Sullivan W. (2024) Remarkable chromosomes and karyotypes: A top 10 list (MBoC)
Vicars H, Karg T, Mills A, Sullivan, W. (2023) Acentric chromosome congression and alignment on the metaphase plate occur via kinetochore-independent forces. (BioRxiv)
Warecki B, Bast I, Tajima M, Sullivan W. (2022) Connections between sister and non-sister telomeres of segregating chromatids maintain euploidy. (Current Biology)
Warecki B, Titen SWA, Alam MS, Vega G, Lemseffer N, Hug K, Minden JS, Sullivan W. (2022) Wolbachia action in the sperm produces developmentally deferred chromosome segregation defects during the Drosophila mid-blastula transition. (Elife)
Warecki B, Sullivan W. (2022) The cell biology of heterochromatin. Cells 11(7):1247. Bulman CA, Chappell L, Gunderson E, Vogel I, Beerntsen B, Slatko BE, Sullivan W, Sakanari JA. (2021) The Eagle effect in the Wolbachia-worm symbiosis. Parasit Vectors. 2021 Feb 24;14(1):118 (Cells)
Vicars H, Karg T, Warecki B, Bast I, Sullivan W. (2020) Kinetochore-independent sister chromosome separation is driven by plus-end microtubule dynamics. PLoS Genetics (PLoS Genetics)
Warecki B, Ling X, Bast I, Sullivan W. (2020). ESCRT-III-mediated membrane fusion drives chromosome fragments through nuclear envelope channels. J Cell Biol. 219(3) PMID: 32032426 (Journal of Cell Biology)
Warecki B and William Sullivan (2020). Mechanisms driving acentric chromosome transmission. Chromosome Research (Chromosome Research)
Warecki B, Sullivan W (2018) Micronuclei Formation Is Prevented by Aurora B-mediated Exclusion of HP1a from Late-Segregating Chromatin in Drosophila. Genetics 2018 Jul 9. pii: genetics.301031.2018. doi: 10.1534/genetics.118.301031. (Genetics)
Karg, T, Elting, MW, Vicars, H, Dumont, S, Sullivan,W (2017) The chromokinesin Klp3a and microtubules facilitate acentric chromosome segregation. J Cell Biol. 216(6):1597-1608 (Journal of Cell Biology)
Tao, L, Fasulo, B, Warecki, B,William Sullivan, W (2016) Tum/RacGAP functions as a switch activating the Pav/kinesin-6 motor. Nature Communications 19;7:11182 (Nature Communications)
Karg T, Warecki B, and Sullivan W (2015) Aurora B mediated localized delays in nuclear envelope formation facilitates inclusion of late segregating chromosome fragments. MBoC 26(12):2227-41 (Molecular Biology of the Cell)
Oliveira R A, Kotadia S , Mirkovic M, Bowlin K, Eichinger CS, Nasmyth K, Sullivan W (2014) Centromere-independent accumulation of cohesin at ectopic heterochromatin sites induces chromosome stretching during anaphase. PLOS Biology 12(10):e1001962. (PLoS Biology)
Martins T, Kotadia, S, Malmanche, N, Sunkel, CE, and Sullivan, W (2012) Strategies for outcrossing and genetic manipulation of Drosophila compound autosome stocks G3:Genes Genomes Genetics. (1):1-4. (G3: Genes Genomes Genetics)
Kotadia S*, Montembault E*, Sullivan W, Royou A. (2012) Cell elongation is an adaptive response clearing long chromatid arms from the cleavage plane. Journal of Cell Biology 199(5):745-53. (Journal of Cell Biology)
Fasulo B*,Koyama C*,Yu KR*,Homola EM, Hsieh TS, Campbell SD and Sullivan W (2011) Chk1 and Wee1 kinases coordinate DNA replication, chromosome condensation and anaphase entry. Molecular Biology of the Cell 23 (6): 1047-57. (Molecular Biology of the Cell)
Cao J, Crest J, Fasulo B, Sullivan W. (2010) Cortical actin dynamics facilitates early stage centrosome separation. Current Biology 20 (8): 770-776. (Current Biology)
Royou A, Gagou ME, Karess R , Sullivan W. (2010) BubR1- and Polo-Coated DNA Tethers Facilitate Poleward Segregation of Acentric Chromatids. Cell 140, 235-245. (Cell)
Debec A, Sullivan W, Bettencourt-Dias M (2010) Centrioles: active players or passengers during mitosis? Cell Mol Life Sci 67 (13): 2173-94. (Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences)
