-16 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 17 Oct 2007

A calcium wave mediated by gap junctions coordinates a rhythmic behavior in C. elegans.
Peters MA, Teramoto T, …, Iwasaki K, Jorgensen EM
Curr Biol 2007 Sep 18 17(18):1601-8 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman / Michel Labouesse
Evaluated 3 Oct 2007

Caenorhabditis elegans SID-2 is required for environmental RNA interference.
Winston WM, Sutherlin M, …, Feinberg EH, Hunter CP
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 Jun 19 104(25):10565-70 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Morris Maduro / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 30 Jul 2007

Distinct IFT mechanisms contribute to the generation of ciliary structural diversity in C. elegans.
Mukhopadhyay S, Lu Y, …, Shaham S, Sengupta P
EMBO J 2007 Jun 20 26(12):2966-80 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 13 Jun 2007

An innexin-dependent cell network establishes left-right neuronal asymmetry in C. elegans.
Chuang CF, Vanhoven MK, …, Verselis VK, Bargmann CI
Cell 2007 May 18 129(4):787-99 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 11 Jun 2007

AFF-1, a FOS-1-regulated fusogen, mediates fusion of the anchor cell in C. elegans.
Sapir A, Choi J, …, Newman AP, Podbilewicz B
Dev Cell 2007 May 12(5):683-98 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Bob Goldstein / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 30 May 2007

Axons break in animals lacking beta-spectrin.
Hammarlund M, Jorgensen EM, Bastiani MJ
J Cell Biol 2007 Jan 29 176(3):269-75 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Y. Peng Loh / David Sherwood / Judith S. Eisen / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 19 Feb 2007

Defining the transcriptional redundancy of early bodywall muscle development in C. elegans: evidence for a unified theory of animal muscle development.
Fukushige T, Brodigan TM, …, Waterston RH, Krause M
Genes Dev 2006 Dec 15 20(24):3395-406 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Andrew Chisholm / Michel Labouesse / Susan Mango / Robert K Herman / Simon Hughes / Benjamin Podbilewicz
Evaluated 18 Jan 2007

A morphologically conserved nonapoptotic program promotes linker cell death in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Abraham MC, Lu Y, Shaham S
Dev Cell 2007 Jan 12(1):73-86 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman / Nektarios Tavernarakis
Evaluated 16 Jan 2007

A family of zinc-finger proteins is required for chromosome-specific pairing and synapsis during meiosis in C. elegans.
Phillips CM, Dernburg AF
Dev Cell 2006 Dec 11(6):817-29 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Jonathan Hodgkin / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 2 Jan 2007

The PLZF-like protein TRA-4 cooperates with the Gli-like transcription factor TRA-1 to promote female development in C. elegans.
Grote P, Conradt B
Dev Cell 2006 Oct 11(4):561-73 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 8 Dec 2006

The C. elegans developmental fusogen EFF-1 mediates homotypic fusion in heterologous cells and in vivo.
Podbilewicz B, Leikina E, …, Shemer G, Chernomordik LV
Dev Cell 2006 Oct 11(4):471-81 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Jonathan Hodgkin / Robert K Herman / Michel Labouesse
Evaluated 19 Oct 2006

Unusual DNA structures associated with germline genetic activity in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Fire A, Alcazar R, Tan F
Genetics 2006 Jul 173(3):1259-73 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Helen Chamberlin / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 28 Sep 2006

Global cell sorting in the C. elegans embryo defines a new mechanism for pattern formation.
Schnabel R, Bischoff M, …, Meinhardt H, Hutter H
Dev Biol 2006 Jun 15 294(2):418-31 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Morris Maduro / Oliver Hobert / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 14 Aug 2006

Multiple Wnts and frizzled receptors regulate anteriorly directed cell and growth cone migrations in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Pan CL, Howell JE, …, Bargmann CI, Garriga G
Dev Cell 2006 Mar 10(3):367-77 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Shai Shaham / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 26 Jun 2006

Wnt signals can function as positional cues in establishing cell polarity.
Goldstein B, Takeshita H, Mizumoto K, Sawa H
Dev Cell 2006 Mar 10(3):391-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Benjamin Podbilewicz / Alfonso Martinez Arias / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 26 Jun 2006

SynMuv genes redundantly inhibit lin-3/EGF expression to prevent inappropriate vulval induction in C. elegans.
Cui M, Chen J, …, Greenwald I, Han M
Dev Cell 2006 May 10(5):667-72 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Morris Maduro / Robert K Herman / Benjamin Podbilewicz / Linda Huang
Evaluated 17 May 2006

Dietary choice behavior in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Shtonda BB, Avery L
J Exp Biol 2006 Jan 209(Pt 1):89-102 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 9 May 2006

