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Abouheif E. [In Press] On Bridging Islam and Evolution through the Secret World of Ants: Struggles of a Muslim Evolutionary Biologist. In J. Wiles (ed.), Islamic perspectives on evolutionary theory: What is thought and taught about evolution in the Muslim world. McGill-Queen’s University Press
     
Abouheif, E. [In Press] Phylogenies and the evolution of development. In: El árbol de la vida: sistemática y evolución de los seres vivos, R. Zardoya (ed.).
     
       
2012
     
Khila A, Abouheif E, and Rowe L. 2012. Function, developmental genetics, and fitness consequences of a sexually antagonistic trait. Science 336: 585-589
     
Rajendhran Rajakumar, Diego San Mauro, Michiel B. Dijkstra, Ming H. Huang, Diana E. Wheeler, Francois Hiou-Tim, Abderrahman Khila, Michael Cournoyea, Ehab Abouheif. 2012. Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants. Science 335 (6064): 79-82.    
     
       
2011
   
Armin P. Moczek, Sonia Sultan, Susan Foster, Cris Ledón-Rettig, Ian Dworkin, H. Fred Nijhout, Ehab Abouheif, David W. Pfennig. 2011. The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0971.
 
   
Yang A and Abouheif E. 2011. Gynandromorphs as Indicators of Modularity and Evolvability in Ants. JEZ Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 314B:1-6.
   
     
Lynch J, Özüak O, Khila A, Abouheif E, Desplan C, Roth S. 2011. The Phylogenetic Origin of oskar Coincided with the Origin of Maternally Provisioned Germ Plasm and Pole Cells at the Base of the Holometabola.
PLoS Genetics 7(4): e1002029. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002029
 
Christopher D Smith, Aleksey Zimin, Carson Holt, Ehab Abouheif, Richard Benton, Elizabeth Cash, Vincent Croset, Cameron R Currie, Eran Elhaik, Christine G Elsik, Marie-Julie Fave, Vilaiwan Fernandes, Jürgen Gadau, Joshua D Gibson, Dan Graur, Kirk J Grubbs, Darren E Hagen, Martin Helmkampf, Jo-Anne Holley, Hao Huc, Ana Sofia Ibarraran Viniegra, Brian R Johnson, Reed M Johnson, Abderrahman Khila, Jay W Kim, Joseph Laird, Kaitlyn A Mathis, Joseph A Moeller, Monica C Muñoz-Torres, Marguerite C Murphy, Rin Nakamura, Surabhi Nigam, Rick P Overson, Jennifer E Placek, Rajendhran Rajakumar, Justin T Reese, Hugh M Robertson, Chris R Smith, Andrew V Suarez, Garret Suen, Elissa L Suhr, Shu Tao, Candice W Torres, Ellen van Wilgenburg, Lumi Viljakainen, Kimberly KO Walden, Alexander L Wild, Mark Yandell, James A Yorker, and Neil D Tsutsui. 2011. Draft genome of the globally widespread and invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 108 (14): 5673–5678. [Abouheif Lab members in bold]
 
     
 
Chris R Smith, Christopher D Smith, Hugh M Robertson, Martin Helmkampf, Aleksey Zimin, Mark Yandell, Carson Holt, Hao Hu, Ehab Abouheif, Richard Benton, Elizabeth Cash, Vincent Croset, Cameron R Currie, Eran Elhaik, Christine G Elsik, Marie-Julie Fave, Vilaiwan Fernandes, Joshua D Gibson, Dan Graur, Wulfila Gronenberg, Kirk J Grubb, Darren E Hagen, Ana Sofia Ibarraran Viniegra, Brian R Johnson, Reed M Johnson, Abderrahman Khila, Jay W Kim, Kaitlyn A Mathis, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Marguerite C Murphy, Julie A Mustard, Rin Nakamura, Oliver Niehuis, Surabhi Nigam, Rick P Overson, Jennifer E Placek, Rajendhran Rajakumar, Justin T Reese, Garret Suen, Shu Tao, Candice W Torres, Neil D Tsutsui, Lumi Viljakainen, Florian Wolschin, and Jürgen Gadau. 2011. Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 108 (14): 5667–5672
[Abouheif Lab members in bold]
 
   
Garret Suen, Clotilde Teiling, Lewyn Li, Carson Holt, Ehab Abouheif, Erich Bornberg-Bauer, Pascal Bouffard, Eric J Caldera, Elizabeth Cash, Amy Cavanaugh, Olgert Denas, Eran Elhaik, Marie-Julie Fave, Jurgen Gadau, Joshua D Gibson, Dan Graur, Kirk J Grubbs, Darren E Hagen,Timothy T Harkins, Martin Helmkampf, Hao Hu, Brian R Johnson, Jay Kim, Sarah E Marsh, Joseph A Moeller, Monica C Munoz-Torres, Marguerite C. Murphy, Meredith C Naughton, Surabhi Nigam, Rick Overson, Rajendhran Rajakumar, Justin T Reese, Jarrod J Scott, Chris R Smith, Shu Tao, Neil D Tsutsui, Lumi Viljakainen, Lothar Wissler, Mark D Yandell, Fabian Zimmer, James Taylor, Steven C Slater, Sandra W Clifton, Wesley C Warren, Christine G Elsik, Christopher D Smith, George M Weinstock, Nicole M Gerardo, Cameron R Currie. 2011.The genome sequence of the leaf-cutter ant Atta cephalotesreveals insights into its obligate symbiotic lifestyle. PloS Genetics 7(2): e1002007. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1002007 [Abouheif Lab members in bold]
 
   
       
2010
     
Shbailat SJ, Khila A, and Abouheif E. 2010. Correlations between spatiotemporal changes in gene expression and apoptosis underlie wing polyphenism in the ant Pheidole morrisi. Evolution & Development 12: 580-591
   
   
Khila, A. and E. Abouheif. 2010. Evaluating the role of reproductive constraints in ant social evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 365: 617-630.    
   
