Koitz FA, Miller CP, Kinney B, Gordon KL. C. elegans pre-dauer starvation arrests germ cell proliferation and ligand presentation by the germline stem cell niche via a rapidly reversible, protein-based mechanism bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.23.655783. In review at Development. UPDATED 11/2/2025

Li X, Gordon KL. (2025). MIG-21 regulates Wnt and Netrin signaling in gonad migration in C. elegans. PLOS Genetics 21(9): e1011866. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1011866

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Kinney B, Menjivar-Hernandez J, Koitz F, Grinevich D, Baselios M, Hammell CM, Gordon KL. (2025). FLYWCH transcription factors act in a LIN-42/Period autoregulatory loop during gonad migration in C. elegans. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.10.664215. In revision at Genetics.

Ameyaa-Sakyi A, Harris TR, Clarke CE, David R. McMullin DR, Gordon KL, Sherwood DR, Hartman JH, Rand AA. (2025). Human mitochondrial CYP2E1-mediated styrene metabolism increases oxidative stress and impairs antioxidant rescue in Caenorhabditis elegans. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part C: Toxicology and Pharmacology. Volume 298, 110319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpc.2025.110319

Merritt RA, Heaney K, Shuchi N, Gordon KL*, Trammell SR*. (2025). Mid-IR Imaging Can Detect Waste Heat Production in the Nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Journal of Biophotonics. https://doi.org/10.1002/jbio.202500078

Singh N*, Scott K*, Proctor J, Gordon KL. (2025). An RNAi screen of Rab GTPase genes in C. elegans reveals that morphogenesis has a higher demand than stem cell niche maintenance for rab-1 in the somatic cells of the reproductive system, G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics, 2025; jkaf085, https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkaf085

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Singh N, Zhang P, Li KJ, Gordon KL. (2024) The Rac pathway prevents cell fragmentation in a nonprotrusively migrating leader cell during C. elegans gonad organogenesis. Current Bio. doi: DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.073

Gonzalez, HC, Misare KR, Mendenhall TT, Wolf BJ, Mulholland PJ, Gordon KL, Hartman JH. (2024) Transgenic expression of human cytochrome P450 2E1 in C. elegans and rat PC-12 cells sensitizes to ethanol-induced behavioral and mitochondrial effects. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.150735

Misare KR, Ampolini EA, Gonzalez HC, Sullivan KA, Li X, Miller C, Sosseh B, Dunne JB, Voelkel‑Johnson C, Gordon KL, Hartman JH. (2023) The consequences of tetraploidy on Caenorhabditis elegans physiology and sensitivity to chemotherapeutics. Scientific Reports. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-45225-w

Li X, Singh N, Miller C, Washington I, Sosseh B, Gordon KL. (2022) The C. elegans gonadal sheath Sh1 cells extend asymmetrically over a differentiating germ cell population in the proliferative zone. eLife. 11:e75497.

Gordon KL (2021). News &Views: Fatal decision made under pressure. Nat. Phys. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-021-01239-7

Gordon KL (2020). Recent advances in the genetic, anatomical, and environmental regulation of the C. elegans germ line progenitor zone.J. Dev. Biol. 2020, 8(3), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/jdb8030014

Gordon KL, Zussman JW, Li X, Miller C, Sherwood DR. (2020). Stem cell niche exit in C. elegans via orientation and segregation of daughter cells by a cryptic cell outside the niche. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.56383.  

Gordon KL*, Linden-High LM*, Payne SG*, Pani AM, Goldstein B, Hubbard JA, Sherwood DR. (2019). Ectopic germ cells induce niche-like E-cadherin- and L1CAM-mediated cell enwrapment by body wall muscle. Current Bio. 29(5): 823-833.  

Hartman J, Christopher T. Richie, C, Gordon K, Mello D, Castillo P, Zhu A, Wang Y,.Hoffer B, Sherwood D, Meyer J, Harvey B. (2019). MANF deletion abrogates early larval Caenorhabditis elegans stress response to tunicamycin and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. EJCB. doi: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2019.05.002

Hartman, J, Smith L, Gordon K, Laranjeiro R, Driscoll M, Sherwood D, Meyer J. (2018). Swimming exercise and transient food deprivation in Caenorhabditis elegans promote mitochondrial maintenance and protect against chemical-induced mitotoxicity. Scientific Reports. 8(1): 8359. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-26552-9

Linden, LM, Gordon KL, Pani AM, Payne SG, Garde A, Burkholder D, Chi Q, Goldstein B, Sherwood DR (2017). Identification of regulators of germ stem cell enwrapment by its niche in C. elegans. Dev Biol. 429(1):271-284.