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Abigail S. Tucker is an active researcher affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with additional contributions to Medicine. Within these disciplines, they focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Genetics, Rheumatology, Paleontology, and Oral Surgery.

The scientist's research addresses several main topics including dental development and anomalies, craniofacial disorders and treatments, developmental biology and gene regulation, cleft lip and palate research, hedgehog signaling pathway studies, oral and maxillofacial pathology, and bone and dental protein studies.

Abigail S. Tucker has published numerous papers in various academic venues, with frequent appearances in the Journal of Anatomy, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Physiology, and Development.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Abigail S. Tucker include:

  • The Intertwined Evolution and Development of Sutures and Cranial Morphology (2021), Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Diverse Fate of an Enigmatic Structure: 200 Years of Meckel's Cartilage (2020), Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • A mesenchymal to epithelial switch in Fgf10 expression specifies an evolutionary-conserved population of ionocytes in salivary glands (2022), Cell Reports
  • A comparison of metrics for quantifying cranial suture complexity (2020), Journal of The Royal Society Interface
  • Eda controls the size of the enamel knot during incisor development (2023), Frontiers in Physiology

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Abigail S. Tucker include Neal Anthwal, Heather White, Anjali Goswami, Mária Hovořáková, and Juan M. Fons.

Best Publications

  • The cutting-edge of mammalian development; how the embryo makes teeth

    Abigail Tucker;Paul Sharpe

  • Transformation of Tooth Type Induced by Inhibition of BMP Signaling

    Abigail S. Tucker;Karen L. Matthews;Paul T. Sharpe

  • Gene defect in ectodermal dysplasia implicates a death domain adapter in development.

    Denis J. Headon;Stephanie A. Emmal;Betsy M. Ferguson;Abigail S. Tucker

  • 19 – Craniofacial Development

    Michael J. Depew;Abigail S. Tucker;Paul T. Sharpe

  • Salivary gland development

    Abigail Tucker

  • Expression and regulation of Lhx6 and Lhx7, a novel subfamily of LIM homeodomain encoding genes, suggests a role in mammalian head development

    Maria Grigoriou;Abigail S. Tucker;Paul T. Sharpe;Vassilis Pachnis

  • eFGF, Xcad3 and Hox genes form a molecular pathway that establishes the anteroposterior axis in Xenopus

    Mary Elizabeth Pownall;Abigail S. Tucker;Jonathan M. W. Slack;Harry V. Isaacs

  • Molecular Genetics of Tooth Morphogenesis and Patterning: The Right Shape in the Right Place

    A.S. Tucker;P.T. Sharpe

  • Role of Dlx-1 and Dlx-2 genes in patterning of the murine dentition.

    B.L. Thomas;A.S. Tucker;M. Qui;C.A. Ferguson

  • Tooth Agenesis: from Molecular Genetics to Molecular Dentistry

    E Matalova;J Fleischmannova;Paul Sharpe;Abigail Tucker

  • Fgf-8 determines rostral-caudal polarity in the first branchial arch

    A.S. Tucker;G. Yamada;M. Grigoriou;V. Pachnis

  • Activin is an essential early mesenchymal signal in tooth development that is required for patterning of the murine dentition

    Christine A. Ferguson;Abigail S. Tucker;Lars Christensen;Anthony L. Lau

  • Edar/Eda interactions regulate enamel knot formation in tooth morphogenesis

    Abigail S. Tucker;Denis J. Headon;Pascal Schneider;Betsy M. Ferguson

  • Interactions between Bmp-4 and Msx-1 act to restrict gene expression to odontogenic mesenchyme.

    Abigail S. Tucker;Abdul Al Khamis;Paul T. Sharpe

  • Temporospatial cell interactions regulating mandibular and maxillary arch patterning.

    Christine A. Ferguson;Abigail S. Tucker;Paul T. Sharpe

  • Homeotic transformation of branchial arch identity after Hoxa2 overexpression

    George A. Grammatopoulos;Esther Bell;Leah Toole;Andrew Lumsden

  • Evolution of the mammalian middle ear and jaw: adaptations and novel structures

    Neal Anthwal;Leena Joshi;Abigail S. Tucker

  • Current knowledge of tooth development: patterning and mineralization of the murine dentition

    Javier Catón;Abigail S Tucker

  • The activation level of the TNF family receptor, Edar, determines cusp number and tooth number during tooth development

    A S Tucker;Denis Headon;J-M Courtney;P Overbeek

  • The pharyngeal pouches and clefts: Development, evolution, structure and derivatives.

    Armelle Grevellec;Abigail S. Tucker

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul T. Sharpe
Paul T. Sharpe King's College London
Thimios A. Mitsiadis
Thimios A. Mitsiadis University of Zurich
Andrew Lumsden
Andrew Lumsden King's College London
Anjali Goswami
Anjali Goswami Natural History Museum
Jonathan M.W. Slack
Jonathan M.W. Slack University of Minnesota
Peter Vandenabeele
Peter Vandenabeele Ghent University
Tom Vanden Berghe
Tom Vanden Berghe University of Antwerp
Marilyn B. Renfree
Marilyn B. Renfree University of Melbourne
Paul A. Overbeek
Paul A. Overbeek Baylor College of Medicine
Peter J. Scambler
Peter J. Scambler University College London

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