Sullivan W. (2009) Centrosomes: CNN’s broadcast reaches the cleavage furrow. Curr Biol. 2009 Jul 14;19(13): 513-5. (Current Biology)
Ferree PM, McDonald K, Fasulo B, Sullivan WT. (2006) The origin of Centrosomes in Parthenogenetic Hymenopteran Insects. Current Biol. 16: 801-807. (Current Biology)
Tram, U., B. Riggs, C. Koyama, A. Debec, and W. Sullivan (2001). Methods for the study of centrosomes in Drosophila during embryogenesis. In Methods in Cell Biology: Centrosomes and Spindle Pole Bodies. R.E. Palazzo and T.N. Davis, Editors. Academic Press. San Diego. 67: 113-123. (Methods in Cell Biology)
Tram, U. and W. Sullivan. (2000) Reciprocal inheritance of centrosomes in the parthenogenetic Hymenopteran Nasonia vitripennis. Current Biology 10:1413-1419. (Current Biology)
Yu K. R., R. Saint, and W. Sullivan. (2000) The Grapes checkpoint coordinates nuclear envelope breakdown and chromosome condensation. Nature Cell Biology 2:609-615. (Nature Cell Biology)
Rothwell, W.F. and W. Sullivan. (2000) The centrosome in early Drosophila embryogenesis. Current Topics Developmental Biology 49:409-447. (Current Topics in Developmental Biology)
de Saint Phalle, B. and W. Sullivan. (1998) Spindle assembly and mitosis without centrosomes in parthenogenic Sciara embryos. Journal of Cell Biology 141:1383- 1391. (Journal of Cell Biology)
Cunniff, J., J. Blethrow, and W. Sullivan. (1998) Live analysis of the division cycles in X-irradiated Drosophila embryos. Methods in Molecular Biology Vol 113: DNA Repair Protocols: Eukaryotic Systems. Edited D.S. Henderson. Humana Press Inc.,Totowa, NJ. (Methods in Molecular Biology)
de Saint Phalle, B., and W. Sullivan. (1996) Incomplete sister chromatid separation is the mechanism of programmed chromosome elimination during early Sciara coprophila embryogenesis. Development 122:3775-3784. (Development)
Dernberg, A.F., D.R. Daily, K.J. Yook , J.A. Corbin , J.W. Sedat, and W. Sullivan. (1996) Selective loss of compound-chromosome bearing sperm in the Drosophila Female. Genetics 143:1629-1642. (Genetics)
Debec, A. , R.F. Kaplin, D.R. Daily, P.D. McCallum, W.F. Rothwell, and W. Sullivan. (1996) Live analysis of free centrosome behavior in normal and aphidicolin-treated Drosophila embryos. J. Cell Biol. 134:103-115. (Journal of Cell Biology)
Sullivan, W., D.R. Daily, P. Fogarty, K. Yook, and S. Pimpinelli. (1993) Delays in anaphase initiation occur in individual nuclei of the syncytial Drosophila embryo. Molecular Biology of the Cell 4:885-896. (Molecular Biology of the Cell)
Kellogg, D.R., W. Sullivan, W. Theurkauf, K. Oegema, J.W. Raff, and B.M. Alberts. (1991) Studies on the centrosome and cytoplasmic organization in the early Drosophila embryo. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Vol. LVI: 649-662. (CSHSQB)
Sullivan, W., J. Minden, and B.M. Alberts. (1990) daughterless abo-like (dal), a Drosophila maternal-effect mutation that exhibits abnormal centrosome separation during the late blastoderm divisions. Development 110:311-323. (Development)
Pimpinelli, S., W. Sullivan, M. Prout, and L. Sandler. (1985) On biological functions mapping to the Heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 109: 701-724. (Genetics)
Sullivan, W. and S. Pimpinelli. (1986) The genetic factors altered in homozygous abo stocks of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics114:885-895. (Genetics)
Books and Chapters
Barbara Fasulo, William Sullivan (2008) Live Confocal Analysis of Mutant- and Drug-Treated Drosophila Embryos. Book Title: Confocal Microscopy: Methods and Protocols. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology, Volume: 1075: 243-255. Springer Science+Business Media.
Sullivan, W., M. Ashburner, R.S. Hawley (Editors) (2000). Drosophila Protocols. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.