Publications of Zacharias Kontarakis

Xie, L.; Jakutis, G.; Dooley, C. M.; Guenther, S.; Kontarakis, Z.; Howard, S.; Juan, T.; Stainier, D. Y. R.: Induction of a transcriptional adaptation response by RNA destabilization events. EMBO REPORTS (2025)

Mukherjee, D.; Wagh, G.; Mokalled, M. H.; Kontarakis, Z.; Dickson, A. L.; Rayrikar, A.; Gunther, S.; Poss, K. D.; Stainier, D. Y. R.; Patra, C.: Ccn2a is an injury-induced matricelluar factor that promotes cardiac regeneration in zebrafish. DEVELOPMENT 148 (2), dev193219 (2021)

Carlantoni, C.; Allanki, S.; Kontarakis, Z.; Rossi, A.; Piesker, J.; Guenther, S.; Stainier, D. Y. R.: Tie1 regulates zebrafish cardiac morphogenesis through Tolloid-like 1 expression. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 469, pp. 54 - 67 (2021)

Kontarakis, Z.; Stainier, D. Y. R.: Genetics in Light of Transcriptional Adaptation. TRENDS IN GENETICS 36 (12), pp. 926 - 935 (2020)

Serobyan, V.; Kontarakis, Z.; El-Brolosy, M. A.; Welker, J. M.; Tolstenkov, O.; Saadeldein, A. M.; Retzer, N.; Gottschalk, A.; Wehman, A. M.; Stainier, D. Y. R.: Transcriptional adaptation in Caenorhabditis elegans. ELIFE 9, e50014 (2020)

El-Brolosy, M. A.; Kontarakis, Z.; Rossi, A.; Kuenne, C.; Guenther, S.; Fukuda, N.; Kikhi, K.; Boezio, G. L. M.; Takacs, C. M.; Lai, S.-L. et al.; Fukuda, R.; Gerri, C.; Giraldez, A. J.; Stainier, D. Y. R.: Genetic compensation triggered by mutant mRNA degradation. NATURE 568 (7751), pp. 193 - + (2019)

Kontarakis, Z.; Rossi, A.; Ramas, S.; Dellinger, M. T.; Stainier, D. Y. R.: Mir-126 is a conserved modulator of lymphatic development. DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY 437 (2), pp. 120 - 130 (2018)

Patra, C.; Kontarakis, Z.; Kaur, H.; Rayrikar, A.; Mukherjee, D.; Stainier, D. Y. R.: The zebrafish ventricle: A hub of cardiac endothelial cells for in vitro cell behavior studies. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 7, 2687 (2017)

Sawamiphak, S.; Kontarakis, Z.; Filosa, A.; Reischauer, S.; Stainier, D. Y. R.: Transient cardiomyocyte fusion regulates cardiac development in zebrafish. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 8, 1525 (2017)