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Crane, E., Bian, Q., McCord, R.P., Lajoie, B.R., Wheeler, B. S., Ralston, E.J., Uzawa, S., Dekker, J., Meyer, B.J. (2015) Condensin-driven remodelling of X chromosome topology during dosage compensation. Nature, 1 June 2015 doi:10.1038/nature14450 [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Meyer, B.J. (2015) Dramatic Enhancement of Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 Through Improved Guide RNA Design. Genetics, February 18, 2015 genetics.115.175166 [PDF]
 
Severson, A., Meyer, B.J. (2014) Divergent kleisin subunits of cohesin specify mechanisms to tether and release meiotic chromosomes. eLife 2014;10.7554/eLife.03467 [PDF]
 
Libuda, D., Uzawa, S., Meyer, B.J., Villeneuve, A. (2013) Meiotic chromosome structures constrain and respond to designation of crossover sites. 
Nature 502, 703-706 (31 October 2013) [PDF]
 
Maxwell, C., Kruesi, W.S.., Core, L., Kurhanewicz, N., Waters, C., Lewarch, C., Antoshechkin, A., Lis, J., Meyer, B.J., Baugh, L.R.. (2014) Pol II Docking and Pausing at Growth and Stress Genes in C. elegans. Cell Reports Volume 6, Issue 3, p455-466, 13 February 2014 [PDF]
 
Pferdehirt, R.R., Meyer, B.J. (2013) SUMOylation is essential for sex-specific assembly and function of the Caenorhabditis elegans dosage compensation complex on X chromosomes. PNAS 2013; doi:10.1073/pnas.1315793110 [PDF]
 
Lo, T.W., Pickle, C.S., Lin, S., Ralston, E.J., Gurling, M., Schartner, C.M., Bian, Q., Doudna, J.A., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Precise and Heritable Genome Editing in Evolutionarily Diverse Nematodes Using TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9 to Engineer Insertions and Deletions. Genetics 195; 331-348. [PDF]
 
Kruesi, W.S., Core, L.J., Waters, C.T., Lis, J.T., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Condensin controls recruitment of RNA polymerase II to achieve nematode X-chromosome dosage compensation. eLife 2013; 2:e00808. [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Nix, P., Jow, M.M., Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Molecular antagonism between X-chromosome and autosome signals determines nematode sex. Genes & Development 27, 1159-1178. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Wood AJ*, Lo TW*, Zeitler B*, Pickle CS, Ralston EJ, Lee AH, Amora R, Miller JC, Leung E, Meng X, Zhang L, Rebar EJ, Gregory PD, Urnov FD, Meyer BJ. (2011) Targeted genome editing across species using ZFNs and TALENs. Science 333, 307. *These authors contributed equally to this work. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Pferdehirt, R. R., Kruesi, W. S., Meyer, B. J. (2011)  An MLL/COMPASS Subunit Functions in the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex to Target X Chromosomes for Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression.  Genes & Development 25, 499-515. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Meyer, B. J. (2010) Targeting X chromosomes for repression. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 20, 179-189. [PDF]
 
Wood, A. J., Severson, A. F., Meyer, B. J. (2010)  Condensin and Cohesin Complexity: the Expanding Repertoire of Functions.  Nat. Rev. Genet. 11, 391-404. [PDF]
 
Youds, J. L., Mets, D. G., Mcllwraith, M. J., Martin, J. S., Ward, J. D., O'Neil, N. J., Rose, A. M., West, S. C., Meyer, B. J., Boulton, S. J. (2010) RTEL-1 Enforces Meiotic Crossover Interference and Homeostasis. Science 327, 1254-1258. [PDF]
 
Mets, D. G., Meyer, B. J. (2009)  A Condensin Complex Regulates DSB Distribution and thus Crossover Frequency by Controlling Chromosome Structure.  Cell 139, 73-86. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Severson, A.F., Ling, L., van Zuylen, V., Meyer, B.J. (2009)  The axial element protein HTP-3 promotes cohesin loading and meiotic axis assembly in C. elegans to implement the meiotic program of chromosome segregationGenes & Development 23 (15), 1763-1778. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Jans, J. Gladden, J. M., Ralston, E. J., Pickle, C. S., Michel, A. H., Pferdehirt, R. R., Eisen, M. B., Meyer, B. J. (2009)  A condensin-like dosage compensation complex acts at a distance to control expression throughout the genome. Genes & Development 23 (5), 602-618. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Csankovszki, G., Collette, K., Spahl, K., Carey, J., Snyder, M., Petty, E., Patel, U., Tabuchi, T., Liu, H., McLeod, I., Thompson, J., Sarkesik, A., Yates, J., Meyer, B.J., Hagstrom, K. (2009) Three distinct condensin complexes control C. elegans chromosome dynamics. Current Biology 19 (1), 9-19. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Reiner, D.J., Ailion, M., Thomas, J.H., Meyer, B.J. (2008) C. elegans anaplastic lymphoma kinase ortholog SCD-2 controls dauer formation by modulating TGF-beta signaling. Current Biology 18(15), 1101-9. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Tsai, C.J., Mets, D.G., Albrecht, M.R., Nix, P., Chan, A., Meyer, B.J. (2008) Meiotic crossover number and distribution are regulated by a dosage compensation protein that resembles a condensin subunit. Genes & Development 22, 194-211. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2007) A ONECUT Homeodomain Protein Communicates X Chromosome Dose to Specify Caenorhabditis elegans Sexual Fate by Repressing a Sex Switch Gene. Genetics 177 (3), 1621-1637. [PDF]
 
Gladden, J.M., Farboud, B., Meyer, B.J. (2007) Revisiting the X:A Signal That Specifies Caenorhabditis elegans Sexual Fate. Genetics 177 (3), 1639-1654. [PDF]
 
McDonel, P.E., Jans, J., Peterson, B.K., Meyer, B.J. (2006) Clustered DNA motifs mark X chromosomes for repression by a dosage compensation complex. Nature 444, 614-618. [PDF]
 
Chu, D.S., Liu, H., Nix, P., Wu, T.F., Ralston, E.J., Yates, J.R., Meyer, B.J. (2006) Sperm chromatin proteomics identifies evolutionarily conserved fertility factors. Nature 443, 101-105. [PDF]
 
Powell, J.R., Jow, M.M., Meyer, B.J. (2005) The T-box transcription factor SEA-1 is an autosomal element of the X:A signal that determines C. elegans sex. Dev. Cell 9 (3), 339-349. [PDF] 
 
Meyer, B. J. X-Chromosome dosage compensation (June 25, 2005), WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, WormBook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.8.1, http://www.wormbook.org. [PDF]
 
Skop, A., Liu, H., Yates, J., Meyer, B., Heald, R. (2004) Dissection of the mammalian midbody proteome reveals conserved cytokinesis mechanisms. Science 305, 61-66. [PDF] 
 
Csankovszki, G., McDonel, P. and Meyer, B.J. (2004) Recruitment and Spreading of the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex along X Chromosomes. Science 303, 1182-1185. [PDF] 
 
Chan, R.C., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2004) Condensin Restructures Chromosomes in preparation for Meiotic Divisions. J. Cell Biology 167, 613-625. [PDF]
 
Yonker, S.A. and Meyer, B.J. (2003) Recruitment of C. elegans Dosage Compensation Proteins for Gene-Specific Versus Chromosome-Wide
Repression. Development 130, 6519-6532. [PDF]
 
Chan, R., Chan, A., Jeon, M., Wu, T., Pasqualone, D., Rougvie, A., Meyer, B. (2003) Chromosome cohesion is regulated by C. elegans TIM-1, a paralog of the clock protein TIMELESS. Nature 423, 1002-1009. [PDF]
 
