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Publications from the Robert Lab

1. Webb RJ
2. Roberts AA
3. Berger L
4. Robert J
5. Skerratt LF
Glutathione Impacts Both Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Virulence and Amphibian Cellular Defense in a Chytridiomycosis Model.; MicrobiologyOpen; Vol 15(2), pp. e70271. 2026 Apr.
1. Sumanasekera KK
2. Berger L
3. Vu AL
4. Robert J
5. Akram N
6. Skerratt LF
7. Jesús Andino F
8. Webb R
Using fluorescent in vitro amphibian cell infection models to quantify Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis pathogenicity.; Methods (San Diego, Calif.). 2026 Feb 13.
1. Robert J
2. Najafi-Majd E
Evolutionary Perspective of Nonclassical MHC Class I and Innate-like T Cells Relevance in Immune Surveillance.; Cells; Vol 14(20). 2025 Oct 14.
1. Kosch TA
2. Torres-Sánchez M
3. Liedtke HC
4. Summers K
5. Yun MH
6. Crawford AJ
7. Maddock ST
8. Ahammed MS
9. Araújo VLN
10. Bertola LV
11. Bucciarelli GM
12. Carné A
13. Carneiro CM
14. Chan KO
15. Chen Y
16. Crottini A
17. da Silva JM
18. Denton RD
19. Dittrich C
20. Espregueira Themudo G
21. Farquharson KA
22. Forsdick NJ
23. Gilbert E
24. Che J
25. Katzenback BA
26. Kotharambath R
27. Levis NA
28. Márquez R
29. Mazepa G
30. Mulder KP
31. Müller H
32. O'Connell MJ
33. Orozco-terWengel P
34. Palomar G
35. Petzold A
36. Pfennig DW
37. Pfennig KS
38. Reichert MS
39. Robert J
40. Scherz MD
41. Siu-Ting K
42. Snead AA
43. Stöck M
44. Stuckert AMM
45. Stynoski JL
46. Tarvin RD
47. Wollenberg Valero KC
The Amphibian Genomics Consortium: advancing genomic and genetic resources for amphibian research and conservation.; BMC genomics; Vol 25(1), pp. 1025. 2024 Nov 01.
1. Webb RJ
2. Vu AL
3. Skerratt LF
4. Berger L
5. De Jesús Andino F
6. Robert J
Stable in vitro fluorescence for enhanced live imaging of infection models for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.; PloS one; Vol 19(8), pp. e0309192. 2024 Aug 29.
1. Robert J
The future of comparative immunology viewed from the perspective of Xenopus research.; Developmental and comparative immunology. 2024 Aug 06.
1. Kosch TA
2. Torres-Sánchez M
3. Liedtke HC
4. Summers K
5. Yun MH
6. Crawford AJ
7. Maddock ST
8. Ahammed MS
9. Araújo VLN
10. Bertola LV
11. Bucciarelli G
12. Carné A
13. Carneiro CM
14. Chan KO
15. Chen Y
16. Crottini A
17. da Silva JM
18. Denton RD
19. Dittrich C
20. Themudo GE
21. Farquharson KA
22. Forsdick NJ
23. Gilbert E
24. Jing C
25. Katzenback BA
26. Kotharambath R
27. Levis NA
28. Márquez R
29. Mazepa G
30. Mulder KP
31. Müller H
32. O'Connell MJ
33. Orozco-terWengel P
34. Palomar G
35. Petzold A
36. Pfennig DW
37. Pfennig KS
38. Reichert MS
39. Robert J
40. Scherz MD
41. Siu-Ting K
42. Snead AA
43. Stöck M
44. Stuckert AMM
45. Stynoski JL
46. Tarvin RD
47. Valero KCW
The Amphibian Genomics Consortium: advancing genomic and genetic resources for amphibian research and conservation.; bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. 2024 Jul 01.
1. Cai B
2. De Jesus Andino F
3. McGrath JL
4. Romanick SS
5. Robert J
Ingestion of polyethylene terephthalate microplastic water contaminants by Xenopus laevis tadpoles negatively affects their resistance to ranavirus infection and antiviral immunity.; Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987); Vol 356, pp. 124340. 2024 Jun 06.
