| Issue Date | Title | Author(s) | Relation | scopus | WOS | Fulltext/Archive link |
| 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 | | | |
| 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 tetrahymenanuclear differentiation is likely mediated by homologous RNAs | Chalker, D. L.; Fuller, P.; Yao, M. C. | Genetics 169, 149-160 | | | |
| 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 | | | |
| 2002 | Genome-wide rearrangements of DNA in ciliates | Yao, M. C.; uharcourt, D. S.; Chalker, D. | Mobile DNA II 730-758 | | | |
| 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 | | | |
| 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 | | | |
| 2002 | Short inverted repeats initiate gene amplification through the formation of a large DNA palindrome in mammalian cells | Tanaka, H.; Tapscott, S. J.; Trask, B. J.; Yao, M. C. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99, 8772-8777 | | | |
| 2006 | The CNA1 Histone of the Ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila Is Essential forChromosome Segregation in the Germline Micronucleus | Cervantes, M. D.; Xi, X.; Vermaak, D.; Yao, M. C.; Malik, H. S. | Mol Biol Cell 17, 485-497 | | | |
| 2007 | Tudor nuclease genes and programmed DNA rearrangements in Tetrahymena thermophila | Howard-Till, R. A.; Yao, M. C. | Eukaryot Cell 9, 1795-1804 | | | |
| 2005 | Widespread and nonrandom distribution of DNA palindromes in cancer cells provides a structural platform for subsequent gene amplification | Tanaka, H.; Bergstrom, D. A.; Yao, M. C.; Tapscott, S. J. | Nat Genet 37, 320-327 | | | |
