Recent Publications
Lesperance, Megan ; Herrera, Antonio ; Fitch, David H A ; Mason, D Adam. (2023). The novel gene, mtre-1 , is expressed downstream of MAB-3 and DMD-3 in the male tail tip at the termination of male tail tip retraction. microPublication biology. DOI: 10.17912/micropub.biology.000976
De Ley, Irma Tandingan ; Kiontke, Karin ; Bert, Wim ; Sudhaus, Walter ; Fitch, David H.A.; Bhat, Aashaq Hussain. (2023). Pellioditis pelhamensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabditidae) and Pellioditis pellio (Schneider, 1866), earthworm associates from different subclades within Pellioditis (syn. Phasmarhabditis Andrássy, 1976). PloS one, p.e0288196-e0288196
Woronik, A., Shaffer, H. W., Kiontke, K., Laurent, J. M., Zambrano, R., Boeke, J. D., & Fitch, D. H. (2020). EUAdb: a resource for COVID-19 test development. bioRxiv.
Lawson, H., Vuong, E., Miller, R. M., Kiontke, K., Fitch, D. H., & Portman, D. S. (2019). The Makorin lep-2 and the lncRNA lep-5 regulate lin-28 to schedule sexual maturation of the C. elegans nervous system. Elife, 8, e43660.
Kiontke, K. C., Herrera, R. A., Vuong, E., Luo, J., Schwarz, E. M., Fitch, D. H., & Portman, D. S. (2019). The long Non-Coding RNA lep-5 promotes the Juvenile-to-Adult transition by destabilizing LIN-28. Developmental cell, 49(4), 542-555.
Haag, E. S., Fitch, D. H., & Delattre, M. (2018). From “the worm” to “the worms” and back again: the evolutionary developmental biology of nematodes. Genetics, 210(2), 397-433.
Fradin, H., Kiontke, K., Zegar, C., Gutwein, M., Lucas, J., Kovtun, M., ... & Gunsalus, K. C. (2017). Genome architecture and evolution of a unichromosomal asexual nematode. Current Biology, 27(19), 2928-2939.
Herrera, R. A., Kiontke, K., & Fitch, D. H. (2016). Makorin ortholog LEP-2 regulates LIN-28 stability to promote the juvenile-to-adult transition in Caenorhabditis elegans. Development, 143(5), 799-809.
Herrera, R. A., Kiontke, K., & Fitch, D. H. (2016). LEP-2/Makorin regulates LIN-28 stability to promote the juvenile-to-adult transition in. EMBO Rep, 16, 1334-57.
Kiontke, K., & Fitch, D. H. (2013). Nematodes. Current Biology, 23(19), R862-R864.
Nelson, M. D., & Fitch, D. H. (2012). Overlap extension PCR: an efficient method for transgene construction. In Molecular methods for evolutionary genetics (pp. 459-470). Humana Press.
Nelson, M. D., Zhou, E., Kiontke, K., Fradin, H., Maldonado, G., Martin, D., ... & Fitch, D. H. (2011). A bow-tie genetic architecture for morphogenesis suggested by a genome-wide RNAi screen in Caenorhabditis elegans. PLoS Genet, 7(3), e1002010.
Kiontke, K. C., Félix, M. A., Ailion, M., Rockman, M. V., Braendle, C., Pénigault, J. B., & Fitch, D. H. (2011). A phylogeny and molecular barcodes for Caenorhabditis, with numerous new species from rotting fruits. BMC evolutionary biology, 11(1), 1-18.
Karin Kiontke, David H.A. Fitch. (2010).Phenotypic Plasticity: Different Teeth for Different Feasts. Current Biology, 20 (17), R710-R712. ISSN 0960-9822.
Michael Brauchle, Karin Kiontke, Philip MacMenamin, David H.A. Fitch, Fabio Piano. (2009).
Evolution of early embryogenesis in rhabditid nematodes. Developmental Biology, 335(1), 253-262. ISSN 0012-160.
Karin Kiontke, Antoine Barrière, Irina Kolotuev, Benjamin Podbilewicz, Ralf Sommer, David H.A. Fitch, Marie-Anne Félix. (2007). Trends, Stasis, and Drift in the Evolution of Nematode Vulva Development.
Current Biology, 17(22), 1925-1937. ISSN 0960-9822.
Eric S. Haag, Helen Chamberlin, Avril Coghlan, David H.A. Fitch, Andrew D. Peters, Hinrich Schulenburg. (2007). Caenorhabditis evolution: if they all look alike, you aren’t looking hard enough. Trends in Genetics, 23(3), 101-104. ISSN 0168-9525.
Tania Del Rio-Albrechtsen, Karin Kiontke, Shu-Yi Chiou, David H.A. Fitch. (2006). Novel gain-of-function alleles demonstrate a role for the heterochronic gene lin-41 in C. elegans male tail tip morphogenesis, Developmental Biology, 297 (1), 74-86, ISSN 0012-1606.