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Koopman, P, Gubbay, J, Collignon, J and Lovell-Badge, R (1989):
Zfy gene expression patterns are not compatible with a primary role in mouse sex determination.
Nature 342: 940-942.

Gubbay, J, Koopman, P, Collignon, J, Burgoyne, P and Lovell-Badge, R (1990):
Normal structure and expression of Zfy genes in a line of mice mutant in Tdy.
Development
109: 647-653.

Gubbay, J, Collignon, J, Koopman, P, Capel, B, Economou, A, Munsterberg, A, Vivian, N, Goodfellow, P and Lovell-Badge, R (1990):
A gene mapping to the sex-determining region of the mouse Y chromosome is a member of a novel family of embryonically expressed genes.
Nature
346: 245-250. (608 citations to August 2000).

Koopman, P, M?nsterberg, A, Capel, B, Vivian, N and Lovell-Badge, R (1990):
Expression of a candidate sex-determining gene during mouse testis differentiation.
Nature
348: 450-452. (271 citations to August 2000).

Koopman, P, Gubbay, J, Vivian, N, Goodfellow, P and Lovell-Badge, R (1991):
Male development in chromosomally female mice transgenic for Sry.
Nature 351: 117-121. (577 citations to August 2000).

Wright, EM, Snopek, B and Koopman, P (1993):
Seven new members of the Sox gene family expressed during mouse development.
Nucleic Acids Res. 21: 744.
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Capel, B, Swain, A, Nicolis, S, Hacker, A, Walter, M, Koopman, P, Goodfellow, P and Lovell-Badge, R (1993):
Circular transcripts of the testis-determining gene Sry in adult mouse testis.
Cell
73: 1019-1030.

Wright, EM, Hargrave, M, Christiansen, J, Cooper, L, Kun, J, Evans, T, Gangadharan, U, Greenfield, A and Koopman, P (1995).
The Sry-related gene Sox9 is expressed during chondrogenesis in mouse embryos.
Nature Genet. 9: 15-20.

Jeske, YWA, Bowles, J, Greenfield, A and Koopman, P (1995).
Expression of a linear Sry transcript in the mouse genital ridge.
Nature Genet. 10: 480-482.

Harry, JL, Koopman, P, Brennan, FE, Graves, JAM and Renfree, MB (1995):
Widespread expression of the testis-determining gene SRY in a marsupial.
Nature Genetics 11: 347-349.

Kent, J, Wheatley, SC, Andrews, JE, Sinclair, AH and Koopman, P (1996).
A male-specific role for SOX9 in vertebrate sex determinations.
Development 122: 2813-2822.
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Greenfield, A, Scott, D, Pennisi, D, Ehrmann, I, Ellis, P, Cooper, L, Simpson, L and Koopman, P (1996).
An H-YDb epitope is encoded by a novel mouse Y-chromosome gene.
Nature Genetics 14: 474-478.

Ng, LJ, Wheatley, S, Muscat, GEO, Conway-Campbell, J, Bowles, J, Wright, E, Bell, DM, Tam, PPL, Cheah, KSE and Koopman, P (1997).
SOX9 binds DNA, activates transcription and co-expresses with type II collagen during chondrogenesis in the mouse.
Developmental Biology
183: 108-121.

Bell, DM, Leung, KKH, Wheatley, SC, Ng, LJ, Zhou, S, Ling, KW, Sham, MH, Koopman, P, Tam, PPL and Cheah, KSE (1997).
SOX9 directly regulates the type II collagen gene.
Nature Genetics
16: 174-178.

Bowles, J, Berkman, J, Cooper, L and Koopman, P (1999).
Sry
requires a CAG repeat domain for male sex determination in Mus musculus.
Nature Genetics
22: 405-408.

Kanai, Y and Koopman, P (1999).
Structural and functional characterization of the mouse Sox9 promoter.
Human Molecular Genetics 8: 691-696. download pdf

Koopman, P.
Sry
and Sox9: Mammalian testis-determining genes (1999).
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
55: 839-856.

Pennisi, D, Gardner, J, Chambers, D, Hosking, B, Peters, J, Muscat, G, Abbott, C and Koopman, P (2000).
Sox18 mutations underlie cardiovascular and hair follicle defects in ragged mice.
Nature Genetics
24, 434-437.

Bowles, J, Schepers, G and Koopman, P (2000).
Phylogeny of the SOX family of developmental transcriptional regulators based on sequence and structural indicators.
Developmental Biology
227: 239-255.

Koopman, P (2001)
The Genetics and Biology of Vertebrate Sex Determination.
Cell 105, 843-847.

Bullejos, M and Koopman, P. (2001)
Spatially dynamic expression of Sry in mouse genital ridges.
Developmental Dynamics 221:201-205.

Koopman, P (2001)
Sry, Sox9 and mammalian sex determination.
In: Genes and Mechanisms in Vertebrate Sex Determination (EXS 91; G. Scherer and M. Schmid, eds.). Birkhauser Verlag, Basel, 25-56.

Koopman, P, Bullejos, M, Loffler, K and Bowles, J (2002).
Expression-based strategies for discovery of genes involved in testis and ovary development.
The Genetics and Biology of Sex Determination
(D Chadwick and J Goode, eds.; Novartis Foundation Symposium 244). Wiley, Chichester, UK, pp. 240–249.

