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Sullivan Lab Publications - Chromosome Biology

Warecki B, Bast I, Tajima M, Sullivan W. (2022) Connections between sister and non-sister telomeres of segregating chromatids maintain euploidy. Current Biology.

Warecki B, Titen SWA, Alam MS, Vega G, Lemseffer N, Hug K, Minden JS, Sullivan W. (2022) Wolbachia action in the sperm produces developmentally deferred chromosome segregation defects during the Drosophila mid-blastula transition. Elife 11:e81292

Warecki B, Sullivan W. (2022) The cell biology of heterochromatin. Cells 11(7):1247.

Vicars H, Karg T, Warecki B, Bast I, Sullivan W. (2020) Kinetochore-independent sister chromosome separation is driven by plus-end microtubule dynamics.  PLoS Genetics.

Warecki B, Ling X, Bast I, Sullivan W. (2020). ESCRT-III-mediated membrane fusion drives chromosome fragments through nuclear envelope channels. J Cell Biol. 219(3) PMID: 32032426  [PDF]

Warecki B and William Sullivan (2020). Mechanisms driving acentric chromosome transmission.  Chromosome Research (online ahead of print) [PDF]

Warecki B, Sullivan W (2018) Micronuclei Formation Is Prevented by Aurora B-mediated Exclusion of HP1a from Late-Segregating Chromatin in Drosophila. Genetics 2018 Jul 9. pii: genetics.301031.2018. doi: 10.1534/genetics.118.301031. [Epub ahead of print]

Karg, T, Elting, MW, Vicars, H, Dumont, S, Sullivan,W (2017) The chromokinesin Klp3a and microtubules facilitate acentric chromosome segregation. J Cell Biol. 216(6):1597-1608 [PDF]

Tao, L, Fasulo, B, Warecki, B,William Sullivan, W (2016) Tum/RacGAP functions as a switch activating the Pav/kinesin-6 motor. Nature Communications 19;7:11182 [PDF]

Karg T, Warecki B, and Sullivan W (2015) Aurora B mediated localized delays in nuclear envelope formation facilitates inclusion of late segregating chromosome fragments. MBoC 26(12):2227-41 [PDF]

Oliveira R A, Kotadia S , Mirkovic M, Bowlin K, Eichinger CS, Nasmyth K, Sullivan W (2014) Centromere-independent accumulation of cohesin at ectopic heterochromatin sites induces chromosome stretching during anaphase. PLOS Biology 12(10):e1001962. [PDF]

Martins T, Kotadia, S, Malmanche, N, Sunkel, CE, and Sullivan, W (2012) Strategies for outcrossing and genetic manipulation of Drosophila compound autosome stocks G3:Genes Genomes Genetics. (1):1-4. [PDF]

Kotadia S*, Montembault E*, Sullivan W, Royou A. (2012) Cell elongation – an adaptive response clearing long chromatid arms from the cleavage plane. Journal of Cell Biology 199(5):745-53. [PDF]

Fasulo B*,Koyama C*,Yu KR*,Homola EM, Hsieh TS, Campbell SD and Sullivan W (2011) Chk1 and Wee1 kinases coordinate DNA replication, chromosome condensation and anaphase entry. Molecular Biology of the Cell 23 (6): 1047-57. [PDF]

Cao J, Crest J, Fasulo B, Sullivan W. (2010) Cortical actin dynamics facilitates early stage centrosome separation. Current Biology 20 (8): 770-776. [PDF]

Royou A, Gagou ME, Karess R , Sullivan W. (2010) BubR1- and Polo-Coated DNA Tethers Facilitate Poleward Segregation of Acentric Chromatids. Cell 140, 235–245. [PDF]

Debec A, Sullivan W, Bettencourt-Dias M (2010) Centrioles: active players or passengers during mitosis? Cell Mol Life Sci 67 (13): 2173-94. [PDF]

Sullivan W. (2009) Centrosomes: CNN's broadcast reaches the cleavage furrow. Curr Biol. 2009 Jul 14;19(13): 513-5. [PDF]

