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Publications

Serbus L.R., Sulllivan W. (2007) A cellular basis for Wolbachia recruitment to the host germline.  PLOS pathogens 3 (12): 1930-1937.

Riggs B, Fasulo B, Royou A, Mische S, Cao J, Hays TS, Sullivan W.
(2007)   The Concentration of Nuf, a Rab11 Effector, at the Microtubule-organizing Center Is Cell Cycle-regulated, Dynein-dependent, and Coincides with Furrow Formation.  Mol Biol Cell 18: 3313-3322.

Tram U, Fredrick K, Werren JH, Sullivan W. 
(2006) Paternal chromosome segregation during the first mitotic division determines Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility phenotype.  J Cell Sci. 119: 3655-63.

Ferree PM, Sullivan W. 
(2006) A Genetic Test of the Role of the Maternal Pronucleus in Wolbachia-Induced Cytoplasmic Incompatibility in Drosophila melanogaster.
Genetics 173(2): 839-47.

Ferree PM, McDonald K, Fasulo B, Sullivan WT.
(2006) The origin of Centrosomes in Parthenogenetic Hymenopteran Insects.  Current Biol. 16: 801-807.

Albertson R, Riggs B, and Sullivan W.
(2005) Membrane traffic: a driving force in cytokinesis. Trends Cell Biol 15: 92-101.

Royou A, Macias H, and Sullivan, W. (2005) The Drosophila Grp/Chk1 DNA damage checkpoint controls entry into anaphase. Curr Biol, 15: 334-339.

Field CM, Coughlin M, Doberstein S, Marty T, Sullivan W.  (2005) Characterization of scraps mutants reveals an essential role for anillin in septing localization and cortex/plasma membrane integrity. Development 132: 2849-2860.

Kidd, T., R. Abu-Shumays, A.Katzen, J. Sisson, G.Jimenez, S. Pinchin, W. Sullivan, D. Ish-Horowicz.
(2005) The epsilon subunit of mitochondrial ATP synthase is required for normal spindle orientation during the Drosophila embryonic divisions.  Genetics 170: 697-708.

Ferree, P.M., H.M. Frydman, J.M. Li, J. Cao, E. Wieschaus, W. Sullivan.
(2005) Wolbachia utilize host microtubules and dynein for anterior localization in the Drosophila oocyte.  PLoS Pathogens 2: 0111-0124.

Royou, A., C. Field, J. Sisson, W. Sullivan and R. Karess
(2004). Reassessing the role and dynamics of nonmuscle myosin II during furrow formation in early Drosophila embryos.
Mol Biol Cell, 15: 838-850.

Tram, U., P. Ferree, and W. Sullivan. (2003) Identification of Wolbachia-host interacting factors through cytological analysis.  Microbes Infect 5(11): 999-1011.

Riggs, B., W. Rothwell, S. Mische, G.R.X. Hickson, G.W. Gould, T. Hays, and W. Sullivan. (2003) Actin cytoskeleton remodeling during early Drosophila furrow formation requires recycling endosomal components Nuclear-fallout and Rab11. Journal of Cell Biology, 163: 143-154.

Hickson G.R.X., J. Matheson, B. Riggs, V.H. Maier, A.B. Fielding, R. Prekeris, W. Sullivan, F.A. Barr, and G.W. Gould. (2003) Arfophilins are dual arf/rab11 binding proteins that regulate recycling endosome distribution and are related to Drosophila Nuclear-fallout. Molecular Biology of the Cell, 14: 2908-20.

Royou, A., W. Sullivan and R. Karess
(2002). Cortical recruitment of nonmuscle myosin II in early syncytial Drosophila embryos: its role in nuclear axial expansion and its regulation by Cdc2 activity. Journal of Cell Biology, 158:127-137.

Tram, U., and W. Sullivan (2002) Role of delayed nuclear envelope breakdown and mitosis in Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility. Science. 296: 1124-1126.

Tram, U., B. Riggs, and W. Sullivan (2001). Cleavage and gastrulation in Drosophila embryos. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Reference Ltd. In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Nature Publishing Group. London. www.els.net.

