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Zayas, R.M., Cebrià, F., Guo, T., Feng, J., and P. A. Newmark. (2010). The use of lectins as markers for differentiated secretory cells in planarians.  Dev. Dyn. 239, 2888-2897.

Wang, Y., Zayas, R.M., Guo, T., and Newmark, P.A. (2007).
nanos function is essential for development and regeneration of planarian germ cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A 104, 5901-5906.

Zayas, R.M., and Trimmer, B.A. (2007). Characterization of NO/cGMP-mediated responses in identified motoneurons. Cell Mol. Neurobiol. 27, 191-209.

Zayas, R.M., Hernandez, A., Habermann, B., Wang, Y., Stary, J.M., and Newmark, P.A. (2005). The planarian Schmidtea mediterranea as a model for epigenetic germ cell specification: analysis of ESTs from the hermaphroditic strain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A 102, 18491-18496.

Zayas, R.M., Bold, T.D., and Newmark, P.A. (2005). Spliced-leader trans-splicing in freshwater planarians. Mol. Biol. Evol. 22, 2048-2054.

Zayas, R.M., Qazi, S., Morton, D.B., and Trimmer, B.A. (2002). Nicotinic-acetylcholine receptors are functionally coupled to the nitric oxide/cGMP-pathway in insect neurons. J. Neurochem. 83, 421-431.

Trimmer, B.A., Aprille, J.R., Dudzinski, D.M., Lagace, C.J., Lewis, S.M., Michel, T., Qazi, S., and Zayas, R.M. (2001). Nitric oxide and the control of firefly flashing. Science 292, 2486-2488.

Zayas, R.M., Qazi, S., Morton, D.B., and Trimmer, B.A. (2000). Neurons involved in nitric oxide-mediated cGMP signaling in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. J. Comp. Neurol. 419, 422-438.

Muniyappa, R., Walsh, M.F., Rangi, J.S., Zayas, R.M., Standley, P.R., Ram, J.L., and Sowers, J.R. (1997). Insulin like growth factor 1 increases vascular smooth muscle nitric oxide production. Life Sci. 61, 925-931.

Standley, P.R., Zhang, F., Zayas, R.M., Muniyappa, R., Walsh, M.F., Cragoe, E., and Sowers, J.R. (1997). IGF-I regulation of Na(+)-K(+)-ATPase in rat arterial smooth muscle. Am. J. Physiol. 273, E113-121.