ZFIN Person: Jeffery, William R.

ZFIN ID: ZDB-PERS-970429-47

Jeffery, William R.

Email:	jeffery@umd.edu
URL:	http://www.life.umd.edu/labs/jeffery/
Affiliation:	Jeffery Lab
Address:	Department of Biology College of Life Sciences University of Maryland 2271 Biology-Psychology Building College Park, MD 20742 USA
Country:	United States
Phone:	(301) 405-6884
Fax:	(301) 314-9358
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BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

PUBLICATIONS

Gore, A.V., Tomins, K.A., Iben, J., Ma, L., Castranova, D., Davis, A.E., Parkhurst, A., Jeffery, W.R., Weinstein, B.M. (2018) An epigenetic mechanism for cavefish eye degeneration. Nature ecology & evolution. 2(7):1155-1160

Hinaux, H., Poulain, J., Da Silva, C., Noirot, C., Jeffery, W.R., Casane, D., and Retaux, S. (2013) De Novo Sequencing of Astyanax mexicanus Surface Fish and Pachon Cavefish Transcriptomes Reveals Enrichment of Mutations in Cavefish Putative Eye Genes. PLoS One. 8(1):e53553

O'Quin, K.E., Yoshizawa, M., Doshi, P., and Jeffery, W.R. (2013) Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Retinal Degeneration in the Blind Cavefish Astyanax mexicanus. PLoS One. 8(2):e57281

Vihtelic, T.S., Yamamoto, Y., Springer, S.S., Jeffery, W.R., and Hyde, D.R. (2005) Lens opacity and photoreceptor degeneration in the zebrafish lens opaque mutant. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 233(1):52-65

Evans, T.G., Yamamoto, Y., Jeffery, W.R., and Krone, P.H. (2005) Zebrafish Hsp70 is required for embryonic lens formation. Cell stress & chaperones. 10(1):66-78

Yamamoto, Y. and Jeffery, W.R. (2002) Probing teleost eye development by lens transplantation. Methods (San Diego, Calif.). 28(4):420-426

Vihtelic, T.S., Yamamoto, Y., Sweeney, M.T., Jeffery, W.R., and Hyde, D.R. (2001) Arrested differentiation and epithelial cell degeneration in zebrafish lens mutants. Developmental Dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists. 222(4):625-636

Olsen, C.L. and Jeffery, W.R. (1997) A forkhead gene related to HNF-3beta is required for gastrulation and axis formation in the ascidian embryo. Development (Cambridge, England). 124:3609-3619

NON-ZEBRAFISH PUBLICATIONS