Debec, A., M. Grammont, G. Berson, B. Dastugue, W. Sullivan, J.L. Couderc. (2001) Toucan protein is essential for the assembly of syncytial mitotic spindles in Drosophila melanogaster. Genesis. 31: 167-175.

Tram, U., B. Riggs, C. Koyama, A. Debec, and W. Sullivan (2001). Methods for the study of centrosomes in Drosophila during embryogenesis. In Methods in Cell Biology: Centrosomes and Spindle Pole Bodies. R.E. Palazzo and T.N. Davis, Editors. Academic Press. San Diego. 67: 113-123.

Tram, U. and W. Sullivan (2001). Live confocal analysis of fertilization and early development. Microscopy and Microanalysis 7, 1012-1013.

MacDougall, N., Y. Lad, G.S. Wilke, H. Francis-Lang, W. Sullivan, and I. Davis (2001). Merlin, the Drosophila homologue of neurofibromin 2, is specifically required in posterior follicle cells for axis formation in the oocyte. Development 128, 665-673.

Sisson, J.C., C. Field, R. Ventura, A. Royou, and W. Sullivan. (2000) Lava Lamp, a Novel Peripheral Golgi Protein, Is Required for Drosophila melanogaster Cellularization. J. Cell Biol.151:905-918.

Morris, R.L., H.L. Brown, B.D. Wright, D.J. Sharp, W. Sullivan, and J.M. Scholey. (2001) Microinjection methods for analyzing the functions of kinesins in early embryos. Methods in Molecular Biology 164: 163-172.
Cell Biology

Tram, U. and W. Sullivan. (2000) Reciprocal inheritance of centrosomes in the parthenogenetic Hymenopteran Nasonia vitripennis. Current Biology10:1413-1419.

Yu K. R., R. Saint, and W. Sullivan. (2000) The Grapes checkpoint coordinates nuclear envelope breakdown and chromosome condensation. Nature Cell Biology2:609-615.

Rothwell, W.F. and W. Sullivan. (2000) The centrosome in early Drosophila embryogenesis. Current Topics Developmental Biology 49:409-447.

Zhang C. X., W.F. Rothwell, W. Sullivan and T. Hsieh. (2000) Discontinuous actin hexagon, a protein essential for cortical furrow formation in Drosophila is membrane associated and hyper-phosphorylated. Molecular Biology of the Cell11:1011-1022.

Sisson, J.C., W.F. Rothwell, and W. Sullivan. (1999) Cytokinesis: Lessons from Rappaport and the Drosophila blastoderm embryo.Current Biology International 23:871-876.

Rothwell, W.F., C.X. Zhang, C. Zelano, T. Hsieh, And W. Sullivan. (1999) The Drosophila centrosomal protein Nuf is required for recruiting Dah, a membrane associated protein, to furrows in the early embryo. Journal of Cell Science 112:2885-2893.

Sharp, D.J, K. R. Yu, J. C. Sisson, W. Sullivan, J. M. Scholey. (1999) The antagonistic microtubule sliding motors, KLP61F and Ncd, determine the relative position of mitotic centrosomes in Drosophila embryos. Nature Cell Biology 1:51-54.

Rothwell, W.F. and W. Sullivan. (1999) Fluorescent analysis of Drosophila embryos In Drosophila Protocols Editors: Sullivan, W., M. Ashburner, R.S. Hawley. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

de Saint Phalle, B. and W. Sullivan. (1998) Spindle assembly and mitosis without centrosomes in parthenogenic Sciara embryos. Journal of Cell Biology 141:1383- 1391

Rothwell, W.F. , P. Fogarty, C.M. Field, and W. Sullivan.(1998) Nuclear-fallout, a Drosophila protein that cycles from the cytoplasm to the centrosomes, regulates cortical microfilament organization. Development 125 (7):1295-1303.>/span>
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Francis-Lang, H. , J. Minden , W. Sullivan, and K. Oegema. (1998) Live confocal analysis with fluorescently labeled proteins. In: Methods in Molecular biology, vol. 122: Confocal Microscopy Methods and Protocols. 223-239. Edited by S. Paddock. Humana Press, Inc., Totowna, NJ.

