Publications

  1. Liu, J., McConnell, K., Dixon, M. and Calvi, B.R. (2011) Analysis of model replication origins in Drosophila reveals new aspects of the chromatin landscape and its relationship to origin activity and the pre-RC. Mol. Biol. Cell. 23(1): 200-212 PMID:22049023.<pdf>
  2. Maqbool SB, Mehrotra S, Kolpakas A, Durden C, Zhang B, Zhong H, Calvi BR. (2010) Dampened activity of E2F1-DP and Myb-MuvB transcription factors in Drosophila endocycling cells. J Cell Sci. 123: 4095-4106. PMID: 21045111.<pdf>
  3. Mehrotra, S, Maqbool, SB, Kolpakas A, Murnen K, and Calvi, BR. 2008. Endocycling cells do not apoptose in response to DNA rereplication genotoxic stress. Genes & Development 22:3158-3171. <pdf>
  4. Drosophila 12 Genome Consortium (2007). Genomics on a phylogeny: Evolution of Genes and Genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny. Nature 450: 203-218. <pdf>
  5. Calvi, BR, Byrnes, BA, and Kolpakas, AJ. 2007.Conservation of epigenetic regulation, ORC binding, and developmental timing of DNA replication origins in the genus Drosophila. Genetics: 177:1291-1301. <pdf>
  6. White, AE, Leslie, ME, Calvi, BR, Marzluff, WF, and Duronio,RJ. 2007. Cyclin E/CDK2 regulation of the Drosophila melanogaster histone locus body. Molecular Biology of the Cell: 18(7), 2491-2502. <pdf>
  7. May, NR, Thomer, M, Murnen, KF, and Calvi, BR. 2005. The origin binding protein Double parked, and its inhibitor Geminin, increase in response to replication stress. Journ. Cell Sci. 118:4207-4217. <pdf>
  8. Bandura JL, Beall E, Bell M, Silver H, Botchan, M, and Calvi, BR. 2005. humpty dumpty is required for developmental DNA amplification and cell proliferation in Drosophila. Current Biology 15: 755-759. (Current Biology Cell Press Paper of the Month) <pdf>
  9. Thomer, M, May, NR, Aggarwal, BD, Kwok, G, and Calvi, BR. 2004.Drosophila double-parked is sufficient for re-replication during development and is regulated by Cyclin E / CDK2. Development 131(19): 4807-4818. <pdf>
  10. Aggarwal, BD, and Calvi, BR. (2004).Chromatin regulates origin activity in Drosophila follicle cells. Nature430: 372-376. (Reviewed in Faculty of 1000).<pdf>
  11. Schwed GM, May NR, Pechersky Y, Calvi BR. (2002). Drosophila MCM6 is required for chorion gene amplification and genomic replication. Mol. Biol. of the Cell 13(2): 607-620. <pdf>
  12. Calvi BR, Spradling AC. (2001). The nuclear location and chromatin organization of active chorion amplification origins. Chromosoma 110: 159-172. <pdf>
  13. Calvi BR, Lilly MA, Spradling AC. (1998). Cell cycle control of chorion gene amplification. Genes & Development 12(5): 734-44. <pdf>
  14. Calvi BR, Gelbart WM (1994). The basis for germline specificity of the hobo transposable element in Drosophila melanogaster. EMBO Journal 13(7): 1636-44. <pdf>
  15. Smith D, Wohlgemuth J, Calvi BR, Franklin I, Gelbart WM. (1993). hobo enhancer trapping mutagenesis in Drosophila reveals an insertion specificity different from P elements. Genetics 135(4): 1063-76. <pdf>
  16. Calvi BR, Hong TJ, Findley SD, Gelbart WM. (1991). Evidence for a common evolutionary origin of inverted repeat transposons in Drosophila and plants: hobo, Activator, and Tam3. Cell 66(3): 465-71.<pdf>

Reviews and Chapters

  1. B. R. Calvi Developmental Gene Amplification . In: DNA Replication and Human Disease. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Melvin DePamphilis (ed.) (2006), pp 233-255.
  2. B. R. Calvi and Mary A. Lilly: Brdu labeling and nuclear flow sorting of the Drosophila ovary. Drosophila Cytogenetics Protocols. Daryl Henderson (eds.). Humana Press, USA, 2002.
  3. Jennifer L. Bandura and B. R. Calvi: Duplication of the genome in normal and cancer cell cycles. Cancer Biology and Therapy 1(8), 2002. <pdf>
  4. B. R. Calvi and Allan C. Spradling: Chorion gene amplification in Drosophila: a model for metazoan origins of DNA replication and S phase control. "Genetic Approaches to Eukaryotic Replication and Repair" Methods in Enzymology. Paul Fisher (eds.). Vol. 18: 407-417, 1999. <pdf>