Billie J. Swalla
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Billie J. Swalla's Degrees
- PhD Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Biology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Billie J. Swalla is a professor of biology at the University of Washington. She was the first female director of Friday Harbor Laboratories, where she worked from 2012 to 2019. Her lab investigates the evolution of chordates by comparative genetic and phylogenetic analysis of animal taxa.
Billie J. Swalla's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity (2012) (811)
- The Ctenophore Genome and the Evolutionary Origins of Neural Systems (2014) (591)
- The origin and evolution of animal appendages. (1997) (383)
- Evolution of the chordate body plan: new insights from phylogenetic analyses of deuterostome phyla. (2000) (360)
- Global Diversity of Ascidiacea (2011) (236)
- Urochordates are monophyletic within the deuterostomes. (2000) (227)
- Deciphering deuterostome phylogeny: molecular, morphological and palaeontological perspectives (2008) (213)
- Evaluating hypotheses of deuterostome phylogeny and chordate evolution with new LSU and SSU ribosomal DNA data. (2002) (206)
- Molecular phylogeny of the protochordates: chordate evolution (2005) (138)
- Requirement of the Manx Gene for Expression of Chordate Features in a Tailless Ascidian Larva (1996) (114)
- A molecular analysis of ascidian metamorphosis reveals activation of an innate immune response. (2002) (109)
- Evolution of alternate modes of development in ascidians (1992) (103)
- Phylogenomic Resolution of the Hemichordate and Echinoderm Clade (2014) (98)
- Nodal signaling and the evolution of deuterostome gastrulation (2005) (93)
- Development and evolution of chordate cartilage. (2007) (93)
- The Hsp90 Capacitor, Developmental Remodeling, and Evolution: The Robustness of Gene Networks and the Curious Evolvability of Metamorphosis (2007) (92)
- Man is but a worm: Chordate origins (2008) (90)
- Evolution and development of the chordates: collagen and pharyngeal cartilage. (2006) (86)
- Interspecific hybridization between an anural and urodele ascidian: differential expression of urodele features suggests multiple mechanisms control anural development. (1990) (82)
- Coloniality has evolved once in Stolidobranch Ascidians. (2006) (82)
- Whole body regeneration in a colonial ascidian, Botrylloides violaceus. (2009) (80)
- ANISEED 2017: extending the integrated ascidian database to the exploration and evolutionary comparison of genome-scale datasets (2017) (75)
- Building divergent body plans with similar genetic pathways (2006) (73)
- Divergent mechanisms regulate conserved cardiopharyngeal development and gene expression in distantly related ascidians (2014) (69)
- Molecular phylogeny of hemichordata, with updated status of deep-sea enteropneusts. (2009) (68)
- Novel genes expressed differentially in ascidians with alternate modes of development. (1993) (68)
- Inhibition of limb chondrogenesis by fibronectin. (1984) (67)
- ANISEED 2015: a digital framework for the comparative developmental biology of ascidians (2015) (66)
- Evolution and development of budding by stem cells: ascidian coloniality as a case study. (2012) (66)
- Early lineage specification of long-lived germline precursors in the colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri (2009) (63)
- Identification of a cytoskeletal protein localized in the myoplasm of ascidian eggs: localization is modified during anural development. (1991) (63)
- Guidelines for the nomenclature of genetic elements in tunicate genomes (2015) (63)
- The evolution of anural larvae in molgulid ascidians. (2000) (59)
- Analysis of type II collagen RNA localization in chick wing buds by in situ hybridization. (1988) (58)
- Mechanism of an evolutionary change in muscle cell differentiation in ascidians with different modes of development. (1996) (58)
- A complement response may activate metamorphosis in the ascidian Boltenia villosa (2007) (54)
