Publications:
Fay, J. and Wittkopp, P.J. (2006) Evaluating the role of natural selection in the evolution of gene regulation. Heredity, Ecological and Evolutionary Functional Genomics Special Issue [Invited review ], Submitted.
Wittkopp, P.J., B.K. Haerum, and A. Clark (2006) Parent-of-origin effects on mRNA expression in Drosophila melanogaster not caused by genomic imprinting. Genetics 173, 1817-1821. PDF
Wittkopp, P.J. (2006) Evolution of cis-regulatory sequence and function in diptera. Heredity 97, 139-147. PDF Evo-Devo Special Issue
Landry, C.R, P.J. Wittkopp, C. Taubes, J.M. Ranz, A.G. Clark, and D.L. Hartl (2005). Compensatory cis-trans regulation and dysregulation of gene expression in hybrids between species. Genetics, 171, 1813-1822 PDF
Wittkopp, P.J. (2005) Genomic sources of regulatory variation in cis and in trans. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 62 , 1779-83. [Invited,"Visions & Reflections"] PDF
Gompel*, N, B. Prud’homme*, P.J. Wittkopp, V.A. Kassner, and S.B. Carroll (2005) Chance caught on the wing: cis-regulatory evolution and the origin of pigment patterns in Drosophila. Nature 433, 481-487. (*=co-first authors) PDF News &Views
Wittkopp, P.J., B.K. Haerum, and A.G. Clark (2004) Evolutionary divergence of cis and trans gene regulation. Nature, 430, 85-88. PDF
Wittkopp, P.J., S.B. Carroll, and A. Kopp (2003) Evolution in Black and White: Genetic control of pigment patterns in Drosophila. Trends in Genetics, 19, 495-504. PDF
Wittkopp, P.J.*, B.L. Williams*, J.E. Selegue, and S.B. Carroll (2003) Drosophila pigmentation evolution: divergent genotypes underlying convergent phenotypes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A., 100, 1808-1813 (* = co-first authors) PDF
Drapeau, M.D.*, A. Radovic*, P.J. Wittkopp, and A. Long (2003) A gene necessary for normal male courtship, yellow, acts downstream of fruitless in the Drosophila melanogaster larval brain. J. of Neurobiology, 55, 53-72. (*=co-first authors) PDF
Wittkopp, P.J., K. Vaccaro and S.B. Carroll (2002) Evolution of yellow gene regulation and pigmentation patterns in Drosophila. Current Biology, 12, 1547-1556. PDF
Radovic, A, P.J. Wittkopp, A.D. Long, and M.D. Drapeau (2002) Immunohistochemical colocalization of Yellow and male-specific Fruitless in Drosophila melanogaster neuroblasts. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 293, 1262-1264. PDF
Wittkopp*, P.J., J.R. True*, and S.B. Carroll (2002) Reciprocal functions of the Drosophila Yellow and Ebony proteins in the development and evolution of pigment patterns. Development, 129, 1849-1858. (*=co-first authors) PDF
Halder* G. H., P. J. Polaczyk*, M.E. Kraus, A. Hudson, J. Kim, A. Laughon, and S.B. Carroll (1998) The Vestigial and Scalloped proteins act together to directly regulate wing-specific gene expression in response to signaling proteins. Genes & Development, 12:3900-3909. (* = co-first authors) PDF
Polaczyk, P.J., R. Gasparini, and G. Gibson (1998) Naturally occurring genetic variation affects Drosophila photoreceptor determination. Development, Genes & Evolution 207, 462-470. PDF
In preparation:
Wittkopp, P.J., B.K. Haerum, and A. Clark (2006) cis and trans regulatory changes underlying expression differences within and between species.
Wittkopp, P.J. (2006) Evolution of regulatory networks in Drosophila. J. Exp Biology [Invited Review]
