List of Faculty Publications

Below is a list of Faculty publications imported from PubMed or manually added. By default, publications are sorted by year with titles displayed in ascending alphabetical order.
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Journal Article
L. Christiaen, Wagner, E., Shi, W., and Levine, M., “X-gal staining of electroporated sea squirt (Ciona) embryos.”, Cold Spring Harb Protoc, vol. 2009, no. 12, p. pdb.prot5346, 2009.
L. Christiaen, Wagner, E., Shi, W., and Levine, M., “Whole-mount in situ hybridization on sea squirt (Ciona intestinalis) embryos.”, Cold Spring Harb Protoc, vol. 2009, no. 12, p. pdb.prot5348, 2009.
A. Stathopoulos and Levine, M., “Whole-genome expression profiles identify gene batteries in Drosophila.”, Dev Cell, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 464-5, 2002.
A. Stathopoulos and Levine, M., “Whole-genome analysis of Drosophila gastrulation.”, Curr Opin Genet Dev, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 477-84, 2004.
A. Stathopoulos, Van Drenth, M., Erives, A., Markstein, M., and Levine, M., “Whole-genome analysis of dorsal-ventral patterning in the Drosophila embryo.”, Cell, vol. 111, no. 5, pp. 687-701, 2002.
J. Cowden and Levine, M., “Ventral dominance governs sequential patterns of gene expression across the dorsal-ventral axis of the neuroectoderm in the Drosophila embryo.”, Dev Biol, vol. 262, no. 2, pp. 335-49, 2003.
B. Haley, Foys, B., and Levine, M., “Vectors and parameters that enhance the efficacy of RNAi-mediated gene disruption in transgenic Drosophila.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 107, no. 25, pp. 11435-40, 2010.
W. Shi, Levine, M., and Davidson, B., “Unraveling genomic regulatory networks in the simple chordate, Ciona intestinalis.”, Genome Res, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 1668-74, 2005.
B. Davidson, Shi, W., and Levine, M., “Uncoupling heart cell specification and migration in the simple chordate Ciona intestinalis.”, Development, vol. 132, no. 21, pp. 4811-8, 2005.
T. Fukaya and Levine, M., “Transvection.”, Curr Biol, vol. 27, no. 19, pp. R1047-R1049, 2017.
L. Christiaen, Davidson, B., Kawashima, T., Powell, W., Nolla, H., Vranizan, K., and Levine, M., “The transcription/migration interface in heart precursors of Ciona intestinalis.”, Science, vol. 320, no. 5881, pp. 1349-52, 2008.
V. S. Chopra, Kong, N., and Levine, M., “Transcriptional repression via antilooping in the Drosophila embryo.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 109, no. 24, pp. 9460-4, 2012.
B. Lim, Levine, M., and Yamazaki, Y., “Transcriptional Pre-patterning of Drosophila Gastrulation.”, Curr Biol, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 286-290, 2017.
T. Ferraro, Esposito, E., Mancini, L., Ng, S., Lucas, T., Coppey, M., Dostatni, N., Walczak, A. M., Levine, M., and Lagha, M., “Transcriptional Memory in the Drosophila Embryo.”, Curr Biol, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 212-8, 2016.
M. Levine and Tjian, R., “Transcription regulation and animal diversity.”, Nature, vol. 424, no. 6945, pp. 147-51, 2003.
A. Di Gregorio, Harland, R. M., Levine, M., and Casey, E. Silva, “Tail morphogenesis in the ascidian, Ciona intestinalis, requires cooperation between notochord and muscle.”, Dev Biol, vol. 244, no. 2, pp. 385-95, 2002.
A. N. Boettiger and Levine, M., “Synchronous and stochastic patterns of gene activation in the Drosophila embryo.”, Science, vol. 325, no. 5939, pp. 471-3, 2009.
V. S. Chopra, Cande, J., Hong, J. - W., and Levine, M., “Stalled Hox promoters as chromosomal boundaries.”, Genes Dev, vol. 23, no. 13, pp. 1505-9, 2009.
