Recent Publications

  1.  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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. M. Srivastava. Killing two birds with one cell. Dev. Cell, 47:529-531, 2018. | PDF

  5. L. Ricci and M. Srivastava. Wound-induced cell proliferation during animal regeneration. 10.1002/wdev.321. WIREs Dev. Biol., 2018. | PDF

  6. 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

  7. A.R. Gehrke and M. Srivastava. Neoblasts and the evolution of whole-body regeneration. Curr. Opin. Genet. Dev., 40:131–37, 2016.

  8. 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.


  9. 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.


  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. M. Srivastava and D.S. Rokhsar. Placozoan genome. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2010.

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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