Epel, D., Stevenson, C.N., MacManus-Spencer, L.A., Luckenbach, T., Hamdoun A. and Smital, T. (2008) Efflux transporters: newly appreciated roles in protection against pollutants. Environmental Science and Technology. In press.


• Hamdoun, A. and Epel, D. (2007) Embryo stability and vulnerability in an always changing world. PNAS 104, 1745-1750. Hamdoun_Epel_2007.pdf


• Goldstone, J. V*, Hamdoun, A.M.* , (*equal contributions) B.J. Cole, M.H. Ashby, M. Scally, M.E. Hahn, M. Dean, Epel, D. and J.J. Stegeman. (2006) The chemical defensome: Environmental sensing and response genes in the Strongylocentrotus purpuratus genome. Developmental Biology, 300(1) 366-384. Chemical_Defensome.pdf


• The Sea Urchin Genome Consortium (2006). The genome of the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Science. 314: 941-952. Urchin_Genome.pdf


• Roepke, T. A., Hamdoun, A.M. and G.N. Cherr. (2006) Increased drug transport activity is associated with the translocation of a MDR-related protein following induction of sea star oocyte maturation. Development, Growth and Differentiation, 48(9), 559-573. Seastar_oocyte_transporter.pdf


• Epel, D., Cole, B., Hamdoun A.M. and Vega, R.L. (2006). The sea urchin embryo as a model for studying efflux transporters: genomics, roles and energy cost of this protection system. Marine Environmental Research, 62, S1-S4. Transporter_energy costs_2006.pdf


• Hamdoun, A. M., Cherr, G.N., Roepke, T.A., and D. Epel (2004). Activation of

multidrug efflux transport activity at fertilization in sea urchin embryos

(Strongylocentrotus purpuratus). Developmental Biology, 276, 452-462. Hamdoun_2004.pdf


• Smital, T., Luckenbach, T., Sauerborn, R., Hamdoun, A.M., Vega, R. and Epel, D. (2004) Emerging contaminants - PPCPs, pesticides and microbial degradation products as inhibitors of the multixenobiotic defense in aquatic organisms. Mutation Research, 552, 101-117. Emerging_contminants_review.pdf


• Hamdoun, A. M., Cheney D. P. and Cherr, G.N. (2003). Phenotypic plasticity of HSP and HSP70 gene expression in the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas): Implications for resting thermal limits and induction of thermal tolerance. Biological Bulletin, 205, 160-169. Hamdoun_2003.pdf


• Hamdoun, A. M., Griffin, F.J. and Cherr, G.N. (2002). Tolerance to biodegraded crudeoil in marine invertebrate embryos and larvae is associated with expression of amultixenbiotic resistance transporter. Aquatic Toxicology, 61, 127-140. Hamdoun_Degraded Oil_2002.pdf


Amro Hamdoun, 2008.