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PUBLICATIONS

(see below for Reviews / Book Chapters)

2024

Jessen V. Bredeson, Austin B. Mudd, Sofia Medina-Ruiz, Therese Mitros, Owen Kabnick Smith, Kelly E. Miller, Jessica B. Lyons, Sanjit S. Batra, Joseph Park, Kodiak C. Berkoff, Christopher Plott, Jane Grimwood, Jeremy Schmutz, Guadalupe Aguirre-Figueroa, Mustafa K. Khokha, Maura Lane, Isabelle Philipp, Mara Laslo, James Hanken, Gwenneg Kerdivel, Nicolas Buisine, Laurent M. Sachs, Daniel R. Buchholz, Taejoon Kwon, Heidi Smith-Parker, Marcos Gridi-Papp, Michael J. Ryan, Robert D. Denton, John H. Malone, John B. Wallingford, Aaron F. Straight, Rebecca Heald, Dirk Hockemeyer, Richard M. Harland & Daniel S. Rokhsar. Conserved chromatin and repetitive patterns reveal slow genome evolution in frogs. Nat. Comm. 15:579. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43012-9

2023

Paul, B., Dockery, R., Valverde, V.M., Buchholz, D.R. Characterization of a novel corticosterone response gene in Xenopus tropicalis tadpole tails. Front. Endocrinol. 14:1121002. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2023.1121002

2023

Sterner, Z.R., Jabrah, A., Shaidani, N.-I., Horb, M.E., Dockery, R., Paul, B., Buchholz, D.R. Development and metamorphosis in frogs deficient in the thyroid hormone transporter MCT8. Gen Comp. Endocrinol. 331:114179. doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2022.114179

2022

Paul, B., Shewade, L.H., Buchholz, D.R. cyp21a2 knockout tadpoles survive metamorphosis despite low corticosterone. Endocrinol. 164:1-12. doi.org/10.1210/endocr/bqac182

2022

Rigolet, M., Buisine, N., Scharwatt, M., Duvernois-Berthet, E., Buchholz, D.R., Sachs, L.M. Crosstalk between thyroid hormone and corticosteroid signaling targets cell proliferation in Xenopus tropicalis tadpole liver. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 23:13715. doi.org/10.3390/ijms232213715

Zahn, N., James-Zorn, C.H., Ponferrada, V.G., Adams, D.S., Grzymkowski, J.K., Buchholz, D.R., Nascone-Yoder, N.M., Horb, M., Moody, S.A., Vize, P.D., and Zorn, A.M. Normal Table of Xenopus development: a new graphical resource. Development 149, dev200356. doi:10.1242/dev.200356

2022

Sterner, Z.R., Buchholz, D.R. Glucocorticoid receptor mediates corticosterone-thyroid hormone synergy essential for metamorphosis in Xenopus tropicalis tadpoles. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 315:113942. doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2021.113942

2022

2020

Zlatow, A.L., Wilson, S., Bouley, D.M., Tetens-Woodring, J., Buchholz, D.R., Green, S.L. Axial Skeletal Malformations in Genetically Modified Xenopus laevis and Xenopus tropicalis. Comp. Med. 70:1-10.

2020

Shewade, L.H., Schoephoerster, J.A., Patmann, M.D., Kulkarni, S.S., Buchholz, D.R. Corticosterone is essential for survival through frog metamorphosis. Endocrinol. 161:1-15. doi.org/10.1210/endocr/bqaa193

2020

Hasebe, T., Fujimoto, K., Buchholz, D.R., Ishizuya-Oka, A. Stem cell development involves divergent thyroid hormone receptor subtype expression and epigenetic modifications in the Xenopus metamorphosing intestine. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 292: 113441. doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2020.113441

2020

Sterner, Z.R., Shewade, L.H., Mertz, K.M., Sturgeon, S.M., Buchholz, D.R. Glucocorticoid receptor is required to survive through metamorphosis in the frog Xenopus tropicalis. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 291: 113419. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2020.113419

2019

Sterner, Z.R., Rankin, S.A, Wlizla, M., Choi, J.A., Luedeke, D.M., Zorn, A.M., Buchholz, D.R. Novel vectors for functional interrogation of Xenopus ORFeome coding sequences. genesis 2019:e23329. doi.org/10.1002/dvg.23329

