Publications

Recent Publications

R.E. Hulett, A.R. Gehrke, and M. Srivastava. A wounding-induced differentiation trajectory for neurons. (In preparation), 2022.
B. Goldstein and M. Srivastava. Emerging model systems in developmental biology. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol., Special Issue Book, 2022.
M. Srivastava. Studying development, regeneration, stem cells, and more in the acoel Hofstenia miamia. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol., 147:153–172, 2022.
J.O. Kimura, D.M. Bolanos Rodriguez, L. Ricci, and M. Srivastava. Embryonic origins of adult pluripotent stem cells. Cell, 185:4756-4769, 2022. | PDF
R.E. Hulett, J. O. Kimura, D.M. Bolanos Rodriguez, Y-J. Luo, C. Rivera-Lopez, L. Ricci, and M. Srivastava. Acoel single cell atlas reveals expression dynamics and heterogeneity of a pluripotent stem cell population. Nature Communications (in revision), available on BioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.10.479464, 2022
L. Ricci and M. Srivastava. Transgenesis in the acoel worm Hofstenia miamia. Dev. Cell, 56:3160–3170, doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.10.012, 2021.
A.R. Gehrke† and M. Srivastava. Assessing chromatin accessibility during WBR in acoels. In: Blanchoud, S., Galliot, B. (eds) Whole-Body Regeneration. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2450. Humana, New York, NY.
M. Srivastava. Beyond casual resemblance: Rigorous frameworks for comparing regeneration across species.
Ann. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol., 37:415–440, doi.org/10.1146/annurev-cellbio-120319-114716, 2021.
J. O. Kimura, L. Ricci, and M. Srivastava. Embryonic development in the acoel Hofstenia miamia. Development,
148:dev188656, 2021.
A.N. Ramirez, K. Loubet-Senear, and M. Srivastava. A regulatory program for initiation of wnt signaling during posterior regeneration. Cell Reports, 32:108098, 2020. | PDF
R.E. Hulett, D. Potter, and M. Srivastava. Neural architecture and regeneration in the acoel Hofstenia miamia. Proc. R. Soc. B, 287:20201198, 2020. | PDF
A.R. Gehrke, E. Neverett, Y-J. Luo, A. Brandt, L. Ricci, R.E. Hulett, A. Gompers, J.G. Ruby, D.S. Rokhsar, P. W. Reddien, and M. Srivastava. Acoel genome reveals the regulatory landscape of whole-body regeneration. Science, eaau6173:10.1126/science.aau6173, 2019. | PDF
M. Srivastava. Killing two birds with one cell. Dev. Cell, 47:529-531, 2018. | PDF
L. Ricci and M. Srivastava. Wound-induced cell proliferation during animal regeneration. 10.1002/wdev.321. WIREs Dev. Biol., 2018. | PDF
Raz, A., M. Srivastava, R. Salvenmoser, and P. W. Reddien. Acoel regeneration mechanisms indicate an ancient role for muscle in regenerative patterning. 10.1038/s41467-017-01148-5. Nat. Comm., 2017 | PDF
A.R. Gehrke and M. Srivastava. Neoblasts and the evolution of whole-body regeneration. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev., 40:131–37, 2016.
D.C. Lyons, M. Srivastava, and D.Q. Matus. Evolution of developmental mechanisms controlling cell fate. In K.Sears and R. Kliman (Eds.), Encylcopedia of Evolutionary Biology. Oxford: Academic Press. 1:409–19, 2016.
M. Srivastava. A comparative genomics perspective on the origin of multicellularity and early animal evolution. In I. Ruiz-Trillo and A. Nedelcu (Eds.), Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life . Springer. pages 269–99, 2015.
D.C. Lyons, M.Q. Martindale and M. Srivastava (2014). The cell's view of animal body-plan evolution. Integr. Comp. Biol. 54(4): 658-66. | PDF
M. Srivastava, K. Mazza-Curll, J.C. van Wolfswinkel, and P.W. Reddien (2014). Whole-body acoel regeneration is controlled by Wnt and Bmp-Admp signaling. Curr. Biol. 24(10): 1107-13. | PDF
A. Ikmi, B. Gaertner, C. Seidel, M. Srivastava, J. Zeitlinger, and M.C. Gibson. (2014) Molecular evolution of the Yap/Yorkie proto-oncogene and elucidation of its core transcriptional program. Mol. Biol. Evol. 31(6): 1375-90. | PDF
M.L. Scimone, M. Srivastava, G. Bell, and P.W. Reddien (2011). A regulatory program for excretory system regeneration in planarians. Development, 138(20): 4387–98. | PDF
M. Srivastava, O. Simakov, J. Chapman, B. Fahey, M.E. Gauthier, T. Mitros, G.S. Richards, C. Conaco, M. Dacre,U. Hellsten, C. Larroux, N.H. Putnam, M. Stanke, M. Adamska, A. Darling, S.M. Degnan, T.H. Oakley, D.C. Plachetzki, Y. Zhai, M. Adamski, A. Calcino, S.F. Cummins, D.M. Goodstein, C. Harris, D.J. Jackson, S.P. Leys, S. Shu, B.J.Woodcroft, M. Vervoort, K.S. Kosik, G. Manning, B.M. Degnan, and D.S. Rokhsar (2010). The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity. Nature, 466(7307): 720–726. | PDF
M. Srivastava, C. Larroux, D. Lu, K. Mohanty, J. Chapman, B. Degnan, and D. Rokhsar (2010). Early evolution of the LIM homeobox gene family. BMC Biology, 8(4). | PDF
M. Srivastava and D.S. Rokhsar. Placozoan genome. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2010.
H.Q. Marlow, M. Srivastava, D.Q. Matus, D. Rokhsar, and M. Q. Martindale (2009). Anatomy and development of the nervous system of Nematostella vectensis, an anthozoan cnidarian. Dev. Neurobiol., 69(4): 235–54. | PDF
M. Srivastava, E. Begovic, J. Chapman, N. H. Putnam, U. Hellsten, T. Kawashima, A. Kuo, T. Mitros, M.L. Carpenter, A.Y. Signorovitch, M.A. Moreno, K. Kamm, J. Grimwood, J. Schmutz, H. Shapiro, I. V. Grigoriev, L.W. Buss, B. Schierwater, S. Dellaporta, and D. Rokhsar (2008). The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans. Nature, 454(7207): 955–960. | PDF
A. Grimson, M. Srivastava, B. Fahey, B.J. Woodcroft, H.R. Chiang, N. King, B.M. Degnan, D. Rokhsar, and D.P. Bartel (2008). Early origins and evolution of microRNAs and Piwi-interacting RNAs in animals. Nature, 455(7217): 1193–7. | PDF
B. Schierwater, K. Kamm, M. Srivastava, D. Rokhsar, R. Rosengarten, and S. Dellaporta (2008). The early ANTP gene repertoire: Insights from the placozoan genome. PLoS ONE, 3(8): e2457. | PDF
N. H. Putnam, M. Srivastava, U. Hellsten, B. Dirks, J. Chapman, A. Salamov, A. Terry, H. Shapiro, E. Lindquist, V. V. Kapitonov, J. Jurka, G. Genikhovich, I. V. Grigoriev, S. M. Lucas, R. E. Steele, J. R. Finnerty, U. Technau, M. Q. Martindale, and D. S. Rokhsar (2007). Sea anemone genome reveals ancestral eumetazoan gene repertoire and genomic organization. Science, 317(5834): 86–94. | PDF