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