Bose A, Schuster K, Kodali C, Sonam S, and Smith-Bolton RK, (2025) The pioneer transcription factor Zelda controls the exit from regeneration and restoration of patterning in Drosophila. Science Advances, Volume 11, Issue 23, June 6.
Hsu FTY, and Smith-Bolton RK (2025) Myc and Tor drive growth and cell competition in the regeneration blastema of Drosophila wing imaginal discs BioRxiv, March 2025.
Abidi SNF, Hsu FTY, Smith-Bolton RK (2023) Regenerative growth is constrained by brain tumor to ensure proper patterning in Drosophila PLOS Genetics, December 21, 2023.
Tian Y, and Smith-Bolton RK. (2021) Regulation of growth and cell fate during tissue regeneration by the two SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complexes of Drosophila, Genetics, Volume 217, Issue 1, January 2021, iyaa028
Fox DT, Cohen E, and Smith-Bolton R. (2020). Model systems for regeneration: Drosophila Development.
Abidi SNF, and Smith-Bolton RK. (2018). Cell fate changes induced by a Distal-less enhancer-trap transgene in the Drosophila antennal imaginal disc. Sci Rep 8:4950. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-23093-z
Khan SJ, Abidi SNF, Skinner A, Tian Y, Smith-Bolton RK (2017) The Drosophila Duox maturation factor is a key component of a positive feedback loop that sustains regeneration signaling. PLoS Genet 13(7): e1006937. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006937
Brock AR, Seto M, Smith-Bolton RK. Cap-n-collar Promotes Tissue Regeneration by Regulating ROS and JNK Signaling in the Drosophila Wing Imaginal Disc. Genetics. 2017 May 16. pii: genetics.116.196832. doi: 10.1534/genetics.116.196832. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 28512185.
Sumbul Jawed Khan, Keaton J Schuster, and Rachel K. Smith-Bolton. (2016). Regeneration in Crustaceans and Insects. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. DOI:10.1002/9780470015902.a0001098.pub2 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470015902.a0001098.pub2/full
Sumbul Jawed Khan*, Syeda Nayab Fatima Abidi*, Yuan Tian, Andrea Skinner and Rachel K. Smith-Bolton. (2016). A rapid, gentle and scalable method for dissociation and fluorescent sorting of imaginal disc cells for mRNA sequencing. Fly. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19336934.2016.1173296
Andrea Skinner, Sumbul Jawed Khan, and Rachel K. Smith-Bolton. (2015). Trithorax regulates systemic signaling during Drosophila imaginal disc regeneration. Development 142: 3500-3511. http://dev.biologists.org/content/142/20/3500
Keaton J. Schuster and Rachel K. Smith-Bolton. (2015). Taranis protects regenerating tissue from fate changes induced by the wound response in Drosophila. Developmental Cell. 34(1): 119-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2015.04.017
Rachel K. Smith-Bolton. (2014). Drosophila imaginal discs as a model of epithelial wound repair and regeneration. Advances in Wound Care. Peer reviewed. In press, published online ahead of print: doi:10.1089/wound.2014.0547.
Rachel K. Smith-Bolton, Melanie Worley, Hiroshi Kanda, and Iswar K. Hariharan. (2009). Regenerative growth in Drosophila imaginal discs is regulated by Wingless and Myc. Developmental Cell. 16(6): 797-809.
Leslie A. Jarvis*, Stephanie J. Toering*, Michael A. Simon, Mark A. Krasnow, and Rachel K. Smith-Bolton*. (2006). Sprouty proteins are in vivo targets of Corkscrew/SHP-2 tyrosine phosphatases. Development. 133(6): 1133-42.*These authors contributed equally to this work.
Rachel K. Smith, Pamela M. Carroll, John D. Allard, and Michael A. Simon. (2002). MASK, a large ankyrin repeat and KH domain-containing protein involved in Drosophila receptor tyrosine kinase signaling. Development. 129(1): 71-82.