Papers from the Moens Lab

EphA4 and EfnB2a maintain rhombomere coherence by independently regulating intercalation of progenitor cells in the zebrafish neural keel. 
Kemp H.A., Cooke J.E., Moens, C.B.
Developmental Biology 327: 313-326. (2009)

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. (2008)

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)