2018

Schneider, K.A., Shewade, L.H., Buisine, N., Sachs, L.M., Buchholz, D.R. A novel stress hormone response gene in tadpoles of Xenopus tropicalis. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 260:107–114

2017

Kulkarni, S.S., Gomez-Mestre, I. Denver, R.J. Buchholz, D.R. Genetic accommodation of the larval period via modified endocrine signalling explains phenotypic divergence among spadefoot toad species. Nature Comm. 8:993. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-00996-5. Share link: http://rdcu.be/wTg2

2017

Patmann, M.D., Shewade, L.H., Schneider, K.A., Buchholz, D.R. Xenopus Tadpole Tissue Harvest. Cold Spring Harb Protoc; doi:10.1101/pdb.prot097675

2017

Shewade, L. Schneider, K., Brown, A., Buchholz, D.R. In-vivo regulation of Krüppel-like factor 9 by corticosteroids and their receptors across tissues in tadpoles of Xenopus tropicalis. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 248:79–86

2017

Choi, J., Ishizuya-Oka, A., Buchholz, D.R. Growth, development, and intestinal remodeling occurs in the absence of thyroid hormone receptor alpha in tadpoles of Xenopus tropicalis. Endocrinol. 158:1623-1633

2016

Budzik, K.A., Żuwała, K., Buchholz, D. R. Taste organ growth and development in the direct developing frog Eleutherodactylus coqui (Lissamphibia: Eleutherodactylidae). Acta Zool. 97:433-441

2015

Choi, J., Moskalik, C., Ng, A., Matter, S.F., Buchholz, D.R. Regulation of thyroid hormone-induced development in vivo by thyroid hormone transporters and cytosolic binding proteins. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 222:69–80

2015

Burraco, P., Arribas, R., Kulkarni, S.S., Buchholz, D.R., Gomez-Mestre, I. Comparing techniques for measuring corticosterone in tadpoles. Current Zoology 61: 835–845

2015

Choi, J., Suzuki, K.T., Sakuma, T., Shewade, L., Yamamoto, T., and Buchholz, D.R. Unliganded thyroid hormone receptor a regulates developmental timing via gene repression in Xenopus tropicalis. Endocrinology 156:735–744

2014

Haas, A., Pohlmeyer, J., McLeod, D.S., Kleinteich, T., Hertwig, S.T., Das, I., Buchholz, D.R. Extreme tadpoles II: The highly derived larval anatomy of Occidozyga baluensis (Boulenger, 1896), an obligate carnivorous tadpole. Zoomorphology 133:321–342

2013

Gomez-Mestre, I. Kulkarni, S., Buchholz, D.R. Mechanisms and Consequences of Developmental Acceleration in Tadpoles Responding to Pond Drying. PLoS One 8: e84266

2012

Kerney, R.R., Brittain, A.L. Hall, B.K., Buchholz, D.R. Cartilage on the move: Cartilage lineage tracing during tadpole metamorphosis. Dev. Growth, Differentiation 54:739-752

2012

Kulkarni, S.S. and Buchholz, D.R. Beyond Synergy: Corticosterone and thyroid hormone have numerous interaction effects on gene regulation in Xenopus tropicalis tadpoles. Endocrinol. 153(11):5309–5324

2011

Kulkarni, S.S., Gomes-Mestre, I., Moskalik, C.L., Storz, B.L., Buchholz, D.R. Evolutionary reduction of developmental plasticity in desert spadefoot toads. J. Evol. Biol. 24:2445–2455

2011

Hollar, A.R., Choi, J., Grimm, A.T., Buchholz, D.R. Higher thyroid hormone receptor expression correlates with short larval periods in spadefoot toads and increases metamorphic rate. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 173:190-198

2011

Rankin, S.A., Zorn, A.M., Buchholz, D.R. New doxycycline-inducible transgenic Xenopus. Dev. Dynamics 240:1467–1474

2011

Hasebe, T., Buchholz, D.R., Shi, Y.-B., Ishizuya-Oka, A. Epithelial-connective tissue interactions induced by thyroid hormone receptor are essential for adult stem cell development in the Xenopus laevis intestine. Stem Cells 29:154-161