Ferree PM, McDonald K, Fasulo B, Sullivan WT. (2006) The origin of Centrosomes in Parthenogenetic Hymenopteran Insects. Current Biol. 16: 801-807. [PDF]

Tram, U., B. Riggs, C. Koyama, A. Debec, and W. Sullivan (2001). Methods for the study of centrosomes in Drosophila during embryogenesis. In Methods in Cell Biology: Centrosomes and Spindle Pole Bodies. R.E. Palazzo and T.N. Davis, Editors. Academic Press. San Diego. 67: 113-123.

Tram, U. and W. Sullivan. (2000) Reciprocal inheritance of centrosomes in the parthenogenetic Hymenopteran Nasonia vitripennis. Current Biology10:1413-1419. [PDF]

Yu K. R., R. Saint, and W. Sullivan. (2000) The Grapes checkpoint coordinates nuclear envelope breakdown and chromosome condensation. Nature Cell Biology2:609-615. [PDF]

Rothwell, W.F. and W. Sullivan. (2000) The centrosome in early Drosophila embryogenesis. Current Topics Developmental Biology 49:409-447.

de Saint Phalle, B. and W. Sullivan. (1998) Spindle assembly and mitosis without centrosomes in parthenogenic Sciara embryos. Journal of Cell Biology 141:1383- 1391. [PDF]

Cunniff, J., J. Blethrow, and W. Sullivan. (1998) Live analysis of the division cycles in X-irradiated Drosophila embryos. Methods in Molecular Biology Vol 113: DNA Repair Protocols: Eukaryotic Systems. Edited D.S. Henderson. Humana Press Inc.,Totowa, NJ.

de Saint Phalle, B., and W. Sullivan. (1996) Incomplete sister chromatid separation is the mechanism of programmed chromosome elimination during early Sciara coprophila embryogenesis. Development 122:3775-3784. [PDF]

Dernberg, A.F., D.R. Daily, K.J. Yook , J.A. Corbin , J.W. Sedat, and W. Sullivan. (1996) Selective loss of compound-chromosome bearing sperm in the Drosophila Female. Genetics 143:1629-1642. [PDF]

Debec, A. , R.F. Kaplin, D.R. Daily, P.D. McCallum, W.F. Rothwell, and W. Sullivan. (1996) Live analysis of free centrosome behavior in normal and aphidicolin-treated Drosophila embryos. J. Cell Biol. 134:103-115. [PDF]

Sullivan, W., D.R. Daily, P. Fogarty, K. Yook, and S. Pimpinelli. (1993) Delays in anaphase initiation occur in individual nuclei of the syncytial Drosophila embryo. Molecular Biology of the Cell 4:885-896. [PDF]

Kellogg, D.R., W. Sullivan, W. Theurkauf, K. Oegema, J.W. Raff, and B.M. Alberts. (1991) Studies on the centrosome and cytoplasmic organization in the early Drosophila embryo. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Vol. LVI: 649-662. [PDF]

Sullivan, W., J. Minden, and B.M. Alberts. (1990) daughterless abo-like (dal), a Drosophila maternal-effect mutation that exhibits abnormal centrosome separation during the late blastoderm divisions. Development 110:311-323. [PDF]

Pimpinelli, S., W. Sullivan, M. Prout, and L. Sandler. (1985) On biological functions mapping to the Heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 109: 701-724.

Sullivan, W. and S. Pimpinelli. (1986) The genetic factors altered in homozygous abo stocks of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics114:885-895.

Books and Chapters.

Barbara Fasulo, William Sullivan (2008) Live Confocal Analysis of Mutant- and Drug-Treated Drosophila Embryos. Book Title: Confocal Microscopy: Methods and Protocols. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology, Volume: 1075: 243-255. Springer Science+Business Media.

Sullivan, W., M. Ashburner, R.S. Hawley (Editors) (2000). Drosophila Protocols. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.


 
 
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