Selected publications
Marc TK, Rodger A, Perillo M.* Comparative analysis of Asterias forbesi development reveals distinct mechanisms of hydro-vascular organ formation across sea stars. *Corresponding author. Under revisions.
Clarke DN, Kane A, Perillo M, Lowe CJ, Swartz SZ. VitelloTag: a tool for high-throughput cargo delivery into oocytes. Development. 2024 Oct 15;151(20). doi: 10.1242/dev.202857. Epub 2024 Sep 14. PubMed PMID: 39171380; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC11423919.
Perillo, M.,* Alessandro T., Toscano, A., & Annunziata, R.* (2024). Larval development of Holothuria tubulosa, a new tractable system for evo-devo. Front. Ecol. Evol. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2024.1409174. *Co-corresponding authors
Perillo, M.,* Sepe, R. M., Paganos, P., Toscano, A., & Annunziata, R.* (2024). Sea cucumbers: an emerging system in evo-devo. EvoDevo, 15. *Co-corresponding authors
Perillo, M.*, Swartz, S. Z., Pieplow, C., & Wessel, G. M.* (2023). Molecular mechanisms of tubulogenesis revealed in the sea star hydro-vascular organ. Nature Communications, 14(1), 1-17. *Co-corresponding authors
Spurrell, M., Oulhen, N., Foster, S., Perillo, M., & Wessel, G. (2023). Gene regulatory divergence amongst echinoderms underlies appearance of pigment cells in sea urchin development. Developmental biology, 494, 13-25.
Oulhen, N., Pieplow, C., Perillo, M., Gregory, P., & Wessel, G. M. (2022). Optimizing CRISPR/Cas9-based gene manipulation in echinoderms. Developmental biology 490, 117-124
Perillo, M., Swartz, S. Z., & Wessel, G. M. (2022). A conserved node in the regulation of Vasa between an induced and an inherited program of primordial germ cell specification. Developmental Biology, 482, 28-33.
Swartz, S. Z., Tan, T. H., Perillo, M., Fakhri, N., Wessel, G. M., Wikramanayake, A. H., & Cheeseman, I. M. (2021). Polarized Dishevelled dissolution and reassembly drives embryonic axis specification in sea star oocytes. Current Biology, 31(24), 5633-5641.
Perillo M, Paganos P, Spurrell M, Arnone MI, Wessel GM. Methodology for Whole Mount and Fluorescent RNA In Situ Hybridization in Echinoderms: Single, Double, and Beyond. Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2219:195-216. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0974-3_12.
Perillo M, Oulhen N, Foster S, Spurrell M, Calestani C, Wessel G. Regulation of dynamic pigment cell states at single-cell resolution. Elife. 2020;9:e60388. Published 2020 Aug 19.doi:10.7554/eLife.60388