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According to Wikipedia, Eric Francis Wieschaus is an American evolutionary developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner. Early life Born in South Bend, Indiana, he attended John Carroll Catholic High School in Birmingham, Alabama before attending the University of Notre Dame for his undergraduate studies , and Yale University for his graduate work.

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Mutations affecting segment number and polarity in Drosophila (1980) (4186)
Pulsed contractions of an actin–myosin network drive apical constriction (2009) (1065)
Mutations affecting the pattern of the larval cuticle inDrosophila melanogaster (1984) (739)
Probing the Limits to Positional Information (2007) (633)
Female sterile mutations on the second chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. II. Mutations blocking oogenesis or altering egg morphology. (1991) (511)
Patterned gene expression directs bipolar planar polarity in Drosophila. (2004) (507)
Integration of contractile forces during tissue invagination (2010) (495)
Stability and Nuclear Dynamics of the Bicoid Morphogen Gradient (2007) (494)
Establishment of developmental precision and proportions in the early Drosophila embryo (2002) (477)
Female sterile mutations on the second chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. I. Maternal effect mutations. (1989) (460)
wingless signal and Zeste-white 3 kinase trigger opposing changes in the intracellular distribution of Armadillo. (1994) (459)
Cell intercalation during Drosophila germband extension and its regulation by pair-rule segmentation genes. (1994) (415)
The vertebrate adhesive junction proteins beta-catenin and plakoglobin and the Drosophila segment polarity gene armadillo form a multigene family with similar properties (1992) (411)
folded gastrulation, cell shape change and the control of myosin localization (2005) (407)
armadillo, bazooka, and stardust are critical for early stages in formation of the zonula adherens and maintenance of the polarized blastoderm epithelium in Drosophila (1996) (406)
Spatial expression of the Drosophila segment polarity gene armadillo is posttranscriptionally regulated by wingless (1990) (390)
Developmental Regulation of Vesicle Transport in Drosophila Embryos: Forces and Kinetics (1998) (383)
fringe, a boundary-specific signaling molecule, mediates interactions between dorsal and ventral cells during Drosophila wing development (1994) (354)
Mutations affecting the pattern of the larval cuticle inDrosophila melanogaster (2004) (347)
Gastrulation in Drosophila: the formation of the ventral furrow and posterior midgut invaginations. (1991) (342)
A Genetic Link between Morphogenesis and Cell Division during Formation of the Ventral Furrow in Drosophila (2000) (341)
Wg/Wnt signal can be transmitted through arrow/LRP5,6 and Axin independently of Zw3/Gsk3beta activity. (2003) (322)
A putative cell signal encoded by the folded gastrulation gene coordinates cell shape changes during Drosophila gastrulation (1994) (310)
Diffusion and scaling during early embryonic pattern formation. (2005) (300)
Molecular analysis of the armadillo locus: uniformly distributed transcripts and a protein with novel internal repeats are associated with a Drosophila segment polarity gene. (1989) (294)
Coordination of opposite-polarity microtubule motors (2002) (286)
The Drosophila Gene brinker Reveals a Novel Mechanism of Dpp Target Gene Regulation (1999) (282)
Unmasking Activation of the Zygotic Genome Using Chromosomal Deletions in the Drosophila Embryo (2007) (280)
Clonal analysis of primordial disc cells in the early embryo of Drosophila melanogaster. (1976) (275)
The segment polarity gene armadillo interacts with the wingless signaling pathway in both embryonic and adult pattern formation. (1991) (275)
The drosophila gastrulation gene concertina encodes a Gα-like protein (1991) (268)
extradenticle, a regulator of homeotic gene activity, is a homolog of the homeobox-containing human proto-oncogene pbx1 (1993) (262)
Germline autonomy of maternal-effect mutations altering the embryonic body pattern of Drosophila. (1986) (259)
SCAR is a primary regulator of Arp2/3-dependent morphological events in Drosophila (2002) (259)
Mutations affecting the pattern of the larval cuticle in drosophila melanogaster 3. zygotic loci on the x chromosome and 4th chromosome (1984) (249)
