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Swanson, W.J. and Vacquier, V.D. 1995. Extraordinary divergence and positive Darwinian selection in a fusagenic protein coating the acrosomal process of abalone spermatozoa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 92: 4957-4961.

Vacquier, V.D., Swanson, W.J. and Hellberg, M.E. 1995. What have we learned about sea urchin sperm bindin? Development Growth & Differentiation 37:1-10.

Swanson, W.J. and Vacquier, V.D. 1995. Liposome fusion induced by a Mr 18,000 protein localized to the acrosomal region of acrosome-reacted spermatozoa. Biochemistry 34: 14202-8.

Moy, G.W., Mendoza, L.M., Schulz, J.R., Swanson, W.J., Glabe, C.G., and Vacquier, V.D. 1996. The sea urchin receptor for egg jelly is a modular protein with extensive homology to the human polycystic kidney disease protein, PKD1.The Journal of Cell Biology 133(4): 809-817.

Vacquier, V.D., Swanson, W.J. and Lee, Y.-H. 1997. Positive Darwinian selection on two homologous fertilization proteins: what is the selective pressure driving their divergence? The Journal of Molecular Evolution. 44: S15-S22.

Swanson, W.J. and Vacquier, V.D. 1997. The abalone egg receptor for sperm lysin is a giant multivalent molecule. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 94: 6724-6729.

Muchmore, M.-E., Moy, G.W., Swanson, W.J. and Vacquier, V.D. 1998. Direct sequencing of genomic DNA for characterization of a satellite DNA in five species of Eastern Pacific abalone. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology. 7(1):1-6.

Swanson, W.J. and Vacquier, V.D. 1998. Concerted evolution in an egg receptor for a rapidly evolving abalone sperm protein. Science 281:710-712.

Swanson, W.J. and Vacquier, V.D. 1998. The dissolution of the abalone egg vitelline envelope by sperm lysin: identification of the vitelline egg receptor for lysin (VERL). Zygote 6:S33-S34.

Swanson, W.J., Metz, E.C., Stout, C.D. and Vacquier, V.D. 1998. Rapid evolution of acrosomal proteins and species-specificity of fertilization in abalone. in, The Male Gamete: From Basic Science to Clinical Applications. Chapter 14: 139-146. Cache River Press, IL.

Vacquier, V.D., Swanson, W.J., Metz, E.C. and Stout, C.D. 1999. Abalone sperm acrosomal proteins. Advances in Developmental Biochemistry 5:47-79.

Yang, Z., Swanson, W.J., and Vacquier, V.D. 2000. Maximum likelihood analysis of molecular adaptation in abalone sperm lysin reveals variable selective pressures among lineages and sites. Molecular Biology and Evolution 17: 1446-1455.

Kamei, N., Swanson,W.J. and Glabe, C.G. 2000. A rapidly diverging EGF protein regulates species-specific signal transduction in the early development of sea urchin embryos. Developmental Biology 225: 267–276.

Swanson, W.J., Aquadro, C.F. and Vacquier, V.D. 2001a. Polymorphism survey 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. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18:376-383.

Swanson, W.J., Clark, A.G., Waldrip-Dail, H.M., Wolfner, M.F., and Aquadro, C.F. 2001b. Evolutionary EST analysis identifies rapidly evolving male reproductive proteins in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98: 7375-7379.

Swanson, W.J., Yang, Z., Wolfner, M.F., and Aquadro, C.F. 2001c. Positive Darwinian selection drives the evolution of several female reproductive proteins in mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98: 2509-2514.

Yang, Z. and Swanson, W.J. 2002. Codon-substitution models to detect adaptive evolution that account for heterogeneous selective pressures among site classes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 19:49-57

Swanson, W.J. and Vacquier, V.D. 2002. Rapid evolution of reproductive proteins. Nature Reviews Genetics 3: 137 – 144.

Swanson, W.J. and Aquadro, C.F. 2002. Positive Darwinian selection promotes diversity amongst members of the antifreeze protein multigene family. Journal Molecular Evolution 54:403-410.

Galindo, B.E., Moy, G.W, Swanson, W.J. and Vacquier, V.D. 2002. Full length sequence of VERL, the egg vitelline envelope receptor for abalone sperm lysin. Gene 288: 111-117.

Swanson, W.J. and Vacquier, V.D. 2002. Reproductive Protein Evolution. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33:161-179.

Betancourt, A.J., Presgraves, D.C. and Swanson, W.J. 2002. A test for faster X evolution in Drosophila. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19: 1816-1819.

Swanson, W.J., Nielsen, R. and Yang, Q. 2003. Pervasive adaptive evolution in mammalian fertilization proteins. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 20: 18–20.

Swanson, W.J. 2003. Functional inferences from rapidly evolving reproductive proteins. ChemTracts Biochemistry and Moelcular Biology. 16: 158-166.

Galindo, B.E., Vacquier, V.D., Swanson, W.J. 2003. Positive selection in the egg receptor for abalone sperm lysin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 100: 4639-4643.

Swanson, W.J. 2003. Sex peptide and the sperm effect in Drosophila melanogaster (commentary). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. 100:9643-9644.

Swanson, W.J. 2003. Adaptive evolution of genes and gene families. Current Opinion in Genetics and Development. 13: 617-622.

Panhuis, T.M., Swanson, W.J., and Nunney, L. 2003. Population genetics of accessory gland proteins and sexual behavior in Drosophila melanogaster populations from Evolution Canyon. Evolution. 57: 2785-2791.

Mah, S.A, Moy, G.W., Swanson, W.J., and Vacquier, V.D. 2004. A perforin-like protein from a marine mollusk. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 316: 468-475.