L. Christiaen, Stolfi, A., Davidson, B., and Levine, M., “Spatio-temporal intersection of Lhx3 and Tbx6 defines the cardiac field through synergistic activation of Mesp.”, Dev Biol, vol. 328, no. 2, pp. 552-60, 2009.
J. Cowden and Levine, M., “The Snail repressor positions Notch signaling in the Drosophila embryo.”, Development, vol. 129, no. 7, pp. 1785-93, 2002.
J. P. Bothma, Magliocco, J., and Levine, M., “The snail repressor inhibits release, not elongation, of paused Pol II in the Drosophila embryo.”, Curr Biol, vol. 21, no. 18, pp. 1571-7, 2011.
B. Haley, Hendrix, D., Trang, V., and Levine, M., “A simplified miRNA-based gene silencing method for Drosophila melanogaster.”, Dev Biol, vol. 321, no. 2, pp. 482-90, 2008.
E. El-Sherif and Levine, M., “Shadow Enhancers Mediate Dynamic Shifts of Gap Gene Expression in the Drosophila Embryo.”, Curr Biol, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 1164-9, 2016.
M. W. Perry, Boettiger, A. N., Bothma, J. P., and Levine, M., “Shadow enhancers foster robustness of Drosophila gastrulation.”, Curr Biol, vol. 20, no. 17, pp. 1562-7, 2010.
L. Christiaen, Wagner, E., Shi, W., and Levine, M., “The sea squirt Ciona intestinalis.”, Cold Spring Harb Protoc, vol. 2009, no. 12, p. pdb.emo138, 2009.
M. Levine, “Retrospective. Walter Gehring (1939-2014).”, Science, vol. 345, no. 6194, p. 277, 2014.
M. Markstein, Zinzen, R., Markstein, P., Yee, K. - P., Erives, A., Stathopoulos, A., and Levine, M., “A regulatory code for neurogenic gene expression in the Drosophila embryo.”, Development, vol. 131, no. 10, pp. 2387-94, 2004.
V. S. Chopra, Hong, J. - W., and Levine, M., “Regulation of Hox gene activity by transcriptional elongation in Drosophila.”, Curr Biol, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 688-93, 2009.
T. Fukaya, Lim, B., and Levine, M., “Rapid Rates of Pol II Elongation in the Drosophila Embryo.”, Curr Biol, vol. 27, no. 9, pp. 1387-1391, 2017.
D. Papatsenko and Levine, M., “Quantitative analysis of binding motifs mediating diverse spatial readouts of the Dorsal gradient in the Drosophila embryo.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 102, no. 14, pp. 4966-71, 2005.
A. Stathopoulos, Tam, B., Ronshaugen, M., Frasch, M., and Levine, M., “pyramus and thisbe: FGF genes that pattern the mesoderm of Drosophila embryos.”, Genes Dev, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 687-99, 2004.
V. C. Calhoun, Stathopoulos, A., and Levine, M., “Promoter-proximal tethering elements regulate enhancer-promoter specificity in the Drosophila Antennapedia complex.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 99, no. 14, pp. 9243-7, 2002.
P. Barron Abitua, T Gainous, B., Kaczmarczyk, A. N., Winchell, C. J., Hudson, C., Kamata, K., Nakagawa, M., Tsuda, M., Kusakabe, T. G., and Levine, M., “The pre-vertebrate origins of neurogenic placodes.”, Nature, vol. 524, no. 7566, pp. 462-5, 2015.
M. W. Perry, Bothma, J. P., Luu, R. D., and Levine, M., “Precision of hunchback expression in the Drosophila embryo.”, Curr Biol, vol. 22, no. 23, pp. 2247-52, 2012.
V. S. Chopra, Hendrix, D. A., Core, L. J., Tsui, C., Lis, J. T., and Levine, M., “The polycomb group mutant esc leads to augmented levels of paused Pol II in the Drosophila embryo.”, Mol Cell, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 837-44, 2011.
