Publications

Kozol RA and Duboué ER. The Asty Atlas 2.0: an Astyanax mexicanus brain atlas tool suite for exploring brain anatomy and function across cavefish populations. Manuscript in preparation.

Kozol RA, Canavan A, Tolentino B, Keene AC, Kowalko JE and Duboué ER. Variation in hypothalamic function in cavefish inverts the activation of the photokinetic circuit. Manuscript in Preparation

Kozol RA, Sifuentes-Romero I, Duboué ER and Kowalko JE. Eye-loss shapes anatomical evolution by impacting multiple neuroanatomical regions brain-wide in cavefish. Manuscript in Preparation.

Sumathipala S, Suha K, Kozol RA, Araki Y, Syed S, Huganir RL and Dallman JE. Context-dependent hyperactivity in syngap1a and syngap1b zebrafish models of human SYNGAP1-related disorder. BioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.20.557316

Starkey S, Hageter J, Kozol RA, Emmerich K, Mumm J, Duboué ER, and Horstick ER. (2023) Thalamic neurons drive distinct forms of motor asymmetry that are conserved in teleost and dependent on visual evolution. BioRxiv, doi: 10.1101/2023.03.20.533538

Kozol RA, Conith AJ, Yuiska A, Cree-Newman A, Tolentino B, Banesh K, Paz A, Lloyd E, Kowalko JE, Keene AC, Craig RC and Duboué ER. (2023) Cavefish brains are anatomically evolving using multiple models of anatomical evolution. eLife, 27;12:e80777. doi. 10.75544/eLife.80777

Kozol RA, Han J, Lopatto A, Lewis P, Paz A, Keene AC, Kowalko JE and Duboué ER. (2023) Novel husbandry practices result in rapid rates of growth and sexual maturation without impacting adult behavior in the blind Mexican cavefish. Zebrafish, 20(2):86-94. doi: 10.1089/zeb.2023.0001

Kozol RA and Dallman JE (2023) Drugs prescribed in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome differentially impact sensory behaviors in shank3 models. F1000Research, 12:84

Oliva C, Hinz NK, Robinson W, Thompson AMB, Booth J, Crisostomo LM, Zanineli S, Tanner M, Lloyd E, O’Gorman M, McDole B, Paz A, Kozol RA, Brown EB, Kowalko JE, Fily Y, Duboué ER, Keene AC (2022). Characterizing the genetic basis of trait evolution in the Mexican cavefish. Evolution and Development doi: 10.1111/ede.12412.

Kozol RA, James DM, Varela I, Sumathipala SH, Zuchner S, Dallman JE (2021). Deficits in hindbrain activity cause sensory-motor hyporeactivity in an autism spectrum disorder zebrafish model. Nature Communications Biology 4(1):1411 doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02920-6

James DM*, Kozol RA*, Kajiwara Y, Wahl AL, Storrs EC, Buxbaum JD, Klein M, Moshiree B and Dallman JE (2019) Intestinal dysmotility in a zebrafish (Danio rerio) shank3 mutant models of autism. Molecular Autism *-Co-first author

Kozol RA (2018) Prenatal neuropathologies in autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability: The gestation of a comprehensive zebrafish model. Journal of Developmental Biology 6(4), 29; doi:10.3390/jdb6040029

Kozol RA, Abrams AJ, James DM, Buglo E, Yan Q and Dallman JE (2016) Function over form: modeling groups of inherited neurological conditions in zebrafish. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience 9, doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2016.00055

Kozol RA, Cukier HN, Zou B, Mayo V, De Rubeis S, Cai G, Griswald AJ, Whitehead PL, Haines JL, Gilbert JR, Cuccaro ML, Martin ER, Baker JD, Buxbaum JD, Pericak-Vance MA and Dallman JE (2015) Two knockdown models of the autism genes SYNGAP1 and SHANK3 in zebrafish produce similar behavioral phenotypes associated with embryonic disruptions of brain morphogenesis. Human Molecular Genetics 24(14), 4006-23. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddv138.

Ganser LR, Yan Q, James VM, Kozol R, Topf M, Harvey RJ and Dallman JE (2013)Distinct phenotypes in zebrafish models of human startle disease. Neurobiology of Disease, 60, 139-151.doi: 10.1016/j.nbd.2013.09.002.

Kozol R, Blanco-Bercial L, Bucklin A (2012) Multi-gene analysis reveals lack of genetic divergence between Calanus agulhensis and C. sinicus. PLoS ONE, 7(10), e45710. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045710.