Unguez GA, Bennett KL, Domingo C, Chow I. (2022). Increasing Diversity in Developmental Biology. Frontiers in Sociology. PDF
Segarra VA, Primus C, Unguez GA, Edwards A, Etson C, Flores SC, Fry C, Guillory AN, Ingram SL, Lawson M, McGee R, Paxson S, Phelan L, Suggs K, Vega LR, Vuong E, Havran JC, Leon A, Burton MD, Lujan JL, Ramirez-Alvarado M. Scientific societies fostering inclusivity through speaker diversity in annual meeting programming: a call to action. Mol Biol Cell. PDF
Thompson B, O’Connell M, Peterson K, Shuster M, Drennan M, Loest H, Holte S, Simon JA, Unguez GA. (2019). Long-term tracking demonstrates effectiveness of a partnership-led training program to advance the careers of biomedical researchers from underrepresented groups. PLOS ONE. PDF
Unguez GA. (2018) Developmental biology: Electrogenic cells in a gymnotiform fish. Open Access Government. PDF
Unguez GA, Yeh CL. (2018). All about the adult long-tailed knifefish S. macrurus. Open Access Government. PDF
Unguez GA, Mitchell B. (2018). Rediscovering observations of the environmental factors affecting tissue regeneration in aquatic species. Open Access Government. PDF
Tang W, Furth PM, Nammi VH, Panwar G, Ibarra V, Tang X, Unguez GA, Misra S. (2018). An Aquatic Wireless Biosensor for Electric Organ Discharge with an Integrated Analog Front End. IEEE Sensors Journal. DOI: 10.1109/jsen.2019.2908822 PDF
Unguez GA. (2017). Extreme muscle plasticity or novel myogenic precursors in skeletal muscle. Open Access Government. PDF
Güth R, Pinch M, Samanta MP, Chaidez A, Unguez GA. (2016). Sternopygus macrurus electric organ transcriptome and cell size exhibit insensitivity to short-term electrical inactivity. J Physiol Paris. 2016 Nov15. pii: S0928-4257(16)30027-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2016.11.005. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 27864094
Güth R, Chaidez A, Samanta MP, Unguez GA. The properties of skeletal muscle in the teleost Sternopygus macrurus are unaffected by short-term electrical inactivity. (2016). Physiol Genom. DOI:10.1152. PubMed.
Pinch M, Güth R, Samanta MP, Chaidez A, Unguez GA. (2016). The myogenic electric organ of Sternopygus macrurus: a non-contractile tissue with a skeletal muscle transcriptome. PeerJ, 4(1828). PDF
Unguez GA, Duran C, Valles-Rosales D, Harris M, Salazar E, McDowell M, and Tang W. (2015). 3D-Printed Wearable Backpack Stimulator for Chronic in vivo Aquatic Stimulation. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2147-2150. PDF
Traeger LL, Volkening JD, Moffett H, Gallant JR, Chen P, Novina CD, Phillips GN, Anand R, Wells GB, Pinch M, Güth R, Unguez GA, Albert JS, Zakon H, Sussman MR, and Samanta MP. (2015). Unique patterns of transcript and miRNA expression in the South American strong voltage electric eel (Electrophorus electricus). BMC Genomics. 16:243. PDF
Gallant JR, Traeger LL, Volkening JD, Moffett H, Chen PH, Novina CD, Phillips GN Jr, Anand R, Wells GB, Pinch M, Güth R, Unguez GA, Albert JS, Zakon HH, Samanta MP, and Sussman MR. (2014). Genomic basis for the convergent evolution of electric organs. Science. 344: 1522-1525. PDF
Guth R, Pinch M and Unguez G.A. (2013). Invited Review: Mechanisms of muscle gene regulation in the electric organ of Sternopygus macrurus. J Exp Biol. 216:2469-2477. PDF
Unguez GA. (2013). Invited Review: Electric fish: new insights into conserved processes of adult tissue regeneration. J. Exp. Biol. 216:2478-2486. PDF
Weber CM, Martindale MQ, Tapscott SJ. Unguez GA. (2012) Activation of Pax7-Positive Cells in a Non-Contractile Tissue Contributes to Regeneration of Myogenic Tissues in the Electric Fish S. macrurus. PLoS ONE 7(5): e36819. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036819. PDF
Kim HJ, Guth R, Jonsson CB and Unguez GA. (2008). S. macrurus myogenic regulatory factors induce mammalian skeletal muscle differentiation: Evidence for functional conservation of MRFs. Int. J. Dev. Biol. 53:993-1002. PDF
Kim HJ, Archer E, Escobedo N, Tapscott SJ and Unguez GA. (2008). Inhibition of Mammalian Muscle Differentiation by Regeneration Blastema Extract of Sternopygus macrurus. Developmental Dynamics. 237: 2830-2843. PDF
Albert JS, Zakon HH, Stoddard PK, Unguez GA., Holmbert SKS., Sussman MR. (2007). The case for sequencing the genome of the electric eel Electrophorus electricus. J. Fish Biol Mol Sci Suppl. 72:331-354. PDF
Cuellar H, Kim JA and Unguez GA. (2006). Evidence of post-transcriptional regulation in the maintenance of a partial muscle phenotype by electrogenic cells of S. macrurus. FASEB Journal. 20:E1856-E1865. PDF
Smith GT, Unguez GA, and Weber CB. (2006). Distribution of Kv1-like potassium channels in the electromotor and electrosensory systems of the weakly electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus. Journal of Neurobiology. 66:1011-1031. (Selected front cover). PDF
Lubischer JL, Unguez GA, Pierotti DJ and Edgerton VR. (2005). Reinnervation of the rat levator ani muscle after neonatal denervation. Journal of Neurobiology; 63:188-198. PDF
Kim JA, Jonsson CB, Calderone T and Unguez GA. (2004). Transcription of MyoD and myogenin in the non-contractile electrogenic cells of the weakly electric fish S. macrurus. Development, Genes, and Evolution. 214:380-392. PDF
Unguez GA and Zakon HH (2002). Skeletal muscle transformation into electric organ in S. macrurus depends on innervation. Journal of Neurobiology, 53:391-402. PDF
Smith GT, Unguez GA and Reinauer RM Jr. (2001). NADPH-diphorase activity and nitric oxide synthase-like immunoreactivity colocalize in the electromotor system of four species of gymnotiform fish. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 58:122-136. PDF
Unguez GA, Talmadge RJ, Dalponte D, Roy RR and Edgerton VR. (2000). Myosin heavy chain isoforms in developing cat hindlimb muscles. Cells, Tissues and Organs. 167 (2-3):138-152. PDF
Zakon HH and Unguez GA. (1999). Invited Review: Development and regeneration of the electric organ. Journal of Experimental Biology. 202: 1427-1434. PDF
Unguez GA and Zakon HH. (1998) Re-expression of myogenic proteins in mature electric organ following removal of neural input. Journal of Neuroscience 18: 9924-9935. PDF
Unguez GA and Zakon HH. (1998). Phenotypic conversion of distinct muscle fiber populations to electrocytes in a weakly electric fish. Journal of Comparative Neurology 399: 20-34. PDF
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Underlined names: students mentored by GA Unguez