1. Miller NJ
2. Dimitrakopoulou D
3. Baglia LA
4. Pavelka MS
5. Robert J
Exploring the Role of a Putative Secondary Metabolite Biosynthesis Pathway in Mycobacterium abscessus Pathogenesis Using a Xenopus laevis Tadpole Model.; Microorganisms; Vol 12(6). 2024 May 31.
1. De Jesús Andino F
2. Davydenko A
3. Webb RJ
4. Robert J
The Binding, Infection, and Promoted Growth of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis by the Ranavirus FV3.; Viruses; Vol 16(1). 2024 Jan 20.
1. Paiola M
2. McGuire CC
3. Lopez Ruiz V
4. De Jesús Andino F
5. Robert J
Larval T Cells Are Functionally Distinct from Adult T Cells in Xenopus laevis.; ImmunoHorizons; Vol 7(10), pp. 696-707. 2023 Oct 01.
1. Ruiz VL
2. Robert J
The amphibian immune system.; Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences; Vol 378(1882), pp. 20220123. 2023 Jun 12.
1. Assis VR
2. Robert J
3. Titon SCM
Introduction to the special issue Amphibian immunity: stress, disease and ecoimmunology.; Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences; Vol 378(1882), pp. 20220117. 2023 Jun 12.
1. Dimitrakopoulou D
2. Khwatenge CN
3. James-Zorn C
4. Paiola M
5. Bellin EW
6. Tian Y
7. Sundararaj N
8. Polak EJ
9. Grayfer L
10. Barnard D
11. Ohta Y
12. Horb M
13. Sang Y
14. Robert J
Advances in the Xenopus immunome: Diversification, expansion, and contraction.; Developmental and comparative immunology. 2023 May 10.
1. Humphries JE
2. Lanctôt CM
3. Robert J
4. McCallum HI
5. Newell DA
6. Grogan LF
Do immune system changes at metamorphosis predict vulnerability to chytridiomycosis? An update.; Developmental and comparative immunology. 2022 Aug 16.
1. Paiola M
2. Ma S
3. Robert J
Evolution and Potential Subfunctionalization of Duplicated fms-Related Class III Receptor Tyrosine Kinase flt3s and Their Ligands in the Allotetraploid Xenopus laevis.; Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950); Vol 209(5), pp. 960-969. 2022 Aug 05.
1. Harly C
2. Robert J
3. Legoux F
4. Lantz O
γδ T, NKT, and MAIT Cells During Evolution: Redundancy or Specialized Functions?; Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950); Vol 209(2), pp. 217-225. 2022 Jul 15.
1. Paiola M
2. Dimitrakopoulou D
3. Pavelka MS
4. Robert J
Amphibians as a model to study the role of immune cell heterogeneity in host and mycobacterial interactions.; Developmental and comparative immunology; Vol 139, pp. 104594. 2022 Jan 18.
1. McGuire CC
2. Robert JR
Environmental endocrine disruptors and amphibian immunity: A bridge between the thyroid hormone axis and T cell development.; Developmental and comparative immunology. 2022 Jan 15.
1. McGuire CC
2. Robert JR
Developmental exposure to thyroid disrupting chemical mixtures alters metamorphosis and post-metamorphic thymocyte differentiation.; Current research in toxicology; Vol 3, pp. 100094. 2022 Jan 07.
1. O'Dell CT
2. Boule LA
3. Robert J
4. Georas SN
5. Eliseeva S
6. Lawrence BP
Exposure to a mixture of 23 chemicals associated with unconventional oil and gas operations alters immune response to challenge in adult mice.; Journal of immunotoxicology; Vol 18(1). 2021 Dec.
1. Tian Y
2. De Jesús Andino F
3. Khwatenge CN
4. Li J
5. Robert J
6. Sang Y
Virus-Targeted Transcriptomic Analyses Implicate Ranaviral Interaction with Host Interferon Response in Frog Virus 3-Infected Frog Tissues.; Viruses; Vol 13(7). 2021 Jul 09.
