Hilario, J.D., Rodino-Klapac, L., Wang, C. and Beattie, C.E. (2009) Semaphorin 5A is a bifunctional axon guidance cue for axial motoneurons in vivo. Dev. Biol. 326:190-200.

McGovern, V.L., Gavrilina T.O., Beattie, C.E., and Burghes, A.H. (2008) Embryonic motor axon development in the severe SMA mouse. Hum Mol Genet. 17: 2900-2909.

Oprea G.E., Kröber S, McWhorter M.L., Rossoll W, Müller S, Krawczak M, Bassell G.J., Beattie C.E., Wirth B. (2008) Plastin 3 is a protective modifier of autosomal recessive spinal muscular atrophy. Science Apr 25; 320(5875):524-7.

McWhorter M.L., Boon K.L., Horan E.S., Burghes A.H., Beattie C.E.. (2008) The SMN binding protein Gemin2 is not involved in motor axon outgrowth. Dev Neurobiol. Feb 1;68(2):182-94.

Beattie C.E., Carrel T.L., McWhorter M.L. (2007) Fishing for a mechanism: using zebrafish to understand spinal muscular atrophy. J Child Neurol. Aug;22(8):995-1003. Review.

McWhorter, M. L., Horan, E. S., Burghes, A. H. M., and Beattie, C. E. The SMN complex protein Gemin2 is not involved in zebrafish motor axon outgrowth. submitted

Rodino-Klapac, L. R. and Beattie, C. E. (2004) Zebrafish topped is required for ventral motor axon guidance. Developmental Biology 273: 308-320.

Zirger, J. M., Beattie, C. E., McKay, D. B., and Boyd, T. R. (2003) Cloning and expression of zebrafish neuronal nicotinic receptors. Mechanisms of Development Gene Expression Patterns 3: 747-754.

McWhorter, M. L., Monani, U.R., Burghes, A. H. M. and Beattie, C. E. (2003) Knock-down of the Survival Motoneuron protein (Smn) in zebrafish causes defects in motor axon outgrowth and pathfinding. The Journal of Cell Biology 162: 919-931.

Liu K. S., Gray, M., Stephanie J. Otto, Fetcho, J. R. and Beattie, C. E. (2003) Mutations in deadly seven/notch1a reveal developmental plasticity in the escape response circuit. The Journal of Neuroscience 23:8159-8166.

Beattie, C. E., M., Granato, and Kuwada, J. Y. (2002) Cellular, Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Axonal Guidance in the Zebrafish in “Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation: Pattern Formation in Zebrafish” Volume 40.pp 252-269. L. Solnica-Krezel (Ed.): Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.

Gray, M., Moens, C. B., Amacher, S. L., Eisen, J. S. and Beattie, C. E. (2001) Zebrafish deadly seven functions in neurogenesis. Developmental Biology 237: 306-323.

Shepard, I. T., Beattie, C. E. and Raible, D. W. (2001) Functional analysis of zebrafish GDNF Developmental Biology 231: 420-435.

Challa, A. K., Beattie, C. E. and Seeger, M. A. (2001) Identification and characterization of roundabout orthologs in zebrafish. Mechanisms of Development 101:243-247.

Beattie, C. E. (2000) Control of motor axon guidance in the zebrafish embryo. Brain Res. Bull. 53: 489-500.

Beattie, C. E., Melancon, E. F. and Eisen J. S. (2000) Mutations in the stumpy gene reveal intermediate targets for zebrafish motor axons. Development 127:2653-2662.

Seeger, M. A. and Beattie, C. E. (1999) Attraction versus repulsion: Modular receptors make the Difference in Axon Guidance. Cell 97: 821-824.

Beattie, C. E., Henion, P. D., Raible, D. W. and Eisen, J. S. (1999) Early pressure screens in zebrafish. in Methods in Cell Biology (H. W Detrich,.M. Westerfield and L. Zon, eds.) Academic Press, pp. 71-83.

Beattie, C. E., Hatta, K., Halpern, M. E., Liu, H., Eisen, J. S. and Kimmel, C. B. (1997). Temporal separation in the specification of primary and secondary motoneurons in zebrafish. Dev. Biol. 187: 171-182.

Beattie, C. E. and Eisen, J. S. (1997) Pathfinding by individually identified motoneurons in embryonic zebrafish. in Molecular Basis of Axon Growth and Nerve Pattern Formation (ed. H. Fujisawa) pp 247-256. Tokyo: Japan Scientific Societies Press.

Beattie, C. E. and Eisen, J. S. (1997) Notochord alters the permissiveness of myotome for pathfinding by an identified motoneuron in embryonic zebrafish. Development 124: 713-720.