200. KOBIYAMA, A., NIHEI, Y., HIRAYAMA, Y., KIKOSHI, K., SUETAKE, H., JOHNSTON , I.A. & WATABE, S. (1998). Molecular cloning and developmental expression patterns of the MyoD and MEF2 families of muscle transcription factors in the carp. J. Exp. Biol. 201, 2801-2813. download pdf
230. TEMPLE , G.K., COLE , N.J. & JOHNSTON , I.A. (2001). Embryonic temperature and the relative timing of muscle specific genes during development in herring ( Clupea harengus L.). J. Exp. Biol. 204, 3629-3637. download pdf
232. BR ODEUR, J.C., PECK, L.S. & JOHNSTON, I.A. (2002). Feeding increases MyoD and PCNA expression in myogenic progenitor cells of Notothenia corriceps . J. Fish Biol. 60, 1475-1485. download pdf
238. BRODEUR, J.C., CALVO, J. & JOHNSTON, I.A. (2003). Proliferation of myogenic progenitor cells following feeding in the sub-Antarctic notothenioid fish Harpagifer bispinis . J. Exp. Biol., 206, 163-169. download pdf
241. BRODEUR, J.C., CALVO, J., CLARKE, A. & JOHNSTON, I.A. (2003). Myogenic cell cycle duration in Harpagifer species with Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic distributions: evidence for cold compensation. J. Exp. Biol. 206, 1011-1016.download pdf
243. HALL, T.E., COLE , N.J. & JOHNSTON , I.A. (2003). Temperature and the expression of seven muscle-specific genes during embryogenesis in the Atlantic cod Gadus morhua L. J. Exp. Biol. 206, 3187-3200.download pdf
253. Nicholas J. Cole.1, Thomas E. Hall., Christopher I. Martin., Mark A. Chapman., Atsushi Kobiyama., Yoshiaki Nihei., Shugo Watabe. and Ian A. Johnston. (2004). Temperature and the expression of myogenic regulatory factors (MRFs) and myosin heavy chain isoforms during embryogenesis in the common carp Cyprinus carpio L. J. Exp. Biol. 207, 4239-4248. download pdf
262. Jorge M. O. Fernandes, Matthew G. Mackenzie, Greg Elgar, Yuzuru Suzuki, Shugo Watabe, James R. Kinghorn, and Ian A. Johnston. A genomic approach to reveal novel genes associated with myotube formation in the model teleost, Takifugu rubripes (2005). Physiol. Genomics. 22, 327-338. link to journal download
269. Johnston, I. A. and Wilson, R.S. (2006). Temperature-induced developmental plasticity in ectotherms. In Comparative Developmental Physiology (Ed. S.J. Warburton, W. W. Burggren, B. Pelster, C.L. Reiber, John Spicer) pp124-138, Oxford University Press: New York. download pdf
270. Fernandes, J..M.O., MacKenzie, M.G., Wright, P.A., Steele, S.L., Suzuki, Y., Kinghorn, J.R., Johnston, I.A. (2006). Myogenin in model pufferfish species: Comparative genomic analysis and thermal plasticity of expression during early development. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. D Genomics and Proteomics, 1, 35-45. download pd
271. Gotensparre, S. M., Anderssen, E. Wargelius, A., Hansen, T., Johnston, I.A. (2006). Insight into the complex genetic network of tetraploid Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Description of multiple novel Pax-7 splice variants. Gene 373, 8-15. download pdf
275. Macqueen, D and Johnston, I. A. (2006). A novel salmonid myoD gene is distinctly regulated during development and probably arose by duplication after the genome tetraploidization. FEBS Letters, 580, 4996-5002. download pdf
279 Sibthorpe, D., Sturlaugsdóttir, Kristjansson, B.J., Thorarensen, H., Skúlason, S., and Johnston, I.A. (2006). Characterisation and expression of the paired box protein 7 (Pax7) gene in polymorphic Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B 145, 371-383.download pdf
280. Bai, J., Solberg, C., Fernandes, J.M.O. and Johnston, I.A. (2007). Profiling of maternal and developmental-stage specific mRNA transcripts in Atlantic halibut Hippoglossus hippoglossus. Gene 386, 202-210. download pdf
281. Fernandes, J.M.O., Kinghorn, J.R. and Johnston, I. A. (2007). Characterization of two paralogous muscle-blind-like genes from the tiger pufferfish (Takifugu rubripes). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B. 146, 180-186.download pdf
287. Macqueen, D.J., Robb, D. and Johnston I. A. (2007). Temperature influences the co-ordinated expression of myogenic regulatiry factors during embryonic embryogenesis in At lantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). J. Exp. Biol. 210, 2781-2794.download pdf. (Please visit http://www.biologists.com/web/cob_copyright.html for Company of Biologists copyright conditions)
291. Macqueen, D.J. and Johnston, I.A. (2008). Evolution of follistatin in teleosts revealed through phylogenetic, genomic and expression analyses. Dev. Genes Evol. 218, 1-14. download pdf
292. Macqueen, D.J. and Johnston, I.A. (2008). An update on MyoD evolution in teleosts and a proposed consensus nomenclature to accommodate the tetraploidization of different vertebrate genomes. PLoS ONE 3(2): e1567. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001567. download pdf
294.Fernandes, J.M.O., Macqueen, D.J., Lee, H-T., and Johnston, I.A., (2008). Genomic, evolutionary, and expression analyses of cee, an ancient gene involved in normal growth and development. Genomics. 91, 315-325. download pdf
299. Consuegra, S. & Johnston, I. A. (2008). Effect of natural selection on the duplicated lysyl oxidase gene in Atlantic salmon. Genetica. 134, 325-334.
