Department of Animal Biology

School of Integrative Biology

Institute for Genomic Biology

University of Illinois

de Guzman Strong, C., Conlan, S., Cheng, J., Deming, C.B., Sears, K.E., Segre, J.A.  (in review).  The Epidermal Differentiation Complex (EDC): A highly conserved syntenic block harboring regulatory elements including an enhancer in psoriasis-associated LCE3C_LCE3B-del.

Doroba, C. and Sears, K.E. (in review). The highly divergent development of the forelimb in the marsupial Monodelphis domestica: an amniote with no apical ectodermal ridge (AER). 

Kelly, E.M. and Sears, K.E. (in review). Reduced integration in marsupial limbs and the implications for mammalian evolution.

Sears, K.E. (in press). Differences in the timing of prechrondrogenic limb development in mammals: The marsupial-placental dichotomy resolved.  Evolution TBA.

Hubler, M. and Sears, K.E. (in press). The developmental reduction of the marsupial coracoid: A case study in Monodelphis domestica.  Journal of Morphology TBA.

Sears, K.E., Finarelli, J.J., Flynn, J.J. and Wyss A.  (2008). Morphometric estimators of body mass in New World monkeys (Platyrrhini, Anthropoidea, Primates), with consideration of the Miocene-aged Chilecebus carrascoensis. American Museum Novitates 3617: 1-29.

Sears, K.E. (2008). Molecular determinants of bat wing development.  Cells, Tissues, Organs 187: 6-12.

Sears, K.E., Goswami, A., Flynn, J.J., and Niswander, L.A. (2007). The correlated evolution of Runx2 tandem repeats, transcriptional activity and facial length in Carnivora. Evolution and Development 9(6): 555-565.

Sears, K.E., Behringer, R.R., Rasweiler, J.J. and Niswander, L.A (2007).  The evolutionary and developmental basis of parallel reduction in mammalian zeugopod elements.  American Naturalist 169(1): 105-117.

Sears, K.E., Behringer, R.R., Rasweiler, J.J. and Niswander, L.A (2006). The development of bat flight: Morphologic and molecular evolution of bat forelimb digit. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103(17): 6581-6586.

* Research featured in ScienceNOW News (April 17th, 2006)

Sears, K.E. (2005).  The developmental basis of scapular evolution in giant kangaroos (Macropodidae: Sthenurinae). Journal of Morphology 265(2): 226-236.

Sears, K.E.  (2004).  Constraints on the morphological evolution of marsupial shoulder girdles.  Evolution 58(10): 2353-2370.*#

                   *Research featured in the opening dialog of Science 298: 955-956.

                   Research featured in Developmental Biology: 7th Edition (2003; page 775) by S. Gilbert

Flynn, J.J., Novacek, M.J., Dodson, H.E., Frassinetti, D., McKenna, M.C., Norell, M.A., Sears, K.E., Swisher, C.C., Wyss, A.R.  (2002).  A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: Implications for geology, geochronology and tectonics. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 15: 285-302.