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Evans, D., I. Perez, M. MacMorris, D. Leake, C. J. Wilusz and T. Blumenthal. 2001. A complex containing CstF and the SL2 snRNP connects mRNA 3' end formation and trans-splicing in Caenorhabditis elegans operons. Genes and Dev. 15, 2562-2571.
Blumenthal, T., D. Evans, C.D. Link, A. Guffanti, D. Lawson, J. Thierry-Mieg, D. Thierry-Mieg, W.L. Chiu, K. Duke, M. Kiraly and S. K. Kim. 2002. A global analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans operons. Nature: 417, 851-854.
Blumenthal, T. and K. S. Gleason. 2003. Caenorhabditis elegans operons: form and function. Nature Reviews Genetics. 4, 110-118.
Liu, Y., S. Kuersten, T. Huang, M. MacMorris and T. Blumenthal. 2003. An uncapped RNA suggests a model for Caenorhabditis elegans polycistronic pre-mRNA processing. RNA: 9, 677-687.
MacMorris, M., C. Brocker and T. Blumenthal. 2003. UAP56 levels affect viability and mRNA export in C. elegans. RNA: 9, 847-857.
Stein, L.D. , Bao, Z. Blasiar, D. Blumenthal, T. et al. 2003. The genome sequence of Caenorhabditis briggsae: A platform for comparative genomics. PLoS Biology: 1, 166-192.
Blumenthal, T. 2004. Operons in eukaryotes. Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics: 3: 199-211.
Hollins, C., Zorio, D.A.R., MacMorris, M. and T. Blumenthal 2005. U2AF binding selects for the high conservation of the C. elegans 3’ splice site. RNA. 11: 248-253.
Blumenthal, T. 2005. Trans-splicing and operons. (June 25, 2005) Wormbook, ed. The C. elegans Research Community, Wormbook, doi/10.1895/wormbook.1.5.1, http://www.wormbook.org.
MacMorris, M., Kumar, M., Lasda, E., Larsen, A., Kraemer, B. and T. Blumenthal. (2007) A novel family of C. elegans snRNPs contains proteins associated with trans-splicing. RNA 13: 1-10.
Saldi T, Wilusz C, MacMorris M, Blumenthal T. (Jun 5,2007) Functional redundancy of worm spliceosomal proteins U1A and U2B''. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104(23):9753-7
Graber JH, Salisbury J, Hutchins LN, Blumenthal T. (Jul 13, 2007) C. elegans sequences that control trans-splicing and operon pre-mRNA processing. RNA.
