Publications

  • S.J. Constantinou ‘12, N. Duan, A.D. Chipman, L.M. Nagy, and T.A. Williams. Elongation during segmentation shows axial variability, low mitotic rates, and synchronized cell cycle domains in the crustacean, Thamnocephalus platyurus. submitted, Developmental Biology
  • T. Auman, B.M. Vreede, A.I. Weiss, S.D. Hester, T.A. Williams, L.M. Nagy, and A.D. Chipman. 2017 Dynamics of growth zone patterning in the milkweed bug Oncopeltus fasciatus. Development 144: 1896-1905 doi:10.1242/dev.142091
  • T.A. Williams and L.M. Nagy. 2017 Linking gene regulation to cell behaviors in the posterior growth zone of sequentially segmenting arthropods. Arthropod Struct Dev. 46(3):380-394 doi:10.1016/j.asd.2016.10.003.
  • S.J. Constantinou ’12, R.M. Pace, A.J. Stangl, L.M. Nagy, and T.A. Williams. 2016. Wnt repertoire and developmental expression patterns in the crustacean Thamnocephalus platyurus, Evol Dev 18 (5-6):324-341. doi: 10.1111/ede.12204.
  • Nakamoto, S.D. Hester, S.J. Constantinou ’12, W.G. Blaine ‘15, A.B. Tewksbury ‘13, M.T. Matei, L.M. Nagy, and T.A. Williams. 2015. Changing cell behaviours during beetle embryogenesis correlates with slowing of segmentation. Nat Commun. Apr 10;6:6635.
  • L.M. Nagy and T.A. Williams. 2014. Evodevo And The Promise Of Understanding Morphological Transitions In Evolution. Ann.Missouri Bot .Gard. 99:289–300.
  • T.A. Williams. 2013 Mechanisms Of Limb Patterning In Crustaceans in The Natural History of the Crustacea (Vol. 1): Functional Morphology and Diversity of Crustaceans. Eds: L. Watling and M. Thiel.Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  •  T.A. Williams, B. Blachuta, T.A. Hegna and L.M. Nagy. 2012. Decoupling elongation and segmentation: Notch involvement in anostracan crustacean segmentation. Evol. Dev. 14: 372-82.
  • Sewell, T.A. Williams, J. Cooley, M. Terry, R. Ho and L. M. Nagy. 2008. Evidence for a novel role for dachshund in patterning the proximal leg. Development Genes and Evolution 218:293-305.
  •  T.A. Williams. 2008. Early Distal-less expression in a developing crustacean limb bud becomes restricted to setal forming cells. Evolution and Development 10:114-120.
  • T.A. Williams. 2007. Development of setal cells in the crustacean, Thamnocephalus platyurus. Arthropod Structure and Development 36: 63-76.
  • T.A. Williams.. Limb morphogenesis in the branchiopod crustacean, Thamnocephalus platyurus, and the evolution of proximal limb lobes within Anostraca. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 45: 191-201.
  • T.A. Williams. 2004. The evolution and development of crustacean limbs: an analysis of limb homologies. In G. Scholtz (Ed.) Crustacean Issues 15, Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Crustacea. Balkema, Lisse, pp. 169-193.
  • L. Jockusch, T. A. Williams and L. M. Nagy 2004. The evolution of patterning of serially homologous appendages in insects. Development Genes and Evolution 214(7): 324-338.
  • Williams, T.A., C. Nulsen, and L.M. Nagy. 2002. A Complex Role for Distal-less in Crustacean Appendage Development Developmental Biology 241:302-312.
  • Nagy, L.M. and T. A. Williams 2001. Comparative limb development as a tool for understanding the evolutionary diversification of limbs in arthropods: Challenging the modularity paradigm. in G. P. Wagner (ed) The Character Concept in Evolutionary Biology, Academic Press, NY.
  • Williams T.A. and Nagy, L.M. 2001. Developmental modularity and the evolutionary diversification of arthropod limbs. Journal of Experimental Zoology, (MDE) 291: 241-257
  • T.A. Williams. 1999. Morphogenesis and homology in arthropod limbs American Zoologist 39:664-675.
  •  T.A. Williams.. 1998. Distalless expression in crustaceans and the patterning of branched limbs Development Genes and Evolution 207:427-434.
  • T.A. Williams. 1998. The Modularity of Development. (review of R. Raff’s The Shape of Life) BioSciences 48: 59-61.
  • T.A. Williams. 1998. Heterochrony Prevails. (review of K. McNamara’s Shapes of Time) BioSciences 48:563-564.
  • Manzanares, M., T.A. Williams. Marco, R. and R. Garesse 1996. Segmentation in the crustacean Artemia as revealed by engrailed protein distribution. Roux’s Arch Dev Biol 205:424-431.
  • T.A. Williams. and Nagy, L.M. 1996. Comparative limb development in insects and crustaceans. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology 6: 1-14.
  • T.A. Williams. and G.B. Müller 1996. Limb development in a primitive crustacean, Triops longicaudatus: subdivision of the early limb bud gives rise to multibranched limbs. Development Genes and Evolution 206:161-168.
  • T.A. Williams and L.M. Nagy 1995. Brine shrimp add salt to the stew. Current Biology 5: 1330-1333.
  • T.A. Williams. 1994. A model of rowing propulsion and the ontogeny of locomotion in Artemia larvae. Biological Bulletin 187: 164-173.
  • T.A. Williams. 1994. Locomotion in developing Artemia larvae: mechanical analysis of antennal propulsors based on large-scale physical models. Biological Bulletin 187:156-163.
  • T.A. Williams. 1994. The nauplius larva of crustaceans: functional diversity and the phylotypic stage. American Zoologist 34: 562-569.