Walter Gehring - Selected publications#

• Akam, M. E. (1983). The location of Ultrabithorax transcripts in Drosophila tissue sections. EMBO J. 2, 2075-2084.

• Artavanis-Tsakonas, S., Schedl, P., Tschudi, C., Pirrotta, V., Steward, R. and Gehring, W. J. (1977). The 5S genes of Drosophila melanogaster. Cell 12, 1057-1067.

• Bellen, H. J., O’Kane, C. J., Wilson, C., Grossniklaus, U., Pearson, R. K. and Gehring, W. J. (1989). P-element-mediated enhancer detection: a versatile method to study development in Drosophila. Genes Dev. 3, 1288-1300.

• Bender,W., Akam, M., Karch, F., Beachy, P. A., Peifer, M., Spierer, P., Lewis, E. B. and Hogness, D. S. (1983). Molecular genetics of the bithorax complex in Drosophila melanogaster. Science 221, 23-29.

• Chan, L.-N. and Gehring, W. (1971). Determination of blastoderm cells in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 68, 2217-2221.

• Darwin, C. R. (1859). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray.

• Fjose, A., McGinnis, W. J. and Gehring, W. J. (1985). Isolation of a homeo box containing gene from the engrailed region of Drosophila and the spatial distribution of its transcripts. Nature 313, 284-289.

• Garber, R. L., Kuroiwa, A. and Gehring, W. J. (1983). Genomic and cDNA clones of the homeotic locus Antennapedia in Drosophila. EMBO J. 2, 2027-2036.

• Gehring, W. (1966a). Bildung eines vollständigen Mittelbeins mit Sternopleura in der Antennenregion bei der Mutante Nasobemia (Ns) von Drosophila melanogaster. Arch. Klaus Stift. Vererb. Forsch. 41, 44-54.

• Gehring,W. (1966b). Uebertragung und Aenderung der Determinationsqualitaeten in den Antennenscheiben-Kulturen von Drosophila melanogaster. J. Embryol. Exp. Morphol. 15, 77-111.

• Gehring, W. J. (1998). Master Control Genes in Development and Evolution: The Homeobox Story. New Haven: Yale University Press.

• Gehring, W. J. (1999). Lifting the lid on the homeobox discovery. Nature 399, 521-522.

• Gehring, W. J. (2014). The evolution of vision. Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Dev. Biol. 3, 1-40.

• Gehring, W. J. and Ikeo, K. (1999). Pax 6: mastering eye morphogenesis and eye evolution. Trends Genet. 15, 371-377.

• Glover, D. M., White, R. L., Finnegan, D. J. and Hogness, D. S. (1975). Characterization of six cloned DNAs from Drosophila melanogaster, including one that contains the genes for rRNA. Cell 5, 149-157.

• Hafen, E., Levine, M., Garber, R. L. and Gehring,W. J. (1983). An improved in situ hybridization method for the detection of cellular RNAs in Drosophila tissue sections and its application for localizing transcripts of the homeotic Antennapedia gene complex. EMBO J. 2, 617-623.

• Hafen, E., Kuroiwa, A. and Gehring,W. J. (1984). Spatial distribution of transcripts from the segmentation gene fushi tarazu during Drosophila embryonic development. Cell 37, 833-841.

• Halder, G., Callaerts, P. and Gehring, W. J. (1995). Induction of ectopic eyes by targeted expression of the eyeless gene in Drosophila. Science 267, 1788-1792.

• Hiromi, Y. and Gehring, W. J. (1987). Regulation and function of the Drosophila segmentation gene fushi tarazu. Cell 50, 963-974.

• Hiromi, Y., Kuroiwa, A. and Gehring, W. J. (1985). Control elements of the Drosophila segmentation gene fushi tarazu. Cell 43, 603-613.

• Kuroiwa, A., Hafen, E. and Gehring, W. J. (1984). Cloning and transcriptional analysis of the segmentation gene fushi tarazu of Drosophila. Cell 37, 825-831.

• Levine, M., Hafen, E., Garber, R. L. and Gehring,W. J. (1983). Spatial distribution of Antennapedia transcripts during Drosophila development. EMBO J. 2, 2037-2046.

• McGinnis, W. and Lawrence, P. A. (1999). Historical transformations. Nature 398, 301-302.

• McGinnis, W., Levine, M. S., Hafen, E., Kuroiwa, A. and Gehring, W. J. (1984a). A conserved DNA sequence in homoeotic genes of the Drosophila Antennapedia and bithorax complexes. Nature 308, 428-433.

• McGinnis, W., Garber, R. L., Wirz, J., Kuroiwa, A. and Gehring, W. J. (1984b). A homologous protein-coding sequence in Drosophila homeotic genes and its conservation in other metazoans. Cell 37, 403-408.

• McGinnis, W., Hart, C. P., Gehring, W. J. and Ruddle, F. H. (1984c). Molecular cloning and chromosome mapping of a mouse DNA sequence homologous to homeotic genes of Drosophila. Cell 38, 675-680.

• Mlodzik, M., Fjose, A. and Gehring, W. J. (1985). Isolation of caudal, a Drosophila homeo box-containing gene with maternal expression, whose transcripts form a concentration gradient at the pre-blastoderm stage. EMBO J. 4, 2961-2969.

• O’Kane, C. J. and Gehring, W. J. (1987). Detection in situ of genomic regulatory elements in Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 84, 9123-9127.

• Prince, F., Katsuyama, T., Oshima, Y., Plaza, S., Resendez-Perez, D., Berry, M., Kurata, S. and Gehring, W. J. (2008). The YPWM motif links Antennapedia to the basal transcriptional machinery. Development 135, 1669-1679.

• Qian, Y. Q., Billeter, M., Otting, G., Müller, M., Gehring, W. J. and Wüthrich, K. (1989). The structure of the Antennapedia homeodomain determined by NMR spectroscopy in solution: comparison with prokaryotic repressors. Cell 59, 573-580.

• Quiring, R., Walldorf, U., Kloter, U. and Gehring, W. J. (1994). Homology of the eyeless gene of Drosophila to the Small eye gene in mice and Aniridia in humans. Science 265, 785-789.

• Schier, A. F. and Gehring, W. J. (1992). Direct homeodomain-DNA interaction in the autoregulation of the fushi tarazu gene. Nature 356, 804-807.

• Schneuwly, S., Klemenz, R. and Gehring, W. J. (1987). Redesigning the body plan of Drosophila by ectopic expression of the homoeotic gene Antennapedia. Nature 325, 816-818.

• Scott, M. P. and Weiner, A. J. (1984). Structural relationships among genes that control development: sequence homology between the Antennapedia, Ultrabithorax, and fushi tarazu loci of Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 81, 4115-4119.

• Scott, M. P., Weiner, A. J., Hazelrigg, T. I., Polisky, B. A., Pirrotta, V., Scalenghe, F. and Kaufman, T. C. (1983). The molecular organization of the Antennapedia locus of Drosophila. Cell 35, 763-776.

• Shearn, A., Rice, T., Garen, A. and Gehring, W. (1971). Imaginal disc abnormalities in lethal mutants of Drosophila. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 68, 2594-2598.

• Slack, J. (1984). Developmental biology: a Rosetta stone for pattern formation in animals? Nature 310, 364-365.

• Wilson, C., Pearson, R. K., Bellen, H. J., O’Kane, C. J., Grossniklaus, U. and Gehring, W. J. (1989). P-element-mediated enhancer detection: an efficient method for isolating and characterizing developmentally regulated genes in Drosophila. Genes Dev. 3, 1301-1313