Some Recent Publications

Tarrant AM, Behrendt L*, Stegeman JJ, Verslycke T. (2011) Ecdysteroid receptor from the American lobster, Homarus americanus: EcR/RXR isoform cloning and ligand-binding properties. General and Comparative Endocrinology. 173(2):346-55. 

Callard GV, Tarrant AM, Novillo A, Yacci P, Ciaccia L, Vajda S, Chuang G-Y, Kozakov D, Greytak SR, Sawyer S, Hoover C, Kotter K. (2011). Evolutionary origins of the estrogen signaling system: insights from amphioxus. Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 127(3-5):176-88.

Aruda AM*, Baumgartner MF, Reitzel AM*, Tarrant AM. (2011). Heat shock protein expression during stress and diapause in the marine copepod Calanus finmarchicus. Journal of Insect Physiology 57(5):665-75.

Reitzel AM*, Pang K, Ryan JF, Mullikin JC, Martindale MQ, Baxevanis AD, Tarrant AM. 2011. Nuclear receptors from the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi lack a zinc-finger DNA-binding domain: lineage-specific loss or ancestral condition in the emergence of the nuclear receptor superfamily? EvoDevo 2:3.

Tarrant AM, Stegeman JJ, Verslycke T. 2010.  Altered gene expression associated with epizootic shell disease in the American lobster, Homarus americanus. Fish and Shellfish Immunology 29(6):1003-9.

Reitzel AM, Tarrant AM. 2010. Correlated evolution of androgen receptor and aromatase revisited. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(10):2211-5.

Cantin NE, Cohen AL, Karnauskas KB, Tarrant AM, McCorkle DC. 2010. Ocean warming slows coral growth in the central Red Sea. Science 329:322-5

Reitzel AM, Behrendt L, Tarrant AM .2010. Light entrained rhythmic gene expression in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis: the evolution of the animal circadian clock. PLoS ONE 5(9):e12805.

Greytak SR, Tarrant AM, Nacci D, Hahn ME, Callard GV. 2010. Estrogen responses in killifish (Fundulus heteroclitus) from polluted and unpolluted environments are site- and gene-specific. Aquatic Toxicology 99:291-9

Reitzel AM, Tarrant AM. 2009. Nuclear receptor complement of the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis: phylogenetic relationships and developmental expression patterns. BMC Evolutionary Biology 9:230.

Karchner SI, Jenny MJ, Tarrant AM, Evans BR, Kang HJ, Bae I, Sherr DH, Hahn ME.  2009. The active form of human aryl hydrocarbon receptor repressor lacks exon 9 and its Pro185 and Ala185 variants repress both AHR and HIF.  Mol Cell Biol. 2009 29(13):3465-77

Tarrant AM, Reitzel AM, Blomquist CH, Haller H, Tokarz J, Adamski J. 2009. Steroid metabolism in cnidarians: Insights from Nematostella vectensis. Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 301:27-36

Tarrant AM*, Baumgartner MF*, Verslycke T, Johnson CL. Differential gene expression in diapausing and active Calanus finmarchicus (Copepoda). Marine Ecology Progress Series 355:193-207.* These two authors made equal contributions. 

Goldstone JV, Goldstone HMH, Morrison AM, Tarrant AM, Kern SE, Woodin BR, Stegeman JJ. Cytochrome P450 1 genes in early deuterostomes (tunicates and sea urchins) and vertebrates (chicken and frog): Origin and diversification of the CYP1 gene family. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(12): 2619-31.

Tarrant AM. 2007. Hormonal signaling in cnidarians: do we understand the pathways well enough to know whether they are being disrupted? Ecotoxicology 16:5-13.

Tarrant AM, Greytak SR, Callard GV, Hahn ME. 2006. Estrogen receptor-related receptors in the killifish Fundulus heteroclitus, diversity, expression, and estrogen responsiveness. Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, 37: 1-17.