A role for the Drosophila segment polarity gene armadillo in cell adhesion and cytoskeletal integrity during oogenesis. (1993) (246)
Mutations in the Drosophila gene extradenticle affect the way specific homeo domain proteins regulate segmental identity. (1990) (246)
Regulation of Armadillo by a Drosophila APC Inhibits Neuronal Apoptosis during Retinal Development (1998) (233)
Dynein-mediated cargo transport in vivo. A switch controls travel distance. (2000) (225)
Polarized Insertion of New Membrane from a Cytoplasmic Reservoir during Cleavage of the Drosophila Embryo (2000) (225)
Mutations affecting the pattern of the larval cuticle inDrosophila melanogaster (1984) (202)
Apical constriction drives tissue-scale hydrodynamic flow to mediate cell elongation (2014) (197)
Dominant maternal-effect mutations of Drosophila melanogaster causing the production of double-abdomen embryos. (1986) (193)
Somatic stem cell niche tropism in Wolbachia (2006) (193)
Requirements for autosomal gene activity during precellular stages of Drosophila melanogaster. (1988) (193)
Maternal-effect mutations altering the anterior-posterior pattern of the Drosophila embryo (1986) (193)
The Formation of the Bicoid Morphogen Gradient Requires Protein Movement from Anteriorly Localized mRNA (2011) (180)
Krüppel, a gene whose activity is required early in the zygotic genome for normal embryonic segmentation. (1984) (180)
Segment polarity gene interactions modulate epidermal patterning in Drosophila embryos. (1993) (178)
The development and function of the female germ line in Drosophila melanogaster: a cell lineage study. (1979) (170)
Wolbachia Utilizes Host Microtubules and Dynein for Anterior Localization in the Drosophila Oocyte (2005) (164)
Coordinate regulation of downstream genes by extradenticle and the homeotic selector proteins. (1994) (159)
Functional elements of the cytoskeleton in the early Drosophila embryo. (1993) (158)
Zygotic Genome Activation Triggers the DNA Replication Checkpoint at the Midblastula Transition (2015) (149)
Rethinking WNT signaling. (2004) (147)
Autonomous requirements for the segment polarity gene armadillo during Drosophila embryogenesis (1987) (146)
Differential positioning of adherens junctions is associated with initiation of epithelial folding (2012) (146)
Modelling the Bicoid gradient (2010) (144)
Positional information, in bits (2010) (144)
Three-dimensional epithelial morphogenesis in the developing Drosophila egg. (2013) (143)
Requirements for X-linked zygotic gene activity during cellularization of early Drosophila embryos. (1988) (142)
Is sex determination in germ line and soma controlled by separate genetic mechanisms? (1978) (137)
Nucleation by rRNA Dictates the Precision of Nucleolus Assembly (2016) (130)
Independent and coordinate trafficking of single Drosophila germ plasm mRNAs (2015) (129)
A Drosophila homolog of the tumor suppressor gene adenomatous polyposis coli down-regulates beta-catenin but its zygotic expression is not essential for the regulation of Armadillo. (1997) (126)
Wingless signaling in the Drosophila embryo: zygotic requirements and the role of the frizzled genes. (1999) (122)
Volume conservation principle involved in cell lengthening and nucleus movement during tissue morphogenesis (2012) (119)
Signaling activities of the Drosophila wingless gene are separately mutable and appear to be transduced at the cell surface. (1995) (118)
Establishment and maintenance of heritable chromatin structure during early Drosophila embryogenesis (2016) (118)
Armadillo nuclear import is regulated by cytoplasmic anchor Axin and nuclear anchor dTCF/Pan. (2001) (116)
The localized requirements for a gene affecting segmentation in Drosophila: analysis of larvae mosaic for runt. (1985) (115)
The Drosophila gastrulation gene concertina encodes a G alpha-like protein. (1991) (115)
Coupling of zygotic transcription to mitotic control at the Drosophila mid-blastula transition (2009) (114)
slam encodes a developmental regulator of polarized membrane growth during cleavage of the Drosophila embryo. (2002) (111)
extradenticle determines segmental identities throughout Drosophila development. (1995) (110)
Cell lineage and development in the larval epidermis of Drosophila melanogaster. (1979) (104)
Molecular analysis of odd‐skipped, a zinc finger encoding segmentation gene with a novel pair‐rule expression pattern. (1990) (104)
Hyperactivation of the folded gastrulation pathway induces specific cell shape changes. (1998) (103)
