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Nicole Valenzuela is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Environmental Science. Within these broader areas, their work focuses on subfields including Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecology, and Plant Science.

The main topics of Valenzuela's research include Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities, Turtle Biology and Conservation, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Physiological and Biochemical Adaptations, and Sperm and Testicular Function.

Valenzuela has published a number of research papers in various scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution, 2020, Nature
  • Sex-specific aging in animals: Perspective and future directions, 2022, Aging Cell
  • Expanding the classical paradigm: what we have learnt from vertebrates about sex chromosome evolution, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research: towards 'sexomics', 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Turtle Insights into the Evolution of the Reptilian Karyotype and the Genomic Architecture of Sex Determination, 2020, Genes

Frequent publication venues for Valenzuela include:

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Genes
  • Human Immunology
  • Nature
  • Journal of Evolutionary Biology

They have collaborated regularly with several co-authors, including:

  • Zhiqiang Wu
  • Basanta Bista
  • Nicholas E. Topping
  • Lukáš Kratochvíl
  • Thea B. Gessler

Best Publications

  • Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

    Doris Bachtrog;Judith E. Mank;Catherine L. Peichel;Mark Kirkpatrick

  • Are all sex chromosomes created equal

    Doris Bachtrog;Mark Kirkpatrick;Judith E. Mank;Stuart F. McDaniel

  • Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Vertebrates

    Nicole Valenzuela;Valentine A. Lance

  • The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage

    H. Bradley Shaffer;Patrick Minx;Daniel E. Warren;Andrew M. Shedlock;Andrew M. Shedlock

  • Tree of Sex: A database of sexual systems

    Tia-Lynn Ashman;Doris Bachtrog;Heath Blackmon;Emma E. Goldberg

  • Antibody-mediated rejection across solid organ transplants: manifestations, mechanisms, and therapies

    Nicole M. Valenzuela;Elaine F. Reed

  • Pattern Does Not Equal Process: Exactly When Is Sex Environmentally Determined?

    M. Nicole Valenzuela;Dean C. Adams;Fredric J. Janzen

  • Sensitization in transplantation: Assessment of risk (STAR) 2019 Working Group Meeting Report.

    Anat R. Tambur;Patricia Campbell;Anita S. Chong;Sandy Feng

  • The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution

    Neil J. Gemmell;Kim Rutherford;Stefan Prost;Marc Tollis;Marc Tollis

  • Y Fuse? Sex Chromosome Fusions in Fishes and Reptiles

    Matthew W. Pennell;Mark Kirkpatrick;Sarah P. Otto;Jana C. Vamosi

  • CONSTANT, SHIFT, AND NATURAL TEMPERATURE EFFECTS ON SEX DETERMINATION IN PODOCNEMIS EXPANSA TURTLES

    Nicole Valenzuela

  • Antibody-mediated graft injury: complement-dependent and complement-independent mechanisms.

    Nicole M Valenzuela;Jeffrey T McNamara;Elaine F Reed

  • The perfect storm: HLA antibodies, complement, FcγRs, and endothelium in transplant rejection

    Kimberly A. Thomas;Nicole M. Valenzuela;Elaine F. Reed

  • Sex Chromosome Evolution in Amniotes: Applications for Bacterial Artificial Chromosome Libraries

    Daniel E. Janes;Nicole M. Valenzuela;Tariq Ezaz;Chris T. Amemiya

  • Estimating population structure under nonequilibrium conditions in a conservation context: continent-wide population genetics of the giant Amazon river turtle, Podocnemis expansa (Chelonia; Podocnemididae).

    Devon E. Pearse;Allan D. Arndt;Nicole Valenzuela;Becky A. Miller

  • Extreme thermal fluctuations from climate change unexpectedly accelerate demographic collapse of vertebrates with temperature-dependent sex determination.

    Nicole Valenzuela;Robert Literman;Jennifer L. Neuwald;Jennifer L. Neuwald;Beatriz Mizoguchi

  • HLA Class I Antibodies Trigger Increased Adherence of Monocytes to Endothelial Cells by Eliciting an Increase in Endothelial P-Selectin and, Depending on Subclass, by Engaging FcγRs

    Nicole M. Valenzuela;Arend Mulder;Elaine F. Reed

  • Antibodies in transplantation: the effects of HLA and non-HLA antibody binding and mechanisms of injury.

    Nicole M. Valenzuela;Elaine F. Reed

  • Maternal Effects on Life-History Traits in the Amazonian Giant River Turtle Podocnemis expansa

    Nicole Valenzuela

  • Temperature-dependent sex determination.

    N. Valenzuela

Frequent Co-Authors

Elaine F. Reed
Elaine F. Reed University of California, Los Angeles
Dean C. Adams
Dean C. Adams Iowa State University
Scott V. Edwards
Scott V. Edwards Harvard University
Arend Mulder
Arend Mulder Leiden University Medical Center
Thomas R. Buckley
Thomas R. Buckley Landcare Research
Catherine L. Peichel
Catherine L. Peichel University of Bern
Mark Kirkpatrick
Mark Kirkpatrick The University of Texas at Austin
Judith E. Mank
Judith E. Mank University of British Columbia
Patrick Minx
Patrick Minx Washington University in St. Louis
Sarah P. Otto
Sarah P. Otto University of British Columbia

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