David Gittin and Christian P. Petersen. “A Wnt11 and Dishevelled signaling pathway acts prior to injury to control wound polarization for the onset of planarian regeneration.” Curr Biol. 2022 Dec 19;32(24):5262-5273.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.10.071. Epub 2022 Dec 9.
Christian P. Petersen. “Wnt signaling in whole-body regeneration” book chapter from “Current Topics in Developmental Biology: Wnt Signaling in Development and Disease Volume 153” ed. T. Yamaguchi and K. Willert. Curr Top Dev Biol. 2023;153:347-380. doi: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2023.01.007. Epub 2023 Mar 8.PMID: 36967200
Nicolle A. Bonar, David Gittin, Christian P. Petersen. “src-1 acts with Wnt and FGFRL factors to control anteroposterior patterning in planarians.” Development. 2022 Apr 1;149(7):dev200125. doi: 10.1242/dev.200125. Epub 2022 Mar 30.
Erik G. Schad, Christian P. Petersen. “STRIPAK Limits Stem Cell Differentiation of a WNT Signaling Center to Control Planarian Axis Scaling.” Curr Biol. 2020 Jan 20;30(2):254-263.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.068. Epub 2020 Jan 9.
Alex Karge, Nicolle A. Bonar, Scott Wood, Christian P. Petersen. “tec-1 kinase negatively regulates regenerative neurogenesis in planarians.” eLife. 2020 Jan 20;9. pii: e47293. doi: 10.7554/eLife.47293.
Aneesha G Tewari, Jared H Owen, Christian P Petersen, Daniel E Wagner, Peter W Reddien. “A Small Set of Conserved Genes, Including sp5 and Hox, Are Activated by Wnt Signaling in the Posterior of Planarians and Acoels.” PLoS Genetics. 2019 Oct 18;15(10):e1008401. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008401.
Eric M. Hill, Christian P. Petersen. “Positional information specifies the site of organ regeneration and not tissue maintenance in planarians.” eLife. 2018 Mar 16;7. pii: e33680. doi: 10.7554/eLife.33680.
Oscar M. Arenas, Emma E. Zaharieva, Alecio Para, Constanza Vásquez-Doorman, Christian P. Petersen, Marco Gallio. “Activation of planarian TRPA1 by reactive oxygen species reveals a conserved mechanism for animal nociception.” Nat Neurosci. 2017 Dec;20(12):1686-1693. doi: 10.1038/s41593-017-0005-0. Epub 2017 Oct 16.
Nicolle Bonar and Christian P. Petersen. “Integrin signaling regulates blastema organization and suppresses brain neurogenesis in planarian regeneration.” Development. 2017 Mar 1;144(5):784-794. doi: 10.1242/dev.139964. Epub 2017 Jan 26.
Petersen CP. Regeneration: Organizing the Blastema in Planarians. Curr Biol. 2017 Mar 6;27(5):R181-R183. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.057. (Preview)
Rachel Lander and Christian P. Petersen. “Wnt, Ptk7, and FGFRL expression gradients control trunk positional identity in planarian regeneration.” eLife. 2016 Apr 13;5. pii: e12850. doi: 10.7554/eLife.12850.
Constanza Vásquez-Doorman and Christian P. Petersen. “The NuRD complex component p66 suppresses photoreceptor neuron differentiation in planarian head regeneration.” Regeneration (Oxf). 2016 Aug 18;3(3):168-78. doi: 10.1002/reg2.58. eCollection 2016 Jun.
Eric Hill and Christian P. Petersen. “Wnt/Notum spatial feedback inhibition controls neoblast differentiation to regulate reversible growth of the planarian brain.” Development 2015 Nov 2. pii: dev.123612.
Owen JH, Wagner DE, Chen CC, Petersen CP, Reddien PW. “teashirt is required for head-versus-tail regeneration polarity in planarians.” Development. 2015 Mar 15;142(6):1062-72.
Constanza Vásquez-Doorman and Christian P. Petersen. “zic-1 Expression in Planarian Neoblasts after Injury Controls Anterior Pole Regeneration.” PLoS Genet. 2014 Jul 3;10(7):e1004452. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004452.
Christian P. Petersen and Peter W. Reddien. “Polarized notum activation at wounds inhibits Wnt function to promote planarian head regeneration.” Science. 2011 332 (6031):852-5.
Christian P. Petersen and Peter W. Reddien. “A wound-induced Wnt expression program controls planarian regeneration polarity.” Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2009 106 (40): 17061-6.
Christian P. Petersen and Peter W. Reddien. “Wnt signaling and the polarity of the primary body axis.” Cell 2009 139(6): 1056-68. (Review / Hypothesis)
Christian P. Petersen and Peter W. Reddien. “Smed-bcatenin-1 is required for anteroposterior blastema polarity in planarian regeneration.” Science 2008 319 (5861): 327-30.