Global morphogenetic flow is accurately predicted by the spatial distribution of myosin motors (2018) (103)
Optimal Decoding of Cellular Identities in a Genetic Network (2019) (103)
Drosophila Apc1 and Apc2 regulate Wingless transduction throughout development. (2002) (99)
Regulated Expression of nullo Is Required for the Formation of Distinct Apical and Basal Adherens Junctions in the Drosophila Blastoderm (2000) (97)
Dosage requirements for runt in the segmentation of Drosophila embryos (1986) (95)
bottleneck acts as a regulator of the microfilament network governing cellularization of the Drosophila embryo (1993) (94)
A Nuclear Function for Armadillo/β-Catenin (2004) (93)
Precise domain specification in the developing Drosophila embryo. (2005) (92)
Dorsal-ventral pattern of Delta trafficking is established by a Snail-Tom-Neuralized pathway. (2006) (90)
Passive mechanical forces control cell-shape change during Drosophila ventral furrow formation. (2014) (90)
Myosin-dependent remodeling of adherens junctions protects junctions from Snail-dependent disassembly (2016) (86)
Measurement of cortical elasticity in Drosophila melanogaster embryos using ferrofluids (2017) (85)
Requirements for zygotic gene activity during gastrulation in Drosophila melanogaster. (1985) (82)
Independent active and thermodynamic processes govern the nucleolus assembly in vivo (2017) (78)
Shape and function of the Bicoid morphogen gradient in dipteran species with different sized embryos. (2008) (77)
short gastrulation, a mutation causing delays in stage-specific cell shape changes during gastrulation in Drosophila melanogaster. (1988) (73)
Local actin-dependent endocytosis is zygotically controlled to initiate Drosophila cellularization. (2008) (73)
orthodenticle activity is required for the development of medial structures in the larval and adult epidermis of Drosophila. (1992) (72)
Gene activities and segmental patterning in Drosophila: analysis of odd-skipped and pair-rule double mutants. (1988) (71)
Maternal effect mutations of the sponge locus affect actin cytoskeletal rearrangements in Drosophila melanogaster embryos (1992) (70)
Concentration dependent chromatin states induced by the bicoid morphogen gradient (2017) (70)
Zygotically controlled F-actin establishes cortical compartments to stabilize furrows during Drosophila cellularization (2008) (68)
A clonal analysis of the roles of somatic cells and germ line during oogenesis in Drosophila. (1981) (67)
Control of cleavage cycles in Drosophila embryos by frühstart. (2003) (65)
src64 and tec29 are required for microfilament contraction during Drosophila cellularization (2004) (64)
Integration of the head and trunk segmentation systems controls cephalic furrow formation in Drosophila. (1997) (64)
Measurement and perturbation of morphogen lifetime: effects on gradient shape. (2011) (63)
Zygotic activity of the nullo locus is required to stabilize the actin-myosin network during cellularization in Drosophila. (1990) (62)
The Drosophila cellularization gene nullo produces a blastoderm-specific transcript whose levels respond to the nucleocytoplasmic ratio. (1992) (62)
腺腫性結腸ポリープ癌抑制遺伝子のショウジョウバエ相同体はβ‐カテニンをダウンレギュレートするが,その接合体発現はアルマジロ蛋白質の調節に必須ではない (1997) (61)
The Heidelberg Screen for Pattern Mutants of Drosophila: A Personal Account. (2016) (60)
Posttranslational Control of Cdc25 Degradation Terminates Drosophila’s Early Cell-Cycle Program (2013) (60)
Quantitative 4D analyses of epithelial folding during Drosophila gastrulation (2014) (60)
The nullo protein is a component of the actin-myosin network that mediates cellularization in Drosophila melanogaster embryos. (1994) (57)
Polycomb mediates Myc autorepression and its transcriptional control of many loci in Drosophila. (2005) (54)
The role of the transformer genes in the development of genitalia and analia of Drosophila melanogaster. (1982) (53)
Embryonic transcription and the control of developmental pathways. (1996) (53)
Coordinating Cell Cycle Remodeling with Transcriptional Activation at the Drosophila MBT. (2015) (51)
Torso RTK controls Capicua degradation by changing its subcellular localization (2012) (50)
A novel basic helix-loop-helix protein is expressed in muscle attachment sites of the Drosophila epidermis (1994) (47)
Two new roles for the Drosophila AP patterning system in early morphogenesis. (2001) (47)
A combined genetic and mosaic approach to the study of oogenesis in Drosophila. (1980) (45)
