Michael P. Weir

Selected Publications

1. Weir, M. Eaton, M. and Rice M. (2006) Challenging the spliceosome machine.  Genome Biology 7: R3.
    

2. Weir, M. and Rice, M. (2004). Ordered Partitioning reveals extended splice site consensus information.  Genomic Research 14, 67-78.
    

3. Rice, M., Gladstone, W. Weir M. (2004).  Relational databases: a transparent framework for encouraging biology students to think informatically.  Cell Biology Education 3, 241-252.
    
4. Das, T.K., Purkayastha-Mukherjee, C., D'Angelo, J. and Weir, M. (2002). A conserved F-box gene with unusual transcript localization. Development Genes and Evolution 212: 134-140.
    
5. Raj, L., Vivekanand, P., Das, T.K., Badam, E., Fernandes, M., Finley, R.L.Jr., Brent. R., Appel, L.F., Hanes, S., and Weir, M. (2000) Targeted localized degradation of Paired protein in Drosophila development. Current Biology 10: 1265-1272.  (See Nature Cell Biology: News and Views, December, 2000; Pairing Partners)
    
6. Fujioka, M., Jaynes, J. B., Bejsovec, A. M. and Weir, M. (2000). Production of transgenic Drosophila. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 136, Developmental Biology Protocols. Vol. 2, pp. 353-364 (R. Tuan and C. Lo, eds.) Humana Press.
    
7. Lan, Y., Fujioka, M., Polsgrove, R., Miskiewicz, P., Morrissey, D., Goto, T. and Weir, M. (1998). Plasticity of Drosophila Paired function. Developmental Genetics 23: 45-55.
    
8. Miskiewicz, P., Morrissey, D., Lan, Y., Raj, L., Kessler, S., Fujioka, M., Goto, T., and Weir, M. (1996) Both the paired domain and homeodomain are required for in vivo function of Drosophila Paired. Development 122: 2709-2718
    
9. Fujioka, M., Miskiewicz, P., Raj, L., Gulledge, A.A., Weir, M., and Goto, T. (1996) Drosophila Paired regulates late even-skipped expression through a composite binding site for the paired domain and the homeodomain. Development 122: 2697-2707.
    
10. Cai, J., Lan, Y., Appel, L. F., and Weir, M. (1994) Dissection of the Drosophila Paired Protein: Functional requirements for conserved motifs. Mechanisms of Development 47: 139-150.
     
11. Ananthan, J., Morrissey, D., Baler, R., Lan, Y., Weir, M., and Voellmy, R. (1993) Synergistic activation of transcription is mediated by the N-terminal domain of Drosophila fushi tarazu homeoprotein and can occur without DNA binding by the protein. Molecular and Cellular Biology 13: 1599-1609.
    
     
12. Morrissey, D., Askew, D., Raj, L., and Weir, M. (1991) Functional dissection of the paired segmentation gene in Drosophila embryos. Genes and Development 5: 1684-1696.
     
13. Weir, M. P., and Kornberg, T. (1985) Patterns of engrailed and fushi tarazu transcripts reveal novel intermediate stages in Drosophila segmentation. Nature 318: 433-445.