Luz, J.G., Hassig, C.A., Pickle, C., Godzik, A., Meyer, B.J., Wilson, I.A. (2003) XOL-1, Primary Determinant of Sexual Fate in C. elegans Is a GHMP Kinase Family Member and a Structural Prototype for a New Class of Developmental Regulators. Genes Dev. 17, 977-990. [PDF]
 
Chu, D.S., Dawes, H.E., Lieb, J.D., Chan, R.C., Kuo, A.F., and Meyer B.J. (2002) A Molecular Link between Gene-Specific and Chromosome-Wide Transcriptional Repression. Genes Dev. 16, 796-805. [PDF]
 
Hagstrom, K., Holmes, V., Cozzarelli, N., and Meyer, B.J. (2002) C. elegans Condensin Promotes Mitotic Chromosome Architecture, Centromere Organization, and Sister Chromatid Segregation during Mitosis and Meiosis. Genes Dev. 16, 729-742. [PDF]
 
Howe, M., McDonald, K., Albertson, D., and Meyer, B.J. (2001) HIM-10 is required for kinetochore structure and function on C. elegans holocentric chromosomes. J. Cell Biol. 153, 1227-1238. [PDF] 
 
Lieb, J.D., Oritz de Solorzano, C., Rodriguez, E.G., Jones, A., Angelo, M. Lockett, S. and Meyer, B.J. (2000) The C. elegans Dosage Compensation Machinery is Recruited to X-Chromosome DNA Attached to an Autosome. Genetics 156, 1603-1621. [PDF] 
 
Meyer BJ. Mechanisms of sex determination and X-chromosome dosage compensation. Genetics, Volume 220, Issue 2, February 2022, iyab197, doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyab197. [PDF]
 
Ghosh RP, Meyer BJ. Spatial Organization of Chromatin: Emergence of Chromatin Structure During Development. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Jul 6. doi: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-032321-035734. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34228506. [PDF]
 
Krassovsky K, Ghosh RP, Meyer BJ. Genome-wide profiling reveals functional interplay of DNA sequence composition, transcriptional activity, and nucleosome positioning in driving DNA supercoiling and helix destabilization in C. elegans. Genome Res. 2021 Jun 24;31(7):1187–202. doi: 10.1101/gr.270082.120. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34168009; PMCID: PMC8256864. [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Novak, C.S., Nicoll, M., Quiogue, A., Meyer, B.J. (2020). Dose-dependent action of the RNA binding protein FOX-1 to relay X-Chromosome number and determine C. elegans sex. eLife 2020;9:e62963. doi: 10.7554/eLife.62963. [PDF]
 
Bian, Q., Anderson, E.A., Yang, Q., Meyer, B.J. (2020). Histone H3K9 methylation promotes formation of genome compartments in Caenorhabditis elegans via chromosome compaction and perinuclear anchoring. PNAS 117 (21) 11459-11470. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002068117. [PDF]
 
Anderson, E.A., Frankino, P.A., Higuchi-Sanabria, R., Yang, Q., Bian, Q., Podshivalova, K., Shin, A., Kenyon, C., Dillin, A., Meyer, B.J. (2019). X Chromosome Domain Architecture Regulates Caenorhabditis elegans Lifespan but Not Dosage Compensation. Developmental Cell (Epub 5 September 2019). [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2019).  Strategies for Efficient Genome Editing Using CRISPR-Cas9. Genetics 211; 431-457. doi: doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301775. [PDF]
 
Yin, D., Schwarz, E.M., Thomas, C.G., Felde, R.L., Korf, I.F., Cutter, A.D., Schartner, C.M., Ralston, E.J., Meyer, B.J., Haag, E.S. (2018).  Rapid Genome Shrinkage in a Self-Fertile Nematode Reveals Sperm Competition Proteins.  Science 359:  55-61.  DOI: 10.1126/science.aao0827  PMID:  29302007 PMCID: PMC5789457 [PDF]
 
Bian, Q., Anderson, E.C., Brejc, K., Meyer, B.J. (2018).  Dynamic Control of Chromosome Topology and Gene Expression by a Chromatin Modification.  Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. pii: 034439. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2017.82.034439. [Epub ahead of print] [PDF]
 
Meyer, B.J. (2018).  Sex and death: from cell fate specification to dynamic control of X-chromosome structure and gene expression.  Molecular Biology of the Cell 29; 2603-2799. doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E18-06-0397. 1 November 2018. [PDF]
 
Meyer, B.J. (2018).  On Sex and Death. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Summer 2018. [PDF]
 
Brejc, K., Bian, Q., Uzawa, S., Wheeler, B.J., Anderson, E.C., King, D.S., Kranzusch, P.J., Preston, C.G., Meyer B.J. (2017) Dynamic Control of X Chromosome Conformation and Repression by a Histone H4K20 Demethylase. Cell, 2017 Sep 21;171(1):85-102.e23. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.041. Epub 2017 Aug 31. PubMed PMID: 28867287. [PDF]
 
Wheeler BS, Anderson E, Frøkjær-Jensen C, Bian Q, Jorgensen E, Meyer BJ. (2016) Chromosome-wide mechanisms to decouple gene expression from gene dose during sex-chromosome evolution. eLife, 2016 August 30;5 [PDF]
 
Crane, E., Bian, Q., McCord, R.P., Lajoie, B.R., Wheeler, B. S., Ralston, E.J., Uzawa, S., Dekker, J., Meyer, B.J. (2015) Condensin-driven remodelling of X chromosome topology during dosage compensation. Nature, 1 June 2015 doi:10.1038/nature14450 [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Meyer, B.J. (2015) Dramatic Enhancement of Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 Through Improved Guide RNA Design. Genetics, February 18, 2015 genetics.115.175166 [PDF]
 
Severson, A., Meyer, B.J. (2014) Divergent kleisin subunits of cohesin specify mechanisms to tether and release meiotic chromosomes. eLife 2014;10.7554/eLife.03467 [PDF]
 
Libuda, D., Uzawa, S., Meyer, B.J., Villeneuve, A. (2013) Meiotic chromosome structures constrain and respond to designation of crossover sites. 
Nature 502, 703-706 (31 October 2013) [PDF]
 
Maxwell, C., Kruesi, W.S.., Core, L., Kurhanewicz, N., Waters, C., Lewarch, C., Antoshechkin, A., Lis, J., Meyer, B.J., Baugh, L.R.. (2014) Pol II Docking and Pausing at Growth and Stress Genes in C. elegans. Cell Reports Volume 6, Issue 3, p455-466, 13 February 2014 [PDF]
 
Pferdehirt, R.R., Meyer, B.J. (2013) SUMOylation is essential for sex-specific assembly and function of the Caenorhabditis elegans dosage compensation complex on X chromosomes. PNAS 2013; doi:10.1073/pnas.1315793110 [PDF]
 
Lo, T.W., Pickle, C.S., Lin, S., Ralston, E.J., Gurling, M., Schartner, C.M., Bian, Q., Doudna, J.A., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Precise and Heritable Genome Editing in Evolutionarily Diverse Nematodes Using TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9 to Engineer Insertions and Deletions. Genetics 195; 331-348. [PDF]
 
