Peer-Reviewed Articles

Neuronal post-developmentally acting SAX-7S/L1CAM can function as cleaved fragments to maintain neuronal architecture in C. elegans

Desse VE, Blanchette CR, Nadour M, Perrat P, Rivollet L, Khandekar A, Bénard CY ✉

June 11, 2021

Genetics. iyab086. doi: 10.1093/genetics/iyab086

Integrins Have Cell-Type-Specific Roles in the Development of Motor Neuron Connectivity

Oliver D, Norman E, Bates H, Avard R, Rettler M, Bénard CY, Francis MM, Lemons ML

August 27, 2019

J Dev Biol. 7(3). pii: E17. doi: 10.3390/jdb7030017

Functional Requirements for Heparan Sulfate Biosynthesis in Morphogenesis and Nervous System Development in C. elegans

Blanchette CR, Thackeray A, Perrat PN, Hekimi S, Bénard CY ✉

January 9, 2017

PLoS Genet 13(1): e1006525. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006525

Circadian rhythms identified in Caenorhabditis elegans by in vivo long-term monitoring of a bioluminescent reporter

Goya E, Romanowski A, Caldart CS, Bénard CY ✉, Golombek D ✉

November 29, 2016

PNAS 113(48):E7837-E7845

Nervous System Ageing

Bénard C ✉ and Doitsidou M ✉

2016

Springer “Ageing: Lessons from C. elegans”. Ed. A. Olsen, M.S. Gill ISBN: 978-3-319-44701-8, pages 163-189

Glypican is a modulator of netrin-mediated axon guidance

Blanchette C, Perrat P, Thackeray A, Bénard C ✉

July 6, 2015

PLOS Biology, 13(7): e1002183

The secreted immunoglobulin domain proteins ZIG-5 and ZIG-8 cooperate with L1CAM/SAX-7 to maintain nervous system integrity

Bénard C ✉, Blanchette C*, Recio J*, Hobert O ✉

July 19, 2012

PLOS Genetics 8(7): e1002819

The small, secreted immunoglobulin protein ZIG-3 maintains axon position in C. elegans

Bénard C ✉, Tjoe N, Boulin T, Recio J and Hobert O ✉

September 5, 2009

Genetics, 13: 917-927

Looking Beyond Development: Maintaining Nervous System Architecture

Bénard C and Hobert O

2009

Current Topics in Developmental Biology, 87: 175-194

Functional dissection of the C. elegans cell adhesion molecule SAX-7, a homologue of human L1

Pocock R, Bénard C, Shapiro L, Hobert O

August 21, 2007

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 37(1): 56-68

DIG-1, a novel giant protein non-autonomously mediates maintenance of nervous system architecture

Bénard C, Boyanov A, Hall D, Hobert O

2006

Development, 133(17): 3329-3340

mau-2 acts cell-autonomously to guide axonal migrations in Caenorhabditis elegans

Bénard C, Kébir H, Takagi S, Hekimi S

2004

Development, 131(23): 5947-5958

Human CLK2 links cell cycle progression, apoptosis and telomere length regulation

Jiang N, Bénard C, Kébir H, Shoubridge EA, Hekimi S

2003

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278(24): 21678-21684

Long-lived mutants, the rate of aging, telomeres and the germline in Caenorhabditis elegans

Bénard C, Hekimi S

2002

Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, 122: 869-880

The C. elegans maternal-effect gene clk-2 affects developmental timing, is essential for embryonic development, encodes a protein homologous to yeast Tel2p, and is required for telomere length regulation

Bénard C^, McCright B^, Zhang Y, Felkai S, Lakowski B, Hekimi S

2001

Development, 128(20): 4045-4055 (^: first coauthors)

Basolateral localization of the C. elegans EGF receptor in epithelial cells by the PDZ protein LIN-10

Whitfield CW, Bénard C, Barnes T, Hekimi S, Kim SK

1999

Molecular Biology of the Cell, 10(6): 2087-2100

Cellular and axonal migrations are misguided along both body axes in the maternal-effect mau-2 mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans.

Bénard C^, Takagi S^, Pak J, Livingstone D, Hekimi S

1997

Development, 124(24): 5115-5126 (^: first coauthors)