Comparative, adaptiveandfunctional skeletal biology

Azevedo TP, Witten PE, Huysseune A, Bensimon-Brito A, Winkler C, To TT, Palmeirim I (2012) Interrelationship and modularity of notochord and somites: A comparative view on zebrafish and chicken vertebral body development. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28: 316-319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2012.01987.x

Bensimon-Brito A, Cancela ML, Huysseune A, Witten PE (2012) Vestiges, rudiments and fusion events: the zebrafish caudal fin endoskeleton in an evo-devo perspective. Evolution & Development 14:116-127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-142X.2011.00526.x

Bensimon-Brito A, Cardeira J, Cancela ML, Huysseune A, Witten PE (2012) Distinct patterns of notochord mineralization in zebrafish coincide with the localization of Osteocalcin isoform 1 during early vertebral centra formation. BMC Developmental Biology 12:28
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-213X-12-28

Cancela ML, Conceição N, Laizé V (2012) Gla-rich protein, a new player in tissue calcification? Advances in Nutrition 3:174-181
http://dx.doi.org/10.3945/an.111.001685

Cancela ML, Laizé V (2012) Replicação do DNA genómico. In: Biologia Celular e Molecular, 5a edição, Azevedo C, Sunkel C (Eds). LIDEL-Edições Técnicas, Lisbon. pp 190-204 (ISBN 978-972-757-692-0)

Cardeira J, Bensimon-Brito A, Pousão-Ferreira P, Cancela ML, Gavaia PJ (2012) Lordotic-kyphotic vertebrae develop ectopic cartilage-like tissue in Senegalese sole (Solea senegalensis). Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28:460-463
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2012.01978.x

Cardeira J, Vallés R, Dionísio G, Estévez A, Gisbert E, Pousão-Ferreira P, Cancela ML, Gavaia PJ (2012) Osteology of the axial and appendicular skeletons of the meagre Argyrosomus regius (Sciaenidae) and early skeletal development at two rearing facilities. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28:464-470
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2012.01979.x

Conceição N, Fazenda C, Cancela ML (2012) Comparative gene promoter analysis: an in silico strategy to identify candidate regulatory factors of Gla Rich Protein (GRP). Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28:372-376
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2012.02001.x

De Vareilles M, Richard N, Gavaia PJ, Silva TS, Cordeiro O, Yúfera M, Pousão-Ferreira P, Rodrigues PM, Rønnestad I, Fladmark KE, Conceição LEC (2012) Impact of dietary protein hydrolysates on skeleton quality and proteome expression in white seabream (Diplodus sargus) larvae. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28:477-487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2012.01986.x

Dionísio G, Campos C, Valente LMP, Conceição LEC, Cancela ML, Gavaia PJ (2012) Effect of egg incubation temperature on the occurrence of skeletal deformities in Solea senegalensis. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28:471–476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2012.01996.x

Fazenda C, Silva IAL, Cancela ML, Conceição N (2012) Molecular characterization of two paralog genes encoding Gla-rich protein (Grp) in zebrafish. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28:377-381
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2012.02004.x

Michou L, Conceição N, Morissette J, Gagnon E, Miltenberger-Miltenyi G, Siris ES, Brown JP, Cancela ML (2012) Genetic association study of UCMA/GRP and OPTN genes (PDB6 locus) with Paget’s disease of bone. Bone 51:720-728
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bone.2012.06.028

Parameswaran V, Laizé V, Gavaia PJ, Cancela ML (2012) ESSA1 embryonic stem like cells from gilthead seabream: A new tool to study mesenchymal cell lineage differentiation in fish. Differentiation 84:240-251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diff.2012.07.004

Rafael MS, Laizé V, Bensimon-Brito A, Leite R, Schüle R, Cancela ML (2012) Four-and-a-half LIM domains protein 2 (FHL2) is associated with the development of craniofacial musculature in the teleost fish Sparus aurata. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences 69:423-434
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00018-011-0754-y

Rafael MS, Laizé V, Florindo C, Ferraresso S, Bargelloni L, Cancela ML (2012) Overexpression of four and a half LIM domains protein 2 promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition-like phenotype in fish pre-osteoblasts. Biochimie 94:1128-1134
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biochi.2012.01.013

Richard N, Gavaia P, de Vareilles M, Silva TS, Cordeiro O, Rodrigues PM, Conceição LEC (2012) Two-dimensional proteomics as a tool to evaluate nutritional effects in farmed fish. In: Farm animal proteomics, Rodrigues P, Eckersall D and de Almeida A (Eds). Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, The Netherlands. pp 156-158
http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-751-6_37

Serrão E, Varela J, Leite R, Cancela L (2012) Biodiversidade azul em Portugal In: Mar Português- conhecimento, valorização e desenvolvimento; Universidade do Algarve (Eds), Faro (ISBN 978-989-8472-27-4)

Silva IAL, Cancela ML, Conceição N (2012) Molecular cloning and expression analysis of xpd from zebrafish (Danio rerio). Molecular Biology Reports 39:5339–5348
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11033-011-1333-x

Viegas M, Dias J, Cancela ML, Laizé V (2012). Polyunsaturated fatty acids regulate cell proliferation, extracellular matrix mineralization and gene expression in a gilthead seabream skeletal cell line. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 28:427-432
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0426.2012.01994.x