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Fallon T.R. * §, Shende V.V. *, Wierzbicki I.H., Pendleton A.L., Watervoort N.F., Auber R.P., Gonzalez D.J., Wisecaver J.H., and Moore B.S. § (2024). Giant polyketide synthase enzymes in the biosynthesis of giant marine polyether toxins. Science 385:671–678. doi:10.1126/science.ado3290
Wisecaver J.H., Auber R.P., Pendleton A.L., Watervoort N.F., Fallon T.R., Riedling O.L., Manning S.R., Moore B.S., and Driscoll W.W. (2023). Extreme genome diversity and cryptic speciation in a harmful algal-bloom-forming eukaryote. Current Biology 33:2246-2259.e8. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.003
Lima S.T., Fallon T.R. *, Cordoza J.L. *, Chekan J.R., Delbaje E, Hopiavuori A.R., Alvarenga D.O., Wood S.M. †, Luhavaya H, Baumgartner J.T., Dörr F.A., Etchegaray A, Pinto E, McKinnie S.M.K., Fiore M.F., and Moore B.S. (2022). Biosynthesis of Guanitoxin Enables Global Environmental Detection in Freshwater Cyanobacteria. JACS 144:9372–9379. doi:10.1021/jacs.2c01424
Kersten R.D., Mydy LS, Fallon T.R., de Waal F, Shafiq K, Wotring J.W., Sexton J.Z., and Weng J.-K. (2022). Gene-Guided Discovery and Ribosomal Biosynthesis of Moroidin Peptides. JACS 144:7686–7692. doi:10.1021/ jacs.2c00014
Chekan, J.R., Fallon, T.R., and Moore, B.S. (2020). Biosynthesis of marine toxins. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology 59, 119–129. doi:10.1016/j.cbpa.2020.06.009
Pluskal T, Korf A, Smirnov A, Schmid R, Fallon T.R., Du X, and Weng J.-K. (2020). CHAPTER 7: Metabolomics Data Analysis Using MZmine Processing Metabolomics and Proteomics Data with Open Software. pp. 232–254. doi:10.1039/9781788019880-00232
Goodheart J.A., Minsky G, Brynjegard-Bialik M.N., Drummond M.S., Munoz J.D., Fallon T.R., Schultz D.T., Weng J.-K., Torres E, and Oakley T.H.. (2020). Laboratory culture of the California Sea Firefly Vargula tsujii (Ostracoda: Cypridinidae): Developing a model system for the evolution of marine bioluminescence. Scientific Reports 10:10443. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-67209-w
Pluskal T., Torrens-Spence M.P., Fallon T.R., Abreu A.D., Shi C.H., and Weng J.-K. (2019). The biosynthetic origin of psychoactive kavalactones in kava. Nature Plants 5:867–878. doi:10.1038/s41477-019-0474-0
Fallon, T.R. *, Lower, S.E. *, Chang, C.-H., Bessho-Uehara, M., Martin, G.J., Bewick, A.J., Behringer, M., Debat, H.J., Wong, I., Day, J.C., Suvorov, A., Silva, C.J., Hall D.W., Schmitz R.J., Nelson D.R., Lewis, S., Shigenobu, S., Bybee S.M., Larracuente, A.M., Oba, Y., and Weng, J.-K. (2018). Firefly genomes illuminate the origin and evolution of bioluminescence. eLife 2018;7:e36495. doi:10.7554/eLife.36495
Fallon, T.R., Li, F.-S., Vicent, M.A. †, and Weng, J.-K. (2016). Sulfoluciferin is Biosynthesized by a Specialized Luciferin Sulfotransferase in Fireflies. Biochemistry 55, 3341–3344. doi:10.1021/acs.biochem.6b00402
Weng, J.-K., Behringer, M., Bybee S., Fallon T.R., Larracuente, A., Lewis, S., Martin, G., and Lower, S. (2016). Experiment - Illuminating the firefly genome. https://experiment.com/projects/illuminating-the-firefly-genome/ doi:10.18258/6893
Al-Wathiqui, N. *, Fallon, T.R. *, South, A., Weng, J.-K., and Lewis, S.M. (2016). Molecular characterization of firefly nuptial gifts: a multi-omics approach sheds light on postcopulatory sexual selection. Scientific Reports 6, 38556. doi:10.1038/srep38556
Torrens-Spence, M.P. *, Fallon, T.R. *, and Weng, J.-K. (2016). A Workflow for Studying Specialized Metabolism in Nonmodel Eukaryotic Organisms. In Methods in Enzymology, S.E. O’Connor, ed. (Academic Press), pp. 69–97. doi:10.1016/bs.mie.2016.03.015
Fallon, T.R., and Weng, J.-K. (2014). A Molecular Gauge for Nitrogen Economy in Plants. Cell 159, 977–978. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.11.007
Zhao, R., Fallon, T.R., Saladi, S.V., Pardo-Saganta, A., Villoria, J., Mou, H., Vinarsky, V., Gonzalez-Celeiro, M., Nunna, N., Hariri, L.P., et al. (2014). Yap Tunes Airway Epithelial Size and Architecture by Regulating the Identity, Maintenance, and Self-Renewal of Stem Cells. Developmental Cell 30, 151–165. doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2014.06.004