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Wang L#, Hu Y#, Qiu Y, Lin H, Li X, Fu S, Zeng Y, Ghouse M, Long C, Liu Y*, Fei JF*. Establishing a semi-homology-directed recombination method for precision gene integration in axolotls. J. Genet. Genomics. 2025 Jul;52(7):942-953.

Zheng S#, Liu Y#, Xia X#, Xiao J#, Yuan X, Zhang Y, Chen Z, Fei JF*, Liu Y*. Sequence context-agnostic TadA-derived cytosine base editors for genome-wide editing in zebrafish. Advanced Science. 2025 Feb 17:e2411478.

Song L#, Wang L#, He Z#, Cui X#, Peng C, Xu J, Yong Z, Liu Y*, Fei JF*. Improving Spatial Transcriptomics with Membrane-Based Boundary Definition and Enhanced Single-Cell Resolution. Small Methods. 2025 Jan 28:e2401056.

Ma H#, Peng G#, Hu Y#, Lu B, Zheng Y, Wu Y, Feng W, Shi Y, Pan X, Song L, Ina Stuetzer, Liu Y*, Fei JF*. Revealing the Biological Features of the Axolotl Pancreas as a New Research Model. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 2025 Jan 31:13:1531903.

Zhang Y#, Liu Y#, Qin W#, Zheng S#, Xiao J, Xia X, Yuan X, Zeng J, Shi Y, Zhang Y, Ma H, Varshney GK*, Fei JF*, Liu Y*. Cytosine base editors with increased PAM and deaminase motif flexibility for gene editing in zebrafish. Nature Communications. 2024 Nov 4;15(1):9526.

Kawaguchi A, Wang J, Knapp D, Murawala P, Nowoshilow S, Masselink W, Taniguchi-Sugiura Y, Fei JF, Tanaka EM. A chromatin code for limb segment identity in axolotl limb regeneration. Dev. Cell. 2024 May 21:S1534-5807(24)00300-9. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2024.05.002.

Ren C, Wen Y, Zheng S, Zhao Z, Li EY, Zhao C, Liao M, Li L, Zhang X, Liu S, Yuan D, Luo K, Wang W, Fei J, Li S. Two transcriptional cascades orchestrate cockroach leg regeneration. Cell Rep. 2024 Mar 26;43(3):113889. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113889. Epub 2024 Feb 27.

Ning Y, Duo S, Lin X, Zhang H, Fei J, Zhang B, Zeng Y, Xie D, Chen J, Liu X, Han C. Transcription factor PBX4 regulates limb development and haematopoiesis in mice. Cell Prolif. 2024 May;57(5):e13580. doi: 10.1111/cpr.13580. Epub 2024 Jan 17.

Cui X#, Li X, Peng C, Qiu Y, Shi Y, Liu Y*, Fei JF*. Beyond External Light: On-Spot Light Generation or Light Delivery for Highly Penetrated Photodynamic Therapy. ACS Nano. 2023 Nov 14;17(21):20776-20803.

Fu S#, Peng C#, Zeng YY, Qiu Y, Liu Y, Fei JF*. Establishing an Efficient Electroporation-Based Method to Manipulate Target Gene Expression in the Axolotl Brain. Cell Transplantation. 2023 Jan-Dec;32:9636897231200059.

Feng W#, Liu S#, Deng Q#, Fu S#, Yang Y, Dai X, Wang S, Wang Y, Liu Y, Lin X, Pan X, Hao S, Yuan Y, Gu Y, Zhang X, Li H, Liu L, Liu C*, Fei JF*, Wei X*. A scATAC-seq atlas of chromatin accessibility in axolotl brain regions. Scientific Data. 2023 Sep 14;10(1):627.

Chen L#, Li J#, Ou Y#, Kang M, Deng J, Wang Y, Liang S, Hong X, Gong S, Fei JF*, Hou FF*, Zhang F*. The axolotl kidney: a novel model to study kidney regeneration. Kidney International. 2023 Sep;104(3):599-604.

Pan XY, Zeng YY, Liu YM*, Fei JF*. Resolving vertebrate brain evolution through salamander brain development and regeneration. Zoological Research. 2023 Jan 18;44(1):219-222.

Wang L#, Zeng YY#, Liu Y*, Fei JF*. Applying a Knock-In Strategy to Create Reporter-Tagged Knockout Alleles in Axolotls. Methods in molecular biology. 2023:2562:351-368.

Zheng S#, Liang F, Zhang Y, Fei JF, Qin W*, Liu Y*. Efficient PAM-Less Base Editing for Zebrafish Modeling of Human Genetic Disease with zSpRY-ABE8e. J. Vis. Exp. 2023 Feb 17;(192). doi: 10.3791/64977. PMID: 36876933.

