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John R. Finnerty

John R. Finnerty

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
39
Citations
7003
World Ranking
6326
National Ranking
2143

Best Publications

  • Sea Anemone Genome Reveals Ancestral Eumetazoan Gene Repertoire and Genomic Organization

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Mansi Srivastava;Uffe Hellsten;Bill Dirks

  • Origins of Bilateral Symmetry: Hox and Dpp Expression in a Sea Anemone

    John R. Finnerty;Kevin Pang;Pat Burton;Dave Paulson

  • Investigating the origins of triploblasty: 'mesodermal' gene expression in a diploblastic animal, the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (phylum, Cnidaria; class, Anthozoa).

    Mark Q. Martindale;Kevin Pang;John R. Finnerty

  • Evolution of endothermy in fish : mapping physiological traits on a molecular phylogeny

    Barbara A. Block;John R. Finnerty;Alexandre F. R. Stewart;Jessica Kidd

  • Pre-bilaterian origins of the Hox cluster and the Hox code: evidence from the sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis.

    Joseph F. Ryan;Joseph F. Ryan;Maureen E. Mazza;Kevin Pang;David Q. Matus

  • Rising starlet: the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis.

    John A. Darling;Adam R. Reitzel;Patrick M. Burton;Maureen E. Mazza

  • The cnidarian-bilaterian ancestor possessed at least 56 homeoboxes: evidence from the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis.

    Joseph F Ryan;Joseph F Ryan;Patrick M Burton;Maureen E Mazza;Grace K Kwong

  • Endothermy in fishes: a phylogenetic analysis of constraints, predispositions, and selection pressures

    Barbara A. Block;John R. Finnerty

  • Ancient origins of axial patterning genes: Hox genes and ParaHox genes in the Cnidaria.

    John R. Finnerty;Mark Q. Martindale

  • Conflicting phylogenetic signals at the base of the metazoan tree

    Antonis Rokas;Nicole King;John Finnerty;Sean B. Carroll

  • The Radiata and the evolutionary origins of the bilaterian body plan.

    Mark Q. Martindale;John R. Finnerty;Jonathan Joseph Henry

  • Early evolution of a homeobox gene: the parahox gene Gsx in the Cnidaria and the Bilateria

    John R. Finnerty;David Paulson;Pat Burton;Kevin Pang

  • The origins of axial patterning in the metazoa: how old is bilateral symmetry?

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  • Direct sequencing of mitochondrial DNA detects highly divergent haplotypes in blue marlin (Makaira nigricans).

    J R Finnerty;B A Block

  • The evolution of the Hox cluster: insights from outgroups

    John R Finnerty;Mark Q Martindale

  • Collecting, rearing, spawning and inducing regeneration of the starlet sea anemone, Nematostella vectensis

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  • Comparison of developmental trajectories in the starlet sea anemone Nematostella vectensis: embryogenesis, regeneration, and two forms of asexual fission

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  • Genomic Survey of Candidate Stress-Response Genes in the Estuarine Anemone Nematostella vectensis

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  • Homeoboxes in Sea Anemones (Cnidaria; Anthozoa): A PCR-Based Survey of Nematostella vectensis and Metridium senile

    John R. Finnerty;Mark Q. Martindale

  • Transcription factor NF-κB is modulated by symbiotic status in a sea anemone model of cnidarian bleaching.

    Katelyn M. Mansfield;Nicole M. Carter;Linda Nguyen;Phillip A. Cleves

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Q. Martindale
Mark Q. Martindale University of Florida
Thomas D. Gilmore
Thomas D. Gilmore Boston University
Les Kaufman
Les Kaufman Boston University
John A. Darling
John A. Darling Environmental Protection Agency
Barbara A. Block
Barbara A. Block Stanford University
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley
James C. Mullikin
James C. Mullikin National Institutes of Health
Dennis E. Kyle
Dennis E. Kyle University of Georgia
Rima McLeod
Rima McLeod University of Chicago
Saul Tzipori
Saul Tzipori Tufts University

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