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List of works by Willie J Swanson

A Diverse Lipid Antigen-Specific TCR Repertoire Is Clonally Expanded during Active Tuberculosis

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

A conversation with Mariana Wolfner, newly inducted member of the National Academy of Sciences

scientific article published on 17 November 2019

A perforin-like protein from a marine mollusk

scientific article

A rapidly diverging EGF protein regulates species-specific signal transduction in early sea urchin development

scientific article published in September 2000

A test for faster X evolution in Drosophila

scientific article published in October 2002

Adaptive evolution in an avian reproductive protein: ZP3.

scientific article published on 2 October 2007

Adaptive evolution in rodent seminal vesicle secretion proteins

scientific article (publication date: November 2008)

Adaptive evolution in the SRZ chemoreceptor families of Caenorhabditis elegans and Caenorhabditis briggsae

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Adaptive evolution of foundation kinetochore proteins in primates

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Adaptive evolution of genes and gene families

scientific article published on December 2003

Beyond the phenotypic gambit: molecular behavioural ecology and the evolution of genetic architecture

scientific article published on April 21, 2011

Bindin from a sea star

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Codon-substitution models to detect adaptive evolution that account for heterogeneous selective pressures among site classes

scientific article published in January 2002

Coevolution of interacting fertilization proteins

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Comparative sequence analyses reveal rapid and divergent evolutionary changes of the WFDC locus in the primate lineage

scientific article (publication date: March 2007)

Concerted Evolution in an Egg Receptor for a Rapidly Evolving Abalone Sperm Protein

scientific article published on July 31, 1998

Conservation of molecular and cellular phenotypes of invariant NKT cells between humans and non-human primates

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Correction: Duplicate Abalone Egg Coat Proteins Bind Sperm Lysin Similarly, but Evolve Oppositely, Consistent with Molecular Mimicry at Fertilization.

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Correction: Proteomics Reveals Novel Seminal Fluid Proteins Transferred at Mating

erratum published in 2009

Detecting coevolution in mammalian sperm-egg fusion proteins

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Detecting coevolution through allelic association between physically unlinked loci

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Dietary change and adaptive evolution of enamelin in humans and among primates

scientific article published on February 2008

Direct sequencing of genomic DNA for characterization of a satellite DNA in five species of eastern Pacific abalone

scientific article published on March 1, 1998

Disparate phylogeographic patterns of molecular genetic variation in four closely related South American small cat species

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Domain Expansion and Functional Diversification in Vertebrate Reproductive Proteins

publication published on 01 May 2022

Duplicate abalone egg coat proteins bind sperm lysin similarly, but evolve oppositely, consistent with molecular mimicry at fertilization

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Duplication and Selection on Abalone Sperm Lysin in an Allopatric Population

scientific article published on 13 July 2007

Egg Coat Proteins Across Metazoan Evolution

scientific article published on 07 May 2018

Evidence of amino acid diversity-enhancing selection within humans and among primates at the candidate sperm-receptor gene PKDREJ.

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Evolution of microRNA in primates.

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Evolution of reproductive proteins from animals and plants.

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Evolution of the Egg: New Findings and Challenges

scientific article published on 06 June 2012

Evolutionary expressed sequence tag analysis of Drosophila female reproductive tracts identifies genes subjected to positive selection

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Extraordinary divergence and positive Darwinian selection in a fusagenic protein coating the acrosomal process of abalone spermatozoa

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Extraordinary intraspecific diversity in oyster sperm bindin

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From molecules to mating: Rapid evolution and biochemical studies of reproductive proteins

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Full-length sequence of VERL, the egg vitelline envelope receptor for abalone sperm lysin

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Functional diversification and evolution of antifreeze proteins in the antarctic fish Lycodichthys dearborni

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Gene Duplication and Adaptive Evolution of Digestive Proteases in Drosophila arizonae Female Reproductive Tracts

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Gene duplication and adaptive evolution of digestive proteases in Drosophila arizonae female reproductive tracts

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Genomic signatures of positive selection in humans and the limits of outlier approaches

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Human enamel thickness and ENAM polymorphism

scientific article published on 30 June 2016

Identification and comparative analysis of accessory gland proteins in Orthoptera

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Identification of ejaculated proteins in the house mouse (Mus domesticus) via isotopic labeling

scientific article published on June 10, 2011

Indirect sexual selection drives rapid sperm protein evolution in abalone

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Liposome Fusion Induced by a Mr 18 000 Protein Localized to the Acrosomal Region of Acrosome-Reacted Abalone Spermatozoa

scientific article published on October 31, 1995

Mass spectrometry and next-generation sequencing reveal an abundant and rapidly evolving abalone sperm protein