Hu Y#, Pan X#, Shi Y, Qiu Y, Wang L, Murawala P, Liu Y, Xing W*, Tanaka EM*, Fei JF*. Muscles are barely required for the patterning and cell dynamics in axolotl limb regeneration. Frontiers in Genetics. 2022 Oct 10;13:1036641.

Wei X#, Fu S#, Li H#*, Liu Y#, Wang S#, Feng W#, Yang Y#, Liu X, Zeng Y, Cheng M, Lai Y, Qiu X, Wu L, Zhang N, Jiang Y, Xu J, Su X, Peng C, Han L, Lou WP, Liu C, Yuan Y, Ma K, Yang T, Pan X, Gao S, Chen A, Esteban MA, Yang H, Wang J, Fan G, Liu L, Chen L*, Xu X*, Fei JF*, Gu Y*. Single-cell Stereo-seq reveals induced progenitor cells involved in axolotl brain regeneration. Science. 2022 Sep 2;377(6610):eabp9444.

Ye F#, Zhang G#, E W#, Chen H#, Yu C#, Yang L#, Fu Y, Li J, Fu, S, Sun Z, Fei L, Guo Q, Wang J, Xiao Y, Wang X, Zhang P, Ma L, Ge D, Xu S, Caballero-Pérez J, Cruz-Ramírez A, Zhou Y, Chen M, Fei JF*, Han X* & Guo G*. Construction of the axolotl cell landscape using combinatorial hybridization sequencing at single-cell resolution. Nature Communications. 2022 Jul 22;13(1):4228.

Nowoshilow S, Fei JF*, Voss SR*, Tanaka EM*, Murawala P*. Gene and transgenics nomenclature for the laboratory axolotl-Ambystoma mexicanum. Developmental Dynamics. 2022 Jun;251(6):913-921.

Kaucka M#, Joven Araus A#, Tesarova M, Currie JD, Boström J, Kavkova M, Petersen J, Yao Z, Bouchnita A, Hellander A, Zikmund T, Elewa A, Newton PT, Fei JF, Chagin AS, Fried K, Tanaka EM, Kaiser J, Simon A*, Adameyko I*. Altered developmental programs and oriented cell divisions lead to bulky bones during salamander limb regeneration. Nat. Commun. 2022 Nov 14;13(1):6949. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-34266-w. PMID: 36376278; PMCID: PMC9663504

Liang F, Zhang Y, Li L, Yang Y, Fei JF, Liu Y* and Qin W*. SpG and SpRY variants expand the CRISPR toolbox for genome editing in zebrafish. Nat. Commun. 2022 Jun 14;13(1):3421. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31034-8.

Chen A, Liao S, Cheng M, Ma K, Wu L, Lai Y, Qiu X, Yang J, Xu J, Hao S, Wang X, Lu H, Chen X, Liu X, Huang X, Li Z, Hong Y, Jiang Y, Peng J, Liu S, Shen M, Liu C, Li Q, Yuan Y, Wei X, Zheng H, Feng W, Wang Z, Liu Y, Wang Z, Yang Y, Xiang H, Han L, Qin B, Guo P, Lai G, Muñoz-Cánoves P, Maxwell PH, Thiery JP, Wu QF, Zhao F, Chen B, Li M, Dai X, Wang S, Kuang H, Hui J, Wang L, Fei JF, Wang O, Wei X, Lu H, Wang B, Liu S, Gu Y, Ni M, Zhang W, Mu F, Yin Y, Yang H, Lisby M, Cornall RJ, Mulder J, Uhlén M, Esteban MA, Li Y, Liu L, Xu X, Wang J. Spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of mouse organogenesis using DNA nanoball-patterned arrays. Cell. 2022 May 12;185(10):1777-1792.e21. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.04.003. Epub 2022 May 4.

Echeverri K, Fei J, Tanaka EM.The Axolotl's journey to the modern molecular era. Curr. Top. Dev. Biol. 2022;147:631-658. doi: 10.1016/bs.ctdb.2021.12.010. Epub 2022 Mar 15.

Liu Y, Lou WP, Fei JF*. The engine initiating tissue regeneration: does a common mechanism exist during evolution? Cell Regeneration. 2021 Apr 5;10(1):12.

Tilley L, Papadopoulos SC, Pende M, Fei JF, Murawala P. The use of transgenics in the laboratory axolotl. Dev. Dyn. 2021 May 5. doi: 10.1002/dvdy.357.