Distinct Rap1 activity states control the extent of epithelial invagination via α-catenin. (2013) (43)
Junctions as Organizing Centers in Epithelial Cells? A Fly Perspective (2002) (38)
The use of 'normal' and 'transformed' gynandromorphs in mapping the primordial germ cells and the gonadal mesoderm in Drosophila. (1976) (37)
fs(1)K10, a germline-dependent female sterile mutation causing abnormal chorion morphology inDrosophila melanogaster (1978) (37)
The Bicoid gradient is shaped independently of nuclei (2010) (35)
Polarity protein Par3/Bazooka follows myosin-dependent junction repositioning. (2017) (35)
Bicaudal mutations of Drosophila melanogaster: alteration of blastoderm cell fate. (1985) (34)
The embryonic organization of the genital disc studied in genetic mosaics ofDrosophila melanogaster (1978) (33)
Short-term integration of Cdc25 dynamics controls mitotic entry during Drosophila gastrulation. (2012) (29)
Mapping the pericentric heterochromatin by comparative genomic hybridization analysis and chromosome deletions in Drosophila melanogaster (2012) (29)
Flow-dependent myosin recruitment during Drosophila cellularization requires zygotic dunk activity (2016) (29)
The synthesis–diffusion–degradation model explains Bicoid gradient formation in unfertilized eggs (2012) (25)
Localized requirements for gene activity in segmentation of Drosophila embryos: analysis of armadillo, fused, giant and unpaired mutations in mosaic embryos (2004) (25)
Cell lineage relationships in the Drosophila embryo. (1978) (24)
Diversity of epithelial morphogenesis during eggshell formation in drosophilids (2015) (24)
Rapid Dynamics of Signal-Dependent Transcriptional Repression by Capicua. (2020) (24)
Dynein-Mediated Cargo Transport in Vivo (2000) (22)
Evaluating the Arrhenius equation for developmental processes (2021) (22)
A study of the female germ line in mosaics ofDrosophila (1978) (21)
Germ line dependence of the deep orange maternal effect in Drosophila. (1977) (21)
Positional Information and Cell Fate Determination in the Early Drosophila Embryo. (2016) (21)
Conserved domains of the Nullo protein required for cell-surface localization and formation of adherens junctions. (2002) (20)
Germ-line dependence of the maroon-like maternal effect in Drosophila. (1977) (20)
Specificity of embryonic lethal mutations in Drosophila analyzed in germ line clones (2004) (20)
FROM MOLECULAR PATTERNS TO MORPHOGENESIS THE LESSONS FROM DROSOPHILA (1997) (19)
Coordinated regulation of Myc trans-activation targets by Polycomb and the Trithorax group protein Ash1 (2007) (19)
Role of the zygotic genome in the restructuring of the actin cytoskeleton at the cycle-14 transition during Drosophila embryogenesis. (1992) (18)
A cell marker system and mosaic patterns during early embryonic development in Drosophila melanogaster. (1987) (17)
Convergence and Extension during Germband Elongation in Drosophila Embryos (1991) (17)
Tensions divide (2010) (16)
Cell cycle regulation via inter-nuclear communication during the early embryonic development of Drosophila melanogaster (2010) (15)
Gynandromorph analysis of the thoracic disc primordia inDrosophila melanogaster (1976) (15)
THE IDENTIFICATION OF GENES CONTROLLING DEVELOPMENT IN FLIES AND FISHES (1997) (13)
Correction: Unmasking Activation of the Zygotic Genome Using Chromosomal Deletions in the Drosophila Embryo (2007) (13)
A nuclear escort for β-catenin (2004) (12)
Optimal decoding of information from a genetic network (2016) (12)
A rough guide to Drosophila mating (2013) (11)
A nuclear escort for beta-catenin. (2004) (11)
Cell and developmental biology--a shared past, an intertwined future. (2001) (9)
Probing for gene specificity in epithelial development. (1998) (9)
Trading bits in the readout from a genetic network (2020) (9)
Response: Can We Fit All of the Data? (2008) (9)
Optogenetic control of the Bicoid morphogen reveals fast and slow modes of gap gene regulation (2021) (9)
Shifting patterns: merging molecules, morphogens, motility, and methodology. (2011) (8)
Transcriptional Timers Regulating Mitosis in Early Drosophila Embryos. (2016) (8)
Science Over Politics (1999) (8)
Torso RTK controls Capicua degradation by changing its subcellular localization (2012) (8)
Temperature-Induced Uncoupling of Cell Cycle Regulators (2020) (8)
Erratum: Unmasking activation of the zygotic genome using chromosomal deletions in the Drosophila embryo (PLoS Biology (2007) 5, 5 (e213) DOI:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050117)) (2007) (7)
