Christiaen, Lionel, Eileen Wagner, Weiyang Shi, and Michael Levine. (2009) 2009. “Microinjection of Morpholino Oligos and RNAs in Sea Squirt (Ciona) Embryos.”. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009 (12): pdb.prot5347.

Christiaen, Lionel, Eileen Wagner, Weiyang Shi, and Michael Levine. (2009) 2009. “Isolation of Sea Squirt (Ciona) Gametes, Fertilization, Dechorionation, and Development.”. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009 (12): pdb.prot5344.

Christiaen, Lionel, Eileen Wagner, Weiyang Shi, and Michael Levine. (2009) 2009. “Isolation of Individual Cells and Tissues from Electroporated Sea Squirt (Ciona) Embryos by Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting (FACS).”. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009 (12): pdb.prot5349.

Abitua, Philip Barron, Eileen Wagner, Ignacio A Navarrete, and Michael Levine. (2012) 2012. “Identification of a Rudimentary Neural Crest in a Non-Vertebrate Chordate.”. Nature 492 (7427): 104-7.

Shi, Weiyang, Sara M Peyrot, Edwin Munro, and Michael Levine. (2009) 2009. “FGF3 in the Floor Plate Directs Notochord Convergent Extension in the Ciona Tadpole.”. Development 136 (1): 23-8.

Christiaen, Lionel, Eileen Wagner, Weiyang Shi, and Michael Levine. (2009) 2009. “X-Gal Staining of Electroporated Sea Squirt (Ciona) Embryos.”. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009 (12): pdb.prot5346.

Wagner, Eileen, and Michael Levine. (2012) 2012. “FGF Signaling Establishes the Anterior Border of the Ciona Neural Tube.”. Development 139 (13): 2351-9.

Christiaen, Lionel, Eileen Wagner, Weiyang Shi, and Michael Levine. (2009) 2009. “Whole-Mount in Situ Hybridization on Sea Squirt (Ciona Intestinalis) Embryos.”. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009 (12): pdb.prot5348.

Davidson, Brad, and Michael Levine. (2003) 2003. “Evolutionary Origins of the Vertebrate Heart: Specification of the Cardiac Lineage in Ciona Intestinalis.”. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100 (20): 11469-73.

Shi, Weiyang, Michael Levine, and Brad Davidson. (2005) 2005. “Unraveling Genomic Regulatory Networks in the Simple Chordate, Ciona Intestinalis.”. Genome Res 15 (12): 1668-74.

Haupaix, Nicolas, Philip Barron Abitua, Cathy Sirour, Hitoyoshi Yasuo, Michael Levine, and Clare Hudson. (2014) 2014. “Ephrin-Mediated Restriction of ERK1 2 Activity Delimits the Number of Pigment Cells in the Ciona CNS.”. Dev Biol 394 (1): 170-80.

Davidson, Brad, Weiyang Shi, and Michael Levine. (2005) 2005. “Uncoupling Heart Cell Specification and Migration in the Simple Chordate Ciona Intestinalis.”. Development 132 (21): 4811-8.

Christiaen, Lionel, Eileen Wagner, Weiyang Shi, and Michael Levine. (2009) 2009. “Electroporation of Transgenic DNAs in the Sea Squirt Ciona.”. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009 (12): pdb.prot5345.

Christiaen, Lionel, Brad Davidson, Takeshi Kawashima, Weston Powell, Hector Nolla, Karen Vranizan, and Michael Levine. (2008) 2008. “The Transcription Migration Interface in Heart Precursors of Ciona Intestinalis.”. Science 320 (5881): 1349-52.

Stolfi, Alberto, Blair Gainous, John J Young, Alessandro Mori, Michael Levine, and Lionel Christiaen. (2010) 2010. “Early Chordate Origins of the Vertebrate Second Heart Field.”. Science 329 (5991): 565-8.

Di Gregorio, Anna, Richard M Harland, Michael Levine, and Elena Silva Casey. (2002) 2002. “Tail Morphogenesis in the Ascidian, Ciona Intestinalis, Requires Cooperation Between Notochord and Muscle.”. Dev Biol 244 (2): 385-95.

Keys, David N, Michael Levine, Richard M Harland, and John B Wallingford. (2002) 2002. “Control of Intercalation Is Cell-Autonomous in the Notochord of Ciona Intestinalis.”. Dev Biol 246 (2): 329-40.

Christiaen, Lionel, Alberto Stolfi, Brad Davidson, and Michael Levine. (2009) 2009. “Spatio-Temporal Intersection of Lhx3 and Tbx6 Defines the Cardiac Field through Synergistic Activation of Mesp.”. Dev Biol 328 (2): 552-60.

Christiaen, Lionel, Alberto Stolfi, and Michael Levine. (2010) 2010. “BMP Signaling Coordinates Gene Expression and Cell Migration During Precardiac Mesoderm Development.”. Dev Biol 340 (2): 179-87.

Christiaen, Lionel, Eileen Wagner, Weiyang Shi, and Michael Levine. (2009) 2009. “The Sea Squirt Ciona Intestinalis.”. Cold Spring Harb Protoc 2009 (12): pdb.emo138.

Farley, Emma K, Katrina M Olson, Wei Zhang, Alexander J Brandt, Daniel S Rokhsar, and Michael S Levine. (2015) 2015. “Suboptimization of Developmental Enhancers.”. Science 350 (6258): 325-8.

Stolfi, Alberto, and Michael Levine. (2011) 2011. “Neuronal Subtype Specification in the Spinal Cord of a Protovertebrate.”. Development 138 (5): 995-1004.

Abitua, Philip Barron, Blair Gainous, Angela N Kaczmarczyk, Christopher J Winchell, Clare Hudson, Kaori Kamata, Masashi Nakagawa, Motoyuki Tsuda, Takehiro G Kusakabe, and Michael Levine. (2015) 2015. “The Pre-Vertebrate Origins of Neurogenic Placodes.”. Nature 524 (7566): 462-5.

Stolfi, Alberto, Eileen Wagner, Matthew Taliaferro, Seemay Chou, and Michael Levine. (2011) 2011. “Neural Tube Patterning by Ephrin, FGF and Notch Signaling Relays.”. Development 138 (24): 5429-39.

Navarrete, Ignacio A, and Michael Levine. (2016) 2016. “Nodal and FGF Coordinate Ascidian Neural Tube Morphogenesis.”. Development 143 (24): 4665-75. doi:10.1242/dev.144733.

Hendrix, David, Michael Levine, and Weiyang Shi. 2010. “MiRTRAP, a Computational Method for the Systematic Identification of MiRNAs from High Throughput Sequencing Data.”. Genome Biol 11 (4): R39.

Cao, Chen, Laurence A Lemaire, Wei Wang, Peter H Yoon, Yoolim A Choi, Lance R Parsons, John C Matese, Wei Wang, Michael Levine, and Kai Chen. (2019) 2019. “Comprehensive Single-Cell Transcriptome Lineages of a Proto-Vertebrate.”. Nature 571 (7765): 349-54. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1385-y.