M A Pultz

Summary

Affiliation: Western Washington University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi A genetic screen for zygotic embryonic lethal mutations affecting cuticular morphology in the wasp Nasonia vitripennis
    M A Pultz
    Biology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225 9160, USA
    Genetics 154:1213-29. 2000
  2. ncbi A major role for zygotic hunchback in patterning the Nasonia embryo
    Mary Anne Pultz
    Department of Biology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA
    Development 132:3705-15. 2005
  3. ncbi A caudal mRNA gradient controls posterior development in the wasp Nasonia
    Eugenia C Olesnicky
    New York University, Department of Biology, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Development 133:3973-82. 2006
  4. ncbi The jewel wasp Nasonia: querying the genome with haplo-diploid genetics
    Mary Anne Pultz
    Biology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225 9160, USA
    Genesis 35:185-91. 2003
  5. ncbi Localized maternal orthodenticle patterns anterior and posterior in the long germ wasp Nasonia
    Jeremy A Lynch
    Center for Developmental Genetics, NYU Biology, 100 Washington Square East New York, New York 10003, USA
    Nature 439:728-32. 2006

Collaborators

  • Ava E Brent
  • Jeremy A Lynch
  • Claude Desplan
  • Eugenia C Olesnicky
  • Megan Walker
  • David S Leaf
  • David Leaf
  • Lori Tonnes

Detail Information

Publications5

  1. ncbi A genetic screen for zygotic embryonic lethal mutations affecting cuticular morphology in the wasp Nasonia vitripennis
    M A Pultz
    Biology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225 9160, USA
    Genetics 154:1213-29. 2000
    ..The mutants isolated here have begun to outline the extent of conservation and change in the genetic programs controlling embryonic patterning in Nasonia and Drosophila...
  2. ncbi A major role for zygotic hunchback in patterning the Nasonia embryo
    Mary Anne Pultz
    Department of Biology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225, USA
    Development 132:3705-15. 2005
    ....
  3. ncbi A caudal mRNA gradient controls posterior development in the wasp Nasonia
    Eugenia C Olesnicky
    New York University, Department of Biology, New York, NY 10003, USA
    Development 133:3973-82. 2006
    ..These studies, together with studies in short germ insects, suggest that caudal is an ancestral master organizer of patterning, and that its role has been reduced in higher dipterans such as Drosophila...
  4. ncbi The jewel wasp Nasonia: querying the genome with haplo-diploid genetics
    Mary Anne Pultz
    Biology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 98225 9160, USA
    Genesis 35:185-91. 2003
    ..These capabilities are being exploited to understand a variety of behavioral, developmental, and evolutionary processes, ranging from cytoplasmic incompatibility to the evolution of wing morphology...
  5. ncbi Localized maternal orthodenticle patterns anterior and posterior in the long germ wasp Nasonia
    Jeremy A Lynch
    Center for Developmental Genetics, NYU Biology, 100 Washington Square East New York, New York 10003, USA
    Nature 439:728-32. 2006
    ..It activates anterior targets at the anterior of the egg in a manner reminiscent of the Bcd gradient, and it is required for pre-gastrulation expression of posterior gap genes...