Cassandra G. Extavour

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

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Cassandra G. Extavour is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Cassandra G. Extavour has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Genetics, 42 papers in Molecular Biology and 20 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Cassandra G. Extavour's work include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (22 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (19 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (13 papers). Cassandra G. Extavour is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (22 papers), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (19 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (13 papers). Cassandra G. Extavour collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Japan. Cassandra G. Extavour's co-authors include Michael Akam, Ben Ewen‐Campen, Evelyn E. Schwager, Seth Donoughe, Carrie A. Whittle, Prashant P. Sharma, Delbert A. Green, Taro Nakamura, Arpita Kulkarni and Kevin Pang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

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Cassandra G. Extavour

78 papers receiving 2.8k citations

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Mechanisms of germ cell specification across the metazoans: epigenesis and preformation

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Duplex PCR assay to determine sex and mating status of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae), vector of the Lyme disease pathogen 2025 ·Journal of Medical Entomology ·Isobel Ronai, Julia C. Frederick, Alec T. Thompson, (unknown), Michael J. Yabsley, Utpal Pal, Cassandra G. Extavour, Travis C. Glenn	1
2	Establishment of CRISPR/Cas9-based knock-in in a hemimetabolous insect: targeted gene tagging in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus 2024 ·Development ·Yuji Matsuoka, Taro Nakamura, Takahito Watanabe, (unknown), Sayuri Tomonari, Guillem Ylla, Carrie A. Whittle, Sumihare Noji, Taro Mito, Cassandra G. Extavour	5
3	The evolution of ovary-biased gene expression in Hawaiian Drosophila 2023 ·PLoS Genetics ·Samuel H. Church, Catriona Munro, Casey W. Dunn, Cassandra G. Extavour	2
4	Phylotranscriptomics Reveals Discordance in the Phylogeny of Hawaiian Drosophila and Scaptomyza (Diptera: Drosophilidae) 2022 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Samuel H. Church, Cassandra G. Extavour	3
5	Evolution of a Cytoplasmic Determinant: Evidence for the Biochemical Basis of Functional Evolution of the Novel Germ Line Regulator Oskar 2021 ·Molecular Biology and Evolution ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Guillem Ylla, Cassandra G. Extavour	4
6	Distinct gene expression dynamics in germ line and somatic tissue during ovariole morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster 2021 ·G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·(unknown), Guillem Ylla, Cassandra G. Extavour	4
7	Evolutionary dynamics of sex‐biased genes expressed in cricket brains and gonads 2021 ·Journal of Evolutionary Biology ·Carrie A. Whittle, Arpita Kulkarni, Cassandra G. Extavour	13
8	Insights into the genomic evolution of insects from cricket genomes 2021 ·Communications Biology ·Guillem Ylla, Taro Nakamura, Takehiko Itoh, Rei Kajitani, Atsushi Toyoda, Sayuri Tomonari, Tetsuya Bando, Yoshiyasu Ishimaru, Takahito Watanabe, (unknown), Yuji Matsuoka, (unknown), Sumihare Noji, Taro Mito, Cassandra G. Extavour	58
9	Repeated loss of variation in insect ovary morphology highlights the role of development in life-history evolution 2021 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Samuel H. Church, Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Seth Donoughe, (unknown), Cassandra G. Extavour	24
10	Absence of a Faster-X Effect in Beetles ( Tribolium , Coleoptera) 2020 ·G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·Carrie A. Whittle, Arpita Kulkarni, Cassandra G. Extavour	17
11	Null hypotheses for developmental evolution 2020 ·Development ·(unknown), Cassandra G. Extavour	17
12	Hox genes limit germ cell formation in the short germ insect Gryllus bimaculatus 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Taro Nakamura, Cassandra G. Extavour	7
13	Evidence of multifaceted functions of codon usage in translation within the model beetle Tribolium castaneum 2019 ·DNA Research ·Carrie A. Whittle, Arpita Kulkarni, Cassandra G. Extavour	3
14	Ancestral and offspring nutrition interact to affect life-history traits in Drosophila melanogaster 2019 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Cassandra G. Extavour	24
15	A dataset of egg size and shape from more than 6,700 insect species 2019 ·Scientific Data ·Samuel H. Church, Seth Donoughe, Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Cassandra G. Extavour	35
16	The Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus: Techniques for Quantitative and Functional Genetic Analyses of Cricket Biology 2019 ·Results and problems in cell differentiation ·Arpita Kulkarni, Cassandra G. Extavour	14
17	Ablation of a Single Cell From Eight-cell Embryos of the Amphipod Crustacean <em>Parhyale hawaiensis</em> 2014 ·Journal of Visualized Experiments ·(unknown), Cassandra G. Extavour	1
18	Distal‐less and dachshund pattern both plesiomorphic and apomorphic structures in chelicerates: RNA interference in the harvestman Phalangium opilio (Opiliones) 2013 ·Evolution & Development ·Prashant P. Sharma, Evelyn E. Schwager, Gonzalo Giribet, Elizabeth L. Jockusch, Cassandra G. Extavour	36
19	Evolution of the chelicera: a dachshund domain is retained in the deutocerebral appendage of Opiliones (Arthropoda, Chelicerata) 2012 ·Evolution & Development ·Prashant P. Sharma, Evelyn E. Schwager, Cassandra G. Extavour, Gonzalo Giribet	35
20	Evolution of the bilaterian germ line: lineage origin and modulation of specification mechanisms 2007 ·Integrative and Comparative Biology ·Cassandra G. Extavour	91

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