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Willie J. Swanson is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with additional work related to environmental science. Swanson's subfields of study include genetics, physiology, molecular biology, reproductive medicine, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics covered in Swanson's publications include reproductive biology and impacts on aquatic species, sperm and testicular function, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, reproductive biology and fertility, genetic diversity and population structure, genomics and phylogenetic studies, as well as fish ecology and management studies.

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Swanson include:

  • Molecular mechanisms and evolution of fertilization proteins, 2020, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution
  • The Importance of Gene Duplication and Domain Repeat Expansion for the Function and Evolution of Fertilization Proteins, 2022, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Recurrent Independent Pseudogenization Events of the Sperm Fertilization Gene ZP3r in Apes and Monkeys, 2024, Journal of Molecular Evolution
  • Domain Expansion and Functional Diversification in Vertebrate Reproductive Proteins, 2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Proteomics support the threespine stickleback egg coat as a protective oocyte envelope, 2021, Molecular Reproduction and Development

Swanson collaborates frequently with several researchers, including Jolie A. Carlisle, Damien B. Wilburn, Alberto Rivera, D.H. Gurbuz, and Emily Killingbeck.

The scientist's work has been published in various venues with multiple contributions in some, such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Molecular Reproduction and Development, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution, and Journal of Molecular Evolution.

Best Publications

  • The rapid evolution of reproductive proteins.

    Willie J. Swanson;Victor D. Vacquier

  • Evolutionary EST analysis identifies rapidly evolving male reproductive proteins in Drosophila.

    Willie J. Swanson;Andrew G. Clark;Heidi M. Waldrip-Dail;Mariana F. Wolfner

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

    Willie J. Swanson;Ziheng Yang;Mariana F. Wolfner;Charles F. Aquadro

  • Pervasive Adaptive Evolution in Mammalian Fertilization Proteins

    Willie J. Swanson;Rasmus Nielsen;Qiaofeng Yang

  • Codon-Substitution Models to Detect Adaptive Evolution that Account for Heterogeneous Selective Pressures Among Site Classes

    Ziheng Yang;Willie J. Swanson

  • Proteomics Reveals Novel Drosophila Seminal Fluid Proteins Transferred at Mating

    Geoffrey D Findlay;Xianhua Yi;Michael J MacCoss;Willie J Swanson

  • Speciation in birds: genes, geography, and sexual selection.

    Scott V. Edwards;Sarah B. Kingan;Jennifer D. Calkins;Christopher N. Balakrishnan

  • Evolution of reproductive proteins from animals and plants.

    Nathaniel L Clark;Jan E Aagaard;Willie J Swanson

  • Maximum-Likelihood Analysis of Molecular Adaptation in Abalone Sperm Lysin Reveals Variable Selective Pressures Among Lineages and Sites

    Ziheng Yang;Willie J. Swanson;Victor D. Vacquier

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

    G W Moy;L M Mendoza;J R Schulz;W J Swanson

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

    Willie J. Swanson;Alex Wong;Mariana F. Wolfner;Charles F. Aquadro

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

    Joanna L Kelley;Jennifer Madeoy;John C Calhoun;Willie J Swanson

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

    Willie J. Swanson;Victor D. Vacquier

  • Pervasive Adaptive Evolution in Primate Seminal Proteins

    Nathaniel L Clark;Willie J Swanson

  • Reproductive Protein Evolution

    Willie J. Swanson;Victor D. Vacquier

  • Positive selection in the egg receptor for abalone sperm lysin

    Blanca E. Galindo;Victor D. Vacquier;Willie J. Swanson

  • What have we learned about sea urchin sperm bindin

    Victor D. Vacquier;Willie J. Swanson;Michael E. Hellberg

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

    Geoffrey D. Findlay;Michael J. MacCoss;Willie J. Swanson

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

    Willie J. Swanson;Victor D. Vacquier

  • Coevolution of interacting fertilization proteins.

    Nathaniel L. Clark;Joe Gasper;Masashi Sekino;Stevan A. Springer

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor D. Vacquier
Victor D. Vacquier University of California, San Diego
Michael J. MacCoss
Michael J. MacCoss University of Washington
Charles F. Aquadro
Charles F. Aquadro Cornell University
Eric D. Green
Eric D. Green National Institutes of Health
Mariana F. Wolfner
Mariana F. Wolfner Cornell University
Ziheng Yang
Ziheng Yang University College London
andrew g clark
andrew g clark Cornell University
James C. Mullikin
James C. Mullikin National Institutes of Health
Joshua M. Akey
Joshua M. Akey Princeton University
Michael W. Nachman
Michael W. Nachman University of California, Berkeley

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