Peer reviewed publications:

2011

Posnien, N., Koniszewski, N. D. B., Hein, H. and Bucher, G. (2011). Candidate Gene Screen in the red flour beetle Tribolium Reveals six3 as Ancient Regulator of Anterior Median Head and Central Complex Development. Plos Genet 2011

N Posnien, N Koniszewski, G Bucher: Insect Tc-six4 marks a unit with similarity to vertebrate placodes. Dev Biol 2011.

2010

Posnien, JB Schinko, S Kittelmann, G Bucher: Genetics, development and composition of the insect head--a beetle's view. Arthropod Struct Dev 2010, 39:399-410. (review)

Posnien, N. and Bucher, G. (2010). Formation of the insect head involves lateral contribution of the intercalary segment, which depends on Tc-labial function. Dev Biol. 338:107-16.

Schinko, M Weber, I Viktorinova, A Kiupakis, M Averof, M Klingler, EA Wimmer, G Bucher: Functionality of the GAL4/UAS system in Tribolium requires the use of endogenous core promoters. BMC Dev Biol 2010, 10:53.

Steinmetz, R Urbach, N Posnien, J Eriksson, RP Kostyuchenko, C Brena, K Guy, M Akam*, G Bucher*, D Arendt*: Six3 demarcates the anterior-most developing brain region in bilaterian animals. Evodevo 2010, 1:14.

2009

Trauner, J., Schinko, J., Lorenzen, M. D., Shippy, T. D., Wimmer, E. A., Beeman, R. W., Klingler, M., Bucher, G. and Brown, S. J. (2009). Large-scale insertional mutagenesis of a coleopteran stored grain pest, the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum, identifies embryonic lethal mutations and enhancer traps. BMC Biol 7:73.

Posnien, F Bashasab, G Bucher (2009) The insect upper lip (labrum) is a nonsegmental appendage-like structure. Evol Dev 11:479-487.

Yang X, M Weber, N Zarinkamar, N Posnien, F Friedrich, B Wigand, R Beutel, WG Damen, G Bucher, M Klingler, Friedrich, M (2009): Probing the Drosophila retinal determination gene network in Tribolium (II): The Pax6 genes eyeless and twin of eyeless. Dev Biol 333:215-27.

Kittelmann, M., Schinko, J. B., Winkler, M., Bucher, G., Wimmer, E. A. and Prpic, N. M. (2009). Insertional mutagenesis screening identifies the zinc finger homeodomain 2 (zfh2) gene as a novel factor required for embryonic leg development in Tribolium castaneum. Dev Genes Evol. 2009, 219:399-407.

2008

Tomoyasu, Y., Miller, S.C., Tomita, S. Schoppmeier, M., Grossmann, D., Bucher, G. (2008) Exploring systemic RNA interference in insects: a genome-wide survey for RNAi genes in Tribolium. Genome Biol 9:1, R10

Tribolium Genome Sequencing Consortium# (2008) The first genome sequence of a beetle, Tribolium castaneum, a model for insect development and pest biology. nature 452, 949-55
# mentioned as one of twelve analysis leaders

Cerny, A., Grossmann, D., Bucher*, G. Klingler*, M. (2008) The Tribolium ortholog of knirps and knirps-related is crucial for head segmentation but plays a minor role during abdominal patterning. Dev Biol 321(1):284-94

Schinko, J.B., Kreuzer, N., Offen, N., Posnien, N., Wimmer, E., Bucher, G. (2008) Diverged function of Tribolium orthodenticle, empty-spiracles and buttonhead in head patterning. Dev Biol 317, 600-613

Witek A, Herlyn H, Meyer A, Boell L, Bucher G, Hankeln T. (2008) EST based phylogenomics of Syndermata questions monophyly of Eurotatoria. BMC Evol Biol. 8(1):345.

Boell, L., Bucher, G. (2008) Whole mount in situ hybridization in the Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis representing a basal branch of lophotrochozoans. Dev Genes Evol 8(8):445-51

until 2007

Wohlfrom, H., Klingler, M. and Bucher, G. (2006). knödel is a gene involved in segment maintenance in Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera). MOD

Cerny*, A. C., Bucher*, G., Schroder, R. and Klingler, M. (2005). Breakdown of abdominal patterning in the Tribolium Kruppel mutant jaws. Development 132, 5353-63.

Bucher, G. and Klingler, M. (2005). Tribolium mae expression suggests roles in terminal and midline patterning and in the specification of mesoderm. Dev Genes Evol 215, 478-481.

Bucher*, G., Farzana*, L., Brown, S. J. and Klingler, M. (2005). Anterior localization of maternal mRNAs in a short germ insect lacking bicoid. Evol Dev 7, 142-9.

Bucher, G. and Klingler, M. (2004). Divergent segmentation mechanism in the short germ insect Tribolium revealed by giant expression and function. Development 131, 1729-40.

Bucher, G., Scholten, J. and Klingler, M. (2002). Parental RNAi in Tribolium (Coleoptera). Curr Biol 12, R85-6.

Berghammer, A., Bucher, G., Maderspacher, F. and Klingler, M. (1999). A system to efficiently maintain embryonic lethal mutations in the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Dev Genes Evol 209, 382-9.

Maderspacher*, F., Bucher*, G. and Klingler, M. (1998). Pair-rule and gap gene mutants in the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Dev Genes Evol 208, 558-68.

Non peer reviewed publications

J Schinko, N Posnien, S Kittelmann, N Koniszewski, G Bucher (2009): Single and Double Whole-Mount In Situ Hybridization in Red Flour Beetle (Tribolium) Embryos. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols 2009,:pdb.prot5258-.

N Posnien, JB Schinko, D Grossmann, TD Shippy, B Konopova, G Bucher (2009) RNAi in the Red Flour Beetle (Tribolium). Cold Spring Harb. Protoc. 2009, doi:10.1101/pdb.prot5256.

SJ Brown, TD Shippy, S Miller, R Bolognesi, RW Beeman, MD Lorenzen, G Bucher, EA Wimmer, M Klingler (2009) The Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera): A Model for Studies of Development and Pest Biology. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols 2009, :pdb.emo126-.

Bucher, G. and Wimmer, E. (2005). Beetle a-head. B.I.F. Futura 20, 164-169.

Wigand, B., Bucher, G. and Klingler, M. (1998). A simple whole mount technique for looking at Tribolium embryos. Tribolium Bulletin 38, 281-282.


* co-first or last authors

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