Thompson Group - Selected Publications

• Fu X, Adamski M and EM Thompson (2008). Altered miRNA Repertoire in the Simplified Chordate, Oikopleura dioica. Mol. Biol. Evol. 25, 1067-1080.



• Ganot P, Moosmann-Schulmeister A and Thompson EM (2008). Oocyte selection is concurrent with meiosis resumption in the coenocystic oogenesis of Oikopleura. Dev Biol. 324, 266-276.



• Sardet C, Swalla BJ, Satoh N, Sasakura Y, Branno M, Thompson EM, Levine M and H Nishida (2008). Euro Chordates: Ascidian Community Swims Ahead. The 4th International Tunicate Meeting in Villefranche sur Mer. Dev Dyn. 237, 1207–1213.



• Clarke T, Bouquet JM, Fu X, Kallesøe T, and Thompson EM (2007). Rapidly evolving lamins in a chordate, Oikopleura dioica, with unusual nuclear architecture. Gene 396(1):159-69.



• Ganot P, Bouquet JM, Kallesøe T and Thompson EM (2007). The Oikopleura coenocyst, a unique chordate germ cell permitting rapid, extensive modulation of oocyte production. Dev Biol. 302, 591-600.



• Ganot P, Kallesøe T and Thompson EM (2007). The cytoskeleton organizes germ nuclei with divergent fates and asynchronous cycles in a common cytoplasm during oogenesis in the chordate Oikopleura. Dev Biol.302, 577-590.



• Schulmeister A, Schmid M and Thompson EM (2007). Phosphorylation of the histone H3.3 variant in mitosis and meiosis of the urochordate Oikopleura dioica. Chrom Res. 15, 189-201.



• Spada F, Koch J, Sadoni N, Mitchell N, Ganot P, De Boni U, Zink D and Thompson EM (2007). Conserved patterns of nuclear compartmentalization are not observed in the chordate Oikopleura. Biol Cell. 99, 273-287 (cover).



• Troedsson C, P Ganot, JM Bouquet, DL Aksnes, EM Thompson (2007). Endostyle cell recruitment as a frame of reference for development and growth in the Urochordate Oikopleura dioica. Biol Bull., Dec;213(3):325-334.



• Troedsson C, Frischer ME, Nejstgaard JC and Thompson EM (2007). Molecular quantification of differential ingestion and particle trapping rates by the Appendicularian Oikopleura dioica as a function of prey size and shape. Limnol. Oceanogr. 52, 416–427.



• Aksnes D, Troedsson C and Thompson EM (2006). A model of developmental time applied to planktonic embryos. Marine Ecology Progress Series 318, 75-80.



• Aksnes D, Troedsson C and Thompson EM (2006). Integrating developmental clocking and growth in a life-history model for the planktonic chordate Oikopleura dioica. Marine Ecology Progress Series 318, 81-88.



• Ganot P, Bouquet JM and Thompson EM (2006). Comparative organisation of follicle, accessory cells and spawning anlagen in dynamic semelparous clutch manipulators, the urochordate Oikopleuridae. Biol Cell. 98, 389-401 (cover).



• Spada F, Chioda M and Thompson EM (2005). Histone H4 post-translational modifications in chordate mitotic and endoreduplicative cell cycles. J Cell Biochem. 95(5):885-901.



• Spada F, Vincent M and Thompson EM (2005). Plasticity of histone modifications across the invertebrate to vertebrate transition: histone H3 lysine 4 trimethylation in heterochromatin. Chromosome Res. 13(1):57-72.



• Thompson EM, Spada F and P Ganot (2005). Patterning and Organisation of the House Secreting Epithelium of Oikopleura dioica. In: Gorsky G, Youngbluth MJ and Deibel D (eds.) Response of Marine Ecosystems to Global Change: Ecological Impact of Appendicularians, Ed. G. Gorsky, Gordon and Breach, pp. 89-112.



• Troedsson C, Grahl-Nielsen O and Thompson EM (2005). Variable fatty acid composition of the pelagic Appendicularian, Oikopleura dioica, in response to dietary quality and quantity. Marine Ecology Progress Series 289:165-176.



• Chioda M, Spada F, Eskeland R and EM Thompson (2004). Histone mRNAs do not accumulate during S phase of either mitotic or endoreduplicative cycles in the chordate Oikopleura dioica. Molecular and Cellular Biology 24(12):5391-5403.



• Ganot P, Kallesoe 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(17):7795-805.



• Chioda M, R Eskeland, and EM Thompson (2002). Histone gene complement, variant expression, and mRNA processing in a urochordate Oikopleura dioica that undergoes extensive polyploidization. Mol Biol Evol. 19(12):2247-60.



• Ganot P, and Thompson EM (2002). Patterning through differential endoreduplication in epithelial organogenesis of the chordate, Oikopleura dioica. Dev Biol. 252(1):59-71.



• Troedsson C, Bouquet JM, Aksnes DL and Thompson EM (2002). Resource allocation between somatic growth and reproductive output in the pelagic chordate, Oikopleura dioica, allows opportunistic response to nutritional variation. Marine Ecology Progress Series 243:83-91.



• Seo HC, Kube M, Edvardsen RB, Jensen MF, Beck A, Spriet E, Gorsky G, Thompson EM, Lehrach H, Reinhardt R, Chourrout D (2001). Miniature genome in the marine chordate Oikopleura dioica. Science 294(5551):2506.



• Spada F, Steen H, Troedsson C, Kallesøe T, Spriet E, Mann M and Thompson EM (2001). Molecular patterning of the oikoplastic epithelium of the larvacean tunicate Oikopleura dioica. J Biol Chem. 276(23):20624-32.



• Thompson EM, Kallesøe T and Spada F (2001). Diverse genes expressed in distinct regions of the trunk epithelium define a monolayer cellular template for construction of the Oikopleurid house. Dev Biol. 238(2):260-73.



• Adenot PG, Campion E, Legouy E, Allis CD, Dimitrov S, Renard JP and Thompson EM (2000). Somatic linker histone H1 is present throughout mouse embryogenesis and is not replaced by variant H1 degrees. J Cell Science 113 (Pt 16):2897-907.



• Spada F, Brunet A, Mercier Y, Renard JP, Bianchi ME and Thompson EM (1998). High mobility group 1 (HMG1) protein in mouse preimplantation embryos. Mech Dev. 76(1-2):57-66.



• Thompson EM and Renard JP (1998). Preferential nuclear location of a transgene does not depend on its transcriptional activity during early mouse development. Chromosoma 107(5):321-9.



• Thompson EM, Legouy E and Renard JP (1998). Mouse embryos do not wait for the MBT: Chromatin and RNA polymerase remodeling in genome activation at the onset of development. Dev Genet. 22(1):31-42.



• Adenot P, Mercier Y, Renard JP and Thompson EM (1997). Differential H4 acetylation of paternal and maternal chromatin precedes DNA replication and differential transcriptional activity in pronuclei of 1-cell mouse embryos. Development 124(22):4615-25.



• Thompson EM, Adenot P, Tsuji FI and Renard JP (1995). Real time imaging of transcriptional activity in live mouse preimplantation embryos using a secreted luciferase. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 92(5):1317-21.



• Thompson EM, Legouy E, Christians E and Renard JP (1995). Progressive maturation of chromatin structure regulates HSP70.1 gene expression in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Development 121(10):3425-37.



• Thompson EM, Christians E, Stinnakre MG and Renard JP (1994). Scaffold-attachment regions stimulate HSP70.1 expression in mouse preimplantation embryos but not in differentiated tissues. Molecular and Cellular Biology 14(7):4694-703.