Kruesi, W.S., Core, L.J., Waters, C.T., Lis, J.T., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Condensin controls recruitment of RNA polymerase II to achieve nematode X-chromosome dosage compensation. eLife 2013; 2:e00808. [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Nix, P., Jow, M.M., Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Molecular antagonism between X-chromosome and autosome signals determines nematode sex. Genes & Development 27, 1159-1178. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Wood AJ*, Lo TW*, Zeitler B*, Pickle CS, Ralston EJ, Lee AH, Amora R, Miller JC, Leung E, Meng X, Zhang L, Rebar EJ, Gregory PD, Urnov FD, Meyer BJ. (2011) Targeted genome editing across species using ZFNs and TALENs. Science 333, 307. *These authors contributed equally to this work. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Pferdehirt, R. R., Kruesi, W. S., Meyer, B. J. (2011)  An MLL/COMPASS Subunit Functions in the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex to Target X Chromosomes for Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression.  Genes & Development 25, 499-515. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Meyer, B. J. (2010) Targeting X chromosomes for repression. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 20, 179-189. [PDF]
 
Wood, A. J., Severson, A. F., Meyer, B. J. (2010)  Condensin and Cohesin Complexity: the Expanding Repertoire of Functions.  Nat. Rev. Genet. 11, 391-404. [PDF]
 
Youds, J. L., Mets, D. G., Mcllwraith, M. J., Martin, J. S., Ward, J. D., O'Neil, N. J., Rose, A. M., West, S. C., Meyer, B. J., Boulton, S. J. (2010) RTEL-1 Enforces Meiotic Crossover Interference and Homeostasis. Science 327, 1254-1258. [PDF]
 
Mets, D. G., Meyer, B. J. (2009)  A Condensin Complex Regulates DSB Distribution and thus Crossover Frequency by Controlling Chromosome Structure.  Cell 139, 73-86. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Severson, A.F., Ling, L., van Zuylen, V., Meyer, B.J. (2009)  The axial element protein HTP-3 promotes cohesin loading and meiotic axis assembly in C. elegans to implement the meiotic program of chromosome segregationGenes & Development 23 (15), 1763-1778. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Jans, J. Gladden, J. M., Ralston, E. J., Pickle, C. S., Michel, A. H., Pferdehirt, R. R., Eisen, M. B., Meyer, B. J. (2009)  A condensin-like dosage compensation complex acts at a distance to control expression throughout the genome. Genes & Development 23 (5), 602-618. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Csankovszki, G., Collette, K., Spahl, K., Carey, J., Snyder, M., Petty, E., Patel, U., Tabuchi, T., Liu, H., McLeod, I., Thompson, J., Sarkesik, A., Yates, J., Meyer, B.J., Hagstrom, K. (2009) Three distinct condensin complexes control C. elegans chromosome dynamics. Current Biology 19 (1), 9-19. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Reiner, D.J., Ailion, M., Thomas, J.H., Meyer, B.J. (2008) C. elegans anaplastic lymphoma kinase ortholog SCD-2 controls dauer formation by modulating TGF-beta signaling. Current Biology 18(15), 1101-9. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Tsai, C.J., Mets, D.G., Albrecht, M.R., Nix, P., Chan, A., Meyer, B.J. (2008) Meiotic crossover number and distribution are regulated by a dosage compensation protein that resembles a condensin subunit. Genes & Development 22, 194-211. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2007) A ONECUT Homeodomain Protein Communicates X Chromosome Dose to Specify Caenorhabditis elegans Sexual Fate by Repressing a Sex Switch Gene. Genetics 177 (3), 1621-1637. [PDF]
 
Gladden, J.M., Farboud, B., Meyer, B.J. (2007) Revisiting the X:A Signal That Specifies Caenorhabditis elegans Sexual Fate. Genetics 177 (3), 1639-1654. [PDF]
 
McDonel, P.E., Jans, J., Peterson, B.K., Meyer, B.J. (2006) Clustered DNA motifs mark X chromosomes for repression by a dosage compensation complex. Nature 444, 614-618. [PDF]
 
Chu, D.S., Liu, H., Nix, P., Wu, T.F., Ralston, E.J., Yates, J.R., Meyer, B.J. (2006) Sperm chromatin proteomics identifies evolutionarily conserved fertility factors. Nature 443, 101-105. [PDF]
 
Powell, J.R., Jow, M.M., Meyer, B.J. (2005) The T-box transcription factor SEA-1 is an autosomal element of the X:A signal that determines C. elegans sex. Dev. Cell 9 (3), 339-349. [PDF] 
 
Meyer, B. J. X-Chromosome dosage compensation (June 25, 2005), WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, WormBook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.8.1, http://www.wormbook.org. [PDF]
 
Skop, A., Liu, H., Yates, J., Meyer, B., Heald, R. (2004) Dissection of the mammalian midbody proteome reveals conserved cytokinesis mechanisms. Science 305, 61-66. [PDF] 
 
Csankovszki, G., McDonel, P. and Meyer, B.J. (2004) Recruitment and Spreading of the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex along X Chromosomes. Science 303, 1182-1185. [PDF] 
 
Chan, R.C., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2004) Condensin Restructures Chromosomes in preparation for Meiotic Divisions. J. Cell Biology 167, 613-625. [PDF]
 
Yonker, S.A. and Meyer, B.J. (2003) Recruitment of C. elegans Dosage Compensation Proteins for Gene-Specific Versus Chromosome-Wide
Repression. Development 130, 6519-6532. [PDF]
 
Chan, R., Chan, A., Jeon, M., Wu, T., Pasqualone, D., Rougvie, A., Meyer, B. (2003) Chromosome cohesion is regulated by C. elegans TIM-1, a paralog of the clock protein TIMELESS. Nature 423, 1002-1009. [PDF]
 
Luz, J.G., Hassig, C.A., Pickle, C., Godzik, A., Meyer, B.J., Wilson, I.A. (2003) XOL-1, Primary Determinant of Sexual Fate in C. elegans Is a GHMP Kinase Family Member and a Structural Prototype for a New Class of Developmental Regulators. Genes Dev. 17, 977-990. [PDF]
 
Chu, D.S., Dawes, H.E., Lieb, J.D., Chan, R.C., Kuo, A.F., and Meyer B.J. (2002) A Molecular Link between Gene-Specific and Chromosome-Wide Transcriptional Repression. Genes Dev. 16, 796-805. [PDF]
 
Hagstrom, K., Holmes, V., Cozzarelli, N., and Meyer, B.J. (2002) C. elegans Condensin Promotes Mitotic Chromosome Architecture, Centromere Organization, and Sister Chromatid Segregation during Mitosis and Meiosis. Genes Dev. 16, 729-742. [PDF]
 
Howe, M., McDonald, K., Albertson, D., and Meyer, B.J. (2001) HIM-10 is required for kinetochore structure and function on C. elegans holocentric chromosomes. J. Cell Biol. 153, 1227-1238. [PDF] 
 
Lieb, J.D., Oritz de Solorzano, C., Rodriguez, E.G., Jones, A., Angelo, M. Lockett, S. and Meyer, B.J. (2000) The C. elegans Dosage Compensation Machinery is Recruited to X-Chromosome DNA Attached to an Autosome. Genetics 156, 1603-1621. [PDF] 
M
Meyer BJ. Mechanisms of sex determination and X-chromosome dosage compensation. Genetics, Volume 220, Issue 2, February 2022, iyab197, doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyab197. [PDF]
 
Ghosh RP, Meyer BJ. Spatial Organization of Chromatin: Emergence of Chromatin Structure During Development. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Jul 6. doi: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-032321-035734. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34228506. [PDF]
 
Krassovsky K, Ghosh RP, Meyer BJ. Genome-wide profiling reveals functional interplay of DNA sequence composition, transcriptional activity, and nucleosome positioning in driving DNA supercoiling and helix destabilization in C. elegans. Genome Res. 2021 Jun 24;31(7):1187–202. doi: 10.1101/gr.270082.120. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34168009; PMCID: PMC8256864. [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Novak, C.S., Nicoll, M., Quiogue, A., Meyer, B.J. (2020). Dose-dependent action of the RNA binding protein FOX-1 to relay X-Chromosome number and determine C. elegans sex. eLife 2020;9:e62963. doi: 10.7554/eLife.62963. [PDF]
 
