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A role for the Drosophila
neurogenic genes in mesoderm differentiation
Victoria Corbin,
Alan M. Michelson, Susan M. Abmayr, Victor Neel, Elizabeth Alcamo, Tom
Maniatis and Michael W. Young
Cell 67:311-323 (1991).

A Drosophila GATA family member that
binds to Adh regulatory sequences is expressed in the developing fat
body
Ted Abel, Alan M. Michelson and Tom
Maniatis
Development 119:623-633 (1993).

A GATA family transcription factor is
expressed along the embryonic dorsoventral axis in Drosophila
melanogaster
Jeffrey Winick, Ted Abel, Mark W. Leonard,
Alan M. Michelson, Isabelle Chardon-Loriaux, Robert A. Holmgren, Tom
Maniatis and James Douglas Engel
Development 119:1055-1065
(1993).

Muscle pattern diversification in
Drosophila is determined by the autonomous function of homeotic
genes in the embryonic mesoderm
Alan M. Michelson
Development
120:755-768 (1994).

Mutations in a novel gene, myoblast
city, provide evidence in support of the founder cell hypothesis
for Drosophila muscle development
Emma Rushton, Rachel
Drysdale, Susan M. Abmayr, Alan M. Michelson and Michael Bate
Development 121:1979-1988 (1995).

A molecular aspect of hematopoiesis and
endoderm development common to vertebrates and Drosophila
Klaus-Peter Rehorn, Heidi Thelen, Alan M. Michelson and Rolf
Reuter
Development 122:4023-4031 (1996).
heartless encodes a fibroblast
growth factor receptor (DFR1/DFGF-R2) involved in the directional
migration of early mesodermal cells in the Drosophila
embryo
Stephen Gisselbrecht, James B. Skeath, Chris Q. Doe,
and Alan M. Michelson
Genes & Development 10:3003-3017 (1996).

Dual functions of the Heartless
fibroblast growth factor receptor in development of the
Drosophila embryonic mesoderm
Alan M. Michelson, Stephen
Gisselbrecht, Ying Zhou, Kwang-Hyun Baek, and Eugene M. Buff
Developmental Genetics 22:212-229 (1998).

Signalling
by the Drosophila epidermal growth factor receptor is required
for the specification and diversification of embryonic muscle
progenitors
Eugene Buff, Ana Carmena, Stephen Gisselbrecht,
Fernando Jiménez and Alan M. Michelson
Development 125:2075-2086
(1998).

Heartbroken
is a specific downstream mediator of FGF receptor signalling in
Drosophila
Alan M. Michelson, Stephen Gisselbrecht,
Eugene Buff and James B. Skeath
Development 125:4379-4389
(1998).

Combinatorial signaling codes for the
progressive determination of cell fates in the Drosophila
embryonic mesoderm
Ana Carmena, Stephen Gisselbrecht, Jacob
Harrison, Fernando Jiménez, and Alan M. Michelson
Genes &
Development 12:3910-3922 (1998).

Regulation of Pax6 expression is
conserved between mice and flies
Pin-Xian Xu, Xin Zhang, Shaun
Heaney, Andrew Yoon, Alan M. Michelson and Richard
L. Maas
Development 126:383-395 (1999).

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans are
essential for FGF receptor signaling during Drosophila embryonic
development
Xinhua Lin, Eugene M. Buff, Norbert Perrimon and
Alan M. Michelson
Development 126:3715-3723 (1999).

Ras Pathway Specificity Is Determined by
the Integration of Multiple Signal-Activated and Tissue-Restricted
Transcription Factors
Marc S. Halfon, Ana Carmena, Stephen Gisselbrecht, Charles
M. Sackerson, Fernando Jiménez, Mary K. Baylies, and Alan
M. Michelson
Cell 103:63-74 (2000).

Invertebrate myogenesis: looking back to the future of muscle development
Mary K. Baylies and Alan M. Michelson
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 11:431-439 (2001).

rolling pebbles (rols) is required in Drosophila muscle precursors for recruitment of myoblasts for fusion
Annette Rau, Detlev Buttgereit, Anne Holz, Richard Fetter, Stephen K. Doberstein, Achim Paululat, Nicole Staudt, Jim Skeath, Alan M. Michelson and Renate Renkawitz-Pohl
Development 128:5061-5073 (2001).

Deciphering genetic regulatory codes: A challenge for functional genomics
Alan M. Michelson
PNAS 99(2):546-548 (2002).

Reciprocal Regulatory Interactions between the Notch and Ras Signaling Pathways in the Drosophila Embryonic Mesoderm
Ana Carmena, Eugene Buff, Marc S. Halfon, Stephen Gisselbrecht, Fernando Jiménez, Mary K. Baylies, and Alan M. Michelson
Developmental Biology 244:226-242 (2002).

Computation-Based Discovery of Related Transcriptional Regulatory Modules and Motifs Using an Experimentally Validated Combinatorial Model
Marc S. Halfon, Yonatan Grad, George M. Church, and Alan M. Michelson
Genome Research 12:1019-1028 (2002).

Exploring genetic regulatory networks in metazoan development: methods and models
Marc S. Halfon and Alan M. Michelson
Physiological Genomics 10:131-143 (2002).

Differentiation and gene regulation
Toward a holistic understanding of animal development:
intercellular communication and transcriptional regulation are two sides of the same coin
Alan M. Michelson and Raphael Kopan
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 12:499-502 (2002).
New fluorescent protein reporters for use with the Drosophila GAL4 expression system and for vital detection of balancer chromosomes
Marc S. Halfon, Stephen Gisselbrecht, Jun Lu, Beatriz Estrada, Haig Keshishian, and Alan Michelson
genesis 34:135-138 (2002).

Preferred analysis methods for Affymetrix GeneChips revealed by a wholly defined control dataset
Sung E. Choe, Michael Boutros, Alan M. Michelson, George M. Church, and Marc S. Halfon
Genome Biology 6:R16 (2005).

An Integrated Strategy for Analyzing the Unique Developmental Programs of Different Myoblast Subtypes
Beatriz Estrada, Sung E. Choe, Stephen S. Gisselbrecht, Sebastien Michaud, Lakshmi Raj, Brian W. Busser, Marc S. Halfon, George M. Church, Alan M. Michelson
PLoS Genetics 2(2):e16 (2006).

Biological code breaking in the 21st century
Alan M. Michelson and Martha L. Bulyk
Molecular Systems Biology 2: doi:10.1038/msb4100062 (2006).

Expression-Guided In Silico Evaluation of Candidate Cis Regulatory Codes for Drosophila Muscle Founder Cells
Anthony A. Philippakis, Brian W. Busser, Stephen S. Gisselbrecht, Fangxue Sherry He, Beatriz Estrada, Alan M. Michelson, Martha L. Bulyk
PLoS Computational Biology 2(5):e53 (2006).