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• Melissa Marks
• Assistant Professor of Biology
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• memarks@willamette.edu

Melissa Marks

Education

• PhD, Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, California
• BA Biology, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

Publications

Rogers, S.M.P. Tamkee, B. Summers, S. Balabahadra, M. Marks, R. Svanback, D.M Kingsley & D. Schluter.  Predicting the role of large effect genes during adaptive evolution.  In revision.

Marks ME, Castro Rojas CM, Perbost C, Du L, Walnus T, Kapatral V and Crosson S. (2010) The genetic basis of laboratory adaptation in Caulobacter crescentus.  Journal of Bacteriology: 192(14): 3678-88.

Shapiro MD*, Marks ME*, Peichel CL*, Blackman BK, Nereng KS, Jonsson B, Schluter D, Kingsly DM. (2004). Genetic and developmental basis of evolutionary pelvic reduction in threesprine sticklebacks.  Nature: 428(6984): 717-723. (*co-first authors)

Rountree RB, Schoor M, Chen H, Marks ME, Harley V, Mishina Y, Kingsley DM. (2004) BMP receptor signaling is required for postnatal maintenance of articular cartilage.  PloS Biology: 2(11): 1815-1827

Herbet JM, Hayhurst M, Marks ME, Kulessa H, Hogan BL, McConnell SK. (2003) BMP ligands act to pattern the dorsal telencphalic midline.  Genesis 35(4):214-9.