Papers from the Moens Lab

A novel role for MuSK and non-canonical Wnt signaling during segmental neural crest cell migration.
Banerjee S, Gordon L, Donn TM, Berti C, Moens CB, Burden SJ, Granato M
Development. 2011 Aug;138(15):3287-96. PMID: 21750038

Tdrd1 acts as a molecular scaffold for Piwi proteins and piRNA targets in zebrafish.
Huang HY, Houwing S, Kaaij LJ, Meppelink A, Redl S, Gauci S, Vos H, Draper BW, Moens CB, Burgering BM, Ladurner P, Krijgsveld J, Berezikov E, Ketting RF
EMBO J. 2011 Jul 8. doi: 10.1038/emboj.2011.228. [Epub ahead of print], PMID: 21743441

Asymmetric inhibition of ulk2 causes left-right differences in habenular neuropil formation.
Taylor RW, Qi JY, Talaga AK, Ma TP, Pan L, Bartholomew CR, Klionsky DJ, Moens CB, Gamse JT
J Neurosci. 2011 Jul 6;31(27):9869-78. PMID: 21734278

Planar polarity pathway and Nance-Horan syndrome-like 1b have essential cell-autonomous functions in neuronal migration.
Walsh GS, Grant PK, Morgan JA, Moens CB.
Development. 2011 Jul;138(14):3033-42. PMID: 21693519

Zebrafish Prickle1b mediates facial branchiomotor neuron migration via a farnesylation-dependent nuclear activity.
Mapp OM, Walsh GS, Moens CB, Tada M, Prince VE.
Development. 2011 May;138(10):2121-32. PMID: 21521740

Zebrafish neural tube morphogenesis requires Scribble-dependent oriented cell divisions.
Žigman M, Trinh le A, Fraser SE, Moens CB.
Curr Biol. 2011 Jan 11;21(1):79-86. Epub 2010 Dec 23. PMID: 21185191

The neuroepithelial basement membrane serves as a boundary and a substrate for neuron migration in the zebrafish hindbrain.
Grant PK, Moens CB.
Neural Dev. 2010 Mar 29;5:9. PMID: 2035029

The lta4h locus modulates susceptibility to mycobacterial infection in zebrafish and humans.
Tobin DM, Vary JC Jr, Ray JP, Walsh GS, Dunstan SJ, Bang ND, Hagge DA, Khadge S, King MC, Hawn TR, Moens CB, Ramakrishnan L.
Cell. 2010 Mar 5;140(5):717-30. PMID: 20211140

Dhrs3a regulates retionic acid biosynthesis through a feedback inhibition mechanism.
Feng L., Hernandez R.E., Waxman J.S., Yelon, D., Moens, C.B.
Developmental Biology Oct 27. [Epub ahead of print]. (2009)

A G protein-coupled receptor is essential for Schwann cells to initiate myelination.
Monk K.R., Naylor S.G., Glenn T.D., Mercurio S., Perlin J.R., Dominguez C., Moens C.B., Talbot W.S.
Science. Sep 11;325(5946):1402-5. (2009)

Pbx acts with Hand2 in early myocardial differentiation.
Maves L., Tyler A., Moens C.B., Tapscott S.J.
Developmental Biology Sep 15;333(2):409-18. (2009)

Zebrafish survival motor neuron mutants exhibit presynaptic neuromuscular junction defects.
Boon K.L., Xiao S., McWhorter M.L., Donn T., Wolf-Saxon E., Bohnsack M.T., Moens C.B., Beattie C.E.
Hum Mol Genet.  Oct 1;18(19):3615-25. (2009)

A high-throughput method for zebrafish sperm cryopreservation and in vitro fertilization.
Draper B.W, Moens CB.
J Vis Exp. Jul 6;(29). pii: 1395  doi: 10.3791/1395. (2009)

Generating Chimeric Zebrafish Embryos by Transplantation
Kemp H.A., Carmany-Rampey A., Moens C.
J Vis Exp. July 17; (29): nihpa137341. doi: 10.3791/1394. (2009)

Zebrafish bmp4 functions during late gastrulation to specify ventroposterior cell fates
Stickney H.L. , Imai, Y., Draper, B., Moens C.B, Talbot W.S.
Dev Biol. Oct 1; 310(1): 71-84. (2007)

Reverse genetics in zebrafish by TILLING.
Moens CB, Donn TM, Wolf-Saxon ER, Ma TP.
Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic 7: 454-459. (2008)

CC2D2A is mutated in Joubert Syndrome and interacts with the ciliopathy-associated basal body protein CEP290. Gordon N.T., Arts, H.H., Parisi, M.A., Coene, K.L., Letteboer, S.J., van Beersum, S.E., Mans, D.A., Hikida, A., Eckert, M., Knutzen, D., Alswaid, A.F., Ozyurek, H., Dibooglu, S., Otto, E.A., Liu, Y., Davis, E.E., Hutter, C.M., Bammler, T.K., Farin, F.M., Dorschner, M., Topcu, M., Zakai, E.H., Rosenthal, P., Owens, K.N., Katsanis, N., Vincent, J.B., Hildebrandt, F., Rubel, E.W., Raible, D.W., Knoers, N.V., Chance, P.F., Roepman, R., Moens, C.B., Glass, I.A., and Doherty, D.
American Journal of Human Genetics. Am J Human Genetics 83: 559-571.  (2008)