       
2009
     
Kilfoil M, Lasko P, and Abouheif E. 2009. Stochastic variation: from single cells to superorganisms. HFSP Journal 1(1): doi:10.2976/1.3223356
   
Khila A, Abouheif E, and Rowe L. 2009. Evolution of a novel appendage ground plan in water striders is driven by changes in the Hox gene Ultrabithorax. PLoS Genetics 5(7): e1000583. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000583
 
   
Abouheif E. and Larsson H. 2009. Synthesis Version 4. 1beta. Evolution & Development 11: 456–457.
   
Khila, A.  and E. Abouheif. 2009. In situ hybridization on ant ovaries and embryos.CSH Protocols, 4(7): doi:10.1101/pdb.prot5250.
     
       
2008
   
Khila, A. and E. Abouheif. 2008. Reproductive constraint is a developmental mechanism that maintains social harmony in ants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 17884-17889.
 
Nahmad M, Glass L, and Abouheif E. 2008. The dynamics of developmental system drift in the gene network underlying wing polyphenism in ants: a mathematical model. Evolution & Development, 10 (3): 360-374.
This paper was mentioned in Faculty of 1000.
Abouheif E. 2008. Parallelism as the pattern and process of mesoevolution. Evolution & Development 10 (1): 3-5.
   
       
2007
     
Bowsher J, Wray G.A., and Abouheif E. 2007. Growth and patterning are evolutionarily dissociated in the vestigial wing discs in workers of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta. Journal of Experimental Zoology (MOL DEV EVOL) 308B: 769-776.
   
   
       
2005
     
Todd H. Oakley, Zhenglong Gu, Ehab Abouheif, Nipam H. Patel, and Wen-Hsiung Li. 2005. Comparative Methods for the Analysis of Gene-Expression Evolution: An Example Using Yeast Functional Genomic Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22: 40-50.
   
   
       
2004
     
Abouheif, E. 2004. Comprehensive reference for Evo-Devo or collective challenge to Neo-Darwinism? Evolution 58: 2837-2839.
   
Rheindt F.E., T.U. Grafe, and E. Abouheif. 2004. Rapidly evolving traits and the comparative method: how important is testing for phylogenetic signal? Evolutionary Ecology Research 6:377-396.
   
   
       
2003
     
Abouheif, E. 2003. A Framework for Studying the Evolution of Gene Networks Underlying Polyphenism: Insights from Winged and Wingless Ant Castes. In Environment, Development, and Evolution: Toward a Synthesis. Brian K. Hall, Roy D. Pearson and Gerd B. Muller G, eds., MIT Press [Chapter 8]
   
   
Reeve, J. and E. Abouheif, 2003. Phylogenetic Independence. Version 2.0. Computer Program (See Programs, Datasets and Protocols)
     
G.A. Wray, M.W. Hahn, E. Abouheif, J.P. Balhoff, M. Pizer, M.V. Rockman, and L.A. Romano. 2003. The evolution of transcriptional regulation in Eukaryotes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20: 1377-1419.
   
   
       
2002
 
Abouheif, E. and Wray, G.A. 2002. Evolution of the gene network underlying the wing polyphenism in ants. Science 297: 249-252.
Abouheif, E. and Wray, G.A. 2002. Evolution of Development. Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Nature Publishing Group. www.ELS.net: 1-6.
   
       
1999
     
Abouheif, E. 1999. Establishing homology criteria for regulatory gene networks: prospects and challenges. In Homology. Wiley, Chichester. Novartis Foundation Symposium 222: 207-225.
   
   
Abouheif, E. 1999. A method for testing the assumption of phylogenetic independence in comparative data. Evolutionary Ecology Research 1: 895-909.
   
       
1998
   
Wray, G.A and Abouheif, E. 1998. When homology is not homology. Current Opinions in Genetics and Development 8: 675-680.
 
Abouheif, E. 1998. Random trees and the comparative method: a cautionary tale. Evolution 52: 1197-1204.
   
Abouheif, E., Zardoya, R., and Meyer A. 1998. Limitations of metazoan 18S rRNA sequence data: implications for reconstructing a phylogeny for the animal kingdom, and inferring the existence of the Cambrian explosion. Journal of Molecular Evolution 47: 394-405.
   
   
       
1997
     
Abouheif, E. Akam, M., Dickinson, W.J., Holland, P.W.H., Meyer, A., Patel, N.H., Roth, V.L. and Wray, G.A. 1997. Homology and Developmental Genes. Trends In Genetics 13:432-433.    
   
Abouheif, E. 1997. Developmental Genetics and Homology: a hierarchical approach. Trends In Ecology and Evolution 12: 405-408.    
Abouheif, E. and D.J. Fairbairn. 1997. A comparative analysis of allometry for sexual size dimorphism. American Naturalist 149: 540-562.    
       
1996
     
Zardoya, R., E. Abouheif and A. Meyer. 1996a. Evolutionary analyses of hedgehog and Hoxd-10 genes in fish species closely related to the zebrafish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 93: 13036-13041.
   
   
Zardoya, R., E. Abouheif and A. Meyer. 1996b. Evolution and Orthology of hedgehog genes. Trends In Genetics 12: 489-536.