William R. Jackman, Yujin Moon*, Carol K Cox, Drew R. Anderson*, Audrey A. DeFusco*, Vy M. Nguyen*, Sarah Y. Liu*, Elisabeth H. Carter*, Hana E. Littleford*, Elizabeth K. Richards, Andrea L. Jowdry, and Yann Gibert. (2026). A minimal tooth enhancer regulates dlx2b expression during zebrafish tooth formation: insights into cis-regulatory logic in organogenesis. eLife 15:RP109679 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.109679.1
Jackman, W.R., Lynch, V.J. & Gibert, Y. Challenging and redefining Dollo’s law of evolution: re-appearance of lost structures. BMC Ecol Evo 25, 62 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-025-02405-8
Jackman, W.R., Miranda Portillo, L.S*., Cox, C.K., Ambrosio, A*., Gibert, Y. (2024). Blocking endogenous retinoic acid degradation induces oral tooth formation in zebrafish. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121, e2321162121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321162121
Alexa Sadier, William R. Jackman, Vincent Laudet, and Yann Gibert. (2020). The vertebrate tooth row: is it initiated by a single organizing tooth? BioEssays, 1900229. https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.201900229
William R. Jackman and Yann Gibert. (2020). Retinoic acid signaling and the zebrafish dentition during development and evolution. In: The Biochemistry of Retinoid Signaling III. Springer Science, Dordrecht. Mary Ann Asson-Batres and Cecile Rochette-Egly, eds. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42282-0_7
Yann Gibert, Eric Samarut, Megan K. Ellis, William R. Jackman and Vincent Laudet. (2019). The first formed tooth serves as a signaling center to induce the formation of the dental row in zebrafish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286, 20190401. doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0401
Jeffrey C. Yu*, Zachary D. Fox*, James L. Crimp*, Hana E. Littleford*, Andrea L. Jowdry, and William R. Jackman. (2015). Hedgehog signaling regulates dental papilla formation and tooth size during zebrafish odontogenesis. Developmental Dynamics 244, 577-590. doi:10.1002/DVDY.24258
William R. Jackman, Shelby H. Davies*, David B. Lyons*, Caitlin K. Stauder*, Benjamin R. Denton-Schneider*, Andrea Jowdry, Sharon R. Aigler, Scott A. Vogel*, and David W. Stock. (2013) Manipulation of Fgf and Bmp signaling in teleost fishes suggests potential pathways for the evolutionary origin of multicuspid teeth. Evolution and Development 15:2, 107-118. doi:10.1111/ede.12021
Pawat Seritrakul*, Eric Samarut, Tenzing TS Lama*, Yann Gibert, Vincent Laudet, and William R Jackman. (2012) Retinoic acid expands the evolutionarily reduced dentition of zebrafish. The FASEB Journal 26, 5014-5024. doi:10.1096/fj.12-209304
William R. Jackman, James J. Yoo*, and David W. Stock. (2010). Hedgehog signaling is required at multiple stages of zebrafish tooth development. BMC Developmental Biology 10:119, doi:10.1186/1471-213X-10-119
Yann Gibert, Laure Bernard, Melanie Debiais-Thibaud, Franck Bourrat, Jean-Stephane Joly, Karen Pottin, Axel Meyer, Sylvie Retaux, David W. Stock, William R. Jackman, Pawat Seritrakul*, Gerrit Begemann and Vincent Laudet. (2010). Formation of oral and pharyngeal dentition in teleosts depends on differential recruitment of retinoic acid signaling. The FASEB Journal 24, 3298-3309, doi:10.1096/fj.09-147488
Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Mardi S. Byerly, William R. Jackman, and William R. Jeffery. (2009). Pleiotropic functions of embryonic sonic hedgehog expression link jaw and taste bud amplification with eye loss during cavefish evolution. Developmental Biology 330, 200-211, doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2009.03.003
William R. Jackman and David W. Stock. (2006). Transgenic analysis of Dlx regulation in fish tooth development reveals evolutionary retention of enhancer function despite organ loss. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103, 19390-19395.
David W. Stock, William R. Jackman, and Josh Trapani. (2006). Developmental genetic mechanisms of evolutionary tooth loss in cypriniform fishes. Development 133, 3127-3137.
William R. Jackman, Bruce W. Draper, and David W. Stock. (2004). FGF signaling is required for zebrafish tooth development. Developmental Biology 274, 139-157.
William R. Jackman, Jolee M. Mougey*, Georgia D. Panopoulou, and Charles B. Kimmel. (2004). crabp and maf highlight the novelty of the amphioxus club-shaped gland. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 85, 91-99.
William R. Jackman and Charles B. Kimmel. (2002). Coincident iterated gene expression in the amphioxus neural tube. Evolution and Development 4, 366-374.
Lisa Maves, William R. Jackman, and Charles B. Kimmel. (2002). FGF3 and FGF8 mediate a rhombomere 4 signaling activity in the zebrafish hindbrain. Development 129, 3825-3837.
William R. Jackman, James A. Langeland, and Charles B. Kimmel. (2000). islet reveals segmentation in the amphioxus hindbrain homolog. Developmental Biology 220, 16-26.
James A. Langeland, Jill M. Tomsa*, William R. Jackman Jr., and Charles B. Kimmel. (1998). An amphioxus snail gene: Expression in paraxial mesoderm and neural plate suggests a conserved role in patterning the chordate embryo. Development Genes and Evolution 208, 569–577.
Timothy Quinn and William R. Jackman*. (1994). Influence of diet on detection of fecal bile acids by thin-later chromatography. Journal of Wildlife Management. 58:295-299.
*undergraduate co-author