M. Levine, “Paused RNA polymerase II as a developmental checkpoint.”, Cell, vol. 145, no. 4, pp. 502-11, 2011.
D. Papatsenko, Goltsev, Y., and Levine, M., “Organization of developmental enhancers in the Drosophila embryo.”, Nucleic Acids Res, vol. 37, no. 17, pp. 5665-77, 2009.
I. A. Navarrete and Levine, M., “Nodal and FGF coordinate ascidian neural tube morphogenesis.”, Development, vol. 143, no. 24, pp. 4665-4675, 2016.
A. Stolfi and Levine, M., “Neuronal subtype specification in the spinal cord of a protovertebrate.”, Development, vol. 138, no. 5, pp. 995-1004, 2011.
V. Hilgers, Perry, M. W., Hendrix, D., Stark, A., Levine, M., and Haley, B., “Neural-specific elongation of 3' UTRs during Drosophila development.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 108, no. 38, pp. 15864-9, 2011.
A. Stolfi, Wagner, E., J Taliaferro, M., Chou, S., and Levine, M., “Neural tube patterning by Ephrin, FGF and Notch signaling relays.”, Development, vol. 138, no. 24, pp. 5429-39, 2011.
M. W. Perry, Boettiger, A. N., and Levine, M., “Multiple enhancers ensure precision of gap gene-expression patterns in the Drosophila embryo.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 108, no. 33, pp. 13570-5, 2011.
J. P. Bothma, Levine, M., and Boettiger, A., “Morphogen gradients: limits to signaling or limits to measurement?”, Curr Biol, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. R232-4, 2010.
E. Esposito, Lim, B., Guessous, G., Falahati, H., and Levine, M., “Mitosis-associated repression in development.”, Genes Dev, vol. 30, no. 13, pp. 1503-8, 2016.
D. Hendrix, Levine, M., and Shi, W., “miRTRAP, a computational method for the systematic identification of miRNAs from high throughput sequencing data.”, Genome Biol, vol. 11, no. 4, p. R39, 2010.
L. Christiaen, Wagner, E., Shi, W., and Levine, M., “Microinjection of morpholino oligos and RNAs in sea squirt (Ciona) embryos.”, Cold Spring Harb Protoc, vol. 2009, no. 12, p. pdb.prot5347, 2009.
M. Lagha, Bothma, J. P., and Levine, M., “Mechanisms of transcriptional precision in animal development.”, Trends Genet, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 409-16, 2012.
M. Levine, Cattoglio, C., and Tjian, R., “Looping back to leap forward: transcription enters a new era.”, Cell, vol. 157, no. 1, pp. 13-25, 2014.
V. C. Calhoun and Levine, M., “Long-range enhancer-promoter interactions in the Scr-Antp interval of the Drosophila Antennapedia complex.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 100, no. 17, pp. 9878-83, 2003.
A. Stathopoulos and Levine, M., “Localized repressors delineate the neurogenic ectoderm in the early Drosophila embryo.”, Dev Biol, vol. 280, no. 2, pp. 482-93, 2005.
A. Stathopoulos and Levine, M., “Linear signaling in the Toll-Dorsal pathway of Drosophila: activated Pelle kinase specifies all threshold outputs of gene expression while the bHLH protein Twist specifies a subset.”, Development, vol. 129, no. 14, pp. 3411-9, 2002.
T. Heist, Fukaya, T., and Levine, M., “Large distances separate coregulated genes in living embryos.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 116, no. 30, pp. 15062-15067, 2019.
L. Christiaen, Wagner, E., Shi, W., and Levine, M., “Isolation of sea squirt (Ciona) gametes, fertilization, dechorionation, and development.”, Cold Spring Harb Protoc, vol. 2009, no. 12, p. pdb.prot5344, 2009.
L. Christiaen, Wagner, E., Shi, W., and Levine, M., “Isolation of individual cells and tissues from electroporated sea squirt (Ciona) embryos by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS).”, Cold Spring Harb Protoc, vol. 2009, no. 12, p. pdb.prot5349, 2009.