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Maximum-likelihood analysis of molecular adaptation in abalone sperm lysin reveals variable selective pressures among lineages and sites

scientific article published on October 2000

Molecular evolution and population genetic analysis of candidate female reproductive genes in Drosophila

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Molecular evolution of seminal proteins in field crickets

scientific article published on 26 May 2006

Molecular mechanisms and evolution of fertilization proteins

scientific article published on 04 October 2020

Molecular population genetics of the gene encoding the human fertilization protein zonadhesin reveals rapid adaptive evolution

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Oyster sperm bindin is a combinatorial fucose lectin with remarkable intra-species diversity

scientific article published in January 2008

Pervasive adaptive evolution in mammalian fertilization proteins

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Pervasive adaptive evolution in primate seminal proteins

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Polymorphism in abalone fertilization proteins is consistent with the neutral evolution of the egg's receptor for lysin (VERL) and positive darwinian selection of sperm lysin

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Population genetics of accessory gland proteins and sexual behavior in Drosophila melanogaster populations from Evolution Canyon

scientific article published in December 2003

Positive Darwinian selection drives the evolution of several female reproductive proteins in mammals

scholarly article

Positive Darwinian selection on two homologous fertilization proteins: what is the selective pressure driving their divergence?

scientific article published on January 1997

Positive Selection within a Diatom Species Acts on Putative Protein Interactions and Transcriptional Regulation

scientific article published on October 23, 2012

Positive darwinian selection promotes heterogeneity among members of the antifreeze protein multigene family

scientific article published in March 2002

Positive selection in the carbohydrate recognition domains of sea urchin sperm receptor for egg jelly (suREJ) proteins

scientific article published on 3 November 2004

Positive selection in the egg receptor for abalone sperm lysin

scholarly article

Positive selection in the human genome: from genome scans to biological significance

scientific article published on January 2008

Proteomic discovery of previously unannotated, rapidly evolving seminal fluid genes in Drosophila

scientific article published on May 2009

Proteomics and comparative genomic investigations reveal heterogeneity in evolutionary rate of male reproductive proteins in mice (Mus domesticus).

scientific article published on 06 May 2009

Proteomics enhances evolutionary and functional analysis of reproductive proteins

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Proteomics reveals novel Drosophila seminal fluid proteins transferred at mating

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Quantitative evolutionary proteomics of seminal fluid from primates with different mating systems.

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RNA-seq coupled to proteomic analysis reveals high sperm proteome variation between two closely related marine mussel species

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RNA-seq data from mature male gonads of marine mussels Mytilus edulis and M. galloprovincialis

scientific article published on 03 October 2018

Rapid evolution of reproductive proteins in abalone and Drosophila.

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Rapidly evolving zona pellucida domain proteins are a major component of the vitelline envelope of abalone eggs

scholarly article

Reproduction and immunity-driven natural selection in the human WFDC locus

scientific article published on 4 January 2013

Selection in the Rapid Evolution of Gamete Recognition Proteins in Marine Invertebrates

scientific article published on November 1, 2011

Selection on plant male function genes identifies candidates for reproductive isolation of yellow monkeyflowers

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Sequence diversity of Pan troglodytes subspecies and the impact of WFDC6 selective constraints in reproductive immunity

scientific article published on January 2013

Sex peptide and the sperm effect in Drosophila melanogaster

scientific article published on 11 August 2003

Solution structure of sperm lysin yields novel insights into molecular dynamics of rapid protein evolution

scientific article published on 18 January 2018

Speciation in birds: genes, geography, and sexual selection

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TRPV6 exhibits unusual patterns of polymorphism and divergence in worldwide populations

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Targeted resequencing of two genes, RAGE and POLL, confirms findings from a genome-wide scan for adaptive evolution and provides evidence for positive selection in additional populations

scientific article published on 05 December 2008

The "ZP domain" is not one, but likely two independent domains.

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

The Tegula tango: a coevolutionary dance of interacting, positively selected sperm and egg proteins

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The abalone egg vitelline envelope receptor for sperm lysin is a giant multivalent molecule

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The molecular basis of sex: linking yeast to human.

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The rapid evolution of reproductive proteins

scientific article (publication date: February 2002)

The sea urchin sperm receptor for egg jelly is a modular protein with extensive homology to the human polycystic kidney disease protein, PKD1.

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Trans genomic capture and sequencing of primate exomes reveals new targets of positive selection

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ZP domain proteins in the abalone egg coat include a paralog of VERL under positive selection that binds lysin and 18-kDa sperm proteins

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