Pattern formation: Segmentation genes and the distributions of transcripts (1986) (7)
Template-based mapping of dynamic motifs in tissue morphogenesis (2020) (6)
Simple biochemical pathways far from steady state can provide switchlike and integrated responses. (2014) (5)
From Molecular Patterns to Morphogenesis—The Lessons from Studies on the Fruit Fly Drosophila (Nobel Lecture) (1996) (5)
Quantification of myosin distribution predicts global morphogenetic flow in the fly embryo (2017) (5)
Correction: Unmasking Activation of the Zygotic Genome Using Chromosomal Deletions in the Drosophila Embryo (2007) (5)
Evaluating the Simple Arrhenius Equation for the Temperature Dependence of Complex Developmental Processes (2020) (5)
Control of Cleavage Cycles in Drosophila Embryos (2003) (5)
The Science of Living Matter for Tomorrow. (2018) (5)
Author response: Establishment and maintenance of heritable chromatin structure during early Drosophila embryogenesis (2016) (4)
Deconstructing Gastrulation at the Single Cell Level (2021) (4)
Bringing classical embryology to C elegans gastrulation. (2003) (4)
folded gastrulation, cell shape change and the control of myosin localization (2007) (3)
Walter Gehring (1939–2014) (2014) (3)
Nobel laureates' letter to President Bush. (2001) (3)
The product of the Drosophila melanogaster segment polarity gene armadillo is highly conserved in sequence and expression in the housefly Musca domestica (1993) (3)
Deconstructing gastrulation at single-cell resolution (2022) (3)
Dynamics of Drosophila endoderm specification (2022) (2)
Correction to Supporting Information for Falahati and Wieschaus, Independent active and thermodynamic processes govern the nucleolus assembly in vivo (2017) (2)
Flow-dependent myosin recruitment during Drosophila cellularization requires zygotic dunk activity (2016) (1)
From Molecular Patterns to Morphogenesis ‐ The Lessons from Studies on the Fruit Fly Drosophila (Nobel Lecture) (1997) (1)
Summary src 64 and tec 29 are required for microfilament contraction during Drosophila cellularization (1)
The Hedgehog Signaling Pathway in Vertebrates [ 1 ] (2019) (0)
Introducing WIREs Developmental Biology (2012) (0)
Formation of the Bicoid Gradient in D. Melanogaster in Unfertilized Versus Fertilized Eggs (2010) (0)
Forthcoming papers (1993) (0)
Characterization of the Functional Relevance of Intranuclear Transcription Factor Aggregates in Living Fly Embryos (2021) (0)
F-Actin/Myosin-2 Furrow Canals, but not Basal Junctions, are Required for Drosophila Cellularization (2005) (0)
Temperature-Induced Uncoupling of 1 Cell Cycle Regulators 2 (2020) (0)
Patterns of development (1987) (0)
Patterning transcription in the early Drosophila embryo (2017) (0)
Corrigendum: Independent and coordinate trafficking of single Drosophila germ plasm mRNAs (2016) (0)
Frontmatter (1990) (0)
A Quantitative Optogenetic Tool to Control Gene Expression during Embryonic Development (2021) (0)
Global morphogenetic flow is accurately predicted by 1 the spatial distribution of myosin motors . 2 3 (2018) (0)
Hedgehog Signaling Pathway (2019) (0)
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Precision matters for position decoding in the early fly embryo (2016) (0)
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Home > Hedgehog Signaling Pathway Hedgehog Signaling Pathway (2012) (0)
Celebrating clocks and flies – 2017 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (2017) (0)
Information flow and the accuracy of concentration measurements in a genetic network (2019) (0)
DEV107730 1..6 (2014) (0)
Gene Activity and Cell Mechanics during Drosophila Embryonic Development (2018) (0)
PL-01 Patterning transcription and cell shape change in the Drosophila embryo (2009) (0)
Hedgehog Signaling Pathway [1] (2022) (0)
Investigating the Mechanism of Pulsed Actin-Myosin Contraction (2011) (0)
Trading bits in the readout of positional information (2020) (0)
Precision and Reproducibility in Biological Patterning (2007) (0)
The mechanics of shape change in the Drosophila embryo (2011) (0)
Frontiers in Developmental Biology: Concepts, Techniques and Model Organisms Satellite Short Course of the Fourth International Meeting of the Latin American Society for Developmental Biology (2008) (0)
Development 137 ( 17 ) Haematopoietic differentiation : lessons from development (2010) (0)

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