Publications

Chembiochem. 2011 Sep 19;12(14):2184-90. doi: 10.1002/cbic.201100353. Epub 2011 Aug 1.
Intracellular detection of Cytosine incorporation in genomic DNA by using 5-ethynyl-2'-deoxycytidine.
Guan L, van der Heijden GW, Bortvin A*, Greenberg MM*.

Mutat Res. 2011 Sep 1;714(1-2):95-104. Epub 2011 May 11.
piRNAs, transposon silencing, and germline genome integrity.
Castañeda J, Genzor P, Bortvin A.

Bortvin A, Eggan K, Skaletsky H, Akutsu H, Berry DL, Yanagimachi R, Page DC, Jaenisch R.
Incomplete reactivation of Oct4-related genes in mouse embryos cloned from somatic nuclei.
Development. 2003 Apr;130(8):1673-80.

Bortvin A, Goodheart M, Liao M, Page DC.
Dppa3 / Pgc7 / stella is a maternal factor and is not required for germ cell specification in mice.
BMC Dev Biol. 2004 Feb 23;4(1):2.

Sarah F.C. Soper, Godfried W. van der Heijden, Tara C. Hardiman, Mary Goodheart, Sandra L. Martin, Peter de Boer, and Alex Bortvin.
Mouse Maelstrom, a Component of Nuage, Is Essential for Spermatogenesis and Transposon Repression in Meiosis.
2008 Developmental Cell, 15(2), 285-297.

van der Heijden, G.W. and Alex Bortvin.
Transient relaxation of transposon silencing at the onset of mammalian meiosis.
Epigenetics 2009 4(2).

Aravin AA, van der Heijden GW, Castañeda J, Vagin VV, Hannon GJ, Bortvin, A.
Cytoplasmic Compartmentalization of the Fetal piRNA Pathway in Mice.
PLoS Genet 5(12): e1000764. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000764 (2009)

van der Heijden G. W. and Alex Bortvin.
Defending the Genome in Tudor Style.
Developmental Cell (2009), doi:10.1016/ j.devcel.2009.11.007

van der Heijden GW, Castañeda J, Bortvin A.
Bodies of evidence - compartmentalization of the piRNA pathway in mouse fetal prospermatogonia.
Curr Opin Cell Biol. 2010 Dec;22(6):752-7. Epub 2010 Sep 6.

Neil M. Vranis, Godfried W. van der Heijden, Safia Malki and Alex Bortvin
Synaptonemal Complex Length Variation in Wild-Type Male Mice.
Genes 2010, 1(3), 505-520; doi:10.3390/genes1030505