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• Smolikov S, Schild-Prufert K and Colaiacovo MP (2008) CRA-1 uncovers a double-strand break-dependent pathway promoting the assembly of central region proteins on chromosome axes during C. elegans meiosis. PLoS Genetics 4(6): e1000088.
• Smolikov S, Eizinger A, Schild-Prufert K, Hurlburt A, McDonald K, Engebrecht J, Villeneuve AM and Colaiacovo MP (2007):  SYP-3 restricts synaptonemal complex assembly to bridge paired chromosome axes during meiosis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics 176(4): 2015-2025.
  
  Smolikov S, Eizinger A, Hurlburt A, Rogers E, Villeneuve AM and Colaiacovo MP (2007): Synapsis-defective mutants reveal a correlation between chromosome conformation and the mode of double-strand break repair during Caenorhabditis elegans meiosis.  Genetics 176(4): 2027-2033.
• Egydio de Carvalho C, Colaiacovo MP. (2006): SUMO-mediated regulation of synaptonemal complex formation during meiosis. Genes Dev. 20: 1986-1992.
• Whetstine JR, Nottke A, Lan F, Huarte M, Smolikov S, Chen Z, Spooner E, Li E, Zhang G, Colaiacovo M, Shi Y (2006): Reversal of Histone Lysine Trimethylation by the JMJD2 Family of Histone Demethylases. Cell 125(3):467-81.
• Colaiacovo MP (2006): The many facets of SC function during C. elegans meiosis. Chromosoma 115(3):195-211.
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  Nabeshima K, Villeneuve AM, Colaiacovo MP (2005): Crossing over is coupled to late meiotic prophase bivalent differentiation through asymmetric disassembly of the SC. J Cell Biol. 168(5):683-9.
• Colaiacovo MP, MacQueen AJ, Martinez-Perez E, McDonald K, Adamo A, La Volpe A, Villeneuve AM. (2003): Synaptonemal complex assembly in C. elegans is dispensable for loading strand-exchange proteins but critical for proper completion of recombination. Dev Cell. 5(3): 463-74.
• Colaiacovo MP, Stanfield GM, Reddy KC, Reinke V, Kim SK, Villeneuve AM. (2002): A targeted RNAi screen for genes involved in chromosome morphogenesis and nuclear organization in the Caenorhabditis elegans germline. Genetics 162(1): 113-28.
• MacQueen AJ, Colaiacovo MP, McDonald K, Villeneuve AM (2002): Synapsis-dependent and -independent mechanisms stabilize homolog pairing during meiotic prophase in C. elegans. Genes Dev. 16(18): 2428-42.
• Dernburg AF, Zalevsky J, Colaiacovo MP, Villeneuve AM. (2000): Transgene-mediated cosuppression in the C. elegans germ line. Genes Dev. 14(13): 1578-83.
• Colaiacovo MP, Paques F, Haber JE (1999): Removal of one nonhomologous DNA end during gene conversion by a RAD1-, MSH2- independent pathway. Genetics 151: 1409-1423.
• Sugawara N*, Paques F*, Colaiacovo M, Haber JE (1997): Role of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Msh2 and Msh3 repair proteins in double-strand break-induced recombination. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 94: 9214-9219. (*these authors contributed equally to this publication).