Publications

2024

Barbelanne, M., Lu, Y., Kumar, K., Zhang, X., Li, C., Park, K., Warner, A., Xu, X. Z., Shaham, S., & Leroux, M. R. (2024). C. elegans PPEF-type phosphatase (retinal degeneration C ortholog) functions in diverse classes of cilia to regulate nematode behaviors. Scientific Reports, 14(1).

Zhang, X., & Xu, X.Z.S. (2023). Electroreception: Worms leap to insects for dispersal. Current Biology : CB, 33 (14), R775-R777.

Zhang, X., Liu, J., Pan, T., Ward, A., Liu, J., & Xu, X. Z. S. (2022). A cilia-independent function of BBSome mediated by DLK-MAPK signaling in C. elegans photosensation. Developmental cell, 57 (12), 1545–1557.e4.

Iliff, A. J., Wang, C., Ronan, E. A., Hake, A. E., Guo, Y., Li, X., Zhang, X., Zheng, M., Liu, J., Grosh, K., Duncan, R. K., & Xu, X. Z. S. (2021). The nematode C. elegans senses airborne sound. Neuron, 109 (22), 3633–3646.e7.

Zhou, Y., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Bhar, S., Jones Lipinski, R. A., Han, J., Feng, L., & Butcher, R. A. (2018). Biosynthetic tailoring of existing ascaroside pheromones alters their biological function in C. elegans. eLife, 7, e33286.
Zhang, X., Wang, Y., Perez, D. H., Jones Lipinski, R. A., & Butcher, R. A. (2018). Acyl-CoA Oxidases Fine-Tune the Production of Ascaroside Pheromones with Specific Side Chain Lengths. ACS chemical biology, 13 (4), 1048–1056.

Greene, J. S., Brown, M., Dobosiewicz, M., Ishida, I. G., Macosko, E. Z., Zhang, X., Butcher, R. A., Cline, D. J., McGrath, P. T., & Bargmann, C. I. (2016). Balancing selection shapes density-dependent foraging behaviour. Nature, 539 (7628), 254–258.
Zhang, X., Li, K., Jones, R. A., Bruner, S. D., & Butcher, R. A. (2016). Structural characterization of acyl-CoA oxidases reveals a direct link between pheromone biosynthesis and metabolic state in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 (36), 10055–10060.
Zhao, L., Zhang, X., Wei, Y., Zhou, J., Zhang, W., Qin, P., Chinta, S., Kong, X., Liu, Y., Yu, H., Hu, S., Zou, Z., Butcher, R. A., & Sun, J. (2016). Ascarosides coordinate the dispersal of a plant-parasitic nematode with the metamorphosis of its vector beetle. Nature communications, 7, 12341.

Zhang, X., Feng, L., Chinta, S., Singh, P., Wang, Y., Nunnery, J. K., & Butcher, R. A. (2015). Acyl-CoA oxidase complexes control the chemical message produced by Caenorhabditis elegans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (13), 3955–3960.

Hollister, K. A., Conner, E. S., Zhang, X., Spell, M., Bernard, G. M., Patel, P., de Carvalho, A. C., Butcher, R. A., & Ragains, J. R. (2013). Ascaroside activity in Caenorhabditis elegans is highly dependent on chemical structure. Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 21 (18), 5754–5769.
Zhang, X., Noguez, J. H., Zhou, Y., & Butcher, R. A. (2013). Analysis of ascarosides from Caenorhabditis elegans using mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy. Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 1068, 71–92.