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2025
Eden McQueen, Gavin Rice, Shanker Pillai, Omid Saleh Ziabari, Ben J Vincent, Mark Rebeiz, Parallels in the regulatory landscape of dimorphic female and male genital structures in Drosophila melanogaster, Genetics, 2025;, iyaf221, https://doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyaf221
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Logan A Brubaker, Hayley Long, Allison Pavlus, Melissa E Williams, Devon M Seibert, Ashley V Williams, Marc S Halfon, Mark Rebeiz, Thomas M Williams, Redundant and Singular Regulatory Elements Underlie the Rapidly Evolving Pigmentation of Drosophila, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Volume 42, Issue 9, September 2025, msaf213, https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf213

Shodja, D. N., Glassford, W. J., Rice, G., Smith, S. J., & Rebeiz, M. (2025). A Notch signal required for a morphological novelty in Drosophila has antecedent functions in genital disc eversion. Science Advances, 11(29), eadt7825. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt7825
2024
Rice, G., Gaitán-Escudero, T., Charles-Obi, K., Zeitlinger, J., & Rebeiz, M. (2024). Co-option of the trichome-forming network initiated the evolution of a morphological novelty in Drosophila eugracilis. Current Biology, 34(22), 5284-5294.e3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.09.073

Petrosky, S. J., Williams, T. M., & Rebeiz, M. (2024). A genetic screen of transcription factors in the Drosophila melanogaster abdomen identifies novel pigmentation genes. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 14(9), jkae097. https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkae097

Rice, G., Gaitan-Escudero, T., Charles-Obi, K., Zeitlinger, J., & Rebeiz, M. (2024). Gene regulatory network co-option is sufficient to induce a morphological novelty in Drosophila (p. 2024.03.22.584840). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.22.584840

Urum, A., Rice, G., Glassford, W., Yanku, Y., Shklyar, B., Rebeiz, M., & Preger-Ben Noon, E. (2024). A developmental atlas of male terminalia across twelve species of Drosophila. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcell.2024.1349275
2023
Méndez-González, I. D., Williams, T. M., & Rebeiz, M. (2023). Changes in locus wide repression underlie the evolution of Drosophila abdominal pigmentation. PLOS Genetics, 19(5), e1010722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010722

Rebeiz, M. (2023). In the spotlight—Established researcher. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular & Developmental Evolution, 340(2), 87–88. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23175

Williams, T. M., & Rebeiz, M. (2023). JEZB special issue on animal gene regulatory network evolution. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular & Developmental Evolution, 340(2), 89–91. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23186

Widespread cis‐ and trans‐regulatory evolution underlies the origin, diversification, and loss of a sexually dimorphic fruit fly pigmentation trait—Hughes—2023—Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution—Wiley Online Library. (n.d.). Retrieved January 5, 2026, from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jez.b.23068

Rice, G. R., David, J. R., Gompel, N., Yassin, A., & Rebeiz, M. (2023). Resolving between novelty and homology in the rapidly evolving phallus of Drosophila. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 340(2), 182–196. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.b.23113

Weinstein, M. L., Jaenke, C. M., Asma, H., Spangler, M., Kohnen, K. A., Konys, C. C., Williams, M. E., Williams, A. V., Rebeiz, M., Halfon, M. S., & Williams, T. M. (2023). A novel role for trithorax in the gene regulatory network for a rapidly evolving fruit fly pigmentation trait. PLOS Genetics, 19(2), e1010653. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010653
​2022
McQueen, E. W., Afkhami, M., Atallah, J., Belote, J. M., Gompel, N., Heifetz, Y., Kamimura, Y., Kornhauser, S. C., Masly, J. P., O’Grady, P., Peláez, J., Rebeiz, M., Rice, G., Sánchez-Herrero, E., Santos Nunes, M. D., Santos Rampasso, A., Schnakenberg, S. L., Siegal, M. L., Takahashi, A., … Yassin, A. (2022). A standardized nomenclature and atlas of the female terminalia of Drosophila melanogaster. Fly, 16(1), 128–151. https://doi.org/10.1080/19336934.2022.2058309

Méndez-González, I. D., Williams, T. M., & Rebeiz, M. (2022). Changes in global repression underlie the evolution of Drosophila abdominal pigmentation (p. 2022.09.09.507277). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.09.507277

Tanaka, K. M., Takahashi, K., Rice, G., Rebeiz, M., Kamimura, Y., & Takahashi, A. (2022). Trichomes on female reproductive tract: Rapid diversification and underlying gene regulatory network in Drosophila suzukii and its related species. BMC Ecology and Evolution, 22(1), 93. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02046-1

Rebeiz, M. J. (2022). NSF-BSF: A genomic view of gene regulatory network co-option and morphological novelty. NSF Award Number 2129903. Directorate for Biological Sciences, 21(2129903), 29903.