2010

Kulkarni, S.A., Singamasetty, S., Buchholz, D.R. Corticotropin-releasing factor regulates the development in the direct developing frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 169:225-230

2010

Heimeier, R.A., Das, B., Buchholz, D.R., Fioretino, M., Shi, Y.-B. Studies on Xenopus laevis intestine reveal biological pathways underlying vertebrate gut adaptation from embryo to adult. Genome Biology 11:R55

2010

Buchholz, D.R., Hollar, A. R., Ledon-Retig, C. Scaphiopus couchii: developmental morphology. Herpetol. Rev. 41(4):480

2010

Hayes, T.B., Khoury, V., Narayan, A., Nazir, M., Park, A., Brown, T., Adame, L., Chan, E., Buchholz, D.R., Stueve, T., Gallipeau, S. Atrazine induces complete feminization and chemical castration in male African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis). PNAS 107:4612-4614

2009

Das, B., Heimeier, R.A., Buchholz, D.R., Shi, Y.-B. Identification of direct thyroid hormone response genes reveals the earliest gene regulation programs during frog metamorphosis. J. Biol. Chem. 284: 34167–34178

2009

Rankin, S.A., Hasebe, T., Zorn, A.M., Buchholz, D.R. Improved Cre reporter transgenic Xenopus. Dev. Dynamics238:2401-2408

2009

Ishizuya-Oka, A., Hasebe, T., Buchholz, D.R., Kajita, M. Fu, L. Shi, Y.-B. The origin of the adult intestinal stem cells induced by thyroid hormone in Xenopus laevis. FASEB J. 23:2568-2575

2009

Heimeier, R.A. Das, B., Buchholz, D.R., Shi, Y.-B. The xenoestrogen bisphenol A inhibits postembryonic vertebrate development by antagonizing gene regulation by thyroid hormone. Endocrinology 150(6):2964-2973

2007

Sato, Y. Buchholz, D.R., Paul, B.D., Shi, Y.-B. A role of unliganded thyroid hormone receptor in postembryonic development in Xenopus laevis. Mech. Develop. 124:476-488

2007

Buchholz, D.R., Singamsetty, S., Karadge, U., Williamson, S., Langer, C.E., Elinson, R.P. Nutritional endoderm in a direct developing frog: A potential parallel to the evolution of the amniote egg. Dev. Dynamics 236:1259-1272

2007

Paul, B.D., Buchholz, D.R., Fu, L., Shi, Y.-B. SRC-p300 coactivator complex is required for thyroid hormone-induced amphibian metamorphosis. J. Biol. Chem. 282(10):7472-7481

2007

Buchholz, D.R., Heimeier, R.A., Das, B., Washington, T., Shi, Y.-B. Pairing morphology with gene expression in thyroid hormone-induced intestinal remodeling and identification of a core set of TH-induced genes across tadpole tissues. Devel. Biol. 303:567-590

2006

Goodward, D.M., Barber, P.H., Buchholz, D.R. Geographic Distribution. Scaphiopus couchii. Herpetol. Rev. 37(3): 359-360

2006

Gomez-Mestre, I. Buchholz, D.R. Developmental plasticity mirrors differences among taxa in spadefoot toads linking plasticity and diversity. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 103(50): 19021-19026

2006

Fu, L., Tomita, A., Wang, Hua, Buchholz, D.R. Shi, Y.-B. Transcriptional regulation of the Xenopus laevis stromelysin-3 gene by thyroid hormone is mediated by a DNA element in the first introl. J. Biol. Chem. 281 (25): 16870-16878

2005

Buchholz, D.R., Paul, B.D., and Shi, Y.-B. Gene-specific changes in promoter occupancy by thyroid hormone receptor during frog metamorphosis: Implications for developmental gene regulation. J. Biol. Chem. 280 (50): 41222-41228

2005

Fu, L., Ishizuya-Oka, A., Buchholz, D.R., Amano, T., Matsuda, H., and Shi, Y.-B. A causative role of stromelysin-3 in extracellular matrix remodeling and epithelial apoptosis during intestinal metamorphosis in Xenopus laevis. J. Biol. Chem. 280 (30): 27856-27865