Bian, Q., Anderson, E.A., Yang, Q., Meyer, B.J. (2020). Histone H3K9 methylation promotes formation of genome compartments in Caenorhabditis elegans via chromosome compaction and perinuclear anchoring. PNAS 117 (21) 11459-11470. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002068117. [PDF]
 
Anderson, E.A., Frankino, P.A., Higuchi-Sanabria, R., Yang, Q., Bian, Q., Podshivalova, K., Shin, A., Kenyon, C., Dillin, A., Meyer, B.J. (2019). X Chromosome Domain Architecture Regulates Caenorhabditis elegans Lifespan but Not Dosage Compensation. Developmental Cell (Epub 5 September 2019). [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2019).  Strategies for Efficient Genome Editing Using CRISPR-Cas9. Genetics 211; 431-457. doi: doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301775. [PDF]
 
Yin, D., Schwarz, E.M., Thomas, C.G., Felde, R.L., Korf, I.F., Cutter, A.D., Schartner, C.M., Ralston, E.J., Meyer, B.J., Haag, E.S. (2018).  Rapid Genome Shrinkage in a Self-Fertile Nematode Reveals Sperm Competition Proteins.  Science 359:  55-61.  DOI: 10.1126/science.aao0827  PMID:  29302007 PMCID: PMC5789457 [PDF]
 
Bian, Q., Anderson, E.C., Brejc, K., Meyer, B.J. (2018).  Dynamic Control of Chromosome Topology and Gene Expression by a Chromatin Modification.  Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. pii: 034439. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2017.82.034439. [Epub ahead of print] [PDF]
 
Meyer, B.J. (2018).  Sex and death: from cell fate specification to dynamic control of X-chromosome structure and gene expression.  Molecular Biology of the Cell 29; 2603-2799. doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E18-06-0397. 1 November 2018. [PDF]
 
Meyer, B.J. (2018).  On Sex and Death. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Summer 2018. [PDF]
 
Brejc, K., Bian, Q., Uzawa, S., Wheeler, B.J., Anderson, E.C., King, D.S., Kranzusch, P.J., Preston, C.G., Meyer B.J. (2017) Dynamic Control of X Chromosome Conformation and Repression by a Histone H4K20 Demethylase. Cell, 2017 Sep 21;171(1):85-102.e23. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.041. Epub 2017 Aug 31. PubMed PMID: 28867287. [PDF]
 
Wheeler BS, Anderson E, Frøkjær-Jensen C, Bian Q, Jorgensen E, Meyer BJ. (2016) Chromosome-wide mechanisms to decouple gene expression from gene dose during sex-chromosome evolution. eLife, 2016 August 30;5 [PDF]
 
Crane, E., Bian, Q., McCord, R.P., Lajoie, B.R., Wheeler, B. S., Ralston, E.J., Uzawa, S., Dekker, J., Meyer, B.J. (2015) Condensin-driven remodelling of X chromosome topology during dosage compensation. Nature, 1 June 2015 doi:10.1038/nature14450 [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Meyer, B.J. (2015) Dramatic Enhancement of Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 Through Improved Guide RNA Design. Genetics, February 18, 2015 genetics.115.175166 [PDF]
 
Severson, A., Meyer, B.J. (2014) Divergent kleisin subunits of cohesin specify mechanisms to tether and release meiotic chromosomes. eLife 2014;10.7554/eLife.03467 [PDF]
 
Libuda, D., Uzawa, S., Meyer, B.J., Villeneuve, A. (2013) Meiotic chromosome structures constrain and respond to designation of crossover sites. 
Nature 502, 703-706 (31 October 2013) [PDF]
 
Maxwell, C., Kruesi, W.S.., Core, L., Kurhanewicz, N., Waters, C., Lewarch, C., Antoshechkin, A., Lis, J., Meyer, B.J., Baugh, L.R.. (2014) Pol II Docking and Pausing at Growth and Stress Genes in C. elegans. Cell Reports Volume 6, Issue 3, p455-466, 13 February 2014 [PDF]
 
Pferdehirt, R.R., Meyer, B.J. (2013) SUMOylation is essential for sex-specific assembly and function of the Caenorhabditis elegans dosage compensation complex on X chromosomes. PNAS 2013; doi:10.1073/pnas.1315793110 [PDF]
 
Lo, T.W., Pickle, C.S., Lin, S., Ralston, E.J., Gurling, M., Schartner, C.M., Bian, Q., Doudna, J.A., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Precise and Heritable Genome Editing in Evolutionarily Diverse Nematodes Using TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9 to Engineer Insertions and Deletions. Genetics 195; 331-348. [PDF]
 
Kruesi, W.S., Core, L.J., Waters, C.T., Lis, J.T., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Condensin controls recruitment of RNA polymerase II to achieve nematode X-chromosome dosage compensation. eLife 2013; 2:e00808. [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Nix, P., Jow, M.M., Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Molecular antagonism between X-chromosome and autosome signals determines nematode sex. Genes & Development 27, 1159-1178. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Wood AJ*, Lo TW*, Zeitler B*, Pickle CS, Ralston EJ, Lee AH, Amora R, Miller JC, Leung E, Meng X, Zhang L, Rebar EJ, Gregory PD, Urnov FD, Meyer BJ. (2011) Targeted genome editing across species using ZFNs and TALENs. Science 333, 307. *These authors contributed equally to this work. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Pferdehirt, R. R., Kruesi, W. S., Meyer, B. J. (2011)  An MLL/COMPASS Subunit Functions in the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex to Target X Chromosomes for Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression.  Genes & Development 25, 499-515. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Meyer, B. J. (2010) Targeting X chromosomes for repression. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 20, 179-189. [PDF]
 
Wood, A. J., Severson, A. F., Meyer, B. J. (2010)  Condensin and Cohesin Complexity: the Expanding Repertoire of Functions.  Nat. Rev. Genet. 11, 391-404. [PDF]
 
Youds, J. L., Mets, D. G., Mcllwraith, M. J., Martin, J. S., Ward, J. D., O'Neil, N. J., Rose, A. M., West, S. C., Meyer, B. J., Boulton, S. J. (2010) RTEL-1 Enforces Meiotic Crossover Interference and Homeostasis. Science 327, 1254-1258. [PDF]
 
Mets, D. G., Meyer, B. J. (2009)  A Condensin Complex Regulates DSB Distribution and thus Crossover Frequency by Controlling Chromosome Structure.  Cell 139, 73-86. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Severson, A.F., Ling, L., van Zuylen, V., Meyer, B.J. (2009)  The axial element protein HTP-3 promotes cohesin loading and meiotic axis assembly in C. elegans to implement the meiotic program of chromosome segregationGenes & Development 23 (15), 1763-1778. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Jans, J. Gladden, J. M., Ralston, E. J., Pickle, C. S., Michel, A. H., Pferdehirt, R. R., Eisen, M. B., Meyer, B. J. (2009)  A condensin-like dosage compensation complex acts at a distance to control expression throughout the genome. Genes & Development 23 (5), 602-618. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Csankovszki, G., Collette, K., Spahl, K., Carey, J., Snyder, M., Petty, E., Patel, U., Tabuchi, T., Liu, H., McLeod, I., Thompson, J., Sarkesik, A., Yates, J., Meyer, B.J., Hagstrom, K. (2009) Three distinct condensin complexes control C. elegans chromosome dynamics. Current Biology 19 (1), 9-19. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Reiner, D.J., Ailion, M., Thomas, J.H., Meyer, B.J. (2008) C. elegans anaplastic lymphoma kinase ortholog SCD-2 controls dauer formation by modulating TGF-beta signaling. Current Biology 18(15), 1101-9. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Tsai, C.J., Mets, D.G., Albrecht, M.R., Nix, P., Chan, A., Meyer, B.J. (2008) Meiotic crossover number and distribution are regulated by a dosage compensation protein that resembles a condensin subunit. Genes & Development 22, 194-211. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2007) A ONECUT Homeodomain Protein Communicates X Chromosome Dose to Specify Caenorhabditis elegans Sexual Fate by Repressing a Sex Switch Gene. Genetics 177 (3), 1621-1637. [PDF]
 
