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Publications by heather S. bruce

2025

"Molecular basis of arthropod appendage diversity". 

Heather S. Bruce; Nipam H. Patel

Arthropod Structure & Development, in review

2025-01-28 | Preprint

DOI: 10.1101/2025.01.27.634880

2024

"Insect Flight: State of the Field and Future Directions"

Integrative And Comparative Biology 2024-09-17  Authors: Lisa A Treidel; Kevin D Deem; Mary K Salcedo; Michael H Dickinson; Heather S Bruce; Charles-A Darveau; Bradley H Dickerson; Olaf Ellers; Jordan R Glass; Caleb M Gordon et al.

DOI: 10.1093/icb/icae106 

2023

Gainett, Guilherme, Benjamin C. Klementz, Pola O. Blaszczyk, Heather S. Bruce, Nipam Patel, and Prashant P. Sharma. “Dual Functions of Labial Resolve the Hox Logic of Chelicerate Head Segments.” bioRxiv, December 1, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.29.518396

Heather S. Bruce, and Nipam H. Patel. “Cryptic Persistence of Truncated Abdominal Legs in Insects Enabled Diverse Outgrowths with Novel Functions.” Preprint. BIOLOGY, February 23, 2023. 

https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202212.0268.v3

2022

Sun, Dennis A, Jessen V. Bredeson, Heather S. Bruce, and Nipam H. Patel. “Identification and Classification of Cis-Regulatory Elements in the Amphipod Crustacean Parhyale Hawaiensis.” Development 149, no. 11 (April 2022). 

https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200793


Kobayashi, Yukimasa, Heather S Bruce, Karen Terada, Akihiro Hirayama, Yuuki Oosawa, Kazuhiro Niikura, and Yasuoki Takami. “Paranotal Lobes Are Appendicular in Origin: Elucidation by Micro-CT Analysis of the Thoracic Muscular System in the Larvae of Carabus Insulicola (Insecta, Coleoptera).” Proceedings of the Arthropodan Embryological Society of Japan, 2022. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369901210_Paranotal_Lobes_Are_Appendicular_in_Origin_Elucidation_by_Micro-CT_Analysis_of_the_Thoracic_Muscular_System_in_the_Larvae_of_Carabus_insulicola_Insecta_Coleoptera


Heather S. Bruce, and Nipam H. Patel. “The Daphnia Carapace and Other Novel Structures Evolved via the Cryptic Persistence of Serial Homologs.” Current Biology 32 (September 2022). 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.06.073

2021

Heather S. Bruce, Gabby Jerz, Sophia Kelly, Jenny McCarthy, Aaron Pomerantz, Gayani Senevirathne, Alice Sherrard, Dennis A Sun, Carsten Wolff, and Nipam H Patel. “Hybridization Chain Reaction (HCR) In Situ Protocol V1.” Protocols.Io Hybridization Chain Reaction (HCR) In Situ Protocol v1 (April 30, 2021). https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.bunznvf6


Heather S. Bruce. "How to align arthropod leg segments". bioRxiv (2021) https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.20.427514

2020

Heather S. Bruce, and Nipam H. Patel. “Knockout of Crustacean Leg Patterning Genes Suggests That Insect Wings and Body Walls Evolved from Ancient Leg Segments.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 4, no. 12 (December 2020): 1703–12. 

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01349-0

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2017

Heather S. Bruce. Expression and function of leg gap genes in the amphipod crustacean, Parhyale hawaiensis. (University of California, Berkeley, 2017). http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/etd/ucb/text/Bruce_berkeley_0028E_17322.pdf

2016

Martin, Arnaud, Julia M Serano, Erin Jarvis, Heather S Bruce, Jennifer Wang, Shagnik Ray, Carryn A Barker, Liam C O’Connell, and Nipam H Patel. “CRISPR/Cas9 Mutagenesis Reveals Versatile Roles of Hox Genes in Crustacean Limb Specification and Evolution.” Current Biology 26, no. 1 (January 11, 2016): 14–26. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.11.021


Serano, Julia M, Arnaud Martin, Danielle M Liubicich, Erin Jarvis, Heather S Bruce, Konnor La, William E Browne, Jane Grimwood, and Nipam H Patel. “Comprehensive Analysis of Hox Gene Expression in the Amphipod Crustacean Parhyale Hawaiensis.” Developmental Biology 409, no. 1 (2016): 297–309.

 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2015.10.029


Kao, Damian, Alvina G Lai, Evangelia Stamataki, Silvana Rosic, Nikolaos Konstantinides, Erin Jarvis, Alessia Di Donfrancesco, N. Pouchkina-Stantcheva, M. Semon, M. Grillo, Heather S Bruce, S. Kumar, I. Siwanowicz, A. Le, A. Lemire, C. Extavour, W. Browne, C. Wolff, M. Averof, N. H. Patel, P. Sarkies, A. Pavlopoulos, A. A. Aboobaker,   “The Genome of the Crustacean Parhyale Hawaiensis, a Model for Animal Development, Regeneration, Immunity and Lignocellulose Digestion.” eLife 5 (November 16, 2016): 1. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.20062

2012

Erin Jarvis Bruce, Heather S. Bruce, and Nipam H. Patel. "Evolving specialization of the arthropod nervous system". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109, 10634–10639 (2012).  

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201876109  

 

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Bruce and Patel 2023: Cryptic persistence of truncated abdominal legs in insects (pdf)Download
Bruce and Patel 2022: Daphnia carapace and the origin of novel structures (pdf)Download
Kobayashi, Bruce, et al. 2022 - Precoxal origin of insect wings and paranotal lobes (pdf)Download
Bruce 2021: A model for deciphering the origins and relationships of arthropod ectodermal outgrowths (pdf)Download
Bruce and Patel 2020: Insect wings and body wall evolved from ancient leg segments (pdf)Download

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