Pbx homeodomain proteins direct MyoD activity to promote fast-muscle differentiation.
Maves, L. Waskiewicz, A.J., Paul, B., Cao, Y., Tyler, A., Moens, C.B., and Tapscott, S.J.
Development 134: 3371-3382. (2007)

Pbx homeodomain proteins pattern both the zebrafish retina and tectum. 
French C.R., Erickson, T. Callander, D. Berry, K.M., Koss, R., Hagey, D.W., Stout, J., Wunnenberg-Stapelton, K., Ngai, J., Moens, C.B., and Waskiewicz, A.J. 
BMC Developmental Biology 7:85. (2007)

A role of Piwi and piRNAs in germ cell maintenance and transposon silencing in Zebrafish.
Houwing, S., Kamminga, L.M., Berezikov, E., Cronembold, D., Girard, A., van den Elst, H., Filippov, D.V., Blaser, H., Raz, E., Moens, C.B., Plasterk R.h., Hannon, G.J., Draper, B.W., and Ketting, R.F. 
Cell 129: 69-82. (2007)

nanos1 is required to maintain oocyte production in adult zebrafish.
Draper, B.W., McCallum, C.M and Moens, C.B.
Developmental Biology  305: 589-598. (2007)

Neuropilin asymmetry mediates a left-right difference in habenular connectivity.
Kuan, Y.-S., Yu, H.-H., Moens, C.B. and Halpern, M.E.
Development 134: 857-865. (2007)

Cyp26 enzymes generate the retinoic acid response pattern necessary for hindbrain development.
Hernandez, R.E., Putzke, A.P., Myers, J.P., Margaretha, L. and Moens, C.B.
Development. 134: 177-187. (2007)

Pbx proteins cooperate with Engrailed to pattern the midbrain-hindbrain and diencephalic-mesencephalic boundaries.
Erickson, T. Scholpp, S., Brand, M., Moens, C.B. and Jan Waskiewicz, A.  
Developmental Biology. 301: 504-517. (2007)

Modern mosaic analysis in the zebrafish.
Carmany-Rampey, A. and Moens, C.B.
Methods. 39: 228-238. (2006)

Hox cofactors in vertebrate development.
Moens, C.B. and Selleri, L.
Developmental Biology, 291: 193-206. (2006) (review)

Zebrafish foggy/spt5 is required for migration of facial branchiomotor neurons but not for their survival.
Cooper, K.L., Armstrong, J., and Moens, C.B. 
Developmental Dynamics, 234: 651-658. (2005)

EphA4 is required for cell adhesion and rhombomere-boundary formation in the zebrafish.
Cooke, J.E., Kemp, H.A. and Moens, C.B.
Current Biology, 15: 536-542. (2005)

Semaphorin signaling guides cranial neural crest cell migration in zebrafish.
Yu, H.-H. and Moens, C.B. 
Developmental Biology, 280: 373-385. (2005)

A high throughput method for identifying ENU-induced point mutations in zebrafish.
Draper, B.D., Stout, J., McCallum, C. and Moens, C.B.
Methods in Cell Biology 77: 91-112. (2004)

vhnf1 integrates global RA patterning and local FGF signals to direct posterior hindbrain development in zebrafish.
Hernandez, R.E., Rikhof, H.A., Backmann, R., and Moens, C.B. 
Development  131: 4511-4520 (2004)

Cloning and embryonic expression of zebrafish neuropilin genes.
Yu, H.-H., Houart, C., and Moens, C.B. 
Gene Expression Patterns 4: 371-378 (2004)

Autonomous and non-autonomous functions for Hox/Pbx in branchiomotor neuron development.
Cooper, K.L., Leisenring, W.M. & C.B. Moens
Developmental Biology 253, 200-213 (2003)

Eliminating zebrafish Pbx proteins reveals a hindbrain ground state.
Waskiewicz, A.J., Rikhof, H.A. & Moens, C.B. 
Developmental Cell 3: 723-733 (2002)

Constructing the hindbrain: Insights from the zebrafish.
Moens, C.B & Prince, V.E. 
Dev Dyn. 224, 1-17. (2002) Review

Boundary formation in the hindbrain: Eph only it were simple...
Cooke, J.E. & Moens, C.B.
Trends Neurosci. 25, 260-267. (2002)

Zebrafish Meis functions to stabilize Pbx proteins ans regulate hindbrain patterning.
Waskiewicz, A.J., Rikhof, H.A., Hernandez, R.E. & Moens, C.B.
Development 128, 4139-4151. (2001)

Zebrafish deadly seven functions in neurogenesis.
Gray, M., Moens, C.B., Amacher, S.L., Eisen, J.S. & Beattie, C.E.  
Dev Biol. 237, 306-23 (2001)

Specification and morphogenesis of the zebrafish larval head skeleton.
Kimmel, C.B., Miller, C.T. & Moens, C.B
Dev Biol. 233, 239-257.  (2001) Review

Eph signalling is downstream of valentino and is important for the subdivision of the caudal hindbrain.
Cooke, J., Moens, C.B., Shiomi, K., Durbin, L., Brennan, C., Wilson, S., Kimmel, C.B. & Holder, N. 
Development 128, 571-580. (2001)