Khalturin K, Anton-Erxleben F, Sassmann S, Wittlieb J, Hemmrich G, and Bosch TCG (2008).
A novel gene family controls species-specific morphological traits in Hydra.
PLoS Biology, in press.

Anton-Erxleben F, Thomas A, Wittlieb J, Fraune S, and Bosch TCG (2008).
Plasticity of epithelial cell shape in response to upstream signals: a whole-organism study using transgenic Hydra.
Zoology, in press.

Siebert S, Anton-Erxleben F and Bosch TCG (2008)
Cell type complexity in the basal metazoan Hydra is maintained by both stem cell based mechanisms and transdifferentiation.
Dev. Biol. 313: 13-24

Khalturin K, Anton-Erxleben F, Milde S, Plötz C, Wittlieb J, Hemmrich G and Bosch TCG (2007)
Transgenic stem cells in Hydra reveal an early evolutionary origin for key elements controlling
self-renewal and differentiation.
Developmental Biology, Volume 309, Issue 1, Pages 32-44

Wittlieb J, Khalturin K, Lohmann JU, Anton-Erxleben F and Bosch TCG (2006)
Transgenic Hydra allow in vivo tracking of individual stem cells during morphogenesis.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103;16: 6208-6211