PUBLICATIONS

Ballard, S., Jarolimova, J. and Wharton, K.A. (2010) Gbb/BMP signaling is required to maintain energy homeostasis in Drosophila. Developmental Biology 337, 375-85. PMID: 19914231

Twombly, V., Bangi, E., Le, V.Q., Malnic, B., Singer, M. and Wharton, K.A. (2009). Functional analysis of saxophone, the Drosophila BMP type I receptor ortholog of human ALK1/ ACVRL1 and ACVR1/ALK2. Genetics 183, 563-79. PMID: 19620392

Prabhat, Forsberg, A., Katzourin, M., Wharton, K.A. and Slater, M (2007). A Comparative Study of Desktop, Fishtank and Cave Systems for the Exploration of Volume Rendered Confocal Data Sets. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, epub. 06 Aug 2007. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2007.70433

Bangi E. and Wharton, K. (2006) Dpp and Gbb exhibit different effective ranges in the establishment of the BMP activity gradient critical for Drosophila wing patterning. Devel. Biol. 295, 178-193.

Bangi, E. and Wharton, K. (2006) Dual function of the Drosophila Alk1/Alk1 ortholog Saxophone shapes the BMP activity gradient in the wing. Development 133,3295-3303.

Sinenko, S.A., Kim, E.K., Wynn, R., Manfruelli, P., Ando, I., Wharton, K.A., Perrimon, N. and Mathey-Prevot, B. (2004) Yantar is a novel and evolutionary conserved gene involved in Drosophila hemocyte differentiation. Developmental Biology 273, 48-62.

Ray, R. and Wharton, K.A. (2001) Context-dependent relationships between the BMPs gbb and dpp during development of the Drosophila wing imaginal disc. Development 128, 3913-3925.

Ray, R.P. and Wharton, K.A. (2001) Twisted perspective: New insights into extracellular modulation of BMP signaling during development. Cell 104, 801-804.

Wharton, K.A., Savery, C., Ray, R.P. (2000) Coordinate signaling by two BMPs in the regional specification of the Drosophila endoderm. Dev. Biol. 222, 233

Wharton, K. A., Cook, J., Torres-Schumann, S., de Castro, K., Borod, E. and Phillips, D.A. (1999) Genetic analysis of the BMP-related gene, gbb, identifies multiple requirements during Drosophila development. Genetics 152, 629-640.

Haerry, T. E., Khalsa, O., O'Connor, M.B. and Wharton, K.A. (1998) Synergistic signaling by two BMP ligands through the SAX and TKV receptors controls wing growth and patterning in Drosophila. Development 125, 3977-3987.

Khalsa, O., Yoon, J-W., Torres-Schumann, S. and Wharton, K.A. (1998) TGF-/BMP superfamily members, Gbb-60A and Dpp, cooperate to provide pattern information and establish cell identity in the Drosophila wing. Development 125: 2723-2734.

Wharton, K.A., Ray, R.P., Findley, S.D., Duncan, H.E. and Gelbart, W.M. (1996) Molecular lesions associated with alleles of decapentaplegic identify residues necessary for TGF-ß/ BMP cell signaling in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 142, 493-505.

Raftery, L.A., Twombly, V., Wharton, K.A. and Gelbart, W.M. (1995) Genetic screens to identify elements of the decapentaplegic signaling pathway in Drosophila. Genetics 139, 241-254.

Wharton, K. A. (1995) How many receptors does it take? Bioessays 17, 13-16.

Wharton, K.A., Ray, R. and Gelbart, W.M. (1993) An activity gradient of decapentaplegic is required for dorsal-ventral patterning in the Drosophila embryo. Development 117, 807-822.

Wharton, K.A., Thompsen, G.and Gelbart, W.M. (1991) Drosophila 60A gene, a TGF- family member, is closely related to human bone morphogenetic proteins. PNAS 88, 2914-9218.

Ramos, R.G.P., Grimwade, B.G., Wharton, K.A., Scottgale, T.N. and Artavanis-Tsakonas, S. (1989) Physical and functional definition of Drosophila Notch locus by P -element transformation. Genetics 123, 337-348.

Artavanis-Tsakonas, S., Grimwade, B., Halpern, M.E., Johansen, K. Markopoulou, K. Ramos, R.G.P. Schlesinger-Bryant, R., Wharton, K.A. and Yedvobnick, B. (1985) Molecular biology of genes involved in the neurogenesis of Drosophila. Society for Developmental Biology 44th Annual Symposium. ed. Joseph Gall

Wharton, K.A., Johansen, K.M., Xu, T. and Artavanis-Tsakonas, S. (1985) Nucleotide sequence from the neurogenic locus Notch implies a gene product which shares homology with proteins containing EGF-like repeats. Cell 43, 567-581.

Wharton, K.A., Yedvobnick,B., Finnerty, V.G. and Artavanis-Tsakonas, S. (1985) opa. A novel family of transcribed repeats shared by the Notch locus and other developmentally regulated loci in Drosophila melanogaster. Cell 40: 55-62.

Yedvobnick, B., Muskavitch, M.A.T., Wharton, K.A., Halpern, M.E., Paul, E., Grimwade, B.G., and Artavanis-Tsakonas, S. (1985) Molecular genetics of Drosophila neurogenesis. Cold Spring Harbor Sympos.Quant.Biology 50:841-854.

Artavanis-Tsakonas, S., Grimwade, B.G., Harrison, R.G., Markopoulou, K., Muskavitch, M.A.T., Schlesinger-Bryant, R., Wharton, K.A. and Yedvobnick, B. (1984) The Notch locus of Drosophila melanogaster: A molecular analysis. Developmental Genetics 4:233-254.

Mooseker, M.S., Bonder, E.M., Grimwade, B.G., Howe, C.L., Keller, T.C.S., Wasserman,R.H. and Wharton, K.A. (1982) Regulation of contractility, cytoskeletal structure and filament assembly in brush borders of the intestinal epithelial cells. Cold Spring Harbor Sympos.Quant.Biology 46: 855-870.

Mooseker, M.S., Pollard, T.D. and Wharton, K.A. (1982) Nucleated polymerization of actin from the two ends of microvillar filaments in the intestinal brush border. J.Cell Biol. 95:223-233.

Prabhat, Forsberg, A., Katzourin, M., Wharton, K.A. and Slater, M (2007). A Comparative Study of Desktop, Fishtank and Cave Systems for the Exploration of Volume Rendered Confocal Data Sets. IEEE Transactions of Visualization and Computer Graphics, epub. 06 Aug 2007. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TVCG.2007.70433