Gladden, J.M., Farboud, B., Meyer, B.J. (2007) Revisiting the X:A Signal That Specifies Caenorhabditis elegans Sexual Fate. Genetics 177 (3), 1639-1654. [PDF]
 
McDonel, P.E., Jans, J., Peterson, B.K., Meyer, B.J. (2006) Clustered DNA motifs mark X chromosomes for repression by a dosage compensation complex. Nature 444, 614-618. [PDF]
 
Chu, D.S., Liu, H., Nix, P., Wu, T.F., Ralston, E.J., Yates, J.R., Meyer, B.J. (2006) Sperm chromatin proteomics identifies evolutionarily conserved fertility factors. Nature 443, 101-105. [PDF]
 
Powell, J.R., Jow, M.M., Meyer, B.J. (2005) The T-box transcription factor SEA-1 is an autosomal element of the X:A signal that determines C. elegans sex. Dev. Cell 9 (3), 339-349. [PDF] 
 
Meyer, B. J. X-Chromosome dosage compensation (June 25, 2005), WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, WormBook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.8.1, http://www.wormbook.org. [PDF]
 
Skop, A., Liu, H., Yates, J., Meyer, B., Heald, R. (2004) Dissection of the mammalian midbody proteome reveals conserved cytokinesis mechanisms. Science 305, 61-66. [PDF] 
 
Csankovszki, G., McDonel, P. and Meyer, B.J. (2004) Recruitment and Spreading of the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex along X Chromosomes. Science 303, 1182-1185. [PDF] 
 
Chan, R.C., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2004) Condensin Restructures Chromosomes in preparation for Meiotic Divisions. J. Cell Biology 167, 613-625. [PDF]
 
Yonker, S.A. and Meyer, B.J. (2003) Recruitment of C. elegans Dosage Compensation Proteins for Gene-Specific Versus Chromosome-Wide
Repression. Development 130, 6519-6532. [PDF]
 
Chan, R., Chan, A., Jeon, M., Wu, T., Pasqualone, D., Rougvie, A., Meyer, B. (2003) Chromosome cohesion is regulated by C. elegans TIM-1, a paralog of the clock protein TIMELESS. Nature 423, 1002-1009. [PDF]
 
Luz, J.G., Hassig, C.A., Pickle, C., Godzik, A., Meyer, B.J., Wilson, I.A. (2003) XOL-1, Primary Determinant of Sexual Fate in C. elegans Is a GHMP Kinase Family Member and a Structural Prototype for a New Class of Developmental Regulators. Genes Dev. 17, 977-990. [PDF]
 
Chu, D.S., Dawes, H.E., Lieb, J.D., Chan, R.C., Kuo, A.F., and Meyer B.J. (2002) A Molecular Link between Gene-Specific and Chromosome-Wide Transcriptional Repression. Genes Dev. 16, 796-805. [PDF]
 
Hagstrom, K., Holmes, V., Cozzarelli, N., and Meyer, B.J. (2002) C. elegans Condensin Promotes Mitotic Chromosome Architecture, Centromere Organization, and Sister Chromatid Segregation during Mitosis and Meiosis. Genes Dev. 16, 729-742. [PDF]
 
Howe, M., McDonald, K., Albertson, D., and Meyer, B.J. (2001) HIM-10 is required for kinetochore structure and function on C. elegans holocentric chromosomes. J. Cell Biol. 153, 1227-1238. [PDF] 
 
Lieb, J.D., Oritz de Solorzano, C., Rodriguez, E.G., Jones, A., Angelo, M. Lockett, S. and Meyer, B.J. (2000) The C. elegans Dosage Compensation Machinery is Recruited to X-Chromosome DNA Attached to an Autosome. Genetics 156, 1603-1621. [PDF] 
 
 
Meyer BJ. Mechanisms of sex determination and X-chromosome dosage compensation. Genetics, Volume 220, Issue 2, February 2022, iyab197, doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyab197. [PDF]
 
Ghosh RP, Meyer BJ. Spatial Organization of Chromatin: Emergence of Chromatin Structure During Development. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Jul 6. doi: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-032321-035734. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34228506. [PDF]
 
Krassovsky K, Ghosh RP, Meyer BJ. Genome-wide profiling reveals functional interplay of DNA sequence composition, transcriptional activity, and nucleosome positioning in driving DNA supercoiling and helix destabilization in C. elegans. Genome Res. 2021 Jun 24;31(7):1187–202. doi: 10.1101/gr.270082.120. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34168009; PMCID: PMC8256864. [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Novak, C.S., Nicoll, M., Quiogue, A., Meyer, B.J. (2020). Dose-dependent action of the RNA binding protein FOX-1 to relay X-Chromosome number and determine C. elegans sex. eLife 2020;9:e62963. doi: 10.7554/eLife.62963. [PDF]
 
Bian, Q., Anderson, E.A., Yang, Q., Meyer, B.J. (2020). Histone H3K9 methylation promotes formation of genome compartments in Caenorhabditis elegans via chromosome compaction and perinuclear anchoring. PNAS 117 (21) 11459-11470. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002068117. [PDF]
 
Anderson, E.A., Frankino, P.A., Higuchi-Sanabria, R., Yang, Q., Bian, Q., Podshivalova, K., Shin, A., Kenyon, C., Dillin, A., Meyer, B.J. (2019). X Chromosome Domain Architecture Regulates Caenorhabditis elegans Lifespan but Not Dosage Compensation. Developmental Cell (Epub 5 September 2019). [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2019).  Strategies for Efficient Genome Editing Using CRISPR-Cas9. Genetics 211; 431-457. doi: doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301775. [PDF]
 
Yin, D., Schwarz, E.M., Thomas, C.G., Felde, R.L., Korf, I.F., Cutter, A.D., Schartner, C.M., Ralston, E.J., Meyer, B.J., Haag, E.S. (2018).  Rapid Genome Shrinkage in a Self-Fertile Nematode Reveals Sperm Competition Proteins.  Science 359:  55-61.  DOI: 10.1126/science.aao0827  PMID:  29302007 PMCID: PMC5789457 [PDF]
 
Bian, Q., Anderson, E.C., Brejc, K., Meyer, B.J. (2018).  Dynamic Control of Chromosome Topology and Gene Expression by a Chromatin Modification.  Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. pii: 034439. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2017.82.034439. [Epub ahead of print] [PDF]
 
Meyer, B.J. (2018).  Sex and death: from cell fate specification to dynamic control of X-chromosome structure and gene expression.  Molecular Biology of the Cell 29; 2603-2799. doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E18-06-0397. 1 November 2018. [PDF]
 
Meyer, B.J. (2018).  On Sex and Death. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Summer 2018. [PDF]
 
Brejc, K., Bian, Q., Uzawa, S., Wheeler, B.J., Anderson, E.C., King, D.S., Kranzusch, P.J., Preston, C.G., Meyer B.J. (2017) Dynamic Control of X Chromosome Conformation and Repression by a Histone H4K20 Demethylase. Cell, 2017 Sep 21;171(1):85-102.e23. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.041. Epub 2017 Aug 31. PubMed PMID: 28867287. [PDF]
 
