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Wang YC, Ferguson EL. Spatial bistability of Dpp-receptor interactions during Drosophila dorsal-ventral patterning. Nature. 2005 Mar 10; 434(7030):229-34. View in: PubMed
Casanueva MO, Ferguson EL. Germline stem cell number in the Drosophila ovary is regulated by redundant mechanisms that control Dpp signaling. Development. 2004 May; 131(9):1881-90. View in: PubMed
Podos SD, Hanson KK, Wang YC, Ferguson EL. The DSmurf ubiquitin-protein ligase restricts BMP signaling spatially and temporally during Drosophila embryogenesis. Dev Cell. 2001 Oct; 1(4):567-78. View in: PubMed
Decotto E, Ferguson EL. A positive role for Short gastrulation in modulating BMP signaling during dorsoventral patterning in the Drosophila embryo. Development. 2001 Oct; 128(19):3831-41. View in: PubMed
Podos SD, Ferguson EL. Morphogen gradients: new insights from DPP. Trends Genet. 1999 Oct; 15(10):396-402. View in: PubMed
Neul JL, Ferguson EL. Spatially restricted activation of the SAX receptor by SCW modulates DPP/TKV signaling in Drosophila dorsal-ventral patterning. Cell. 1998 Nov 13; 95(4):483-94. View in: PubMed
Xu X, Yin Z, Hudson JB, Ferguson EL, Frasch M. Smad proteins act in combination with synergistic and antagonistic regulators to target Dpp responses to the Drosophila mesoderm. Genes Dev. 1998 Aug 01; 12(15):2354-70. View in: PubMed
Hudson JB, Podos SD, Keith K, Simpson SL, Ferguson EL. The Drosophila Medea gene is required downstream of dpp and encodes a functional homolog of human Smad4. Development. 1998 Apr; 125(8):1407-20. View in: PubMed
Tax FE, Thomas JH, Ferguson EL, Horvitz HR. Identification and characterization of genes that interact with lin-12 in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 1997 Dec; 147(4):1675-95. View in: PubMed
Holley SA, Ferguson EL. Fish are like flies are like frogs: conservation of dorsal-ventral patterning mechanisms. Bioessays. 1997 Apr; 19(4):281-4. View in: PubMed
Ferguson EL. Conservation of dorsal-ventral patterning in arthropods and chordates. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 1996 Aug; 6(4):424-31. View in: PubMed
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Huang M, Gu G, Ferguson EL, Chalfie M. A stomatin-like protein necessary for mechanosensation in C. elegans. Nature. 1995 Nov 16; 378(6554):292-5. View in: PubMed
Ferguson EL, Horvitz HR. Identification and characterization of 22 genes that affect the vulval cell lineages of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 1985 May; 110(1):17-72. View in: PubMed
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Ferguson EL, Horvitz HR. The multivulva phenotype of certain Caenorhabditis elegans mutants results from defects in two functionally redundant pathways. Genetics. 1989 Sep; 123(1):109-21. View in: PubMed
Shimell MJ, Ferguson EL, Childs SR, O'Connor MB. The Drosophila dorsal-ventral patterning gene tolloid is related to human bone morphogenetic protein 1. Cell. 1991 Nov 01; 67(3):469-81. View in: PubMed
Ferguson EL, Anderson KV. Dorsal-ventral pattern formation in the Drosophila embryo: the role of zygotically active genes. Curr Top Dev Biol. 1991; 25:17-43. View in: PubMed
Ferguson EL, Anderson KV. Localized enhancement and repression of the activity of the TGF-beta family member, decapentaplegic, is necessary for dorsal-ventral pattern formation in the Drosophila embryo. Development. 1992 Mar; 114(3):583-97. View in: PubMed
Ferguson EL, Anderson KV. Decapentaplegic acts as a morphogen to organize dorsal-ventral pattern in the Drosophila embryo. Cell. 1992 Oct 30; 71(3):451-61. View in: PubMed
Anderson KV, Schneider DS, Morisato D, Jin Y, Ferguson EL. Extracellular morphogens in Drosophila embryonic dorsal-ventral patterning. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 1992; 57:409-17. View in: PubMed