1. Andino FJ
2. Robert J
Erratum: Assessing Antibody Responses to Pathogens or Model Antigens in Xenopus by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA).; Cold Spring Harbor protocols; Vol 2021(6). 2021 Jun 01.
1. Samanta M
2. Yim J
3. Andino FJ
4. Paiola M
5. Robert J
TLR5 mediated Reactivation of Quiescent Ranavirus FV3 in Xenopus peritoneal macrophages.; Journal of virology. 2021 Apr 07.
1. McGuire CC
2. Lawrence BP
3. Robert J
Thyroid Disrupting Chemicals in mixture Perturb Thymocyte Differentiation in Xenopus laevis tadpoles.; Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology. 2021 Mar 03.
1. Cusaac JPW
2. Carter ED
3. Woodhams DC
4. Robert J
5. Spatz JA
6. Howard JL
7. Lillard C
8. Graham AW
9. Hill RD
10. Reinsch S
11. McGinnity D
12. Reeves B
13. Bemis D
14. Wilkes RP
15. Sutton WB
16. Waltzek TB
17. Hardman RH
18. Miller DL
19. Gray MJ
Emerging Pathogens and a Current-Use Pesticide: Potential Impacts on Eastern Hellbenders.; Journal of aquatic animal health. 2021 Feb 16.
1. Lopez A
2. Shoen C
3. Cynamon M
4. Dimitrakopoulou D
5. Paiola M
6. Pavelka MS
7. Robert J
Developing Tadpole Xenopus laevis as a Comparative Animal Model to Study Mycobacterium abscessus Pathogenicity.; International journal of molecular sciences; Vol 22(2). 2021 Jan 15.
1. Jiang N
2. Fan Y
3. Zhou Y
4. Meng Y
5. Liu W
6. Li Y
7. Xue M
8. Robert J
9. Zeng L
The Immune System and the Antiviral Responses in Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus.; Frontiers in immunology; Vol 12. 2021.
1. Tian Y
2. Khwatenge CN
3. Li J
4. De Jesus Andino F
5. Robert J
6. Sang Y
Targeted Transcriptomics of Frog Virus 3 in Infected Frog Tissues Reveal Non-Coding Regulatory Elements and microRNAs in the Ranaviral Genome and Their Potential Interaction with Host Immune Response.; Frontiers in immunology; Vol 12. 2021.
1. Grogan LF
2. Humphries JE
3. Robert J
4. Lanctôt CM
5. Nock CJ
6. Newell DA
7. McCallum HI
Immunological Aspects of Chytridiomycosis.; Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland); Vol 6(4). 2020 Oct 19.
1. Robert J
Experimental Platform Using the Amphibian Xenopus laevis for Research in Fundamental and Medical Immunology.; Cold Spring Harbor protocols. 2020 May 26.
1. Jiang N
2. Ni Q
3. Fan Y
4. Wu S
5. Zhou Y
6. Liu W
7. Si K
8. Zhang H
9. Robert J
10. Zeng L
Characterization and expression of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (mif) in Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis).; Fish & shellfish immunology; Vol 103. 2020 Apr 25.
1. Nagel SC
2. Kassotis CD
3. Vandenberg LN
4. Lawrence BP
5. Robert J
6. Balise VD
Developmental exposure to a mixture of unconventional oil and gas chemicals: A review of effects on adult health, behavior, and disease.; Molecular and cellular endocrinology. 2020 Mar 02.
1. Aztekin C
2. Hiscock TW
3. Butler R
4. De Jesús Andino F
5. Robert J
6. Gurdon JB
7. Jullien J
The myeloid lineage is required for the emergence of a regeneration-permissive environment following Xenopus tail amputation.; Development (Cambridge, England); Vol 147(3). 2020 Feb 05.
1. Smolock E
2. Robert J
Broadening and Strengthening Underrepresented Group Inclusion in Immunological Research.; Frontiers in immunology; Vol 11. 2020.