Wheeler BS, Anderson E, Frøkjær-Jensen C, Bian Q, Jorgensen E, Meyer BJ. (2016) Chromosome-wide mechanisms to decouple gene expression from gene dose during sex-chromosome evolution. eLife, 2016 August 30;5 [PDF]
 
Crane, E., Bian, Q., McCord, R.P., Lajoie, B.R., Wheeler, B. S., Ralston, E.J., Uzawa, S., Dekker, J., Meyer, B.J. (2015) Condensin-driven remodelling of X chromosome topology during dosage compensation. Nature, 1 June 2015 doi:10.1038/nature14450 [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Meyer, B.J. (2015) Dramatic Enhancement of Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 Through Improved Guide RNA Design. Genetics, February 18, 2015 genetics.115.175166 [PDF]
 
Severson, A., Meyer, B.J. (2014) Divergent kleisin subunits of cohesin specify mechanisms to tether and release meiotic chromosomes. eLife 2014;10.7554/eLife.03467 [PDF]
 
Libuda, D., Uzawa, S., Meyer, B.J., Villeneuve, A. (2013) Meiotic chromosome structures constrain and respond to designation of crossover sites. 
Nature 502, 703-706 (31 October 2013) [PDF]
 
Maxwell, C., Kruesi, W.S.., Core, L., Kurhanewicz, N., Waters, C., Lewarch, C., Antoshechkin, A., Lis, J., Meyer, B.J., Baugh, L.R.. (2014) Pol II Docking and Pausing at Growth and Stress Genes in C. elegans. Cell Reports Volume 6, Issue 3, p455-466, 13 February 2014 [PDF]
 
Pferdehirt, R.R., Meyer, B.J. (2013) SUMOylation is essential for sex-specific assembly and function of the Caenorhabditis elegans dosage compensation complex on X chromosomes. PNAS 2013; doi:10.1073/pnas.1315793110 [PDF]
 
Lo, T.W., Pickle, C.S., Lin, S., Ralston, E.J., Gurling, M., Schartner, C.M., Bian, Q., Doudna, J.A., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Precise and Heritable Genome Editing in Evolutionarily Diverse Nematodes Using TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9 to Engineer Insertions and Deletions. Genetics 195; 331-348. [PDF]
 
Kruesi, W.S., Core, L.J., Waters, C.T., Lis, J.T., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Condensin controls recruitment of RNA polymerase II to achieve nematode X-chromosome dosage compensation. eLife 2013; 2:e00808. [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Nix, P., Jow, M.M., Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Molecular antagonism between X-chromosome and autosome signals determines nematode sex. Genes & Development 27, 1159-1178. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Wood AJ*, Lo TW*, Zeitler B*, Pickle CS, Ralston EJ, Lee AH, Amora R, Miller JC, Leung E, Meng X, Zhang L, Rebar EJ, Gregory PD, Urnov FD, Meyer BJ. (2011) Targeted genome editing across species using ZFNs and TALENs. Science 333, 307. *These authors contributed equally to this work. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Pferdehirt, R. R., Kruesi, W. S., Meyer, B. J. (2011)  An MLL/COMPASS Subunit Functions in the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex to Target X Chromosomes for Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression.  Genes & Development 25, 499-515. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Meyer, B. J. (2010) Targeting X chromosomes for repression. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 20, 179-189. [PDF]
 
Wood, A. J., Severson, A. F., Meyer, B. J. (2010)  Condensin and Cohesin Complexity: the Expanding Repertoire of Functions.  Nat. Rev. Genet. 11, 391-404. [PDF]
 
Youds, J. L., Mets, D. G., Mcllwraith, M. J., Martin, J. S., Ward, J. D., O'Neil, N. J., Rose, A. M., West, S. C., Meyer, B. J., Boulton, S. J. (2010) RTEL-1 Enforces Meiotic Crossover Interference and Homeostasis. Science 327, 1254-1258. [PDF]
 
Mets, D. G., Meyer, B. J. (2009)  A Condensin Complex Regulates DSB Distribution and thus Crossover Frequency by Controlling Chromosome Structure.  Cell 139, 73-86. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Severson, A.F., Ling, L., van Zuylen, V., Meyer, B.J. (2009)  The axial element protein HTP-3 promotes cohesin loading and meiotic axis assembly in C. elegans to implement the meiotic program of chromosome segregationGenes & Development 23 (15), 1763-1778. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Jans, J. Gladden, J. M., Ralston, E. J., Pickle, C. S., Michel, A. H., Pferdehirt, R. R., Eisen, M. B., Meyer, B. J. (2009)  A condensin-like dosage compensation complex acts at a distance to control expression throughout the genome. Genes & Development 23 (5), 602-618. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Csankovszki, G., Collette, K., Spahl, K., Carey, J., Snyder, M., Petty, E., Patel, U., Tabuchi, T., Liu, H., McLeod, I., Thompson, J., Sarkesik, A., Yates, J., Meyer, B.J., Hagstrom, K. (2009) Three distinct condensin complexes control C. elegans chromosome dynamics. Current Biology 19 (1), 9-19. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Reiner, D.J., Ailion, M., Thomas, J.H., Meyer, B.J. (2008) C. elegans anaplastic lymphoma kinase ortholog SCD-2 controls dauer formation by modulating TGF-beta signaling. Current Biology 18(15), 1101-9. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Tsai, C.J., Mets, D.G., Albrecht, M.R., Nix, P., Chan, A., Meyer, B.J. (2008) Meiotic crossover number and distribution are regulated by a dosage compensation protein that resembles a condensin subunit. Genes & Development 22, 194-211. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2007) A ONECUT Homeodomain Protein Communicates X Chromosome Dose to Specify Caenorhabditis elegans Sexual Fate by Repressing a Sex Switch Gene. Genetics 177 (3), 1621-1637. [PDF]
 
Gladden, J.M., Farboud, B., Meyer, B.J. (2007) Revisiting the X:A Signal That Specifies Caenorhabditis elegans Sexual Fate. Genetics 177 (3), 1639-1654. [PDF]
 
McDonel, P.E., Jans, J., Peterson, B.K., Meyer, B.J. (2006) Clustered DNA motifs mark X chromosomes for repression by a dosage compensation complex. Nature 444, 614-618. [PDF]
 
Chu, D.S., Liu, H., Nix, P., Wu, T.F., Ralston, E.J., Yates, J.R., Meyer, B.J. (2006) Sperm chromatin proteomics identifies evolutionarily conserved fertility factors. Nature 443, 101-105. [PDF]
 
Powell, J.R., Jow, M.M., Meyer, B.J. (2005) The T-box transcription factor SEA-1 is an autosomal element of the X:A signal that determines C. elegans sex. Dev. Cell 9 (3), 339-349. [PDF] 
 
Meyer, B. J. X-Chromosome dosage compensation (June 25, 2005), WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, WormBook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.8.1, http://www.wormbook.org. [PDF]
 
Skop, A., Liu, H., Yates, J., Meyer, B., Heald, R. (2004) Dissection of the mammalian midbody proteome reveals conserved cytokinesis mechanisms. Science 305, 61-66. [PDF] 
 
Csankovszki, G., McDonel, P. and Meyer, B.J. (2004) Recruitment and Spreading of the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex along X Chromosomes. Science 303, 1182-1185. [PDF] 
 
Chan, R.C., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2004) Condensin Restructures Chromosomes in preparation for Meiotic Divisions. J. Cell Biology 167, 613-625. [PDF]
 
