ZFIN Person: Tucker, Ben

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-010515-6

Tucker, Ben

Email:	ben.tucker@student.adelaide.edu.au
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Address:	North Terrace Campus Level 1, Molecular Life Sciences THE UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE SA 5005 Australia
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Phone:	61-8-8303-3212
Fax:	61-8-8303-4362
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Henshall, T.L., Tucker, B., Lumsden, A.L., Nornes, S., Lardelli, M.T., and Richards, R.I. (2009) Selective neuronal requirement for Huntingtin in the developing zebrafish. Human molecular genetics. 18(24):4830-4842

Nornes, S., Tucker, B., and Lardelli, M. (2009) Zebrafish aplnra functions in epiboly. BMC research notes. 2:231

Newman, M., Tucker, B., Nornes, S., Ward, A., and Lardelli, M. (2009) Altering presenilin gene activity in zebrafish embryos causes changes in expression of genes with potential involvement in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD. 16(1):133-147

Nornes, S., Newman, M., Verdile, G., Wells, S., Stoick-Cooper, C., Tucker, B., Frederich-Sleptsova, I., Martins, R., and Lardelli, M. (2008) Interference with splicing of Presenilin transcripts has potent dominant negative effects on Presenilin activity. Human molecular genetics. 17(3):402-412

Tucker, B., and Lardelli, M. (2007) A Rapid Apoptosis Assay Measuring Relative Acridine Orange Fluorescence in Zebrafish Embryos. Zebrafish. 4(2):113-116

Khut, P.Y., Tucker, B., Lardelli, M., and Wood, S.A. (2007) Evolutionary and Expression Analysis of the Zebrafish Deubiquitylating Enzyme, Usp9. Zebrafish. 4(2):95-101

Tucker, B. (2007) Zebrafish as a model of genetic disease. Ph.D. Thesis.

Tucker, B., Hepperle, C., Kortschak, D., Rainbird, B., Wells, S., Oates, A.C., and Lardelli, M. (2007) Zebrafish Angiotensin II Receptor-like 1a (agtrl1a) is expressed in migrating hypoblast, vasculature, and in multiple embryonic epithelia. Gene expression patterns : GEP. 7(3):258-265

Tucker, B., Richards, R.I., and Lardelli, M. (2006) Contribution of mGluR and Fmr1 Functional Pathways to Neurite Morphogenesis, Craniofacial Development and Fragile X Syndrome. Human molecular genetics. 15(23):3446-3458

Tucker, B., Richards, R., and Lardelli, M. (2004) Expression of three zebrafish orthologs of human FMR1-related genes and their phylogenetic relationships. Development genes and evolution. 214(11):567-574

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS