Publications
Andrew Grimson, Mansi Srivastava, Bryony Fahey, Ben J. Woodcroft, H. Rosaria Chiang, Nicole King, Bernard M. Degnan, Daniel S. Rokhsar & David P. Bartel (2008) Early origins and evolution of microRNAs and Piwi-interacting RNAs in animals. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature07415
Nichols SA, Dayel MJ, and King N (2008) Genomic, phylogenetic, and cell biological insights into metazoan origins in Animal Evolution: Genes, Genomes, Fossils and Trees (Ed. MJ Telford and DTJ Littlewood, Oxford University Press). In press.
King N, Young SL, Abedin M, Carr M, and Leadbeater BSC (2008) The choanoflagellates: heterotrophic nanoflagellates and the sister group of the Metazoa in Emerging Model Organisms (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press). In press.
Robin B. Kodner, Roger E. Summons, Ann Pearson, Nicole King, and Andrew H. Knoll. (2008) Sterols in a unicellular relative of the metazoans. PNAS. 105(29):9897-902. PNAS
Wanqing Li, Susan L. Young, Nicole King, and W. Todd Miller. (2008) Signaling properties of a non-metazoan Src kinase and the evolutionary history of Src negative regulation. JBC. 283(22):15491-501. JBC
Nicole King, M. Jody Westbrook*, Susan L. Young*, Alan Kuo, Monika Abedin, Jarrod Chapman, Stephen Fairclough, Uffe Hellsten, Yoh Isogai, Ivica Letunic, Michael Marr, David Pincus, Nicholas Putnam, Antonis Rokas, Kevin J. Wright, Richard Zuzow, William Dirks, Matthew Good, David Goodstein, Derek Lemons, Wanqing Li, Jessica Lyons, Andrea Morris, Scott Nichols, Daniel J. Richter, Asaf Salamov, JGI Sequencing, Peer Bork, Wendell A. Lim, Gerard Manning, W. Todd Miller, William McGinnis, Harris Shapiro, Robert Tjian, Igor V. Grigoriev, Daniel Rokhsar. (2008) The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans. Nature. 451: 783-788. Open access.
Monika Abedin and Nicole King. (2008) The premetazoan ancestry of cadherins. Science. 319(5865):946-948. Free access through this link.
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, Gertraud Burger, Peter W. H. Holland, Nicole King, B. Franz Lang, Andrew J. Roger and Michael W. Gray. (2007) The origins of multicellularity: a multi-taxon genome initiative. Trends in Genetics. 23(3):113-8. Pubmed
Nichols S.A., Dirks, W., Pearse, J.S., and King N. (2006) Early evolution of animal cell signaling and adhesion genes. PNAS. 103(33):12451-6. Pubmed
King, N. (2005) Choanoflagellates. Current Biology. 15(4):R113-4. Pubmed
King, N.(2004) The unicellular ancestry of animal development. Developmental Cell. 7: 313–325. Pubmed
Rokas, A., Williams, B.L., King, N., and Carroll, S.B. (2003) Genome scale approaches to resolving incongruence in molecular phylogenies. Nature. 425 (6960):798-804. Pubmed
King, N., Hittinger, C.T., and Carroll, S.B. (2003) Evolution of key cell signaling and adhesion protein families predates the origin of animals. Science. 301 (5631) : 361-363. Pubmed
Rokas, A.R., King, N., Finnerty, J.R., and Carroll, S.B. (2003) Conflicting phylogenetic signals at the base of the metazoan tree. Evolution and Development. 5(4): 346–359. Pubmed
King, N. (2002) Comparative biology and genomics join forces to decipher the diversity of life. Genome Biology. 3(8): reports4023.1-4023.2. Pubmed
King, N. and Carrroll, S.B. (2001) A receptor tyrosine kinase from choanoflagellates: Molecular insights into early animal evolution. PNAS. 98(26): 15032–15037. Pubmed