1. Melinda K. Duncan, Tetsuo Shimamura and Kiran Chada (1994) Expression of Id mRNA during branching morphogenesis in the kidney. Kidney Internat. 46 324-332.

2. Stanislav I. Tomarev, Melinda K.Duncan, H. John Roth, Ales Cvekl and Joram Piatigorsky (1994) Convergent evolution of crystallin gene regulation in squid and chicken: The AP-1/ARE connection. J. Mol. Evol. 39, 134-143.

3. Melinda K. Duncan, H. John Roth, Mark Thompson, Marc Kantorow and Joram Piatigorsky. (1995) Chicken bB1 crystallin: gene sequence and evidence for functional conservation of promoter activity between chicken and mouse. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1261, 68-76.

4. Melinda K. Duncan, John I. Haynes and Joram Piatigorsky (1995) The chicken bA4- and bB1 crystallin-encoding genes are tightly linked. Gene, 162, 189-196.

5. Melinda K. Duncan, Jonathan Lieman and Kiran Chada (1995) Mapping of the molecular defect in the germ cell deficient mouse to chromosome 11a1-3 by fluorescent in situ hybridization. Mam. Genome, 6, 697-699.

6. Melinda K. Duncan, Sharmila Banerjee-Basu, Joan B. McDermott and Joram Piatigorsky (1996) Sequence and expression of chicken bA2- and bB3- crystallin. Exp. Eye Res. 62, 111-119.

7. Stanislav I. Tomarev, Olof Sundin, Sharmila Banerjee-Basu, Melinda K. Duncan, Jun-Min Yang and Joram Piatigorsky (1996) A chicken homeobox gene Prox 1 related to Drosophila Prospero is expressed in the developing lens and retina. Dev. Dynam. 206, 354-367.

8. Melinda K. Duncan, Xuan Li, Hajime Ogino, Kunio Yasuda, and Joram Piatigorsky (1996) Developmental regulation of the chicken bB1-crystallin promoter. Mech. Develop. 57, 79-89.

9. Rina D. Zinovieva, Melinda K. Duncan, Todd Johnson, Rosa Torres, Michaelis Polymeropoulos and Stanislav I. Tomarev (1996) Structure and chromosomal localization of the human homeobox gene, Prox 1. Genomics 35, 517-522.

10. John I. Haynes II, Melinda K. Duncan and Joram Piatigorsky (1996) Spatial and temporal activity of the mouse aB-crystallin/small heat shock protein promoter in transgenic mice. Dev. Dynam. 207, 75-88.

11. Melinda K. Duncan, Lajos Bordas, Emanuel DiCicco-Bloom and Kiran Chada (1997) The expression of the helix-loop-helix genes Id-1 and Nscl-1 during cerebellar development. Dev. Dyam. 208, 107-114.

12. James P. Brady, Melinda K. Duncan, Eric F. Wawrousek and Joram Piatigorsky (1997) The transcription factor, Kid-1, is highly expressed in both eye and kidney of the mouse. Exp. Eye Res. 64, 287-290.

13. Melinda K. Duncan, Lidia Kos, Nancy A. Jenkins, Debra J. Gilbert, Neal G. Copeland and Stanislav I. Tomarev (1997) Eyes Absent: a gene family found in several metazoan phyla. Mamm. Genome. 8, 479-485.

14. Melinda K. Duncan, John I. Haynes II, Ales Cvekl and Joram Piatigorsky (1998) Dual roles for Pax-6: a transcriptional repressor of lens fiber cell specific b-crystallin genes. Mol. Cell Biol. 18, 5579-5586.

15. Melinda K. Duncan, J. Fielding Hejtmancik, and Joram Piatigorsty (1998) bB1-crystallin: changes in gene regulation during evolution? Mol. Vision, submitted.