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Stürzenbaum, S.R., Hoeckner, M., Panneerselvam, A., Levitt, J., Bouillard, J.-S., Taniguchi, S., Dailey, L.-A., Ahmad Khanbeigi, R.A., Thanou, M., Rosca, E.V., Suhling, K., Zayats, A., Green, M. (2013). Biosynthesis of luminescent quantum dots in an earthworm. Nature Nanotechnol. 8(1):57-60. 
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Qabazard, B., Li, L., Gruber, J., Peh, M.T., Ng, L.F., Kumar, S.D., Rose, P., Tan, C.-H., Dymock B.W., Wei., F., Swain, S.C., Halliwell, B.,   Stürzenbaum, S.R. (2014). Hydrogen sulfide is an endogenous regulator of ageing in   Antioxid. Redox Signaling (in press). 
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Aitlhadj, L., Silva de Ávila, D., Benedetto, A., Aschner, M., Stürzenbaum, S.R., (2011). Environmental exposure, obesity and Parkinson’s disease: lessons from fat and old worms. Environ. Health Persp. 119(1): 20-28.
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Solinger, J., Paolinelli, R., Klöß, H., Scorza, F.B., Marchesi, S., Sauder, U., Mitsushima, D., Capuani, F., Stürzenbaum, S.R., Cassata, G. (2010). The C.elegans Elongator Complex Regulates Neuronal a-Tubulin Acetylation. PLoS Genetics 6(1): e1000820. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000820
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Stürzenbaum, S.R., Winters, C., Galay, M., Morgan, A.J. and Kille, P. (2001). Metal ion trafficking in earthworms - identification of a cadmium specific metallothionein. J. Biol. Chem., 276: 34013-34018.
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Hughes, S., Bundy, J., Want, E., Kille, P., Stürzenbaum, S.R. (2009). The metabolomic responses of Caenorhabditis elegans to cadmium are largely independent of metallothionein status, but dominated by changes in cystathionine and phytochelatins. J. Prot. Res. 8(7): 3512-3519.
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Menzel, R., Yeo, H.L., Rienau, S., Li, S., Steinberg, C.E., Stürzenbaum, S.R. (2007). Cytochrome P450s and short-chain dehydrogenases mediate the toxicogenomic response of PCB52 in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. J. Mol. Biol. 370(1):1-13.
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Spanier, B.*, Stürzenbaum, S.R.*, Holden-Dye, L.M and Baumeister, R. (2005). C.elegans neprilysin NEP-1: an effector of locomotion and pharyngeal pumping. J. Mol Biol. 352: 429 - 437 (*contributed equally).
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Swain, S.C., Keusekotten, K., Baumeister, R., Stürzenbaum, S.R. (2004). C.elegans metallothioneins: new insights into the phenotypic effects of cadmium toxicosis. J. Mol Biol. 341: 951-959.
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Bundy, J.G., Sidhu, J.K., Rana, F., Spurgeon, D.J., Svendsen, C., Wren, J.F., Stürzenbaum, S.R., Morgan, A.J. and Kille, P. (2008). "Systems toxicology" approach indentifies coordinated metabolomic responses to copper in a terrestrial non-model invertebrate, the earthworm Lumbricus rubellus. BMC Biology 6: 25.
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Menzel, R., Swain, S.C., Hoess, S., Claus, E., Menzel, S., Steinberg, C.E.W., Reifferscheid, G., Stürzenbaum, S.R. (2009). Gene expression profiling to characterize sediment toxicity - a pilot study using Caenorhabditis elegans whole genome microarrays. BMC Genomics 10:160.
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Owen, J., Hedley, A., Svendsen, C., Wren, J.F., Jonker,M., Hankard, K.P., Lister, L., Stürzenbaum, S.R., Morgan, A.J., Spurgeon, D.J., Blaxter, M., Kille, P. (2008). Transcriptome profiling of developmental and xenobiotic responses in a keystone soil animal, the oligochaete annelid Lumbricus rubellus. BMC Genomics 9: 226.
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Stürzenbaum, S.R., Andre J., Kille, P. and Morgan A.J. (2009). Earthworm genomes, genes and proteins: the (re)discovery of Darwin's worms. Proc. R. Soc. B 276(1658): 789-797.
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Morgan, A.J., Kille, P., Stürzenbaum, S.R. (2007). Microevolution and Ecotoxicology of Metals in Invertebrates. Environ. Sci. Technol. 41, 1085-1096.

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