Leingartner A, Thuret S, Kroll TT, Chou S-J, Leasure JL, Gage FH & O'Leary DDM 2007 Sizes of somatosensory and motor cortical areas determine proficiency at tactile and motor behaviors. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104:4153-4158.

Hoopfer ED¹, McLaughlin T¹, Watts RJ, Schuldiner O & O'Leary DDM², Luo L² 2006 Wlds protection distinguishes axon degeneration following injury from naturally-occurring developmental pruning. Neuron 50:883-895. [1, co-first authors; 2, co-communicating authors]

Takeuchi A & O'Leary DDM 2006 Radial migration of superficial layer cortical neurons controlled by novel Ig cell adhesion molecule, MDGA1. Journal of Neuroscience 26:4460-4464.

Pak W, Hindges R, Lim Y-S, Pfaff SL & O'Leary DDM 2004. Magnitude of binocular vision controlled by Islet-2 repression of a genetic program that specifies laterality of retinal axon pathfinding. Cell 119:567-578.

Hamasaki T*, Leingartner A*, Ringstedt T & O'Leary DDM 2004. EMX2 regulates sizes and positioning of the primary sensory and motor areas in neocortex by direct specification of cortical progenitors. Neuron 43:359-372

McLaughlin, T¹, Torborg, CL¹, Feller, MB², O'Leary, DDM² (2003) Retinotopic map refinement requires spontaneous retinal waves during a brief critical period of development. Neuron 40:1147-1160. [¹co-first authors; ²co-corresponding authors]

McLaughlin, T, Hindges, R, Yates, PA, O'Leary, DDM (2003) Bifunctional action of ephrin-B1 as a repellent and attractant to control bidirectional branch extension in dorsal-ventral retinotopic mapping. Development 130:2407-2418.

Hindges, R¹, McLaughlin, T¹, Genoud, N, Henkemeyer, M, O'Leary, DDM (2002) EphB forward signaling controls directional branch extension and arborization required for dorsal-ventral retinotopic mapping. Neuron 35:475-487. [¹co-first authors]

Erkman, L, Yates, PA, McLaughlin, T, ... O'Leary, DDM¹, Rosenfeld, MG¹ (2000) A POU domain transcription factor dependent program regulates axon pathfinding in the vertebrate visual system. Neuron 28:779-792. [¹co-corresponding authors]

Bishop, KM, Goudreau, G, O'Leary, DDM (2000) Emx2 and Pax6 regulate area identity in the mammalian neocortex. Science 288:344-349.

Brown, A¹, Yates, PA¹, Burrola, P, Ortuño, D, Vaidya, A, Jessell, TM, Pfaff, SL, O'Leary, DDM, Lemke, G (2000) Topographic mapping from the retina to the midbrain is controlled by relative but not absolute levels of EphA receptor signaling. Cell&nbsp: 102:77-88. [¹co-first authors]