| A conserved germline multipotency program CE Juliano, SZ Swartz, GM Wessel Development 137 (24), 4113-4126, 2010 | 253 | 2010 |
| Quiescent cells actively replenish CENP-A nucleosomes to maintain centromere identity and proliferative potential SZ Swartz, LS McKay, KC Su, L Bury, A Padeganeh, PS Maddox, ... Developmental cell 51 (1), 35-48. e7, 2019 | 64 | 2019 |
| Localization of Vasa mRNA during early cleavage of the snail Ilyanassa SZ Swartz, XY Chan, JD Lambert Development genes and evolution 218, 107-113, 2008 | 51 | 2008 |
| A hierarchy of protein patterns robustly decodes cell shape information MC Wigbers, TH Tan, F Brauns, J Liu, SZ Swartz, E Frey, N Fakhri Nature Physics 17 (5), 578-584, 2021 | 44 | 2021 |
| The biology of the germ line in echinoderms GM Wessel, L Brayboy, T Fresques, EA Gustafson, N Oulhen, I Ramos, ... Molecular reproduction and development 81 (8), 679-711, 2014 | 42 | 2014 |
| Transient translational quiescence in primordial germ cells N Oulhen, SZ Swartz, J Laird, A Mascaro, GM Wessel Development 144 (7), 1201-1210, 2017 | 40 | 2017 |
| Notch and Nodal control forkhead factor expression in the specification of multipotent progenitors in sea urchin SC Materna, SZ Swartz, J Smith Development 140 (8), 1796-1806, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| Deadenylase depletion protects inherited mRNAs in primordial germ cells SZ Swartz, AM Reich, N Oulhen, T Raz, PM Milos, JP Campanale, ... Development 141 (16), 3134-3142, 2014 | 35 | 2014 |
| Germ line versus soma in the transition from egg to embryo SZ Swartz, GM Wessel Current topics in developmental biology 113, 149-190, 2015 | 25 | 2015 |
| The diversity of nanos expression in echinoderm embryos supports different mechanisms in germ cell specification T Fresques, SZ Swartz, C Juliano, Y Morino, M Kikuchi, K Akasaka, ... Evolution & development 18 (4), 267-278, 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
| A conserved node in the regulation of Vasa between an induced and an inherited program of primordial germ cell specification M Perillo, SZ Swartz, GM Wessel Developmental biology 482, 28-33, 2022 | 12 | 2022 |
| Isolating specific embryonic cells of the sea urchin by FACS C Juliano, SZ Swartz, G Wessel Developmental Biology of the Sea Urchin and Other Marine Invertebrates …, 2014 | 12 | 2014 |
| Selective dephosphorylation by PP2A-B55 directs the meiosis I-meiosis II transition in oocytes SZ Swartz, HT Nguyen, BC McEwan, ME Adamo, IM Cheeseman, ... Elife 10, e70588, 2021 | 11 | 2021 |
| Molecular mechanisms of tubulogenesis revealed in the sea star hydro-vascular organ M Perillo, SZ Swartz, C Pieplow, GM Wessel Nature Communications 14 (1), 2402, 2023 | 9 | 2023 |
| Distinct transcriptional regulation of Nanos2 in the germ line and soma by the Wnt and delta/notch pathways N Oulhen, SZ Swartz, L Wang, A Wikramanayake, GM Wessel Developmental biology 452 (1), 34-42, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
| Polarized Dishevelled dissolution and reassembly drives embryonic axis specification in sea star oocytes SZ Swartz, TH Tan, M Perillo, N Fakhri, GM Wessel, AH Wikramanayake, ... Current biology 31 (24), 5633-5641. e4, 2021 | 8* | 2021 |
| Use of echinoderm gametes and early embryos for studying meiosis and mitosis D Pal, F Visconti, SP Sepúlveda-Ramírez, SZ Swartz, CB Shuster Mitosis: Methods and Protocols, 1-17, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
Iain CheesemanWhitehead Institute and Department of Biology, MITVerified email at wi.mit.edu