Bondarieva A, Raveendran K, Telychko V, Rao HBDP, Ravindranathan R, Zorzompokou C, Finsterbusch F, Dereli I, Papanikos F, Tränkner D, Schleiffer A, Fei JF, Klimova A, Ito M, Kulkarni SD, Roeder I, Hunter N and Tóth A*. Proline-rich protein PRR19 functions with cyclin-like CNTD1 to promote meiotic crossing over in mouse. Nat. Commun. 2020; 11: 3101 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16885-3.

Lou WPK#, Wang L#, Long C, Liu L* and Fei JF*. Direct Gene Knock-out of Axolotl Spinal Cord Neural Stem Cells via Electroporation of CAS9 Protein-gRNA Complexes. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2019;(149):10.3791/59850.

Zhang L, Huang Y, Wang M, Guo Y, Liang J, Yang X, Qi W, Wu Y, Si J, Zhu S, Li Z, Li R, Shi C, Wang S, Zhang Q, Tang Z, Wang L, Li K, Fei JF and Lan G*. Development and Genome Sequencing of a Laboratory-Inbred Miniature Pig Facilitates Study of Human Diabetic Disease. iScience. 2019 Sep 27;19:162-176. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2019.07.025.

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Fei JF*, Lou WPK, Knapp D, Murawala P, Gerber T, Taniguchi Y, Nowoshilow S, Khattak S and Tanaka EM. Application and optimization of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering in axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). Nature Protocols. 2018 Dec;13(12):2908-2943.

Nowoshilow S#, Schloissnig S#, Fei JF#, Dahl A, Pang AWC, Pippel M, Winkler S, Hastie AR, Young G, Roscito JG, Falcon F, Knapp D, Powell S, Cruz A, Cao H, Habermann B, Hiller M*, Tanaka EM* and Myers EM*. The axolotl genome and the evolution of key tissue formation regulators. Nature. 2018 Feb 1;554(7690):50-55. (Cover story)

Fei JF*, Schuez M, Knapp D, Taniguchi Y, Drechsel D and Tanaka EM*. Efficient gene knockin in axolotl and its use to test the role of satellite cells in limb regeneration. PNAS. 2017 Nov 21;114(47):12501-12506. (Cover story)

Tazaki A*, Tanaka EM and Fei JF. Salamander spinal cord regeneration: the ultimate positive control in vertebrate spinal cord regeneration. Dev. Biol. 2017; 432(1):63-71. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.09.034.

Mircetic J#, Steinebrunner I#, Ding L, Fei JF, Bogdanova A, Drechsel D and Buchholz F*. Purified Cas9 Fusion Proteins for Advanced Genome Manipulation. Small Methods. 2017; 1(4):1600052. doi: 10.1002/smtd.201600052

Papanikos F#, Daniel K#, Ramlal A#, Fei JF, Kurth T, Wojtasz L, Derely I, Maiwald N, Penninger J, Surani A and Tóth A*. The enigmatic meiotic dense body and its newly discovered component, SCML1, are dispensable for fertility and gametogenesis in mice. Chromosoma. 2017; 126(3):399-415. doi:10.​1007/​s00412-016-0598-1

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Wong FK#, Fei JF#, Mora-Bermúdez F, Taverna E, Haffner C, Fu J, Anastassiadis K, Stewart AF and Huttner WB*. Sustained Pax6 expression generates primate-like basal radial glia in developing mouse neocortex. PLOS Biology. 2015 Aug 7;13(8):e1002217.

Fei JF, Haffner C and Huttner WB*. 3' UTR-dependent, miR-92-mediated restriction of Tis21 expression maintains asymmetric neural stem cell division to ensure proper neocortex size. Cell Reports. 2014 Apr 24;7(2):398-411.

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Fei JF and Huttner WB*. Nonselective sister chromatid segregation in mouse embryonic neocortical precursor cells. Cerebral Cortex. 2009 Jul:19 Suppl 1:i49-54.

Pulvers JN, Schenk J, Arai Y, Fei JF, Saito K and Huttner WB*. On the origin of neurons. Genome Biol. 2007; 8(7):311.

De Pietri Tonelli D#, Calegari F#, Fei JF, Nomura T, Osumi N, Heisenberg CP and Huttner WB*. Single-cell detection of microRNAs in developing vertebrate embryos after acute administration of a dual-fluorescence reporter/sensor plasmid. Biotechniques. 2006; 41(6):727-32.

Guo HS, Xie Q, Fei JF and Chua NH*. MicroRNA directs mRNA cleavage of the transcription factor NAC1 to downregulate auxin signals for arabidopsis lateral root development. Plant Cell. 2005; 17(5):1376-86.

Guo HS, Fei JF, Xie Q and Chua NH*. A chemical-regulated inducible RNAi system in plants. Plant J. 2003; 34(3):383-92.