Loffler, KA and Koopman, P (2002).
Charting the course of ovarian development in vertebrates.
International Journal of Developmental Biology 46: 503–510. download pdf

Koopman, P (2002).
Making waves down under: The Australian Developmental Biology Workshop.
International Journal of Developmental Biology 46: 363–364 (commentary) download pdf

Wilson, M and Koopman, P (2002).
Matching SOX: Partner proteins and co-factors of the SOX family of transcriptional regulators.
Current Opinion in Genetics and Development
12: 441–446.

Schepers, GE, Teasdale, RD and Koopman, P (2002).
Twenty pairs of Sox: Extent, homology and nomenclature of the mouse and human Sox transcription factor gene families.
Developmental Cell 3: 167–170.

Asou Y, Nifuji A, Tsuji K, Shinomiya K, Olson EN, Koopman P, and Noda M (2002).
Coordinated expression of scleraxis and Sox9 genes during embryonic development of tendons and cartilage.
Journal of Orthopaedic Research 20:827–33.

Bullejos, M, Bowles, J and Koopman, P (2002).
Extensive vascularization of developing mouse ovaries revealed by caveolin-1 expression.
Developmental Dynamics 225: 95–99.Fowles, LF, Bennetts, JS, Berkman, JL, Williams, E,

Koopman, P, Teasdale, RD and Wicking, C (2003):
Genomic screen for genes involved in mammalian craniofacial development.
genesis
35: 73–87.

Koopman, P and Loffler, KA (2003):
Sex determination: The fishy tale of Dmrt1.
Current Biology
13: R177–179.

James, K, Hosking, B, Gardner, J, Muscat, GEO and Koopman, P (2003).
Sox18 mutations in the ragged mouse alleles ragged-like and opossum.
genesis
36: 1–6.

Loffler, KA, Zarkower, D and Koopman, P (2003).
Etiology of ovarian failure in blepharophimosis-ptosis-epicanthus inversus syndrome: FOXL2 is a conserved, early-acting gene in vertebrate ovarian development.
Endocrinology 144: 3237–3243. download pdf

Schepers, G, Wilson, M, Wilhelm, D and Koopman, P (2003).
SOX8 is expressed during testis differentiation in mice and synergizes with SF1 to activate the Amh promoter in vitro.
J. Biol. Chem. 278: 28101–28108. download pdf

Koopman, P (2003).
Gender benders.
Nature
426: 241. [News and Views commentary]

Takada, S and Koopman, P (2003).
Origin and possible roles of the Sox8 transcription factor gene during sexual development.
Cytogenetic and Genome Research 101: 212-218.

Koopman, P (2003)
Gonadal induction.
In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Vol. 8, pp. 298-303. Nature Publishing Group, ISBN 0-333-72621-9.

Beverdam, A, Wilhelm, D and Koopman, P (2003).
Molecular characterization of three gonad cell lines.
Cytogenetic and Genome Research 101: 242-249.

Bowles, J, Teasdale, R, James, K and Koopman, P (2003).
Dppa3
is a marker of pluripotency and has a human homologue that is expressed in germ cell tumours.
Cytogenetic and Genome Research 101: 261-265.

Koopman, P (2003)
SRY and DNA-bending proteins.
In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Vol. 17, pp. 538-543. Nature Publishing Group, ISBN 0-333-72621-9.

Hosking, BM, Wang, S-CM, Downes, M, Koopman, P and Muscat, GEO (2004).
The VCAM-1 gene that encodes the vascular cell adhesion molecule is a target of the Sry-related High Mobility Group box gene, Sox18.
J. Biol. Chem., 279: 5314–5322

Smith, JM and Koopman, P (2004).
The ins and outs of transcriptional control: Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling in development and disease.
Trends in Genetics 20: 4-8.

Koopman, P, Schepers, G, Brenner, S and Venkatesh, B (2004).
Origin and diversity of the Sox transcription factor gene family: Genome-wide analysis in Fugu rubripes.
Gene
328: 177–186.

Smith, JM, Bowles, J, Wilson, M and Koopman, P (2004).
The HMG box transcription factor gene Hbp1 is expressed in germ cells of the developing mouse testis.
Developmental Dynamics 230: 366–370.

Bullejos, M and Koopman, P (2004).
Germ cells enter meiosis in a rostro-caudal wave during development of the mouse ovary.
Molecular Reproduction and Development 68: 422–428.

Dong, C, Wilhelm, D and Koopman, P (2004).
Sox genes and cancer.
Cytogenetic and Genome Research
105: 442–447.

Takada, S, DiNapoli, L, Capel, B and Koopman, P (2004).
Sox8 is expressed at similar levels in gonads of both sexes during the sex determining period in turtles.
Developmental Dynamics 231: 387-395.

Bowles, J and Koopman, P (2004).
Gonads-Müllerian Ducts.
In: Handbook of Stem Cells, Vol. 1, Ch. 33 (RP Lanza, JD Gearhart, BLM Hogan, DA Melton, R Pedersen, JA Thomson, MD West, eds.), Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington. ISBN 0-12-436643-0. pp. 345–357.

Smith, JM, Bowles, J, Wilson, M, Teasdale, RD and Koopman, P (2004).
Expression of the tudor-related gene Tdrd5 during development of the male germline in mice.
Gene Expression Patterns 4: 701–705.

Aitken, RJ, Koopman, P, Lewis, SEM (2004).
Seeds of concern.
Nature
432: 48-52 (News and Views; cover feature).

Dong, C, Wilhelm, D and Koopman, P (2004).
Sox
genes and cancer.
In: Mouse Genetics after the Genome. (S. Garagna, Ed.). Karger, Basel, 326pp. ISBN 3-8055-7783-4.