Yonker, S.A. and Meyer, B.J. (2003) Recruitment of C. elegans Dosage Compensation Proteins for Gene-Specific Versus Chromosome-Wide
Repression. Development 130, 6519-6532. [PDF]
 
Chan, R., Chan, A., Jeon, M., Wu, T., Pasqualone, D., Rougvie, A., Meyer, B. (2003) Chromosome cohesion is regulated by C. elegans TIM-1, a paralog of the clock protein TIMELESS. Nature 423, 1002-1009. [PDF]
 
Luz, J.G., Hassig, C.A., Pickle, C., Godzik, A., Meyer, B.J., Wilson, I.A. (2003) XOL-1, Primary Determinant of Sexual Fate in C. elegans Is a GHMP Kinase Family Member and a Structural Prototype for a New Class of Developmental Regulators. Genes Dev. 17, 977-990. [PDF]
 
Chu, D.S., Dawes, H.E., Lieb, J.D., Chan, R.C., Kuo, A.F., and Meyer B.J. (2002) A Molecular Link between Gene-Specific and Chromosome-Wide Transcriptional Repression. Genes Dev. 16, 796-805. [PDF]
 
Hagstrom, K., Holmes, V., Cozzarelli, N., and Meyer, B.J. (2002) C. elegans Condensin Promotes Mitotic Chromosome Architecture, Centromere Organization, and Sister Chromatid Segregation during Mitosis and Meiosis. Genes Dev. 16, 729-742. [PDF]
 
Howe, M., McDonald, K., Albertson, D., and Meyer, B.J. (2001) HIM-10 is required for kinetochore structure and function on C. elegans holocentric chromosomes. J. Cell Biol. 153, 1227-1238. [PDF] 
 
Lieb, J.D., Oritz de Solorzano, C., Rodriguez, E.G., Jones, A., Angelo, M. Lockett, S. and Meyer, B.J. (2000) The C. elegans Dosage Compensation Machinery is Recruited to X-Chromosome DNA Attached to an Autosome. Genetics 156, 1603-1621. [PDF] 
 
Meyer BJ. Mechanisms of sex determination and X-chromosome dosage compensation. Genetics, Volume 220, Issue 2, February 2022, iyab197, doi.org/10.1093/genetics/iyab197. [PDF]
 
Ghosh RP, Meyer BJ. Spatial Organization of Chromatin: Emergence of Chromatin Structure During Development. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2021 Jul 6. doi: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-032321-035734. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34228506. [PDF]
 
Krassovsky K, Ghosh RP, Meyer BJ. Genome-wide profiling reveals functional interplay of DNA sequence composition, transcriptional activity, and nucleosome positioning in driving DNA supercoiling and helix destabilization in C. elegans. Genome Res. 2021 Jun 24;31(7):1187–202. doi: 10.1101/gr.270082.120. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34168009; PMCID: PMC8256864. [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Novak, C.S., Nicoll, M., Quiogue, A., Meyer, B.J. (2020). Dose-dependent action of the RNA binding protein FOX-1 to relay X-Chromosome number and determine C. elegans sex. eLife 2020;9:e62963. doi: 10.7554/eLife.62963. [PDF]
 
Bian, Q., Anderson, E.A., Yang, Q., Meyer, B.J. (2020). Histone H3K9 methylation promotes formation of genome compartments in Caenorhabditis elegans via chromosome compaction and perinuclear anchoring. PNAS 117 (21) 11459-11470. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002068117. [PDF]
 
Anderson, E.A., Frankino, P.A., Higuchi-Sanabria, R., Yang, Q., Bian, Q., Podshivalova, K., Shin, A., Kenyon, C., Dillin, A., Meyer, B.J. (2019). X Chromosome Domain Architecture Regulates Caenorhabditis elegans Lifespan but Not Dosage Compensation. Developmental Cell (Epub 5 September 2019). [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2019).  Strategies for Efficient Genome Editing Using CRISPR-Cas9. Genetics 211; 431-457. doi: doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301775. [PDF]
 
Yin, D., Schwarz, E.M., Thomas, C.G., Felde, R.L., Korf, I.F., Cutter, A.D., Schartner, C.M., Ralston, E.J., Meyer, B.J., Haag, E.S. (2018).  Rapid Genome Shrinkage in a Self-Fertile Nematode Reveals Sperm Competition Proteins.  Science 359:  55-61.  DOI: 10.1126/science.aao0827  PMID:  29302007 PMCID: PMC5789457 [PDF]
 
Bian, Q., Anderson, E.C., Brejc, K., Meyer, B.J. (2018).  Dynamic Control of Chromosome Topology and Gene Expression by a Chromatin Modification.  Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. pii: 034439. doi: 10.1101/sqb.2017.82.034439. [Epub ahead of print] [PDF]
 
Meyer, B.J. (2018).  Sex and death: from cell fate specification to dynamic control of X-chromosome structure and gene expression.  Molecular Biology of the Cell 29; 2603-2799. doi.org/10.1091/mbc.E18-06-0397. 1 November 2018. [PDF]
 
Meyer, B.J. (2018).  On Sex and Death. Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Summer 2018. [PDF]
 
Brejc, K., Bian, Q., Uzawa, S., Wheeler, B.J., Anderson, E.C., King, D.S., Kranzusch, P.J., Preston, C.G., Meyer B.J. (2017) Dynamic Control of X Chromosome Conformation and Repression by a Histone H4K20 Demethylase. Cell, 2017 Sep 21;171(1):85-102.e23. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.07.041. Epub 2017 Aug 31. PubMed PMID: 28867287. [PDF]
 
Wheeler BS, Anderson E, Frøkjær-Jensen C, Bian Q, Jorgensen E, Meyer BJ. (2016) Chromosome-wide mechanisms to decouple gene expression from gene dose during sex-chromosome evolution. eLife, 2016 August 30;5 [PDF]
 
Crane, E., Bian, Q., McCord, R.P., Lajoie, B.R., Wheeler, B. S., Ralston, E.J., Uzawa, S., Dekker, J., Meyer, B.J. (2015) Condensin-driven remodelling of X chromosome topology during dosage compensation. Nature, 1 June 2015 doi:10.1038/nature14450 [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Meyer, B.J. (2015) Dramatic Enhancement of Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 Through Improved Guide RNA Design. Genetics, February 18, 2015 genetics.115.175166 [PDF]
 
Severson, A., Meyer, B.J. (2014) Divergent kleisin subunits of cohesin specify mechanisms to tether and release meiotic chromosomes. eLife 2014;10.7554/eLife.03467 [PDF]
 
Libuda, D., Uzawa, S., Meyer, B.J., Villeneuve, A. (2013) Meiotic chromosome structures constrain and respond to designation of crossover sites. 
Nature 502, 703-706 (31 October 2013) [PDF]
 
Maxwell, C., Kruesi, W.S.., Core, L., Kurhanewicz, N., Waters, C., Lewarch, C., Antoshechkin, A., Lis, J., Meyer, B.J., Baugh, L.R.. (2014) Pol II Docking and Pausing at Growth and Stress Genes in C. elegans. Cell Reports Volume 6, Issue 3, p455-466, 13 February 2014 [PDF]
 
Pferdehirt, R.R., Meyer, B.J. (2013) SUMOylation is essential for sex-specific assembly and function of the Caenorhabditis elegans dosage compensation complex on X chromosomes. PNAS 2013; doi:10.1073/pnas.1315793110 [PDF]
 
Lo, T.W., Pickle, C.S., Lin, S., Ralston, E.J., Gurling, M., Schartner, C.M., Bian, Q., Doudna, J.A., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Precise and Heritable Genome Editing in Evolutionarily Diverse Nematodes Using TALENs and CRISPR/Cas9 to Engineer Insertions and Deletions. Genetics 195; 331-348. [PDF]
 
