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Flora, P., Li, M. Y., Galbo, P. M., Jr, Astorkia, M., Zheng, D., & Ezhkova, E. (2021). Polycomb repressive complex 2 in adult hair follicle stem cells is dispensable for hair regeneration. PLoS genetics, 17(12), e1009948. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009948
Flora, P.*, Dalal, G.*, Cohen, I., & Ezhkova, E. (2021). Polycomb Repressive Complex(es) and Their Role in Adult Stem Cells. Genes, 12(10), 1485. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12101485 (*co-first authors)
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Flora, P., & Ezhkova, E. (2020). Regulatory mechanisms governing epidermal stem cell function during development and homeostasis. Development (Cambridge, England), 147(22), dev194100. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.194100
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Flora, P., Schowalter, S., Wong-Deyrup, S., DeGennaro, M., Nasrallah, M. A., & Rangan, P. (2018). Transient transcriptional silencing alters the cell cycle to promote germline stem cell differentiation in Drosophila. Developmental biology, 434(1), 84–95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ydbio.2017.11.014
Flora, P., McCarthy, A., Upadhyay, M., & Rangan, P. (2017). Role of Chromatin Modifications in Drosophila Germline Stem Cell Differentiation. Results and problems in cell differentiation, 59, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44820-6_1
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