Cassandra Extavour

Cassandra Extavour

Harvard University

H-index: 36

North America-United States

About Cassandra Extavour

Cassandra Extavour, With an exceptional h-index of 36 and a recent h-index of 24 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Harvard University, specializes in the field of Development, Genetics, Evolution, Reproduction, Germ Cells.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

oskar acts with the transcription factor Creb to regulate long-term memory in crickets

The evolution of ovary-biased gene expression in Hawaiian Drosophila

Nuclear speed and cycle length co-vary with local density during syncytial blastoderm formation in a cricket

Genomics and genome editing techniques of crickets, an emerging model insect for biology and food science

Phylotranscriptomics Reveals Discordance in the Phylogeny of Hawaiian Drosophila and Scaptomyza (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Distinct gene expression dynamics in germ line and somatic tissue during ovariole morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster

Cricket: The third domesticated insect

In the Spotlight—Established researcher

Cassandra Extavour Information

University

Position

Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Professor of Molecular and

Citations(all)

4673

Citations(since 2020)

2245

Cited By

3366

hIndex(all)

36

hIndex(since 2020)

24

i10Index(all)

67

i10Index(since 2020)

59

Email

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Cassandra Extavour Skills & Research Interests

Development

Genetics

Evolution

Reproduction

Germ Cells

Top articles of Cassandra Extavour

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

oskar acts with the transcription factor Creb to regulate long-term memory in crickets

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Arpita Kulkarni

Ben Ewen-Campen

Kanta Terao

Yukihisa Matsumoto

Yaolong Li

...

2023/5/23

The evolution of ovary-biased gene expression in Hawaiian Drosophila

PLoS Genetics

Samuel H Church

Catriona Munro

Casey W Dunn

Cassandra G Extavour

2023/1/23

Nuclear speed and cycle length co-vary with local density during syncytial blastoderm formation in a cricket

Nature communications

Seth Donoughe

Jordan Hoffmann

Taro Nakamura

Chris H Rycroft

Cassandra G Extavour

2022/7/6

Genomics and genome editing techniques of crickets, an emerging model insect for biology and food science

Taro Nakamura

Guillem Ylla

Cassandra G Extavour

2022/4/1

Phylotranscriptomics Reveals Discordance in the Phylogeny of Hawaiian Drosophila and Scaptomyza (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Samuel H Church

Cassandra G Extavour

2022/3/1

Distinct gene expression dynamics in germ line and somatic tissue during ovariole morphogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster

G3

Shreeharsha Tarikere

Guillem Ylla

Cassandra G Extavour

2022/2/1

Cricket: The third domesticated insect

Taro Mito

Yoshiyasu Ishimaru

Takahito Watanabe

Taro Nakamura

Guillem Ylla

...

2022/1/1

In the Spotlight—Established researcher

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution (JEZ-B)

Cassandra G Extavour

2021/12/1

Evolution of a cytoplasmic determinant: Evidence for the biochemical basis of functional evolution of the novel germ line regulator oskar

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Leo Blondel

Savandara Besse

Emily L Rivard

Guillem Ylla

Cassandra G Extavour

2021/12/1

Adaptation of codon and amino acid use for translational functions in highly expressed cricket genes

Bmc Genomics

Carrie A Whittle

Arpita Kulkarni

Nina Chung

Cassandra G Extavour

2021/12

Evolutionary dynamics of sex‐biased genes expressed in cricket brains and gonads

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Carrie A Whittle

Arpita Kulkarni

Cassandra G Extavour

2021/8/1

Insights into the genomic evolution of insects from cricket genomes

Communications biology

Guillem Ylla

Taro Nakamura

Takehiko Itoh

Rei Kajitani

Atsushi Toyoda

...

2021/6/14

Repeated loss of variation in insect ovary morphology highlights the role of development in life-history evolution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Samuel H Church

Bruno AS de Medeiros

Seth Donoughe

Nicole L Márquez Reyes

Cassandra G Extavour

2021/5/12

Establishment of CRISPR/Cas9-based knock-in in a hemimetabolous insect: targeted gene tagging in the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

BioRxiv

Yuji Matsuoka

Taro Nakamura

Takahito Watanabe

Austen A Barnett

Sayuri Tomonari

...

2021/5/10

Local density determines nuclear movements during syncytial blastoderm formation in a cricket

BioRxiv

Seth Donoughe

Jordan Hoffmann

Taro Nakamura

Chris H Rycroft

Cassandra G Extavour

2021/4/28

Identifying evolutionary divergence in gene expression across species and organs: a case-study using Hawaiian Drosophila

bioRxiv

Samuel H Church

Catriona Munro

Casey W Dunn

Cassandra G Extavour

2021/12/1

Shared cell biological functions may underlie pleiotropy of molecular interactions in the germ lines and nervous systems of animals

Arpita Kulkarni

Davys H Lopez

Cassandra G Extavour

2020/8/4

Sex-biased genes expressed in the cricket brain evolve rapidly

BioRxiv

Carrie A Whittle

Arpita Kulkarni

Cassandra G Extavour

2020/7/8

Cricket genomes: the genomes of future food

BioRxiv

Guillem Ylla

Taro Nakamura

Takehiko Itoh

Rei Kajitani

Atsushi Toyoda

...

2020/7/7

Null hypotheses for developmental evolution

Samuel H Church

Cassandra G Extavour

2020/4/15

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