Yu, K. R., R.J. Duronio, and W. Sullivan. (1998) Cell cycle checkpoints: safe passage through mitosis In Mechanisms of Cell Division: Frontiers in Biology. Oxford University Press.

Cunniff, J., J. Blethrow, and W. Sullivan. (1998) Live analysis of the division cycles in X-irradiated Drosophila embryos. Methods in Molecular Biology Vol 113: DNA Repair Protocols: Eukaryotic Systems. Edited D.S. Henderson. Humana Press Inc.,Totowa, NJ.

Fogarty, P. , S.D. Campbell , R. Abu-Shumays , B. de Saint Phalle , K.R. Yu , G.L. Uy , M.L. Goldberg, and W. Sullivan. (1997) The Drosophila grapes gene is related to checkpoint gene chk1/rad27 and is required for late syncytial division fidelity. Current Biology 7:418-426.

de Saint Phalle, B., and W. Sullivan. (1996) Incomplete sister chromatid separation is the mechanism of programmed chromosome elimination during early Sciara coprophila embryogenesis. Development 122:3775-3784.

Dernberg, A.F., D.R. Daily, K.J. Yook , J.A. Corbin , J.W. Sedat, and W. Sullivan. (1996) Selective loss of compound-chromosome bearing sperm in the Drosophila Female. Genetics 143:1629-1642. (PDF of abstract)

Debec, A. , R.F. Kaplin, D.R. Daily, P.D. McCallum, W.F. Rothwell, and W. Sullivan. (1996) Live analysis of free centrosome behavior in normal and aphidicolin-treated Drosophila embryos. J. Cell Biol. 134:103-115. (PDF of abstract)

Sullivan, W. and W. Theurkauf. (1995). The cytoskeleton and morphogenesis of the early Drosophilia embryo. Current Opinion in Cell Biology 7:18-22.

Fogarty, P. , R.F. Kalpin, and W. Sullivan. (1994) The Drosophila maternal-effect mutation grapes causes a metaphase arrest at nuclear cycle 13. Development 120: 2131-2141. 1, #3, p. 3 (unreviewed).

Kalpin, R.F., D.R. Daily, and W. Sullivan. (1994) Use of dextran beads for live analysis of the nuclear division and nuclear envelope breakdown/reformation cycles in the Drosophila embryo. BioTechniques 17: 730-733.
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Sullivan, W., D.R. Daily, P. Fogarty, K. Yook, and S. Pimpinelli. (1993) Delays in anaphase initiation occur in individual nuclei of the syncytial Drosophila embryo. Molecular Biology of the Cell 4:885-896. (PDF of abstract)

Sullivan, W. (1993) The Salvation of Doug. Generations (Genetics Society of America) Vol. 1, Number 3, p. 3. (unreviewed).

Sullivan, W., P. Fogarty, and W. Theurkauf. (1993) Mutations affecting the cytoskeletal organization of syncytial Drosophila embryos. Development 118:1245-1254.

Kellogg, D.R., W. Sullivan, W. Theurkauf, K. Oegema, J.W. Raff, and B.M. Alberts. (1991) Studies on the centrosome and cytoplasmic organization in the early Drosophila embryo. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Vol. LVI: 649-662.

Sullivan, W., J. Minden, and B.M. Alberts. (1990) daughterless abo-like (dal), a Drosophila maternal-effect mutation that exhibits abnormal centrosome separation during the late blastoderm divisions. Development110:311-323.

Sullivan, W. (1987) Independence of fushi tarazu expression with respect to cellular density in Drosophila embryos. Nature 327: 164-167.

Pimpinelli, S., W. Sullivan, M. Prout, and L. Sandler. (1985) On biological functions mapping to the Heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 109: 701-724.

Sullivan, W. and S. Pimpinelli. (1986) The genetic factors altered in homozygous abo stocks of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics114:885-895.

Books

Sullivan, W., M. Ashburner, R.S. Hawley (Editors) (2000). Drosophila Protocols. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.

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