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Urs Schmidt-Ott

Professor of Biology, University of Chicago
Verified email at uchicago.edu
Cited by 3601

Thyroid hormone and heart failure

UM Schmidt-Ott, DD Ascheim - Current heart failure reports, 2006 - Springer
… Thyroid Hormone and Heart Failure Schmidt-Ott and … Thyroid Hormone and Heart Failure
Schmidt-Ott and Ascheim … Thyroid Hormone and Heart Failure Schmidt-Ott and Ascheim 119 …

Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life

…, J Caravas, SN Kutty, U Schmidt-Ott… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Flies are one of four superradiations of insects (along with beetles, wasps, and moths) that
account for the majority of animal life on Earth. Diptera includes species known for their …

The generation of variation and the developmental basis for evolutionary novelty

…, C Rolian, URS SCHMIDTOTT… - … Zoology Part B …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Organisms exhibit an incredible diversity of form, a fact that makes the evolution of novelty
seemingly self‐evident. However, despite the “obvious” case for novelty, defining this concept …

RNA binding and translational suppression by bicoid

R Rivera-Pomar, D Niessing, U Schmidt-Ott… - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
THE anterior determinant bicoid (bcd) of Drosophila is a homeo-domain protein. It forms an
anterior-to-posterior gradient in the embryo and activates, in a concentration-dependent …

The anterior determinant bicoid of Drosophila is a derived Hox class 3 gene

…, H Jäckle, U Schmidt-Ott - Proceedings of the …, 1999 - National Acad Sciences
The Drosophila gene bicoid functions as the anterior body pattern organizer of Drosophila.
Embryos lacking maternally expressed bicoid fail to develop anterior segments including …

A single Hox3 gene with composite bicoid and zerknüllt expression characteristics in non-Cyclorrhaphan flies

…, A Prell, U Schmidt-Ott - Proceedings of the …, 2002 - National Acad Sciences
The members of the evolutionarily conserved Hox-gene complex, termed Hox genes, are
required for specifying segmental identity during embryogenesis in various animal phyla. The …

Morphogenetic functions of extraembryonic membranes in insects

U Schmidt-Ott, CW Kwan - Current opinion in insect science, 2016 - Elsevier
… Germ band retraction shortens the u-shaped germ band and aligns all body segments with
the anteroposterior axis of the egg. The amnioserosa drives this process by crawling over the …

Number, identity, and sequence of the Drosophila head segments as revealed by neural elements and their deletion patterns in mutants.

U Schmidt-Ott, M González-Gaitán… - Proceedings of the …, 1994 - National Acad Sciences
The development of the insect head tagma involves massive rearrangements and
secondary fusions of segment anlagen during embryogenesis. Due to the lack of reliable …

Quantitative system drift compensates for altered maternal inputs to the gap gene network of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita

…, H Janssens, A Alcaine-Colet, S Lemke, U Schmidt-Ott… - Elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
10.7554/eLife.04785.001 The segmentation gene network in insects can produce equivalent
phenotypic outputs despite differences in upstream regulatory inputs between species. We …

Expression of en and wg in the embryonic head and brain of Drosophila indicates a refolded band of seven segment remnants

U Schmidt-Ott, GM Technau - Development, 1992 - journals.biologists.com
… head segments and their Sshaped arrangement are also in very good agreement with
ectopic en expression in the head of patched null mutants (González Gaitán and Schmidt-Ott, …