Angel Amores
amores@oregon.uoregon.edu

University of Oregon
Institute of Neuroscience
1254 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1254 USA

Advisors:
Dr. John H. Postlethwait, Institute of Neuroscience

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Research Interests

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Publications

• Amemiya, C., A. Amores, T. Ota, G. Mueller, D. Garraty, J. Postlethwait, G. Litman (2001) Generation of a P1 artificial chromosome library of the Southern pufferfish. Gene 272:283-289.
• Topczewski, J., Sepich, D.S., Myers, D.C., Walker, C., Amores, A., Lele, Z., Hammerschmidt, M., Postlethwait, J., and Solnica-Krezel, L. (2001) The zebrafish glypican Knypek controls cell polarity during gastrulation movements of convergent extension. Dev. Cell 1(2):251-264. 
• Varga, Z.M., Amores, A., Lewis, K.E., Yan, Y.-L., Postlethwait, J.H., Eisen, J.S., and Westerfield, M. (2001) Zebrafish smoothened functions in ventral neural tube specification and axon tract formation. Development 128(18):3497-3509. 
• Brand, M., Lun, K., Reifers, F., Thisse, B., Thisse, C., Amores, A., Yan, Y.-L., and Postlethwait, J. (2000) Subdivision of the early zebrafish neural primordium in response to posteriorizing signals. Eur. J. Neurosci. 12:60. 
• Amores, A. and Postlethwait, J.H. (1999) Banded chromosomes and the zebrafish karyotype. In The Zebrafish: Genetics and Genomics, H.W. Detrich, III, M. Westerfield, and L.I. Zon, eds., San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Meth. Cell Biol. 60:323-338. 
• Force, A., Lynch, M., Pickett, F.B., Amores, A., Yan, Y.-L., and Postlethwait, J. (1999) Preservation of duplicate genes by complementary, degenerative mutations. Genetics 151:1531-1545. 
• Postlethwait, J., Amores, A., Force, A., and Yan, Y.-L. (1999) The zebrafish genome. In The Zebrafish: Genetics and Genomics, H.W. Detrich, III, M. Westerfield, and L.I. Zon, eds., San Diego, CA: Academic Press, Meth. Cell Biol. 60:149-163. 
• Amores, A., Force, A., Yan, Y.-L. Joly, L., Amemiya, C., Fritz, A., Ho, R., Langeland, J., Prince, V., Wang, Y.-L., Westerfield, M., Ekker, M., and Postlethwait, J.H. (1998) Zebrafish hox clusters and vertebrate genome evolution. Science 282:1711-1714. 
• Brown, L.A., Amores, A., Schilling, T.F., Jowett, T., Baert, J.L., De Launoit, Y., and Sharrocks, A.D. (1998) Molecular characterization of the zebrafish PEA3 ETS-domain transcription factor. Oncogene 17:93-104. 
• Postlethwait, J.H, Yan, Y.-L., Gates, M.A., Horne, S., Amores, A., Brownlie, A., Donovan, A., Egan, E.S., Force, A., Gong, Z., Goutel, C., Fritz, A., Kelsh, R., Knapik, E., Liao, E., Paw, B., Ransom, D., Singer, A., Thomson, M., Abduljabbar, T.S., Yelick, P., Beier, D., Joly, J.-S., Larhammar, D., Rosa, F., Westerfield, M., Zon, L.I., Johnson, S.L., and Talbot, W.S. (1998) Vertebrate genome evolution and the zebrafish gene map. Nature Genet. 18:345-349. 
• Thompson, M.A., Ransom, D.G., Pratt, S.J., MacLennan, H., Kieran, M.W., Detrich,III, H.W., Vail, B., Huber, T.L., Paw, B., Brownlie, A.J., Oates, A.C., Fritz, A., Gates, MA., Amores, A., Bahary, N., Talbot, W.S., Her, H., Beier, D.R., Postlethwait, J.H., and Zon, L.I. (1998) The cloche and spadetail genes differentially affect hematopoiesis and vasculogenesis. Dev. Biol. 197:248-269. 
• Daga, R.R., Thode, G., and Amores, A. (1996) Chromosome complement, C-banding, Ag-NOR and replication banding in the zebrafish Danio rerio. Chromosome Res. 4:29-32. 
• Jowett, T., Mancera, M., Amores, A., and Yan Y.-L. (1995) In situ hybridization to embryo whole mounts and tissue sections: mRNA detection and application to developmental studies. In In situ hybridization, M. Clark, ed., Germany: Chapman and Hall.