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Linda Z. Holland is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, their work emphasizes Molecular Biology, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics addressed in their research include Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Complement system in diseases, and Platelet Disorders and Treatments.

Linda Z. Holland has contributed to several recent scientific publications. These include:

  • Cephalochordates: A window into vertebrate origins, 2020, Current topics in developmental biology/Current Topics in Developmental Biology
  • The invertebrate chordate amphioxus gives clues to vertebrate origins, 2022, Current topics in developmental biology/Current Topics in Developmental Biology
  • Laboratory Culture and Mutagenesis of Amphioxus (Branchiostoma floridae), 2020, Methods in molecular biology
  • COVID-19 microthrombosis: unusually large VWF multimers are a platform for activation of the alternative complement pathway under cytokine storm, 2022, International Journal of Hematology
  • Asymmetric Segregation of Maternal mRNAs and Germline-related Determinants in Cephalochordate Embryos: Implications for the Evolution of Early Patterning Events in Chordates, 2024, Integrative and Comparative Biology

Their frequent coauthors in these publications are:

  • Nicholas D. Holland
  • Jr-Kai Yu
  • Yoshihiro Fujimura
  • Guang Li
  • Liying Peng

Linda Z. Holland often publishes in venues such as Current topics in developmental biology/Current Topics in Developmental Biology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Morphology, Biological Bulletin, and International Journal of Hematology.

Best Publications

  • The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype

    Nicholas H. Putnam;Thomas Butts;David E. K. Ferrier;Rebecca F. Furlong

  • The amphioxus genome illuminates vertebrate origins and cephalochordate biology

    Linda Z. Holland;Ricard Albalat;Kaoru Azumi;Èlia Benito-Gutiérrez

  • von Willebrand factor. A reduced and alkylated 52/48-kDa fragment beginning at amino acid residue 449 contains the domain interacting with platelet glycoprotein Ib

    Y Fujimura;K Titani;L Z Holland;S R Russell

  • Sequence and developmental expression of AmphiDll, an amphioxus Distal-less gene transcribed in the ectoderm, epidermis and nervous system: insights into evolution of craniate forebrain and neural crest

    Nicholas D. Holland;Grace Panganiban;Erika L. Henyey;Linda Z. Holland

  • Sequence and embryonic expression of the amphioxus engrailed gene (AmphiEn): the metameric pattern of transcription resembles that of its segment-polarity homolog in Drosophila

    L.Z. Holland;M. Kene;N.A. Williams;N.D. Holland

  • Characterization of an amphioxus paired box gene, AmphiPax2/5/8: developmental expression patterns in optic support cells, nephridium, thyroid-like structures and pharyngeal gill slits, but not in the midbrain-hindbrain boundary region

    Z. Kozmik;N.D. Holland;A. Kalousova;J. Paces

  • Axial patterning in cephalochordates and the evolution of the organizer

    Jr-Kai Yu;Yutaka Satou;Nicholas D. Holland;Tadasu Shin-I

  • An amphioxus homeobox gene: sequence conservation, spatial expression during development and insights into vertebrate evolution

    Peter W. H. Holland;Linda Z. Holland;Nicola A. Williams;Nicholas D. Holland

  • A heparin-binding domain of human von Willebrand factor. Characterization and localization to a tryptic fragment extending from amino acid residue Val-449 to Lys-728.

    Y Fujimura;K Titani;L Z Holland;J R Roberts

  • Conservation of Brachyury (T) genes in amphioxus and vertebrates: developmental and evolutionary implications

    P.W. Holland;B. Koschorz;L.Z. Holland;B.G. Herrmann

  • Isolation and developmental expression of the amphioxus Pax-6 gene (AmphiPax-6): insights into eye and photoreceptor evolution

    Sacha Glardon;Linda Z. Holland;Walter J. Gehring;Nicholas D. Holland

  • Evolution of neural crest and placodes: amphioxus as a model for the ancestral vertebrate?

    Linda Z. Holland;Nicholas D. Holland

  • The chordate amphioxus: an emerging model organism for developmental biology.

    L. Z. Holland;V. Laudet;M. Schubert

  • Pax-Six-Eya-Dach network during amphioxus development: conservation in vitro but context specificity in vivo.

    Zbynek Kozmik;Nicholas D. Holland;Jana Kreslova;Diana Oliveri

  • Expression of AmphiHox-1 and AmphiPax-1 in amphioxus embryos treated with retinoic acid: insights into evolution and patterning of the chordate nerve cord and pharynx

    Linda Z. Holland;Nicholas D. Holland

  • Evolution of bilaterian central nervous systems: a single origin?

    Linda Z Holland;João E Carvalho;Hector Escriva;Vincent Laudet

  • Chordate origins of the vertebrate central nervous system.

    Linda Z Holland;Nicholas D Holland

  • Evolution of lactate dehydrogenase-A homologs of barracuda fishes (genus Sphyraena) from different thermal environments: differences in kinetic properties and thermal stability are due to amino acid substitutions outside the active site.

    Linda Z. Holland;Margaret McFall-Ngai;George N. Somero

  • Three Amphioxus Wnt Genes (AmphiWnt3, AmphiWnt5, and AmphiWnt6) Associated With the Tail Bud: The Evolution of Somitogenesis in Chordates

    Michael Schubert;Linda Z. Holland;M.Dale Stokes;Nicholas D. Holland

  • Isolation and characterization of a collagen binding domain in human von Willebrand factor.

    F I Pareti;Y Fujimura;J A Dent;L Z Holland

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas D. Holland
Nicholas D. Holland University of California, San Diego
Vincent Laudet
Vincent Laudet Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Peter W. H. Holland
Peter W. H. Holland University of Oxford
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley
Yutaka Satou
Yutaka Satou Kyoto University
Marianne Bronner-Fraser
Marianne Bronner-Fraser California Institute of Technology
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Marc Robinson-Rechavi University of Lausanne
Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez
Jordi Garcia-Fernàndez University of Barcelona
Pieter J. de Jong
Pieter J. de Jong UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Hans Lehrach
Hans Lehrach Max Planck Society

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