| Issue Date | Title | Author(s) | Relation | scopus | WOS | Fulltext/Archive link |
| 2010 | A domesticated piggyBac transposase plays a key role in heterochromatin dynamics and DNA cleavage during programmed DNA deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila | Cheng, C-Y.; Vogt, A.; Mochizuki, K.; Yao, M. -C. | Mol. Biol. Cell 21,1753-1762 | | | |
| 2011 | Absence of positive selection on centromeric histones in Tetrahymena suggests unsuppressed centromere-drive in lineages lacking male meiosis | Elde, N. C.; Roach, K.; Yao, M. C. ; Malik, H. S | J. Mol. Evol. 72(5-6), 510-520 | | | |
| 2012 | An essential role for the DNA breakage repair protein Ku80 in programmed DNA rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila | Lin, I. -T.; Chao, J. -L.; Yao, M. -C. | Molecular Biology of the Cell 23(11), 2213-2225 | | | |
| 2005 | Class I histone deacetylase Thd1p affects nuclear integrity in Tetrahymenathermophila | Wiley, E. A.; Myers, T.; Parker, K.; Braun, T.; Yao, M. C. | Eukaryot Cell 4, 981-990 | | | |
| 2005 | Communication Between Parental and Developing Genomes During Tetrahymena Nuclear Differentiation Is Likely Mediated by Homologous RNAs | Chalker, D. L.; Fuller, P.; Yao, M. C. | Genetics 169(1), 149-160 | | | |
| 2011 | DNA elimination in Ciliates: Transposon Domestication and Genome Surveillance | Chalker, D.; Yao, M. -C. | Annual Review of Genetics 45, 227-246 | | | |
| 1999 | Flanking regulatory sequences of the Tetrahymena R deletion element determine the boundaries of DNA rearrangement | Chalker, D. L.; La Terza, A.; Wilson, A.; Kroenke, C. D.; Yao, M. C. | Mol Cell Biol 19, 5631-5641 | | | |
| 2010 | Genome-wide analysis of palindrome formation | Diede, S. J.; Tanaka, H.; Bergstrom, D. J.; Yao, M. -C. ; Tapscott, S. J. | Nature Genetics 42, 279 | | | |
| 2002 | Genome-wide rearrangements of DNA in ciliates | Yao, M. C. ; uharcourt, D. S.; Chalker, D. | Mobile DNA II 730-758 | | | |
| 2007 | Identification of novel chromatin-associated proteins involved in prorammed genome rearrangements in Tetrahymena | Yao, M.-C. ; Yao, C.-H.; Halasz, L.M.; Fuller, P.; Rexer, C.H.; Wang, S.H.; Jain, R.; Coyne, R.S.; Chalker, D.L. | J Cell Sci 120, 1978-1989 | | | |
| 2006 | Induction of gene silencing by hairpin RNA expression in Tetrahymena thermophila reveals a second small RNA pathway | Howard-Till, R. A.; Yao, M. -C. | Mol Cell Biol 26, 8731-8742 | | | |
| 2007 | Intrastrand annealing leads to the formation of a large DNA palindrome and determines the boundaries of genomic amplification in human cancer | Tanaka, H.; Cao, Y.; Bergstrom, D. A.; Kooperberg, C.; Tapscott, S. J.; Yao, M. -C. | Mol Cell Biol 27, 1993-2002 | | | |
| 2009 | Mechanisms of gene amplification – an evolutionary conserved role of DNA inverted repeats | Tanaka, H; Yao, M. -C. | Nature Review Cancer, 9, 215-224 | | | |
| 2010 | Modulating somatic DNA copy number through maternal RNA | Yao, M. -C. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(51), 21951-21952 | | | |
| 2001 | Nongenic, bidirectional transcription precedes and may promote developmental DNA deletion in Tetrahymena thermophila | Chalker, D. L.; Yao, M. C. | Genes & Development 15, 1287-1298 | | | |
| 1999 | Parental expression of the chromodomain protein Pdd1p is required for completion of programmed DNA elimination and nuclear differentiation | Coyne, R. S.; Nikiforov, M. A.; Smothers, J. F.; Allis, C. D.; Yao, M. C. | Mol Cell 4, 865-872 | | | |
| 2003 | Programmed DNA deletion as an RNA-guided system of genome defense | Yao, M. C. ; Fuller, P.; Xi, X. | Science 300, 1581-1584 | | | |
| 2008 | RNA rules | Yao, M. -C | Nature, 131-132 (Review Articles) | | | |
| 2005 | RNA-GUIDED DNA DELETION IN TETRAHYMENA: An RNAi-Based Mechanism forProgrammed Genome Rearrangements | Yao, M. C. ; Chao, J. L. | Annu Rev Genet 39, 537-559 | | | |
| 2002 | Role of histone deacetylation in developmentally programmed DNA rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila | Duharcourt, S.; Yao, M. C. | Eukaryot Cell 1, 293-303 | | | |