Tanaka, K. M., Takahashi, K., Rice, G., Rebeiz, M., Kamimura, Y., & Takahashi, A. (2022, January). Additional file 2 of Trichomes on female reproductive tract: Rapid diversification and underlying gene regulatory network in Drosophila suzukii and its related species. figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20400916

McQueen, E., Afkhami, M., Atallah, J., Gompel, N., Heifetz, Y., Kamimura, Y., Masly, J. P., O’Grady, P., Peláez, J., Rebeiz, M., Rice, G., Sánchez-Herrero, E., Santos Nunes, M. D., Santos Rampasso, A., Schnakenberg, S. L., Siegal, M. L., Takahashi, A., Tanaka, K. M., Turetzek, N., … Yassin, A. (2022). A Standardized Nomenclature and Atlas of the Female Terminalia of Drosophila melanogaster. BIOLOGY. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0223.v1
2021
Finet, C., Kassner, V. A., Carvalho, A. B., Chung, H., Day, J. P., Day, S., Delaney, E. K., De Ré, F. C., Dufour, H. D., Dupim, E., Izumitani, H. F., Gautério, T. B., Justen, J., Katoh, T., Kopp, A., Koshikawa, S., Longdon, B., Loreto, E. L., Nunes, M. D. S., … Marlétaz, F. (2021). DrosoPhyla: Resources for Drosophilid Phylogeny and Systematics. Genome Biology and Evolution, 13(8), evab179. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab179
​2020
Govindjee, G., Briskin, D. P., Benning, C., Daniell, H., Kolossov, V., Scheer, H., & Rebeiz, M. (2020). From δ-aminolevulinic acid to chlorophylls and every step in between: In memory of Constantin (Tino) A. Rebeiz, 1936–2019. Photosynthesis Research, 145(2), 71–82. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11120-020-00750-x

Smith, S. J., Davidson, L. A., & Rebeiz, M. (2020). Evolutionary expansion of apical extracellular matrix is required for the elongation of cells in a novel structure. eLife, 9, e55965. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55965

Hughes, J. T., Williams, M. E., Johnson, R., Grover, S., Rebeiz, M., & Williams, T. M. (2020). Gene Regulatory Network Homoplasy Underlies Recurrent Sexually Dimorphic Fruit Fly Pigmentation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2020.00080

Camino, E. M., Weinstein, M. L., List, M. P., Vellky, J. E., Rebeiz, M., & Williams, T. M. (2020). Red Light/Green Light, a Dual Fluorescent Protein Reporter System To Study Enhancer-Promoter Specificity in Drosophila. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 10(3), 985–997. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.401033

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McQueen, E. & Rebeiz M. (2020). On the specificity of gene regulatory networks: How does network co-option affect subsequent evolution? In Current Topics in Developmental Biology (Vol. 139, pp. 375–405). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.ctdb.2020.03.002
​2019
Vincent, B. J., Rice, G. R., Wong, G. M., Glassford, W. J., Downs, K. I., Shastay, J. L., Charles-Obi, K., Natarajan, M., Gogol, M., Zeitlinger, J., & Rebeiz, M. (2019). An Atlas of Transcription Factors Expressed in Male Pupal Terminalia of Drosophila melanogaster. G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 9(12), 3961–3972. https://doi.org/10.1534/g3.119.400788 

Rice, G., David, J. R., Kamimura, Y., Masly, J. P., Mcgregor, A. P., Nagy, O., Noselli, S., Nunes, M. D. S., O’Grady, P., Sánchez-Herrero, E., Siegal, M. L., Toda, M. J., Rebeiz, M., Courtier-Orgogozo, V., & Yassin, A. (2019). A standardized nomenclature and atlas of the male terminalia of Drosophila melanogaster. Fly, 13(1–4), 51–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/19336934.2019.1653733

Liu, Y., Ramos-Womack, M., Han, C., Reilly, P., Brackett, K. L., Rogers, W., Williams, T. M., Andolfatto, P., Stern, D. L., & Rebeiz, M. (2019). Changes throughout a Genetic Network Mask the Contribution of Hox Gene Evolution. Current Biology, 29(13), 2157-2166.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.074

Smith, S. J., Davidson, L. A., & Rebeiz, M. (2019). Expansion of apical extracellular matrix underlies the morphogenesis of a recently evolved structure (p. 686089). bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/686089

Rice, G., & Rebeiz, M. (2019). Evolution: How Many Phenotypes Do Regulatory Mutations Affect? Current Biology, 29(1), R21–R23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.11.027
​2018
Grover, S., Williams, M. E., Kaiser, R., Hughes, J. T., Gresham, L., Rebeiz, M., & Williams, T. M. (2018). Augmentation of a wound response element accompanies the origin of a Hox-regulated Drosophila abdominal pigmentation trait. Developmental Biology, 441(1), 159–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.07.001

Smith, S. J., Rebeiz, M., & Davidson, L. (2018). From pattern to process: Studies at the interface of gene regulatory networks, morphogenesis, and evolution. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 51, 103–110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2018.08.004

