Some members of the lab gathered around a fossilized rotifer egg (probably Tyrannodina rotifera, from the Late Carboniferous, when giant rotifers ruled the earth).

Harvard Lab  Matthew Meselson , Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Principle Investigator Irina Arkhipova, Staff Scientist Eugene Gladyshev, Graduate Student Jae Hur, Graduate Student Morgan Mandigo, Research Assistant Zoya Omartian, Lab Administrator Sandy Ropper, Archivist Karine Van Doninck, Post-Doc

MBL Lab  Matthew Meselson , Adjunct Scientist  David Mark Welch , Staff Scientist  Jessica Mark Welch , Postdoctoral Scientist  Sarah Biber , Undergraduate Research Assistant

Arkhipova, I. and M. Meselson (2005). Deleterious transposable elements and the extinction of asexuals. Bioessays 27: 76-85.

Meselson, M. (2004). Explorations in the land of DNA and beyond. Nat Med. 10: 1034-1037.

Pyatkov, K.I., I.R.Arkhipova, N.V.Malkova, D.J.Finnegan and M.B.Evgen'ev (2004). Reverse transcriptase and endonuclease activities encoded by Penelope-like retroelements. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101: 14719-14724.

Mark Welch, D.B., M.P.Cummings, D.M Hillis and M. Meselson (2004). Divergent gene copies in the asexual class Bdelloidea (Rotifera) separated before the bdelloid radiation or within bdelloid families. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101: 1622-1625.

Mark Welch, J.L., D.B. Mark Welch and M.Meselson (2004). Cytogenetic evidence for asexual evolution of bdelloid rotifers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101: 1618-1621.

Meselson, M. (2003). Interview with Matthew Meselson. Bioessays 12: 1236-46.

Mark Welch D.B. and M. Meselson (2003) Oocyte nuclear DNA content and GC proportion in rotifers of the anciently asexsual Class Bdelloidea. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 79: 85-91.

Arkhipova, I.R., K.I. Pyatkov, M. Meselson and M.B. Evgen'ev (2003). Retroelements containing introns in diverse invertebrate taxa. Nature Genetics 33:123-124.

Arkhipova, I.R. and H. G. Morrison (2001).  Three retrotransposon families in the genome of Giardia lamblia: Two telomeric, one dead. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci (USA) 98: 14497-14502. commentaries

Mark Welch, D. and M. Meselson (2001).  Rates of nucleotide substitution in sexual and anciently asexual rotifers.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci (USA) 98: 6720-6724.

Mark Welch, D. and M. Meselson (2001).  A survey of introns in three genes of rotifers.  Hydrobiologia 446/447: 333-336.

Mark Welch, D. (2001).  Early contributions of molecular phylogenetics to understanding the evolution of Rotifera.  Hydrobiologia 446/447: 315-322.

Mark Welch, J. (2001).  Cytological evidence for the absence of meiosis in bdelloid rotifers.  Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University.

Arkhipova, I. and M. Meselson (2000).  Transposable elements in sexual and ancient asexual taxa.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 97: 14473-14477.        commentaries

Mark Welch, D. and M. Meselson (2000).  Evidence for the evolution of bdelloid rotifers without sexual recombination or genetic exchange. Science 288: 1211-1215.  supplemental information     commentaries

Mark Welch, D. (2000). Evidence from a protein-coding gene that acanthocephalans are rotifers. Invertebrate Biology 119: 17 - 26.

Mark Welch, D. (1999).  Evidence for the evolution of bdelloid rotifers without sexual recombination or genetic exchange.  Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University.

Mark Welch, D. and M. Meselson (1998). Measurements of the genome size of the monogonont rotifer Brachionus plicatilis and of the bdelloid rotifers Philodina roseola and Habrotrocha constricta. Hydrobiologia 387/388: 395 - 402 .

Mark Welch, J. and M. Meselson (1998). Karyotypes of bdelloid rotifers from three families. Hydrobiologia 387/388: 403 - 407.

Arkhipova, I., Li, J. and M. Meselson (1997). On the mode of gene-dosage compensation in Drosophila. Genetics 145: 729 - 736.

Danilevskaya, O.N., Arkhipova, I.R., Traverse, K.L., and M.L. Pardue (1997). Promoting in tandem: The promoter for telomere transposon HeT-A and implications for the evolution of retroviral LTRs. Cell 88: 647 - 655.

 
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