300. Bower, N.I., Li, X., Taylor, R., & Johnston, I A. (2008). Switching to fast growth: the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system in skeletal muscle of Atlantic salmon. J. Exp. Biol. 211, 3859-3870. JEB pdf Download
303. Macqueen, D.J. & Johnston, I.A. (2009). Evolution of the multifaceted eukaryotic akirin gene family. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 9: 34, doi: 10. 1186/1471-2148-9-34. Download from Journa
304. Johnston, I.A., Lee, H-T., Macqueen, D.J., Paranthaman, K., Kawashima, C., Anwar, A., Kinghorn, J.R. and Dalmay, T. (2009). Embryonic temperature affects muscle fibre recruitment in adult zebrafish: genome-wide changes in gene and microRNA expression associated with the transition from hyperplastic to hypertrophic growth phenotypes. J. Exp. Biol. 212, 1781-1793. Download from Journal
305. Macqueen, D.J.(2009). Commentary on Galindo et al. [Dev. Comp. Immunol. 33(4) 2009 (612-617). Dev. Comp. Immunol. 33, 877. download pdf
308. Andersen, O., Torgersen, J.S., Pagander, H.H., Magnesen, T. and Johnston I.A. (2009). Gene expression analyses of essential catch factors in the smooth and striated adductor muscles of larval, juvenile and adult great scallop (Pecten maximus) J. Muscle Res Cell Motil. 30, 233-242. Doi: 10.1007/s10974-009-9192-y.download pdf
310. Macqueen, D.J., Meischke, L., Sujatha, M., Anwar, A., Solberg, C. and Johnston, I.A. (2010). Characterisation of capn1, capn2-like, capn3 and capn11 genes in Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus L.): Transcriptional regulation across tissues and in skeletal muscle at distinct nutritional states. Gene 453, 45-58. download pdf
311. Macqueen DJ, Delbridge ML, Manthri S, Johnston IA. (2010). A newly classified vertebratecalpain protease, directly ancestral to CAPN1 and 2, episodically evolved a
restricted physiological function in placental mammals. Mol Biol Evol. 27,1886-1902.
doi:10.1093/molbev/msq071 Download from journal
313. Bower, N. I. & Johnston I. A. (2010). Paralogs of Atlantic salmon myoblast determination factor genes are distinctly regulated in proliferating and differentiating myogenic cells Am. J. Physiol. Regul. Integr. Comp. Physiol 298, 1615-1626 Doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00114. download pdf
314. Macqueen, D.J., Kristjánsson, B.K. & Johnston, I.A. (2010). Salmonid genomes have a remarkably expanded akirin family, coexpressed with genes from conserved pathways governing skeletal muscle growth and catabolism Physiol. Genomics 42, 134-148 Doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00045.2010.
317. Macqueen, D.J., Bower, N.I. and Johnston, I.A. (2010). Positioning the expanded akirin gene family of Atlantic salmon within the transcriptional networks of myogenesis. Biochem. Biophy. Res. Comm. 400, 599-605. download pdf
318. Bower, N.I. and Johnston, I.A. (2010). Discovery and characterisation of nutritionally regulated genes associated with muscle growth in Atlantic salmon. Physiological Genomics 42A, 114-130. download pdf
319. Bower, N.I. and Johnston, I.A. (2010). Targeted rapid amplification of cDNA ends (T-RACE) – an improved RACE reaction through degradation of non-target sequences. Nucleic Acids Research, 1-7, doi:10.1093/nar/gkq816. download pdf
320. Johnston, I.A., Bower, N.I. and Macqueen, D.J. (2011). Growth and the regulation of myotomal muscle mass in teleost fish. J. Exp. Biol. 214, 1617-1628. download pdf
321. Amaral, I.P.G. and Johnston, I. A. (2011) Insulin-like growth factor (IGF) signalling and genome-wide transcriptional regulation in the fast muscle of zebrafish following a single-satiating meal. J. Exp. Biol. 214, 2125-2139. download pdf
322. Macqueen, D.J.M., Kristjánsson, Paxton, C.G.M., Vieira, V.L.A. and Johnston, I.A. (2011). The parallel evolution of dwarfism in Arctic charr is accompanied by adaptive divergence in m-Tor-pathway gene expression.
Molecular Ecology 20, 3167-3184. download pdf
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