Sensitized genetic backgrounds reveal a role for C. elegans FGF EGL-17 as a repellent for migrating CAN neurons.
Fleming TC, Wolf FW, Garriga G
Development 2005 Nov 132(21):4857-67 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 11 Jan 2006

HIM-8 binds to the X chromosome pairing center and mediates chromosome-specific meiotic synapsis.
Phillips CM, Wong C, …, Meneely PM, Dernburg AF
Cell 2005 Dec 16 123(6):1051-63 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 5 Jan 2006

Functional genomic analysis of C. elegans molting.
Frand AR, Russel S, Ruvkun G
PLoS Biol 2005 Oct 3(10):e312 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 30 Nov 2005

Imprinting capacity of gamete lineages in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Sha K, Fire A
Genetics 2005 Aug 170(4):1633-52 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman / Jane Hubbard
Evaluated 29 Nov 2005

The T-box transcription factor SEA-1 is an autosomal element of the X:A signal that determines C. elegans sex.
Powell JR, Jow MM, Meyer BJ
Dev Cell 2005 Sep 9(3):339-49 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 11 Oct 2005

FOS-1 promotes basement-membrane removal during anchor-cell invasion in C. elegans.
Sherwood DR, Butler JA, Kramer JM, Sternberg PW
Cell 2005 Jun 17 121(6):951-62 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 16 Aug 2005

C. elegans sperm bud vesicles to deliver a meiotic maturation signal to distant oocytes.
Kosinski M, McDonald K, …, Yamamoto I, Greenstein D
Development 2005 Aug 132(15):3357-69 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Michel Labouesse / Paul Garrity / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 12 Aug 2005

ACT-5 is an essential Caenorhabditis elegans actin required for intestinal microvilli formation.
MacQueen AJ, Baggett JJ, …, Schriefer L, Waddle JA
Mol Biol Cell 2005 Jul 16(7):3247-59 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 5 Aug 2005

Muscle arm development in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Dixon SJ, Roy PJ
Development 2005 Jul 132(13):3079-92 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman / Mary Baylies
Evaluated 22 Jun 2005

mRNA surveillance of expressed pseudogenes in C. elegans.
Mitrovich QM, Anderson P
Curr Biol 2005 May 24 15(10):963-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 17 Jun 2005

lin-35 Rb acts in the major hypodermis to oppose ras-mediated vulval induction in C. elegans.
Myers TR, Greenwald I
Dev Cell 2005 Jan 8(1):117-23 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Sander van den Heuvel / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 10 Jun 2005

The myogenic potency of HLH-1 reveals wide-spread developmental plasticity in early C. elegans embryos.
Fukushige T, Krause M
Development 2005 Apr 132(8):1795-805 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 9 Jun 2005

Gene interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans define DPY-31 as a candidate procollagen C-proteinase and SQT-3/ROL-4 as its predicted major target.
Novelli J, Ahmed S, Hodgkin J
Genetics 2004 Nov 168(3):1259-73 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 13 Jan 2005

Combinatorial marking of cells and organelles with reconstituted fluorescent proteins.
Zhang S, Ma C, Chalfie M
Cell 2004 Oct 1 119(1):137-44 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 7 Jan 2005

Targeted gene alteration in Caenorhabditis elegans by gene conversion.
Barrett PL, Fleming JT, Göbel V
Nat Genet 2004 Nov 36(11):1231-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Julie Ahringer / Andy Golden / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 7 Jan 2005

The STAR/Maxi-KH domain protein GLD-1 mediates a developmental switch in the translational control of C. elegans PAL-1.
Mootz D, Ho DM, Hunter CP
Development 2004 Jul 131(14):3263-72 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 2 Aug 2004

Inhibition of netrin-mediated axon attraction by a receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase.
Chang C, Yu TW, Bargmann CI, Tessier-Lavigne M
Science 2004 Jul 2 305(5680):103-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 2 Aug 2004

Loss of C. elegans BBS-7 and BBS-8 protein function results in cilia defects and compromised intraflagellar transport.
Blacque OE, Reardon MJ, …, Wicks SR, Leroux MR
Genes Dev 2004 Jul 1 18(13):1630-42 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman / George Witman
Evaluated 28 Jul 2004

Caenorhabditis elegans OSR-1 regulates behavioral and physiological responses to hyperosmotic environments.
Solomon A, Bandhakavi S, …, Beitel GJ, Morimoto RI
Genetics 2004 May 167(1):161-70 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 28 Jul 2004

Crosstalk between the EGFR and LIN-12/Notch pathways in C. elegans vulval development.
Yoo AS, Bais C, Greenwald I
Science 2004 Jan 30 303(5658):663-6 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Michael Herman / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 26 Apr 2004

The T-box transcription factors TBX-37 and TBX-38 link GLP-1/Notch signaling to mesoderm induction in C. elegans embryos.
Good K, Ciosk R, …, Hill RJ, Priess JR
Development 2004 May 131(9):1967-78 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 22 Apr 2004

