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Eriksson PF, Kerney R, Larson-Pollock R, Vickers R, Laugen AT (2025). Evidence of Holarctic distribution: common frog Rana temporaria eggs in Fennoscandia host photosymbiotic green algae (Oophila sp.) https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10752
Vences M, Sachs M, Irisarri I, Bartels F, Eriksson PF, Sven Künzel S, Kurabayashi A, Laugen AT, Vegso ZT, Bishop CD, Kerney R, Arndt H (2024) Phylotranscriptomic relationships of the Oophila clade of green algae associated to amphibian egg masses. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108165
Vickers E, Kerney R* (2023) Screening salamanders for symbionts. doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2659-7_28
Lewis Z, Kerney R, Hanken J (2022) Developmental basis of evolutionary lung loss in plethodontid salamanders. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abo6108
Yang H, Genot B, Duhamel S, Kerney R, Burns JA. (2022) Organismal and Cellular Interactions in Vertebrate–Alga Symbioses. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20210153.
Kerney R*, Cherubino M, Bender Z (2022) Algae on the brain in bioengineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2021.12.005
Kerney R* (2021) Developing Inside a Layer of Germs—A Potential Role for Multiciliated Surface Cells in Vertebrate Embryos. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13110527
Anslan S, Sachs M, Rancilhac L, Brinkmann H, Peterson J, Künzel S, Schwarz A, Arndt H, Kerney R, Vences M (2021) Diversity and substrate-specificity of green algae and other micro-eukaryotes colonizing amphibian clutches in Germany, revealed by DNA metabarcoding. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-021-01734-0
Burns JA, Kerney R, Duhamel S (2020) Heterotrophic carbon fixation in a salamander-alga symbiosis. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.01815
Kerney R*, Leavitt J, Hill E, Zhang H, Kim E, Burns J (2019) Co-cultures of Oophila amblystomatis between Ambystoma maculatum and Ambystoma gracile hosts show host-symbiont fidelity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13199-018-00591-2
Ossipova O, Kerney R, Saint-Jeannet J-P, Sokol S (2018) Regulation of neural crest development by the formin family protein Daam1. DOI: 10.1002/dvg.23108
Kerney R*, Blackburn D, Hanken J (2018) Early limb patterning in the direct‐developing salamander Plethodon cinereus revealed by sox9 and col2a1. https://doi.org/10.1111/ede.12250
Alkobtawia M, Ray H, Barriga EH, Moreno M, Kerney R, Monsoro-Burqae A-H, Saint-Jeannet J-P, Mayor R (2018) Characterization of Pax3 and Sox10 transgenic Xenopus laevis embryos as tools to study neural crest development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2018.02.020
Burns J*, Zhang H, Hill E, Kim E, Kerney R* (2017). Transcriptome analysis illuminates the nature of the intracellular interaction in a vertebrate-algal symbiosis.
- See insight article: Ball S, Cenci U (2017) Endosymbiosis: Gasping for Air.
- And from Burns and Kerney (2018) Algae living in salamanders: Friend of Foe?
Senevirathne G, Kerney R, Meegaskumbura M. (2017) Comparative postembryonic skeletal ontogeny in two sister lineages of Old World tree frogs (Rhacophoridae: Taruga, Polypedates).
Kerney R*, Burns J, Kim E. (2017) Investigating mechanisms of algal entry into salamander cells. In: Algal and Cyanobacterial Symbioses. Eds. Grube M, Seckbach J, Muggia L. World Scientific. Singapore.
Budzik K, Żuwała K, Kerney R. (2016) Tongue and taste organ development in the ontogeny of direct-developing salamander Plethodon cinereus (Lissamphibia: Plethodontidae)
Senevirathne G, Garg, S. Kerney R, Meegaskumbura M, Biju SD. (2016) Unearthing the fossorial tadpoles of the Indian dancing frog family Micrixalidae.
Senevirathne G, Thomas A, Kerney R, Hanken J, Biju SD, Meegaskumbura M. (2016) From clinging to digging: the postembryonic skeletal ontogeny of the Indian Purple frog, Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis (Anura: Nasikabatrachidae).
Kim E, Lin Y, Kerney R, Blumenberg L, Bishop C. (2014) Phylogenetic analysis of algal symbionts associated with four North American amphibian egg masses.
Khattak S, Schuez M, Richter T, Knapp D, Haigo SI, Sandoval-Guzman T, Hradlikova K, Duemmler A, Kerney R, Tanaka E (2013) Germline transgenic methods for tracing cells and testing gene function during regeneration in the axolotl.
Kerney R, Brittan A, Hall B, Buchholz D. (2012) Cartilage on the move: cartilage lineage tracing during tadpole metamorphosis.
Kerney R*, Blackburn D, Müller H, Hanken J. (2012) Do larval traits re-evolve? Evidence from the embryogenesis of a direct-developing salamander (Plethodon cinereus).
Kerney R.* (2011) Symbioses between salamander embryos and green algae.
Kerney R.* (2011) Embryonic staging table for a direct-developing salamander (Plethodon cinereus).
Gross J, Kerney R, Hanken J, Tabin CJ. (2011) Molecular anatomy of the developing limb in the coquí frog, Eleutherodactylus coqui.
Hall BK, Kerney R. (2011) Levels of biological organization and the origin of novelty.
Kerney R*, Kim E, Heiss A, Bishop C, Hangarter R, Hall BK. (2011) Intracellular invasion of green algae in a salamander host.
Kerney R*, Gross J, Hanken J. (2010) Developmental patterning of the head in Eleutherodactylus coqui(Anura: Leptodactylidae) revealed through gene expression.
Kerney R*, Hall BK, Hanken J. (2010) Regulatory elements of Xenopuscol2a1 drive cartilaginous gene expression in transgenic frogs.
Kerney R*, Wassersug RJ, Hall BK. (2009) Skeletal advance and arrest in giant non-metamorphosing Xenopus laevis.
Kerney R*, Hanken J. (2008) Gene expression reveals unique skeletalpatterning in the limb of the direct-developingfrog Eleutherodactylus coqui.
Kerney R*, Gross J, Hanken J. (2007) Runx2 is essential for larval hyobranchial cartilage formation in Xenopus laevis.
Kerney R*, Meegaskumbura M, Manamendra-Arachchi K, Hanken J. (2007) Cranial ontogeny in Philautus silus (Anura: Ranidae:Rhacophorinae) reveals similarities between direct-developing frog lineages.
Popular Press, Blogs, and Book Reviews
Kerney R, Cherubino M, Bender Z (2022) Algae on the brain in bioengineering.
Kerney, R., Whitfeld, T. (2021). Spatial Analysis with QGIS. BCEENET- Biological Collections in Ecology & Evolution Network, QUBES Educational Resources. doi:10.25334/2RNW-2K04
Kerney R* (2018) Salamander models in cross disciplinary research - meeting report.
Burns J, Kerney R* (2018) Algae living in salamanders, friend or foe?
Kerney R* (2018) Book Review: A Naturalists Guide to the Reptiles of Sri Lanka. Herpetological Review 49: 150–151.
Kerney R*, Whatley Z, Rivera S, Hewitt D. (2017) The prospects of artificial endosymbioses.
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