Roeske, M. J., Camino, E. M., Grover, S., Rebeiz, M., & Williams, T. M. (2018). Cis-regulatory evolution integrated the Bric-à-brac transcription factors into a novel fruit fly gene regulatory network. eLife, 7, e32273. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32273
​2017
Smith, A. F., Posakony, J. W., & Rebeiz, M. (2017). Automated tools for comparative sequence analysis of genic regions using the GenePalette application. Developmental Biology, 429(1), 158–164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.06.033

Rebeiz, M., & Tsiantis, M. (2017). Enhancer evolution and the origins of morphological novelty. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, 45, 115–123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gde.2017.04.006

Pham, T., Day, S. M., Glassford, W. J., Williams, T. M., & Rebeiz, M. (2017). The evolutionary origination of a novel expression pattern through an extreme heterochronic shift. Evolution & Development, 19(2), 43–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.12215

Rebeiz, M., & Williams, T. M. (2017). Using Drosophila pigmentation traits to study the mechanisms of cis-regulatory evolution. Current Opinion in Insect Science, 19, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2016.10.002
2016
​Signor, S. A., Liu, Y., Rebeiz, M., & Kopp, A. (2016). Genetic Convergence in the Evolution of Male-Specific Color Patterns in Drosophila. Current Biology, 26(18), 2423–2433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.034
​2015
Johnson, W. C., Ordway, A. J., Watada, M., Pruitt, J. N., Williams, T. M., & Rebeiz, M. (2015). Genetic Changes to a Transcriptional Silencer Element Confers Phenotypic Diversity within and between Drosophila Species. PLOS Genetics, 11(6), e1005279. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005279

Camino, E. M., Butts, J. C., Ordway, A., Vellky, J. E., Rebeiz, M., & Williams, T. M. (2015). The Evolutionary Origination and Diversification of a Dimorphic Gene Regulatory Network through Parallel Innovations in cis and trans. PLOS Genetics, 11(4), e1005136. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005136

Glassford, W. J., Johnson, W. C., Dall, N. R., Smith, S. J., Liu, Y., Boll, W., Noll, M., & Rebeiz, M. (2015). Co-option of an Ancestral Hox-Regulated Network Underlies a Recently Evolved Morphological Novelty. Developmental Cell, 34(5), 520–531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2015.08.005
​2014
Miller, S. W., Rebeiz, M., Atanasov, J. E., & Posakony, J. W. (2014). Neural precursor-specific expression of multiple Drosophila genes is driven by dual enhancer modules with overlapping function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(48), 17194–17199. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1415308111

Ordway, A. J., Hancuch, K. N., Johnson, W., Wiliams, T. M., & Rebeiz, M. (2014). The expansion of body coloration involves coordinated evolution in cis and trans within the pigmentation regulatory network of Drosophila prostipennis. Developmental Biology, 392(2), 431–440. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.05.023

Rogers, W. A., Grover, S., Stringer, S. J., Parks, J., Rebeiz, M., & Williams, T. M. (2014). A survey of the trans-regulatory landscape for Drosophila melanogaster abdominal pigmentation. Developmental Biology, 385(2), 417–432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2013.11.013
​2013
William J. Glassford, Mark Rebeiz; Assessing constraints on the path of regulatory sequence evolution. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 19 December 2013; 368 (1632): 20130026. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0026

Salomone, J. R., Rogers, W. A., Rebeiz, M., & Williams, T. M. (2013). The evolution of Bab paralog expression and abdominal pigmentation among Sophophora fruit fly species. Evolution & Development, 15(6), 442–457. https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.12053

Rogers, W. A., Salomone, J. R., Tacy, D. J., Camino, E. M., Davis, K. A., Rebeiz, M., & Williams, T. M. (2013). Recurrent Modification of a Conserved Cis-Regulatory Element Underlies Fruit Fly Pigmentation Diversity. PLOS Genetics, 9(8), e1003740. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1003740​
2012
Rebeiz, M., Castro, B., Liu, F., Yue, F., & Posakony, J. W. (2012). Ancestral and conserved cis-regulatory architectures in developmental control genes. Developmental Biology, 362(2), 282–294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.12.011

Rebeiz, M. J. (2012). Collaborative Research: The structure, function, and evolution of a regulatory network controlling sexually dimorphic fruit fly development. NSF Award Number 1145947. Directorate for Biological Sciences, 11(1145947), 45947.​
​2011
Rebeiz, M., & Williams, T. M. (2011). Experimental Approaches to Evaluate the Contributions of Candidate Cis-regulatory Mutations to Phenotypic Evolution. In V. Orgogozo & M. V. Rockman (Eds.), Molecular Methods for Evolutionary Genetics (pp. 351–375). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-228-1_21

Rebeiz, M., Jikomes, N., Kassner, V. A., & Carroll, S. B. (2011). Evolutionary origin of a novel gene expression pattern through co-option of the latent activities of existing regulatory sequences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(25), 10036–10043. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105937108

Rebeiz, M., Miller, S. W., & Posakony, J. W. (2011). Notch regulates numb: Integration of conditional and autonomous cell fate specification. Development, 138(2), 215–225. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.050161
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