K. Senger, Armstrong, G. W., Rowell, W. J., Kwan, J. M., Markstein, M., and Levine, M., “Immunity regulatory DNAs share common organizational features in Drosophila.”, Mol Cell, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 19-32, 2004.
P. Barron Abitua, Wagner, E., Navarrete, I. A., and Levine, M., “Identification of a rudimentary neural crest in a non-vertebrate chordate.”, Nature, vol. 492, no. 7427, pp. 104-7, 2012.
E. Farley and Levine, M., “HOT DNAs: a novel class of developmental enhancers.”, Genes Dev, vol. 26, no. 9, pp. 873-6, 2012.
N. Harafuji, Keys, D. N., and Levine, M., “Genome-wide identification of tissue-specific enhancers in the Ciona tadpole.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 99, no. 10, pp. 6802-5, 2002.
M. Levine and Davidson, E. H., “Gene regulatory networks for development.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 102, no. 14, pp. 4936-42, 2005.
W. Shi, Peyrot, S. M., Munro, E., and Levine, M., “FGF3 in the floor plate directs notochord convergent extension in the Ciona tadpole.”, Development, vol. 136, no. 1, pp. 23-8, 2009.
E. Wagner and Levine, M., “FGF signaling establishes the anterior border of the Ciona neural tube.”, Development, vol. 139, no. 13, pp. 2351-9, 2012.
B. P. Berman, Nibu, Y., Pfeiffer, B. D., Tomancak, P., Celniker, S. E., Levine, M., Rubin, G. M., and Eisen, M. B., “Exploiting transcription factor binding site clustering to identify cis-regulatory modules involved in pattern formation in the Drosophila genome.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 99, no. 2, pp. 757-62, 2002.
J. Doran Cande, Chopra, V. S., and Levine, M., “Evolving enhancer-promoter interactions within the tinman complex of the flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum.”, Development, vol. 136, no. 18, pp. 3153-60, 2009.
B. Davidson and Levine, M., “Evolutionary origins of the vertebrate heart: Specification of the cardiac lineage in Ciona intestinalis.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 100, no. 20, pp. 11469-73, 2003.
N. Haupaix, Abitua, P. B., Sirour, C., Yasuo, H., Levine, M., and Hudson, C., “Ephrin-mediated restriction of ERK1/2 activity delimits the number of pigment cells in the Ciona CNS.”, Dev Biol, vol. 394, no. 1, pp. 170-80, 2014.
T. Fukaya, Lim, B., and Levine, M., “Enhancer Control of Transcriptional Bursting.”, Cell, vol. 166, no. 2, pp. 358-68, 2016.
J. P. Bothma, Garcia, H. G., Ng, S., Perry, M. W., Gregor, T., and Levine, M., “Enhancer additivity and non-additivity are determined by enhancer strength in the Drosophila embryo.”, Elife, vol. 4, 2015.
L. Christiaen, Wagner, E., Shi, W., and Levine, M., “Electroporation of transgenic DNAs in the sea squirt Ciona.”, Cold Spring Harb Protoc, vol. 2009, no. 12, p. pdb.prot5345, 2009.
V. Hilgers, Lemke, S. B., and Levine, M., “ELAV mediates 3' UTR extension in the Drosophila nervous system.”, Genes Dev, vol. 26, no. 20, pp. 2259-64, 2012.
K. Oktaba, Zhang, W., Lotz, T. Sabrina, Jun, D. Jayhyun, Lemke, S. Beatrice, Ng, S. Pak, Esposito, E., Levine, M., and Hilgers, V., “ELAV Links Paused Pol II to Alternative Polyadenylation in the Drosophila Nervous System.”, Mol Cell, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 341-8, 2015.
A. Stolfi, T Gainous, B., Young, J. J., Mori, A., Levine, M., and Christiaen, L., “Early chordate origins of the vertebrate second heart field.”, Science, vol. 329, no. 5991, pp. 565-8, 2010.