2005

Buchholz, D.R. and Hayes, T.B. Variation in thyroid hormone action and tissue content underlies species differences in the timing of metamorphosis in desert frogs. Evolution and Development 7(5): 458-467

2005

Paul, B.P., Buchholz, D.R., and Shi, Y.-B. Tissue- and gene-specific recruitment of steroid receptor coactivator-3 by thyroid hormone receptor during development. J. Biol. Chem. 280 (29): 27165-27172

2005

Paul, B.P., Fu, L., Buchholz, D.R., and Shi, Y.-B. Coactivator recruitment is essential for liganded thyroid hormone receptor to initiate amphibian metamorphosis. Mol. Cell. Biol. 25 (13): 5712-5724

2004

Buchholz, D.R., Tomita, A., Fu, L., Paul, B.D., and Shi, Y.-B. Transgenic analysis reveals that thyroid hormone receptor is sufficient to mediate the thyroid hormone signal in frog metamorphosis. Mol. Cell. Biol. 24 (20): 9026-9037

2004

Buchholz, D.R., Ishizuya-Oka, A., and Shi, Y.-B. Spatial and temporal expression pattern of a novel gene in the frog Xenopus laevis: correlations with adult intestinal epithelial differentiation during metamorphosis. Mech. Devel./Gene Expression Patterns 4: 321-328

2004

Tomita, A., Buchholz, D.R., and Shi, Y.-B. Recruitment of N-CoR/SMRT-TBLR1 corepressor complex by unliganded thyroid hormone receptor for gene repression during frog development. Mol. Cell. Biol. 24 (8): 3337-3346

2004

Buchholz, D.R., Fu, L., and Shi, Y.-B. Cryopreservation of Xenopus transgenic lines. Molec. Reprod. Devel. 67: 65-69

2003

Buchholz, D.R., Hsia, V., Fu, L., and Shi, Y.-B. A dominant negative thyroid hormone receptor blocks amphibian metamorphosis by retaining corepressors at target genes. Mol. Cell. Biol. 23 (19): 6750-6758

2003

Tomita, A., Buchholz, D.R., Obata, K., and Shi, Y.-B. Fusion protein of retinoic acid receptor a with promyelocytic leukemia protein of promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger protein recruits N-CoR-TBLR1 corepressor complex to repress transcription in vivo. J. Biol. Chem. 278 (33): 30788-30795

2003

Garcia-Paris, M., Buchholz, D.R.,  and Parra-Olea, G. Phylogenetic relationships of Pelobatoidea re-examined using mtDNA. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 28 (1): 12-23

2002

Fu*, L., Buchholz*, D.R., and Shi, Y.-B. Novel double-promoter approach for identification of transgenic animals: a tool for in vivo analysis of gene function and development of gene-based therapies. Molec. Reprod. Devel. 62 (4): 470-476. *equal contributors

2002

Buchholz, D.R. and Hayes, T.B. Evolutionary patterns of diversity in spadefoot toad metamorphosis (Anura:Pelobatidae).Copeia 2002(1): 180-189

2000

Buchholz, D.R. and Hayes, T.B. Larval period comparison for the spadefoot toads Scaphiopus couchii and Spea multiplicata (Anura: Pelobatidae). Herpetologica. 56 (4): 455-468

2000

Buchholz, D. R. and Ely, E. Geographic Distribution. Taricha torosa. Herpetol. Rev. 31(2): 108

1995

Buchholz, D.R., Scott, P., and Shastri, N. Presentation without proteolytic cleavage of endogenous precursors in the MHC class I antigen processing pathway. J. Biol. Chem. 270: 6515-22

1995

Malarkannan, S., Goth, S., Buchholz, D.R., and Shastri, N. The role of MHC class I molecules in the generation of endogenous peptide/MHC complexes. J. Immunol. 154: 585-98

1994

Ruben, L.N., Ahmadi, P., Johnson, R.O., Buchholz, D.R., Clothier, R.H. and Shiigi, S. Apoptosis in the thymus of developing Xenopus laevis. Devel. Comp. Immunol. 18(4): 343-52