1. Kim E
2. Jiang M
3. Huang H
4. Zhang Y
5. Tjota N
6. Gao X
7. Robert J
8. Gilmore N
9. Gan L
10. Que J
Isl1 Regulation of Nkx2.1 in the Early Foregut Epithelium Is Required for Trachea-Esophageal Separation and Lung Lobation.; Developmental cell. 2019 Nov 20.
1. Rhoo KH
2. Edholm ES
3. Forzán MJ
4. Khan A
5. Waddle AW
6. Pavelka MS
7. Robert J
Distinct Host-Mycobacterial Pathogen Interactions between Resistant Adult and Tolerant Tadpole Life Stages of Xenopus laevis.; Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 2019 Oct 07.
1. Robert J
Introduction.; Immunological investigations; Vol 48(7). 2019 Oct.
1. Banach M
2. Robert J
Evolutionary Underpinnings of Innate-Like T Cell Interactions with Cancer.; Immunological investigations. 2019 Jun 21.
1. Banach M
2. Edholm ES
3. Gonzalez X
4. Benraiss A
5. Robert J
Impacts of the MHC class I-like XNC10 and innate-like T cells on tumor tolerance and rejection in the amphibian Xenopus.; Carcinogenesis. 2019 Jun 01.
1. Edholm EI
2. De Jesús Andino F
3. Yim J
4. Woo K
5. Robert J
Critical Role of an MHC Class I-Like/Innate-Like T Cell Immune Surveillance System in Host Defense against Ranavirus (Frog Virus 3) Infection.; Viruses; Vol 11(4). 2019 Apr 06.
1. Robert J
2. McGuire CC
3. Nagel S
4. Lawrence BP
5. Andino FJ
Developmental exposure to chemicals associated with unconventional oil and gas extraction alters immune homeostasis and viral immunity of the amphibian Xenopus.; The Science of the total environment; Vol 671. 2019 Mar 26.
1. Horb M
2. Wlizla M
3. Abu-Daya A
4. McNamara S
5. Gajdasik D
6. Igawa T
7. Suzuki A
8. Ogino H
9. Noble A
10. Robert J
11. James-Zorn C
12. Guille M
Xenopus Resources: Transgenic, Inbred and Mutant Animals, Training Opportunities, and Web-Based Support.; Frontiers in physiology; Vol 10. 2019.
1. Hyoe RK
2. Robert J
A Xenopus tadpole alternative model to study innate-like T cell-mediated anti-mycobacterial immunity.; Developmental and comparative immunology; Vol 92. 2018 Dec 04.
1. Rollins-Smith LA
2. Robert J
Lymphocyte Deficiency Induced by Sublethal Irradiation in Xenopus.; Cold Spring Harbor protocols. 2018 Aug 13.
1. Robert J
2. McGuire CC
3. Kim F
4. Nagel SC
5. Price SJ
6. Lawrence BP
7. De Jesús Andino F
Water contaminants associated with unconventional oil and gas extraction cause immunotoxicity to amphibian tadpoles.; Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology. 2018 Jul 11.
1. Rhoo KH
2. Robert J
Adoptive Transfer of Fluorescently Labeled Immune Cells in Xenopus.; Cold Spring Harbor protocols. 2018 Jul 06.
1. Jiang N
2. Fan Y
3. Zhou Y
4. Liu W
5. Robert J
6. Zeng L
Rag1 and rag2 gene expressions identify lymphopoietic tissues in juvenile and adult Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus).; Developmental and comparative immunology; Vol 87. 2018 May 22.
1. Boulé LA
2. Chapman TJ
3. Hillman SE
4. Kassotis CD
5. O'Dell C
6. Robert J
7. Georas SN
8. Nagel SC
9. Lawrence BP
Developmental Exposure to a Mixture of 23 Chemicals Associated With Unconventional Oil and Gas Operations Alters the Immune System of Mice.; Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology. 2018 May 01.
1. Edholm ES
2. Banach M
3. Hyoe Rhoo K
4. Pavelka MS
5. Robert J
Distinct MHC class I-like interacting invariant T cell lineage at the forefront of mycobacterial immunity uncovered inXenopus.; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2018 Apr 02.