Publications

Sea Urchin (S. purpuratus) Research

Barela Hudgell, MA, LC Smith. 2022. The repeats in SpTransformer sequences result in multiple but limited alternative alignments. Frontiers in Immunology, 13:1000177.

doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.1000177

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Barela Hudgell, M.A., Grayfer, L., Smith, L.C., 2022. Coelomocyte populations in the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, undergo dynamic changes in response to immune challenge. Front. Immunol. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.940852

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Barela Hudgell, M.A., Grayfer, L., Smith, L.C., 2022. A flow cytometry based approach to identify distinct coelomocyte subsets of the purple sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Dev. Comp. Immunol. 130, 104352.

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Barela Hudgell, M.A., Smith, L.C., 2022. Lipofection mediated transfection fails for sea urchin coelomocytes. PLoS One 17(5): e0267911.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.026791

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Barela Hudgell, M.A., Smith, L.C., 2021. Sequence Diversity, Locus Structure, and Evolutionary History of the SpTransformer Genes in the Sea Urchin Genome. Front. Immunol. 12, 744783.

doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.744783

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Oren M, MA Barela Hudgell, B D'Allura, J Agronin, A Gross, D Podini and LC Smith. 2016. “Short tandem repeats, segmental duplications, gene deletion, and genomic instability in a rapidly diversified immune gene family.” BMC Genomics.

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Reviews

Smith, LC, V Arriza, MA Barela Hudgell, AG Bodnar, KM Buckley, N Dheilly, N Franchi, SD Fugmann, R Furukawa, J Garcia-Arraras, JH Henson, T Hibino, ZM Irons, C Li, CM Lun, AJ Majeske, M Oren, P Pagliara, A Pinsino, DA Raftos, JP Rast, B Samasa, CS Schrankel, L Stabili, K Stensväg, E Sutton. 2018. Complexity of the Immune System in Echinoderms. In “Advances in Comparative Immunology”, EL Cooper, ed. Springer Publisher. Chapter 13, pp 409-501

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Oren, M, MA Barela Hudgell, P Golconda, CM Lun and LC Smith. 2016. Genomic instability and shared mechanisms for gene diversification in two distant immune gene families: the plant NBS-LRR genes and the echinoid 185/333 genes. In “The Evolution of the Immune System, Conservation and Diversification” (D Malagoli, ed.). Elsevier Inc. Academic Press, London. pp. 295-310.

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