Chourrout Group - Selected Publications

• Bouquet JM, Spriet E, Troedsson C, Ottera H, Chourrout D, Thompson EM (2009). Culture optimization for the emergent zooplanktonic model organism Oikopleura dioica. J Plankton Res, 31, 359–370.



• Angotzi AR, Ersland KM, Mungpakdee S, Stefansson S, Chourrout D (2008). Independent and dynamic reallocation of pitx gene expression during vertebrate evolution, with emphasis on fish pituitary development. Gene, 417, 19-26.



• Mungpakdee S, Seo HC, Angotzi AR, Dong X, Akalin A, Chourrout D (2008). Differential Evolution of the Thirteen Atlantic Salmon Hox Clusters. Mol Biol Evol, 25, 1333-1343.



• Mungpakdee S, Seo HC, Chourrout D (2008). Spatio-temporal expression patterns of anterior Hox genes in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Gene Expr Patterns, 8, 508-514.



• Stach T, Winter J, Bouquet JM, Chourrout D, Schnabel R (2008). Embryology of a planktonic tunicate reveals traces of sessility. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 105, 7229-7234.



• Schuettengruber B, Chourrout D, Vervoort M, Leblanc B, Cavalli G (2007). Genome regulation by polycomb and trithorax proteins. Cell. 23;128(4):735-45.



• Søviknes AM, Chourrout D, Glover JC (2007). Development of the caudal nerve cord, motoneurons, and muscle innervation in the appendicularian urochordate Oikopleura dioica. J Comp Neurol. Jul 10;503(2):224-43.



• Chourrout D, Delsuc F, Chourrout P, Edvardsen RB, Rentzsch F, Renfer E, Jensen MF, Zhu B, de Jong P, Steeele RE, Technau U (2006). Minimal ProtoHox cluster inferred from bilaterian and cnidarian Hox complements. Nature, 442(7103):684-7.



• Delsuc F, Brinkmann H, Chourrout D and Philippe H (2006). Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates. Nature, 439:965-968



• Edvardsen RB, Seo HC, Jensen MF, Mialon A, Mikhaleva J, Bjordal M, Cartry J, Reinhardt R, Weissenbach J, Wincker P and Chourrout D (2005). Remodelling of the homeobox gene complement in the tunicate Oikopleura dioica. Current Biology, 15:R12-13.



• Søviknes AM, Chourrout D and Glover JC (2005). Development of putative GABAergic neurons in the appendicularian urochordate Oikoleura dioica. J Comp Neurol., 490:12-28.



• Weill M, Philips A, Chourrout D and Fort P (2005). The caspase family in urochordates: distinct evolutionary fates in ascidians and larvaceans. Biology of the Cell, 97(11):857-66.



• Edvardsen RB, Lerat E, Maeland AD, Flaat M, Tewari R, Jensen MF, Lehrach H, Reinhardt R, Seo HC and Chourrout D (2004). Hypervariable and Highly Divergent Intron/Exon Organizations in The Chordate Oikopleura dioica. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 59:448-457.



• Ganot P, Kallesøe T, Reinhardt R, Chourrout D and Thompson EM (2004). Spliced-leader RNA trans splicing in a chordate, Oikopleura dioica, with a compact genome. Molecular and Cellular Biology, 24:7795-7805.



• Seo HC, Edvardsen RB, Maeland AD, Bjordal M, Jensen MF, Hansen A, Flaat M, Weissenbach J, Lehrach H, Wincker P, Reinhardt R and Chourrout D (2004). Hox cluster disintegration with persistent anteroposterior order of expression in Oikopleura dioica. Nature, 431:67-71.



• Volff JN, Lehrach H, Reinhardt R and Chourrout D (2004). Retroelement dynamics and a novel type of chordate retrovirus-like elements in the miniature genome of the tunicate Oikopleura dioica. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21:2022-2033.



• Nilsen IW, Myrnes B, Edvardsen RB and Chourrout D (2003). Urochordates carry multiple genes for goose-type lysozyme and no genes for chicken- or invertebrate-type lysozymes. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 60:2210-2218.



• Uzbekova S, Amoros C, Cauty C, Mambrini M, Perrot E, Hew CL, Chourrout D and Prunet P (2003). Analysis of cell-specificity and variegation of transgene expression driven by salmon prolactin promoter in stable lines of transgenic rainbow trout. Transgenic Res, 12:213-227.



• Seo HC, Kube M, Edvardsen RB, Jensen MF, Beck A, Spriet E, Gorsky G, Thompson EM, Lehrach H, Reinhardt R and Chourrout D (2001). Miniature genome in the marine chordate Oikopleura dioica. Science, 294:2506.



• Fu L, Mambrini M, Perrot E and Chourrout D (2000). Stable and full rescue of the pigmentation in a medaka albino mutant by transfer of a 17 kb genomic clone containing the medaka tyrosinase gene. Gene, 241:205-211.



• Deschet K, Bourrat F, Ristoratore F, Chourrout D and Joly JS (1999). Expression of the medaka (Oryzias latipes) Ol-Rx3 paired-like gene in two diencephalic derivatives, the eye and the hypothalamus. Mechanims of Development, 83:179-182.



• Joly JS, Kress C, Vandeputte M, Bourrat F and Chourrout D (1999). Irradiation of Fish Embryos Prior to Blastomere Transfer Boosts the Colonisation of their Gonads by Donor-Derived Gametes. Molecular Reproduction Development, 53:394-397.



• Nguyen V, Deschet K, Loosli F, Godet F, Joly JS, Wittbrodt J, Chourrout D and Bourrat F (1999). Morphogenesis of the optic tectum in the medaka (Oryzias latipes): a morphological and molecular study, with special emphasis on cell proliferation. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 413:385-404.



• Ristoratore F, Carl M, Deschet K, Richard-Parpaillon L, Boujard D, Wittbrodt J, Chourrout D, Bourrat F and Joly JS (1999). The midbrain-hindbrain boundary genetic cascade is activated ectopically in the diencephalon in response to the widespread expression of one of its components, the medaka gene Ol-eng2. Development, 126:3769-3779.



• Joly JS, Bourrat F, Nguyen V and Chourrout D (1997). Ol-Prx 3, a member of a new class of homeobox genes, is unimodally expressed in several domains of the developing and adult CNS of the medakafish (Oryzias latipes). Proc Natl Acad Sci. USA, 94:12987-12992.



• Baroiller JF, Chourrout D, Fostier A and Jalabert B (1995). Temperature and sex chromosomes govern sex-ratios of the mouthbrooding cichlid fish Oreochromis niloticus. Journal of Experimental Zoology 273:216-223.



• Michard-Vanhée C, Chourrout D, Stromberg S, Thuvander A and Pilström L (1994). Lymphocyte expression in transgenic trout by mouse immunoglobulin promoter/enhancer. Immunogenetics 40:1-8.



• Nakayama I, Foresti F, Tewari R, Schartl M and Chourrout D (1994). Sex chromosome polymorphism and heterogametic males revealed by two cloned DNA probes in the ZW/ZZ fish Leporinus elongatus. Chromosoma 103:31-39.