Publications
Submitted or in preparation
  • Boothby TC, Mechanisms and evolution of resistance to environmental extremes in animals. (in): Lyons, D. and Srivastava, M. Animal body-plan evolution: a cellular perspective. Springer, New York, USA. – Chapter submitted to editors.
In press and published
  • Piszkiewicz S, Gunn KH, Warmuth O, Propst A, Mehta A, Nguyen KH, Kuhlman E, Guseman AJ, Stadmiller SS, Boothby TC, Neher SB. Protecting activity of desiccated enzymes. Protein Science. (2019):
  • Boothby TC. Molecular Biology in Tardigrades Water Bears: The Biology of Tardigrades. Springer, Cham, 2018. 331-348.
  • Fadero TC, Gerbich TM, Rana K, Suzuki A, DiSalvo M, Schaefer K, Heppert JK, Boothby TC, Goldstein B, Peifer M, Allbritton NL, Gladfelter AS, Maddox AS, and Maddox, PS. Tilted light-sheet excitation of model organisms offers high resolution and low photobleaching." J Cell Biol 217.5 (2018): 1869-1882.

​
  • Boothby TC, Desiccation of Hypsibius exemplaris. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols 2018.11 (2018): pdb-prot102327

​​
  • Boothby TC, Total RNA Extraction for Tardigrades. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols 2018.11 (2018): pdb-prot102376.

​
  • Boothby TC, Pielak GJ. Intrinsically Disordered Proteins and Desiccation Tolerance: Elucidating Functional and Mechanistic Underpinnings of Anhydrobiosis. BioEssays. (2017).
​​
  • Boothby TC, Tapia H, Brozena AH, Piszkiewicz S, Smith AE, Giovannini I, Rebecchi L, Pielak GJ, Koshland D, Goldstein B. Tardigrades use intrinsically disordered proteins to survive desiccation. Molecular Cell. (2017) 16;65(6):975-84.
  • Boothby TC, Tenlen JR, Smith FW, Wang JR, Patanella KA, Osborne Nishimura E, Tintori SC, Li Q, Jones CD, Yandell M, Messina DN, Glasscock J, Goldstein B. (2015) Evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer from the draft genome of a tardigrade. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112.52 (2015): 15976-15981.
Followup: 
  • Boothby TC, and Goldstein B. (2016). Reply to Bemm et al. and Arakawa: Identifying foreign genes in independent Hypsibius dujardini genome assemblies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113.22 (2016): E3058-E3061.
  • Smith F, Boothby TC, Giovannini I, Rebecchi L, Jockusch EL, Goldstein B. (2015) The evolutionary origin of the tardigrade body plan by the loss of a large body region. In press - Current Biology. 
​
  • Sarkies P, Selkirk ME, Jones JT, Blok V, Boothby T, Goldstein T, Hanelt B, Ardila-Garcia A, Fast NM, Schiffer PH, Kraus C, Taylor MJ, Koutsovoulos G, Blaxter ML, and Miska EA (2015) Ancient and Novel Small RNA Pathways Compensate for the Loss of piRNAs in Multiple Independent Nematode Lineages. Edited by Laurence D Hurst. PLoS Biology 13, no. 2: e1002061. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002061.
  • Wolniak SM, Boothby TC, and van der Weele CM. (2015) Post-transcriptional control over rapid development of ciliated gametes in a vascular plant. (in): R. Basto, and W. Marshall. Cilia and Flagella: Methods in Cell Biology. Elsevier, Oxford, UK.
  • Boothby TC, Zipper RS, van der Weele CM, Wolniak SM. (2013). Removal of Retained Introns Regulates Translation in the Rapidly Developing Gametophyte of M. vestita. Developmental Cell. 24, 517-529. (Journal cover – Faculty of 1000 reviewed Exceptional).
  • Boothby TC and Wolniak SM. (2011). Masked mRNA is stored with aggregated nuclear speckles and its asymmetric redistribution requires a homolog of mago nashi. BMC Cell Biology. 12, 45. (Editor’s pick featured article).
  • Wolniak SM, van der Weele CM, Deeb F, Boothby T, Klink VP. (2011). Extremes in rapid cellular morphogenesis: post-transcriptional regulation of spermatogenesis in Marsilea vestita. Protoplasma 248, 457-73. (Journal cover).