Kruesi, W.S., Core, L.J., Waters, C.T., Lis, J.T., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Condensin controls recruitment of RNA polymerase II to achieve nematode X-chromosome dosage compensation. eLife 2013; 2:e00808. [PDF]
 
Farboud, B., Nix, P., Jow, M.M., Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2013) Molecular antagonism between X-chromosome and autosome signals determines nematode sex. Genes & Development 27, 1159-1178. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Wood AJ*, Lo TW*, Zeitler B*, Pickle CS, Ralston EJ, Lee AH, Amora R, Miller JC, Leung E, Meng X, Zhang L, Rebar EJ, Gregory PD, Urnov FD, Meyer BJ. (2011) Targeted genome editing across species using ZFNs and TALENs. Science 333, 307. *These authors contributed equally to this work. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Pferdehirt, R. R., Kruesi, W. S., Meyer, B. J. (2011)  An MLL/COMPASS Subunit Functions in the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex to Target X Chromosomes for Transcriptional Regulation of Gene Expression.  Genes & Development 25, 499-515. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Meyer, B. J. (2010) Targeting X chromosomes for repression. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development 20, 179-189. [PDF]
 
Wood, A. J., Severson, A. F., Meyer, B. J. (2010)  Condensin and Cohesin Complexity: the Expanding Repertoire of Functions.  Nat. Rev. Genet. 11, 391-404. [PDF]
 
Youds, J. L., Mets, D. G., Mcllwraith, M. J., Martin, J. S., Ward, J. D., O'Neil, N. J., Rose, A. M., West, S. C., Meyer, B. J., Boulton, S. J. (2010) RTEL-1 Enforces Meiotic Crossover Interference and Homeostasis. Science 327, 1254-1258. [PDF]
 
Mets, D. G., Meyer, B. J. (2009)  A Condensin Complex Regulates DSB Distribution and thus Crossover Frequency by Controlling Chromosome Structure.  Cell 139, 73-86. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Severson, A.F., Ling, L., van Zuylen, V., Meyer, B.J. (2009)  The axial element protein HTP-3 promotes cohesin loading and meiotic axis assembly in C. elegans to implement the meiotic program of chromosome segregationGenes & Development 23 (15), 1763-1778. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Jans, J. Gladden, J. M., Ralston, E. J., Pickle, C. S., Michel, A. H., Pferdehirt, R. R., Eisen, M. B., Meyer, B. J. (2009)  A condensin-like dosage compensation complex acts at a distance to control expression throughout the genome. Genes & Development 23 (5), 602-618. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Csankovszki, G., Collette, K., Spahl, K., Carey, J., Snyder, M., Petty, E., Patel, U., Tabuchi, T., Liu, H., McLeod, I., Thompson, J., Sarkesik, A., Yates, J., Meyer, B.J., Hagstrom, K. (2009) Three distinct condensin complexes control C. elegans chromosome dynamics. Current Biology 19 (1), 9-19. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Reiner, D.J., Ailion, M., Thomas, J.H., Meyer, B.J. (2008) C. elegans anaplastic lymphoma kinase ortholog SCD-2 controls dauer formation by modulating TGF-beta signaling. Current Biology 18(15), 1101-9. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Tsai, C.J., Mets, D.G., Albrecht, M.R., Nix, P., Chan, A., Meyer, B.J. (2008) Meiotic crossover number and distribution are regulated by a dosage compensation protein that resembles a condensin subunit. Genes & Development 22, 194-211. [PDF] [Supp.PDF]
 
Gladden, J.M., Meyer, B.J. (2007) A ONECUT Homeodomain Protein Communicates X Chromosome Dose to Specify Caenorhabditis elegans Sexual Fate by Repressing a Sex Switch Gene. Genetics 177 (3), 1621-1637. [PDF]
 
Gladden, J.M., Farboud, B., Meyer, B.J. (2007) Revisiting the X:A Signal That Specifies Caenorhabditis elegans Sexual Fate. Genetics 177 (3), 1639-1654. [PDF]
 
McDonel, P.E., Jans, J., Peterson, B.K., Meyer, B.J. (2006) Clustered DNA motifs mark X chromosomes for repression by a dosage compensation complex. Nature 444, 614-618. [PDF]
 
Chu, D.S., Liu, H., Nix, P., Wu, T.F., Ralston, E.J., Yates, J.R., Meyer, B.J. (2006) Sperm chromatin proteomics identifies evolutionarily conserved fertility factors. Nature 443, 101-105. [PDF]
 
Powell, J.R., Jow, M.M., Meyer, B.J. (2005) The T-box transcription factor SEA-1 is an autosomal element of the X:A signal that determines C. elegans sex. Dev. Cell 9 (3), 339-349. [PDF] 
 
Meyer, B. J. X-Chromosome dosage compensation (June 25, 2005), WormBook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, WormBook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.8.1, http://www.wormbook.org. [PDF]
 
Skop, A., Liu, H., Yates, J., Meyer, B., Heald, R. (2004) Dissection of the mammalian midbody proteome reveals conserved cytokinesis mechanisms. Science 305, 61-66. [PDF] 
 
Csankovszki, G., McDonel, P. and Meyer, B.J. (2004) Recruitment and Spreading of the C. elegans Dosage Compensation Complex along X Chromosomes. Science 303, 1182-1185. [PDF] 
 
Chan, R.C., Severson, A.F., Meyer, B.J. (2004) Condensin Restructures Chromosomes in preparation for Meiotic Divisions. J. Cell Biology 167, 613-625. [PDF]
 
Yonker, S.A. and Meyer, B.J. (2003) Recruitment of C. elegans Dosage Compensation Proteins for Gene-Specific Versus Chromosome-Wide
Repression. Development 130, 6519-6532. [PDF]
 
Chan, R., Chan, A., Jeon, M., Wu, T., Pasqualone, D., Rougvie, A., Meyer, B. (2003) Chromosome cohesion is regulated by C. elegans TIM-1, a paralog of the clock protein TIMELESS. Nature 423, 1002-1009. [PDF]
 
Luz, J.G., Hassig, C.A., Pickle, C., Godzik, A., Meyer, B.J., Wilson, I.A. (2003) XOL-1, Primary Determinant of Sexual Fate in C. elegans Is a GHMP Kinase Family Member and a Structural Prototype for a New Class of Developmental Regulators. Genes Dev. 17, 977-990. [PDF]
 
Chu, D.S., Dawes, H.E., Lieb, J.D., Chan, R.C., Kuo, A.F., and Meyer B.J. (2002) A Molecular Link between Gene-Specific and Chromosome-Wide Transcriptional Repression. Genes Dev. 16, 796-805. [PDF]
 
Hagstrom, K., Holmes, V., Cozzarelli, N., and Meyer, B.J. (2002) C. elegans Condensin Promotes Mitotic Chromosome Architecture, Centromere Organization, and Sister Chromatid Segregation during Mitosis and Meiosis. Genes Dev. 16, 729-742. [PDF]
 
Howe, M., McDonald, K., Albertson, D., and Meyer, B.J. (2001) HIM-10 is required for kinetochore structure and function on C. elegans holocentric chromosomes. J. Cell Biol. 153, 1227-1238. [PDF] 
 
Lieb, J.D., Oritz de Solorzano, C., Rodriguez, E.G., Jones, A., Angelo, M. Lockett, S. and Meyer, B.J. (2000) The C. elegans Dosage Compensation Machinery is Recruited to X-Chromosome DNA Attached to an Autosome. Genetics 156, 1603-1621. [PDF]