Abzhanov Lab publications

2012

• Mallarino, RM and A Abzhanov. (2012) Paths Less Travelled: Evo-Devo Approaches to Investigating Animal Morphological Evolution. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology 28:743-763.
• Bhullar, B-A, J Marugán-Lobón, F Racimo, GS Bever, MA Norell, TB Rowe, A Abzhanov. 2012. Birds have paedomorphic dinosaur skulls. Nature 487:223–226.
• Mallarino, R., O Campas, J Fritz, KJ Burns, MP Brenner, and A Abzhanov (2012) Different regulatory mechanisms underlie the evolution of beak shapes convergence in closely related species of birds. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109:16222–16227.
• Sanger, TJ, DL Mahler , A Abzhanov, JB Losos. 2012. Roles for Modularity and Constraint in the Evolution of Cranial Diversity Among Anolis Lizards. Evolution 66:1525-1542.
• St John, JA, E Braun, SR Isberg, LG Miles, AY Chong, J Gongora, P Dalzell, C Moran, B Bed’Hom, A Abzhanov, SC Burgess, AM Cooksey, TA Castoe, NG Crawford, LD Densmore, JC Drew, SV Edwards, BC Faircloth, MK Fujita, MJ Greenwold, FG Hoffmann, JM Howard, T Iguchi, DE Janes, SY Khan, S Kohno, APJ de Koning, SL Lance, FM McCarthy, JE McCormack, ME Merchant, DG Peterson, DD Pollock, N Pourmand, BJ Raney, KA Roessler, JR Sanford, RH Sawyer, CJ Schmidt, EW Triplett, TD Tuberville, M Venegas-Anaya, JT Howard, ED Jarvis, LJ Guillette Jr, TC Glenn, RE Green, and DA Ray. 2012. Sequencing three crocodilian genomes to illuminate the evolution of archosaurs and amniotes. Genome Biol 13:415-427.

2011

• Ketal, K, RJ Kulathinal, A Abzhanov, S Boissinot, NG Crawford, BC Faircloth, TC Glenn, DE Janes, JB Losos, DB Menke, S Poe, TJ Sanger, CJ Schneider, J Stapley, Juli Wade and Jeanne Wilson-Rawls. 2011. Developing a community-based genetic nomenclature for anole lizards. BMC Genomics 12:554-603.
• Mallarino, RM, A Herrel, WP Kuo, BR Grant, Grant PR, A Abzhanov. 2011. Two developmental modules establish 3D beak-shape variation in Darwin’s finches. Proc Natl Acad Sci 108:4057-4062.

2010

• Mansfield, JH, A Abzhanov. 2010. Hox expression in the American alligator and evolution of archosaurian axial patterning. JEZ Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 314:629-644.
• Abzhanov, A. 2010. Introduction. Darwin’s Galápagos finches in modern evolutionary biology. Phil Trans R Soc B 365:1001-1007.
• Campàs, O, R Mallarino, A Herrer, A Abzhanov, MP Brenner. 2010. Scaling and shear transformations capture beak shape variation in Darwin’s finches . Proc Natl Acad Sci 107:3356-3360.

2009

• Abzhanov, A. 2009. Darwin's finches. Analysis of beak morphological changes during evolution. In: CSH Protocols. Emerging model organisms. CSH Protocol 1:481-500. Cold Sping Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
• Clabaut, C, A Herrel, TJ Sanger, TB Smith, A Abzhanov. 2009. Development of Beak Polymorphism in the African Seedcracker, Pyrenestes ostrinus. Evolution & Development. 11:636-646.

2008

• S Fu, H Zhao, J Shi, A Abzhanov, K Crawford, L Ohno-Machado, J Zhou, Y Du, WP Kuo, J Zhang, M Jiang and JG Jin. 2008. Peripheral arterial occlusive disease: global gene expression analyses suggest a major role for immune and inflammatory responses. BMC Genomics 9:369.
• Abzhanov, A, CG Extavour, A Groover, SA Hodges, HE Hoekstra, EM Kramer and A Monteiro. 2008 Are we there yet? Tracking the development of new model systems. Trends in Genetics 24:353-360.

2007

• Abzhanov, A, DR Cordero, J Sen, CJ Tabin, JA Helms. 2007. Cross- regulatory interactions between Fgf8 and Shh in the avian frontonasal prominence. Congenital Anomalies 47:136-148.
• Abzhanov, A, SJ Rodda, AP McMahon, CJ Tabin. 2007. Regulation of skeletogenic differentiation in cranial dermal bone. Development 134:3133-3144.

2006

• Abzhanov, A, Kuo WP, C Hartmann, BR Grant, PR Grant, CJ Tabin.  2006.  The Calmodulin pathway and the evolution of elongated beak morphology in Darwin’s Finches. Nature 442:563-567.
• PR Grant, BR Grant, A Abzhanov.  2006. A developing paradigm for the development of bird beaks. Biol J Lin Soc 88:17-23.

2004

• Abzhanov, A, M Protas M, BR Grant, PR Grant, CJ Tabin.  2004.  Bmp4 and Morphological Variation of Beaks in Darwin's Finches. Science 305:1462-1465.
• Abzhanov, A, CJ Tabin.  2004.  Shh and Fgf8 act synergistically to drive cartilage outgrowth during cranial development. Dev Bio 273:134-148.