Biemar:Publications

non-coding RNAs

1. Manak JR, Dike S, Sementchenko V, Kapranov P, Biemar F, Long J, Cheng J, Bell I, Ghosh S, Piccolboni A, Gingeras TR. (2006) Biological function of unannotated transcription during the early development of Drosophila melanogaster. Nature Genetics 38(10):1151-8.
2. Biemar F, Nix DA, Piel J, Peterson B, Ronshaugen M, Sementchenko V, Bell I, Manak JR, Levine MS. (2006) Comprehensive identification of Drosophila dorsal-ventral patterning genes using a whole-genome tiling array. PNAS. 103(34):12763-8.
3. Ronshaugen M, Biemar F, Piel J, Levine M, Lai EC. (2005) The Drosophila microRNA iab-4 causes a dominant homeotic transformation of halteres to wings. Genes & Development 19(24):2947-52.
4. Biemar F, Zinzen R, Ronshaugen M, Sementchenko V, Manak JR, Levine MS. (2005) Spatial regulation of microRNA gene expression in the Drosophila embryo. PNAS 102(44):15907-11.

Pancreas

1. Verbruggen V, Ek O, Delporte F, Georlette D, Biemar F, Von Berg V, Detry N, Coutinho P, Van Heyningen V, Martial JA, Voz M, Manfroid I and Peers B. (2010) The Pax6b homeodomain is dispensable for pancreatic endocrine cell differentiation in zebrafish. J. Biol. Chem. (in press).
2. Delporte F, Pasque V, Devos N, Manfroid I, Voz M, Motte P, Biemar F, Martial JA and Peers B. (2008). Expression of zebrafish pax6b in pancreas is regulated by two enhancers containing highly conserved cis-elements bound by PDX1, PBX and PREP factors. BMC Developmental Biology, 8:53.
3. Zecchin E, Filippi A, Biemar F, Tiso N, Pauls S, Ellertsdottir E, Gnugge L, Bortolussi M, Driever W, Argenton F. (2007) Distinct delta and jagged genes control sequential segregation of pancreatic cell types from precursor pools in zebrafish. Developmental Biology 301(1):192-204.
4. Mavropoulos A, Devos N, Biemar F, Zecchin E, Argenton F, Edlund H, Motte P, Martial JA, Peers B. (2005) sox4b is a key player of pancreatic alpha cell differentiation in zebrafish. Developmental Biology 285(1):211-23.
5. Devos N, Deflorian G, Biemar F, Bortolussi M, Martial JA, Peers B, Argenton F. (2002) Differential expression of two somatostatin genes during zebrafish embryonic development. Mechanisms of Development 115(1-2):133-7.
6. Biemar F, Devos N, Martial JA, Driever W, Peers B. (2001) Cloning and expression of the TALE superclass homeobox Meis2 gene during zebrafish embryonic development. Mechanisms of Development 109(2):427-31.
7. Biemar F, Argenton F, Schmidtke R, Epperlein S, Peers B, Driever W. (2001) Pancreas development in zebrafish: early dispersed appearance of endocrine hormone expressing cells and their convergence to form the definitive islet. Developmental Biology 230(2):189-203.