ZFIN Person: Melton, Douglas A.

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-960805-373

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-960805-373

Melton, Douglas A.

URL:	http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/Faculty/Melton.html
Affiliation:
Address:	Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Harvard University 7 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
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Phone:	(617) 495-1812
Fax:	(617) 495-8557
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Huang, H., Vogel, S.S., Liu, N., Melton, D.A., and Lin, S. (2001) Analysis of pancreatic development in living transgenic zebrafish embryos. Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology. 177(1-2):117-124

Dohrmann, C.E., Kessler, D.S., and Melton, D.A. (1996) Induction of axial mesoderm by zDVR-1, the zebrafish orthologue of Xenopus Vg1. Developmental Biology. 175:108-117

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS
Reilly, K. M., and Melton, D.A. (1996) The role of short-range and long-range signaling in mesoderm induction and patterning during Xenopus development. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. v.7:77-85.

Henry, G. L., Brivanlou, I. H., Kessler, D. S., Hemmati-Brivanlou, A. and Melton, D. A. (1996) TGF-ß signals and a prepattern in Xenopus laevis endodermal development. Development. 122:1007-1015.

Graff, J. M., Bansal, A. and Melton, D. A. (1996) Xenopus mad proteins transduce distinct subsets of signals for the TGF-ß superfamliy. Cell. 85:479-487.

Newfeld, S. J., Chartoff, E. H., Graff, J. M., Melton, D. A. and Gelbart, W. M. (1996) Mothers against dpp encodes a conserved cytoplasmic protein required in DPP/TGF-ß responsive cells. Development. 122:2099-2108

Klein, P. S. and Melton, D. A. (1996) A molecular mechanism for the effect of lithium on development. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 93:8455-8459.

Hemmati-Brivanlou, A. and Melton, D. A. (1997) Vertebrate Neural Induction. Annual Reviews for Neuroscience. 20:43-60.

Joseph, E. M. and Melton, D. A. (1997) Xnr4: A Xenopus Nodal-Related Gene Expressed in the Spemann Organizer. Developmental Biology. 184:367-372.

Kim, S.K., Hebrok, M. and Melton D.A. (1997) Notochord to endoderm signaling is required for pancreas development. Development. 124:4243-4252.