• Ward, E. J., Zhou, X., Riddiford, L., M., Berg, C. A., and Ruohola-Baker, H. 2006.
  Border of Notch activity establishes a boundary between the two dorsal-appendage-tube cell types.
  Developmental Biology 297: 461 - 470.

• Berg, C. A. 2005.
  The Drosophila shell game: Patterning genes and morphological change.
  Trends in Genetics 21: 346 - 355.

• Ward, E. J. and Berg, C. A. 2005.
  Juxtaposition between two cell types is necessary for dorsal appendage tube formation.
  Mechanisms of Development 122: 241 - 255.

• Dorman, J. B., James, K. E., Fraser, S. E., Kiehart, D. P., and Berg, C. A. 2004.
  bullwinkle is required for epithelial morphogenesis during Drosophila oogenesis.
  Developmental Biology 267: 320 - 341. Cover.
  

• Tran, D. H. and Berg, C.A. 2003.
  bullwinkle and shark regulate dorsal-appendage morphogenesis in Drosophila oogenesis.
  Development 130: 6273 - 6282.
  In This Issue! review

• James, K. E. and Berg, C. A. 2003.
  Temporal comparison of Broad-Complex expression during eggshell-appendage patterning and morphogenesis in two Drosophila species with different eggshell-appendage numbers.
  Gene Expression Patterns 3: 629 - 634.

• French, R. F., Cosand, K. A., and Berg, C. A. 2003.
  The Drosophila female sterile mutation twin peaks is a novel allele of tramtrack and reveals a requirement for TTK69 in regulating epithelial morphogenesis.
  Developmental Biology 253: 18 - 35.

• Kot, M., Silverman, E., and Berg, C. A. 2003.
  Zipf's law and the diversity of biology newsgroups.
  Scientometrics 56: 247 - 257.

• Ward, E. J., Thaipisuttikul, I., Terayama, M., French, R. L., Jackson, S. M., Cosand, K. A., Tobler, K. J., Dorman, J. B., and Berg, C. A. 2002.
  GAL4 expression patterns during Drosophila development.
  Genesis 34: 46 - 50.

• Jackson, S. M. and Berg, C. A. 2002.
  An A-kinase anchoring protein is required for PKA-RII membrane localization and ring canal morphology during oogenesis in Drosophila.
  Development 129: 4423 - 4433.

• James, K. E., Dorman, J. B., and Berg, C. A. 2002.
  Mosaic analyses reveal the function of Drosophila Ras in embryonic dorsoventral patterning and dorsal follicle cell morphogenesis.
  Development 129: 2209 - 2222. Cover.
  

• Volpe, A., Horowitz, H., Grafer, C. M., Jackson, S. M., and Berg, C. A. 2001.
  Drosophila rhino encodes a female-specific chromo-domain protein that affects chromosome structure and egg polarity.
  Genetics 159: 1117 - 1134.

• Schnorr, J. D., Holdcraft, R., Chevalier, B., and Berg, C. A. 2001.
  Ras1 interacts with multiple new signaling and cytoskeletal loci in Drosophila eggshell patterning and morphogenesis.
  Genetics 159: 609 - 622.

• D'Argenio, D., Gallagher, L. A., Berg, C. A., and Manoil, C. 2001.
  Drosophila as a model host for Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.
  Journal of Bacteriology 183: 1466 - 1471.

• Jackson, S. M. and Berg, C. A. 1999.
  Soma-to-germline interactions during Drosophila oogenesis are influenced by dose-sensitive interactions between cut and the genes cappuccino, ovarian tumor and agnostic.
  Genetics 153: 289 - 303.

• Webster, P., Liang, L., Berg, C. A., Lasko, P., and Macdonald, P. 1997.
  Translational repressor Bruno plays multiple roles in development and is widely conserved.
  Genes & Development 11: 2510 - 2521.

• Schnorr, J. D. and Berg, C. A. 1996.
  Differential activity of Ras1 during patterning of the Drosophila dorsoventral axis.
  Genetics 144: 1545 - 1557.
  Horowitz, H. and Berg, C. A. 1996.
  The Drosophila pipsqueak gene encodes a nuclear BTB-domain-containing protein required early in oogenesis.
  Development 122: 1859 - 1871.

• Gillespie, D. and Berg, C. A. 1995.
  homeless is required for RNA localization in Drosophila oogenesis and encodes a new member of the DE-H family of RNA-dependent ATPases.
  Genes & Development 9: 2495 - 2508. Cover.
  

• Rittenhouse, K. R. and Berg, C. A. 1995.
  Mutations in the Drosophila gene bullwinkle cause the formation of abnormal eggshell structures and bicaudal embryos.
  Development 121: 3023 - 3033.

• Horowitz, H. and Berg, C. A. 1995.
  Aberrant splicing and transcription termination caused by P element insertion into the intron of a Drosophila gene.
  Genetics 139: 327 - 335.

• Berg, C. A. and Spradling, A. C. 1991.
  Studies on the rate and site-specificity of P-element transposition.
  Genetics 127: 515 - 524.
  Cooley, L., Berg, C. A., and Spradling, A. C. 1988.
  Controlling P-element insertional mutagenesis.
  Trends in Genetics 4: 254 - 258. Cover.
  

• Steitz, J. A., Berg, C. A., Hendrick, J. P., La Branche-Chabot, H., Metspalu, A., Rinke, J., and Yario, T. 1988.
  A 5S rRNA/L5 complex is a precursor to ribosome assembly in mammalian cells.
  Journal of Cell Biology 106: 545 - 556.

• Callan, H. C., Gall, J. G., and Berg, C. A. 1987.
  The lampbrush chromosomes of Xenopus laevis: Preparation, identification, and distribution of 5S DNA sequences.
  Chromosoma 95: 236 - 250.

• Berg, C. A. and Gall, J. G. 1986.
  Microinjected Tetrahymena rDNA ends are not recognized as telomeres in Xenopus eggs.
  Journal of Cell Biology 103: 691 - 698.

Book chapters:

• Cooley, L., Berg, C. A., Kelley., R., McKearin, D., and Spradling, A. C. 1988.
  Identifying and cloning Drosophila genes by single P-element insertional mutagenesis.
  In: Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology: Transposable Elements in Mutagenesis and Gene Expression.
  vol. 36 (Cohn, W. ed.) Academic Press, Orlando, Florida. pp. 99 - 109.

• Steitz, J. A., Berg, C. A., Gottlieb, E., Hardin, J. A., Hashimoto, C., Hendrick, J. P., Hinterberger, M., Krikeles, M., Lerner, M. R., Mount, S. M., Pettersson, I., Rinke, J., Rosa, M. D., and Wolin, S. L. 1982.
  Structure and function of small ribonucleoproteins from eukaryotic cells.
  In: International Symposium Princess Takamatsu Cancer Research Fund, Adp-Ribosy
  vol. 12 (Miwa, M. ed.) Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. pp. 101 - 107.

Published videos:

• Our studies on tube formation during development involve time-lapse imaging using the confocal microscope to examine cell shape changes and movements. Movies illustrating various events during this tube-forming process, published by Elsevier press, are also accessible at Movies.

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