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Rochlin, K., Yu, S., Roy, S., Baylies, M.K. Myoblast fusion: When it takes more to make one. Developmental Biology. 2009 Nov 20.

Nowak SJ, Nahirney PC, Hadjantonakis AK, Baylies MK. Nap1-mediated actin remodeling is essential for mammalian myoblast fusion. Journal of Cell Science. 2009 122:3282-93.

Richardson BE, Nowak SJ, Baylies MK. Myoblast fusion in fly and vertebrates: new genes, new processes and new perspectives. Traffic. 2008 9:1050-9.

Wong MC, Castanon I, Baylies MK. Daughterless dictates Twist activity in a context-dependent manner during somatic myogenesis. Developmental Biology. 2008 317:417-29.

Beckett K, Rochlin KM, Duan H, Nguyen HT, Baylies MK. Expression and functional analysis of a novel Fusion Competent Myoblast specific GAL4 driver. Gene Expression Patterns. 2008 8:87-91.

Richardson BE, Beckett K, Baylies MK. Live imaging of Drosophila myoblast fusion. Methods in Molecular Biology. 2008 475:263-74.

Richardson BE, Beckett K, Nowak SJ, Baylies MK. SCAR/WAVE and Arp2/3 are crucial for cytoskeletal remodeling at the site of myoblast fusion. Development. 2007 134:4357-67.

Carmena A, Speicher S, Baylies M. The PDZ protein Canoe/AF-6 links Ras-MAPK, Notch and Wingless/Wnt signaling pathways by directly interacting with Ras, Notch and Dishevelled. PLoS One. 2006 1:e66.

Beckett K, Baylies MK. 3D analysis of founder cell and fusion competent myoblast arrangements outlines a new model of myoblast fusion. Developmental Biology. 2007 309:113-25.

Llorens JV, Navarro JA, Martinez-Sebastian MJ, Baylies MK, Schneuwly S, Botella JA, Molto MD. Causative role of oxidative stress in a Drosophila model of Friedreich ataxia. FASEB Journal. 2007 21:333-44.

Artero RD, Monferrer L, Garcia-Lopez A, Baylies MK. Serpent and a hibris reporter are co-expressed in migrating cells during Drosophila hematopoiesis and Malpighian tubule formation. Hereditas. 2006 143:117-22.

Beckett K, Baylies MK. Parcas, a regulator of non-receptor tyrosine kinase signaling, acts during anterior-posterior patterning and somatic muscle development in Drosophila melanogaster. Developmental Biology. 2006 299:176-92.

Beckett K, Baylies MK. The development of the Drosophila larval body wall muscles. International review of neurobiology. 2006 75:55-70.

Cox VT, Beckett K, Baylies MK. Delivery of wingless to the ventral mesoderm by the developing central nervous system ensures proper patterning of individual slouch-positive muscle progenitors. Developmental Biology. 2005 287:403-15.

Cox VT, Baylies MK. Specification of individual Slouch muscle progenitors in Drosophila requires sequential Wingless signaling. Development. 2005 132:713-24.

Tapanes-Castillo A, Baylies MK. Notch signaling patterns Drosophila mesodermal segments by regulating the bHLH transcription factor twist. Development. 2004 131:2359-72.

Artero R, Furlong EE, Beckett K, Scott MP, Baylies M. Notch and Ras signaling pathway effector genes expressed in fusion competent and founder cells during Drosophila myogenesis. Development. 2003 130:6257-72.

Carmena A, Buff E, Halfon MS, Gisselbrecht S, Jimenez F, Baylies MK, Michelson AM. Reciprocal regulatory interactions between the Notch and Ras signaling pathways in the Drosophila embryonic mesoderm. Developmental Biology. 2002 244:226-42.

Castanon I, Baylies MK. A Twist in fate: evolutionary comparison of Twist structure and function. Gene. 2002 287:11-22.

Artero RD, Castanon I, Baylies MK. The immunoglobulin-like protein Hibris functions as a dose-dependent regulator of myoblast fusion and is differentially controlled by Ras and Notch signalling. Development 2001 128:4251-64.

Baylies MK, Michelson AM. Invertebrate myogenesis: looking back to the future of muscle development. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 2001 11:431-9.

Castanon I, Von Stetina S, Kass J, Baylies MK. Dimerization partners determine the activity of the Twist bHLH protein during Drosophila mesoderm development. Development. 2001 128:3145-59.

Halfon MS, Carmena A, Gisselbrecht S, Sackerson CM, Jimenez F, Baylies MK, Michelson AM. Ras pathway specificity is determined by the integration of multiple signal-activated and tissue-restricted transcription factors. Cell. 2000 103:63-74.

Baylies MK, Bate M, Ruiz Gomez M. Myogenesis: a view from Drosophila. Cell. 1998 93:921-7.

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