1994

Ruben, L.N., Buchholz, D.R., Ahmadi, P., Johnson, R.O., Clothier, R.H., and Shiigi, S. Apoptosis in thymus of adult Xenopus laevis. Devel. Comp. Immunol. 18(4): 231-38

REVIEWS / BOOK CHAPTERS

2023

Paul, B., Buchholz, D.R. Minireview: Glucocorticoid-Leptin Crosstalk: Role of Glucocorticoid-Leptin Counter-regulation in Metabolic Homeostasis And Normal Development. Int. Comp. Biol. doi.org/10.1093/icb/icad119

2022

Paul, B., Sterner, Z.R., Buchholz, D.R., Shi, Y.-B., Sachs, L.M. Thyroid and corticosteroid signaling in amphibian metamorphosis. Cells 11:1595. doi.org/ 10.3390/cells11101595

2019

Sachs, L.M., Buchholz, D.R. Insufficiency of Thyroid Hormone in Frog Metamorphosis and the Role of Glucocorticoids. Front. Endocrinol. 10:287. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2019.00287

2018

Buchholz, D.R., Shi, Y.-B. Dual function model revised by thyroid hormone receptor alpha knockout frogs. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 265:214–218. doi.org/10.1016/j.ygcen.2018.04.020

2018

Buchholz, D.R., Shi, Y.-B. Methods for Investigating the Larval Period and Metamorphosis in Xenopus. Cold Spring Harb Protoc doi:10.1101/pdb.top097667

2017

Buchholz, D.R. Xenopus metamorphosis as a model to study thyroid hormone receptor function during vertebrate developmental transitions. Mol. Cell. Endocrinol. 459:64-70

2017

Sachs, L.M., Buchholz, D.R. Frogs Model Man: In-vivo thyroid hormone signaling during development. genesis55:e23000

2015

Buchholz, D.R. More similar than you think: Frog metamorphosis as a model of human perinatal endocrinology. Dev. Biol. 408:188–195

2014

Kulkarni, S.S., Buchholz, D.R. Corticosteroid signaling in frog metamorphosis. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 203:225–231

2013

Kulkarni, S.S., Buchholz, D.R. Developmental programs and endocrine disruption in frog metamorphosis: The perspective from microarray analysis. Curr. Top. Devel. Biol. 103:329-364

2012

Buchholz, D.R. Chapter 16: Tet-On binary systems for tissue-specific and inducible transgene expression, pp. 265-275. InXenopus Protocols: Post-Genomic Approaches, 2nd Ed. Eds Hoppler, S. and Vize, P. For series: Methods in Molecular Biology 917. New York: Humana Press

2011

Buchholz, D.R., Moakalik, C.L., Kulkarni, S.S., Hollar, A.R., Ng. A. Chapter 5: Hormonal regulation and the evolution of amphibian metamorphic diversity. In Mechanisms of Life History Evolution. pp. 87-97. Eds. Flatt, T. and Heyland, A. Oxford University Press

2006

Buchholz, D.R., Paul, B.D., Fu, L., Tomita, A., and Shi, Y.-B. Molecular and developmental analyses of thyroid hormone receptor function in Xenopus laevis, the African clawed frog. Gen. Comp. Endo. 145: 1-19

2006

Buchholz, D.R., Paul, B.D., and Shi, Y,-B. Chapter 11: Chromatin immunoprecipitation for in vivo studies of transcriptional regulation during development. In Analysis of Growth Factor Signaling in Embryos, pp. 257-271. Whitman, M. and Sater, A.K., eds. For "Methods in Signal Transduction" series, CRC Press

2003

Hsia, V. S.-C., Tomita, A., Obata, K., Paul, B., Buchholz, D.R., and Shi, Y.-B. Role of chromatin disruption and histone acetylation in thyroid hormone receptor action: Implications in the regulation of HIV-1 LTR. Histol. Histopathol. 18(1): 323-331

2001

Shi, Y.-B., Fu, L. Hsia, V., Tomita, A., Buchholz, D.R. Thyroid hormone regulation of apoptotic tissue remodeling during anuran metamorphosis. Cell Res. 11(4): 245-252

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