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Wittkopp, P.J., B.K. Haerum, and A.G. Clark (2007). Independent effects of cis- and trans-regulatory variants on gene expression in D. melanogaster. (Submitted September 2007)

Wittkopp, P.J., B.K. Haerum, and A. Clark (2007) Genetic basis of regulatory variation within and between Drosophila species, Nature Genetics, in press. (Submitted June 2007)

Wittkopp, P.J. (2007). Evolutionary Genetics: How flies get naked. Current Biology, 17, R881-R883.

Kohn, M.H. and P.J. Wittkopp (2007). Annotating ebony on the fly. Molecular Ecology, 16, 2831-3.

Davis, G.K., D. Srinivasan, P.J. Wittkopp, and D.L. Stern (2007). The function and regulation of Ultrabithorax in the legs of Drosophila melanogaster. Developmental Biology, 308, 621-631.

Wittkopp, P.J. (2007). Variable gene expression in eukaryotes: a network perspective. J. Experimental Biology, 210 , 1567-1575.

Fay, J. and P.J. Wittkopp (2007). Evaluating the role of natural selection in the evolution of gene regulation. Heredity, May 23 Epub ahead of print.

Wittkopp, P.J., B.K. Haerum, and A. Clark (2006). Parent-of-origin effects on mRNA expression in Drosophila melanogaster not caused by genomic imprinting. Genetics, 173, 1817-1821.

Wittkopp, P.J. (2006). Evolution of cis-regulatory sequence and function in diptera. Heredity 97, 139-147.

Landry, C.R, P.J. Wittkopp, C. Taubes, J.M. Ranz, A.G. Clark, and D.L. Hartl (2005). Compensatory cis-trans regulation and dysregulation of gene expression in hybrids between species. Genetics, 171, 1813-1822

Wittkopp, P.J. (2005). Genomic sources of regulatory variation in cis and in trans. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 62 , 1779-83.


Gompel, N, B. Prud’homme, P.J. Wittkopp, V.A. Kassner, and S.B. Carroll. (2005). Chance caught on the wing: cis-regulatory evolution and the origin of pigment patterns in Drosophila.  Nature, 433, 481-487.

Wittkopp, P.J., Haerum, B. and A. Clark. (2004). Evolutionary divergence of cis and trans gene regulation. Nature, 430, 85-88.

Wittkopp, P.J., S.B. Carroll, and A. Kopp. (2003). Evolution in Black and White: Genetic control of pigment patterns in Drosophila. Trends in Genetics, 19, 495-504.

Wittkopp, P.J., B.L. Williams, J.E. Selegue, and S.B. Carroll. (2003). Drosophila pigmentation evolution: divergent genotypes underlying convergent phenotypes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A., 100, 1808-1813

Drapeau, M.D.*, A. Radovic*, P.J. Wittkopp, and A. Long (2003). A gene necessary for normal male courtship, yellow, acts downstream of fruitless in the Drosophila melanogaster larval brain. J. of Neurobiology, 55, 53-72. (*=co-first authors)

Wittkopp, P.J., K. Vaccaro and S.B. Carroll. (2002). Evolution of yellow gene regulation and pigmentation patterns in Drosophila. Current Biology, 12, 1547-1556.

Radovic, A, P.J. Wittkopp, A.D. Long, and M.D. Drapeau (2002). Immunohistochemical colocalization of Yellow and male-specific Fruitless in Drosophila melanogaster neuroblasts. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 293, 1262-1264.

Wittkopp*, P.J., J.R. True*, and S.B. Carroll. (2002). Reciprocal functions of the Drosophila Yellow and Ebony proteins in the development and evolution of pigment patterns. Development, 129, 1849-1858. (*=co-first authors)

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