Selected Publications

• McKeown, K.A., Moreno, R., Hall, V.L., Ribera, A.B., and Downes, G.B. (2011) Disruption of Eaat2b, a glutamate transporter, results in abnormal motor behaviors in developing zebrafish. Developmental Biology. doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2011.11.001
• Friedrich, T., Lambert, A.M., Masino, M.A., Downes, G.B. (2011) Mutation of zebrafish dihydrolipoamide branched-chain transacylase E2 results in motor dysfunction and models maple syrup urine disease. Disease Models and Mechanisms. doi: 10.1242/dmm.008383
• Olson, B.D., Sgourdou, P., and Downes, G.B. (2010) Analysis of a zebrafish behavioral mutant reveals a dominant mutation in atp2a1/SERCA1. Genesis 48: 354-61.
• McKeown, K.A., Downes, G.B., and Hutson, L.D. (2009) Modular labatory exercises to analyze the development of zebrafish motor behavior. Zebrafish 6: 179-85.
• Downes, G.B. and Granato, M. (2006). Supraspinal input is not required to generate glycine-mediated locomotive behaviors in the zebrafish embryo. J. Neurobiology 66: 437-51.
• Hiromi, H., Saint-Amant, L., Downes, G.B., Cui, W.W., Zhou, W., Granato, M., Kuwada, J.Y. (2005). Zebrafish bandoneon mutants display behavioral defects due to a mutation in the glycine receptor beta subunit. P.N.A.S. 102: 8345-50.
• Downes, G.B. and Granato, M. (2004). Acetylcholinesterase function is dispensable for neurite growth but is critical for neuromuscular synapse stability. Developmental Biology 270: 232-245.
• Downes, G.B., Waterbury, J.A., and Granato, M. (2002). Rapid in vivo labeling of identified zebrafish neurons. Genesis 34: 196-202.
• Downes, G.B and Gautam, N.(1999) The G protein subunit gene families. Genomics 62: 447-55.
• Downes, G.B., Copeland, N., Jenkins, N.A., and Gautam, N. (1998). Structure And mapping of the G protein gamma3 subunit gene and a divergently transcribed novel gene, Gng3lg. Genomics 15: 220-30.