Biography and Research Interest

Publications

Non-Zebrafish Publications

Reilly, K. M., and Melton, D.A. (1996) The role of short-range and long-range signaling in mesoderm induction and patterning during Xenopus development. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. v.7:77-85.

Henry, G. L., Brivanlou, I. H., Kessler, D. S., Hemmati-Brivanlou, A. and Melton, D. A. (1996) TGF-ß signals and a prepattern in Xenopus laevis endodermal development. Development. 122:1007-1015.

Graff, J. M., Bansal, A. and Melton, D. A. (1996) Xenopus mad proteins transduce distinct subsets of signals for the TGF-ß superfamliy. Cell. 85:479-487.

Newfeld, S. J., Chartoff, E. H., Graff, J. M., Melton, D. A. and Gelbart, W. M. (1996) Mothers against dpp encodes a conserved cytoplasmic protein required in DPP/TGF-ß responsive cells. Development. 122:2099-2108

Klein, P. S. and Melton, D. A. (1996) A molecular mechanism for the effect of lithium on development. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 93:8455-8459.

Hemmati-Brivanlou, A. and Melton, D. A. (1997) Vertebrate Neural Induction. Annual Reviews for Neuroscience. 20:43-60.

Joseph, E. M. and Melton, D. A. (1997) Xnr4: A Xenopus Nodal-Related Gene Expressed in the Spemann Organizer. Developmental Biology. 184:367-372.

Kim, S.K., Hebrok, M. and Melton D.A. (1997) Notochord to endoderm signaling is required for pancreas development. Development. 124:4243-4252.