J. P. Bothma, Garcia, H. G., Esposito, E., Schlissel, G., Gregor, T., and Levine, M., “Dynamic regulation of eve stripe 2 expression reveals transcriptional bursts in living Drosophila embryos.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 111, no. 29, pp. 10598-603, 2014.
A. Stathopoulos and Levine, M., “Dorsal gradient networks in the Drosophila embryo.”, Dev Biol, vol. 246, no. 1, pp. 57-67, 2002.
B. T Gainous, Wagner, E., and Levine, M., “Diverse ETS transcription factors mediate FGF signaling in the Ciona anterior neural plate.”, Dev Biol, 2015.
Y. Goltsev, Rezende, G. L., Vranizan, K., Lanzaro, G., Valle, D., and Levine, M., “Developmental and evolutionary basis for drought tolerance of the Anopheles gambiae embryo.”, Dev Biol, vol. 330, no. 2, pp. 462-70, 2009.
J. Bothma and Levine, M., “Development: lights, camera, action--the Drosophila embryo goes live!”, Curr Biol, vol. 23, no. 21, pp. R965-7, 2013.
M. Markstein and Levine, M., “Decoding cis-regulatory DNAs in the Drosophila genome.”, Curr Opin Genet Dev, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 601-6, 2002.
Y. Nibu, Senger, K., and Levine, M., “CtBP-independent repression in the Drosophila embryo.”, Mol Cell Biol, vol. 23, no. 11, pp. 3990-9, 2003.
V. C. Calhoun and Levine, M., “Coordinate regulation of an extended chromosome domain.”, Cell, vol. 113, no. 3, pp. 278-80, 2003.
A. Erives and Levine, M., “Coordinate enhancers share common organizational features in the Drosophila genome.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 101, no. 11, pp. 3851-6, 2004.
D. N. Keys, Levine, M., Harland, R. M., and Wallingford, J. B., “Control of intercalation is cell-autonomous in the notochord of Ciona intestinalis.”, Dev Biol, vol. 246, no. 2, pp. 329-40, 2002.
M. Levine, “The contraction of time and space in remote chromosomal interactions.”, Cell, vol. 158, no. 2, pp. 243-4, 2014.
D. Papatsenko, Kislyuk, A., Levine, M., and Dubchak, I., “Conservation patterns in different functional sequence categories of divergent Drosophila species.”, Genomics, vol. 88, no. 4, pp. 431-42, 2006.
M. Levine, “Computing away the magic?”, Elife, vol. 2, p. e01135, 2013.
D. Papatsenko and Levine, M., “Computational identification of regulatory DNAs underlying animal development.”, Nat Methods, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 529-34, 2005.
C. Cao, Lemaire, L. A., Wang, W., Yoon, P. H., Choi, Y. A., Parsons, L. R., Matese, J. C., Wang, W., Levine, M., and Chen, K., “Comprehensive single-cell transcriptome lineages of a proto-vertebrate.”, Nature, vol. 571, no. 7765, pp. 349-354, 2019.
D. Papatsenko, Levine, M., and Goltsev, Y., “Clusters of temporal discordances reveal distinct embryonic patterning mechanisms in Drosophila and anopheles.”, PLoS Biol, vol. 9, no. 1, p. e1000584, 2011.
E. Bae, Calhoun, V. C., Levine, M., Lewis, E. B., and Drewell, R. A., “Characterization of the intergenic RNA profile at abdominal-A and Abdominal-B in the Drosophila bithorax complex.”, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol. 99, no. 26, pp. 16847-52, 2002.
L. Christiaen, Stolfi, A., and Levine, M., “BMP signaling coordinates gene expression and cell migration during precardiac mesoderm development.”, Dev Biol, vol. 340, no. 2, pp. 179-87, 2010.
A. Di Gregorio and Levine, M., “Analyzing gene regulation in ascidian embryos: new tools for new perspectives.”, Differentiation, vol. 70, no. 4-5, pp. 132-9, 2002.