Research Publications
Hawkins, M. B., Zdral, S., Naranjo, S., Juliá, M., Sánchez-Martín, M., Daane, J. M., Cumplido, N., Jandzik, D., Medeiros, D. M., McMenamin, S. K., Harris, M. P., Tena, J. J., & Ros, M. A. (2026). The origin and evolution of dorsal determination mechanisms in vertebrate paired appendages. Current Biology, 36(13), 3245-3257.e7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2026.05.046
Hintermann, A., Bolt, C. C., Hawkins, M. B., Valentin, G., Lopez-Delisle, L., Ryan, M. M., Gitto, S., Barrera Gómez, P., Mascrez, B., Mansour, T. A., Nakamura, T., Harris, M. P., Shubin, N. H., & Duboule, D. (2025). Co-option of an ancestral cloacal regulatory landscape during digit evolution. Nature, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09548-0
Feng, X., Molteni, H., Gregory, M., Lanza, J., Polsani, N., Gupta, I., Wyetzner, R., Hawkins, M. B., Holmes, G., Hopyan, S., Harris, M. P., & Atit, R. P. (2024). Apical expansion of calvarial osteoblasts and suture patency is dependent on fibronectin cues. Development (Cambridge, England), 151(7), dev202371. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.202371
Hawkins, M. B., Jandzik, D., Tulenko, F. J., Cass, A. N., Nakamura, T., Shubin, N. H., Davis, M. C., & Stock, D. W. (2022). An Fgf-Shh positive feedback loop drives growth in developing unpaired fins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(10), e2120150119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2120150119
Thompson, A. W., Hawkins, M. B., Parey, E., Wcisel, D. J., Ota, T., Kawasaki, K., Funk, E., Losilla, M., Fitch, O. E., Pan, Q., Feron, R., Louis, A., Montfort, J., Milhes, M., Racicot, B. L., Childs, K. L., Fontenot, Q., Ferrara, A., David, S. R., … Braasch, I. (2021). The bowfin genome illuminates the developmental evolution of ray-finned fishes. Nature Genetics, 53(9), 1373–1384. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-021-00914-y
Bonatto Paese, C. L., Hawkins, M. B., Brugmann, S. A., & Harris, M. P. (2021). Atavisms in the avian hindlimb and early developmental polarity of the limb. Developmental Dynamics: An Official Publication of the American Association of Anatomists, 250(9), 1358–1367. https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.318
Hawkins, M. B., Henke, K., & Harris, M. P. (2021). Latent developmental potential to form limb-like skeletal structures in zebrafish. Cell, 184(4), 899-911.e13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.01.003
Daane, J. M., Dornburg, A., Smits, P., MacGuigan, D. J., Brent Hawkins, M., Near, T. J., William Detrich, H., Iii, & Harris, M. P. (2019). Historical contingency shapes adaptive radiation in Antarctic fishes. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(7), 1102–1109. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0914-2
Cohen, M. S., Hawkins, M. B., Stock, D. W., & Cruz, A. (2019). Early life-history features associated with brood parasitism in the cuckoo catfish, Synodontis multipunctatus (Siluriformes: Mochokidae). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 374(1769), 20180205. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0205
Cohen, M. S., Hawkins, M. B., Knox-Hayes, J., Vinton, A. C., & Cruz, A. (2018). A laboratory study of host use by the cuckoo catfish Synodontis multipunctatus. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 101(9), 1417–1425. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-018-0788-1
Gistelinck, C., Kwon, R. Y., Malfait, F., Symoens, S., Harris, M. P., Henke, K., Hawkins, M. B., Fisher, S., Sips, P., Guillemyn, B., Bek, J. W., Vermassen, P., De Saffel, H., Witten, P. E., Weis, M., De Paepe, A., Eyre, D. R., Willaert, A., & Coucke, P. J. (2018). Zebrafish type I collagen mutants faithfully recapitulate human type I collagenopathies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(34), E8037–E8046. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722200115
Henke, K., Daane, J. M., Hawkins, M. B., Dooley, C. M., Busch-Nentwich, E. M., Stemple, D. L., & Harris, M. P. (2017). Genetic Screen for Postembryonic Development in the Zebrafish (Danio rerio): Dominant Mutations Affecting Adult Form. Genetics, 207(2), 609–623. https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.117.300187
Harris, M. P., Henke, K., Hawkins, M. B., & Witten, P. E. (2014). Fish is Fish: the use of experimental model species to reveal causes of skeletal diversity in evolution and disease. Zeitschrift Fur Angewandte Ichthyologie = Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 30(4), 616–629. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.12533
Jandzik, D., Hawkins, M. B., Cattell, M. V., Cerny, R., Square, T. A., & Medeiros, D. M. (2014). Roles for FGF in lamprey pharyngeal pouch formation and skeletogenesis highlight ancestral functions in the vertebrate head. Development , 141(3), 629–638. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.097261
Fritz, J. A., Brancale, J., Tokita, M., Burns, K. J., Hawkins, M. B., Abzhanov, A., & Brenner, M. P. (2014). Shared developmental programme strongly constrains beak shape diversity in songbirds. Nature Communications, 5, 3700. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4700
Rands, C. M., Darling, A., Fujita, M., Kong, L., Webster, M. T., Clabaut, C., Emes, R. D., Heger, A., Meader, S., Hawkins, M. B., Eisen, M. B., Teiling, C., Affourtit, J., Boese, B., Grant, P. R., Grant, B. R., Eisen, J. A., Abzhanov, A., & Ponting, C. P. (2013). Insights into the evolution of Darwin’s finches from comparative analysis of the Geospiza magnirostris genome sequence. BMC Genomics, 14, 95. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-95