Homologous gene targeting in Caenorhabditis elegans by biolistic transformation.
Berezikov E, Bargmann CI, Plasterk RH
Nucleic Acids Res 2004 32(4):e40 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Jonathan Hodgkin / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 19 Apr 2004

Recruitment and spreading of the C. elegans dosage compensation complex along X chromosomes.
Csankovszki G, McDonel P, Meyer BJ
Science 2004 Feb 20 303(5661):1182-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 19 Apr 2004

Meiotic pairing and imprinted X chromatin assembly in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Bean CJ, Schaner CE, Kelly WG
Nat Genet 2004 Jan 36(1):100-5 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Marjori Matzke / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 19 Apr 2004

A C. elegans CLIC-like protein required for intracellular tube formation and maintenance.
Berry KL, Bülow HE, Hall DH, Hobert O
Science 2003 Dec 19 302(5653):2134-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 14 Jan 2004

C. elegans ankyrin repeat protein VAB-19 is a component of epidermal attachment structures and is essential for epidermal morphogenesis.
Ding M, Goncharov A, Jin Y, Chisholm AD
Development 2003 Dec 130(23):5791-801 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman / Michel Labouesse
Evaluated 12 Jan 2004

Recruitment of C. elegans dosage compensation proteins for gene-specific versus chromosome-wide repression.
Yonker SA, Meyer BJ
Development 2003 Dec 130(26):6519-32 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 12 Dec 2003

Autophagy genes are essential for dauer development and life-span extension in C. elegans.
Meléndez A, Tallóczy Z, …, Hall DH, Levine B
Science 2003 Sep 5 301(5638):1387-91 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Thomas Neufeld / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 26 Nov 2003

Chromosome-wide control of meiotic crossing over in C. elegans.
Hillers KJ, Villeneuve AM
Curr Biol 2003 Sep 16 13(18):1641-7 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | David Catcheside / Michael Glotzer / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 21 Nov 2003

C. elegans PAT-6/actopaxin plays a critical role in the assembly of integrin adhesion complexes in vivo.
Lin X, Qadota H, Moerman DG, Williams BD
Curr Biol 2003 May 27 13(11):922-32 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Jean Schwarzbauer / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 26 Jun 2003

Caenorhabditis elegans early embryogenesis and vulval morphogenesis require chondroitin biosynthesis.
Hwang HY, Olson SK, Esko JD, Horvitz HR
Nature 2003 May 22 423(6938):439-43 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [full text] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 26 Jun 2003

The netrin receptor UNC-40/DCC stimulates axon attraction and outgrowth through enabled and, in parallel, Rac and UNC-115/AbLIM.
Gitai Z, Yu TW, …, Tessier-Lavigne M, Bargmann CI
Neuron 2003 Jan 9 37(1):53-65 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [order article]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 9 May 2003

The EGL-21 carboxypeptidase E facilitates acetylcholine release at Caenorhabditis elegans neuromuscular junctions.
Jacob TC, Kaplan JM
J Neurosci 2003 Mar 15 23(6):2122-30 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 1 May 2003

daf-28 encodes a C. elegans insulin superfamily member that is regulated by environmental cues and acts in the DAF-2 signaling pathway.
Li W, Kennedy SG, Ruvkun G
Genes Dev 2003 Apr 1 17(7):844-58 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Carl Thummel / Robert K Herman
Evaluated 30 Apr 2003

Mechanisms of cell positioning during C. elegans gastrulation.
Lee JY, Goldstein B
Development 2003 Jan 130(2):307-20 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman / Bruce Bowerman
Evaluated 31 Mar 2003

An Eph receptor sperm-sensing control mechanism for oocyte meiotic maturation in Caenorhabditis elegans.
Miller MA, Ruest PJ, …, Hanks SK, Greenstein D
Genes Dev 2003 Jan 15 17(2):187-200 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Jane Hubbard / Andy Golden / Robert K Herman / Sander van den Heuvel
Evaluated 31 Jan 2003

The Caenorhabditis elegans vulval morphogenesis gene sqv-4 encodes a UDP-glucose dehydrogenase that is temporally and spatially regulated.
Hwang HY, Horvitz HR
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002 Oct 29 99(22):14224-9 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 3 Jan 2003

Exploring the envelope. Systematic alteration in the sex-determination system of the nematode caenorhabditis elegans.
Hodgkin J
Genetics 2002 Oct 162(2):767-80 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 2 Jan 2003

A targeted RNAi screen for genes involved in chromosome morphogenesis and nuclear organization in the Caenorhabditis elegans germline.
Colaiácovo MP, Stanfield GM, …, Kim SK, Villeneuve AM
Genetics 2002 Sep 162(1):113-28 [abstract on PubMed] [related articles] [FREE full text]
Selected by | Robert K Herman
Evaluated 31 Oct 2002