- Two distinct classes of prechondrogenic cell types in the embryonic limb bud. (1983) (54)
- Vasa expression in a colonial ascidian, Botrylloides violaceus (2007) (49)
- Phylogenomics offers resolution of major tunicate relationships. (2018) (49)
- Multiple origins of anural development in ascidians inferred from rDNA sequences (1995) (49)
- Evolution of the ascidian anural larva: evidence from embryos and molecules. (1999) (46)
- Metamorphosis in solitary ascidians (2015) (44)
- Expression of an Msx homeobox gene in ascidians: Insights into the archetypal chordate expression pattern (1996) (43)
- An evolutionary change in the muscle lineage of an anural ascidian embryo is restored by interspecific hybridization with a urodele ascidian. (1991) (43)
- The myoplasm of ascidian eggs: a localized cytoskeletal domain with multiple roles in embryonic development. (1990) (40)
- Isolation of genes involved in ascidian metamorphosis: epidermal growth factor signaling and metamorphic competence (2001) (40)
- The Presence of a Functionally Tripartite Through-Gut in Ctenophora Has Implications for Metazoan Character Trait Evolution (2016) (40)
- A multigene locus containing the Manx and bobcat genes is required for development of chordate features in the ascidian tadpole larva. (1999) (37)
- Factors necessary for restoring an evolutionary change in an anural ascidian embryo. (1992) (37)
- Biogeography of Phallusia nigra: Is It Really Black and White? (2015) (35)
- Anterior regeneration in the hemichordate Ptychodera flava (2008) (35)
- Tunicates have unusual nuclear lamins with a large deletion in the carboxyterminal tail domain. (2000) (34)
- Heterochronic expression of an adult muscle actin gene during ascidian larval development. (1994) (34)
- First Pacific record of the north Atlantic ascidian Molgula citrina - bioinvasion or circumpolar distribution? (2010) (32)
- A maternal RNA localized in the yellow crescent is segregated to the larval muscle cells during ascidian development. (1995) (30)
- The independence of myogenesis and chondrogenesis in micromass cultures of chick wing buds. (1986) (30)
- PCNA mRNA has a 3'UTR antisense to yellow crescent RNA and is localized in ascidian eggs and embryos. (1996) (30)
- p68, a DEAD-box RNA helicase, is expressed in chordate embryo neural and mesodermal tissues. (2000) (30)
- Phylogeography and reproductive variation of the poecilogonous polychaete Boccardia proboscidea (Annelida: Spionidae) along the West Coast of North America (2011) (27)
- Mechanisms of gastrulation and tail formation in ascidians (1993) (27)
- A morphological and genetic characterization of metamorphosis in the ascidian Boltenia villosa (2003) (26)
- A new metazoan from the Vendian of the White Sea, Russia, with possible affinities to the ascidians (2012) (25)
- Head regeneration in hemichordates is not a strict recapitulation of development (2016) (24)
- Empowering 21st Century Biology (2010) (24)
- Regeneration in Hemichordates and Echinoderms (2009) (24)
- The Global Diversity of Hemichordata (2016) (24)
- Phylogeny of the Urochordates: Implications for Chordate Evolution (2001) (24)
- Vestigial Brain Melanocyte Development During Embryogenesis of an Anural Ascidian (1992) (23)
- MicroRNAs support the monophyly of enteropneust hemichordates. (2013) (23)
- Modern Antarctic acorn worms form tubes (2013) (22)
- A revisited phylogeography of Nautilus pompilius (2016) (20)
- Brachyury expression in tailless Molgulid ascidian embryos (2002) (20)
- Simulating social-ecological systems: the Island Digital Ecosystem Avatars (IDEA) consortium (2016) (20)
- Epithelial enhancement of connective tissue differentiation in explanted somites. (1984) (20)
- Hemichordate Molecular Phylogeny Reveals a Novel Cold-Water Clade of Harrimaniid Acorn Worms (2013) (20)
- 6 NEW INSIGHTS INTO VERTEBRATE ORIGINS (2007) (19)
- Ptychoderid hemichordate neurulation without a notochord. (2012) (19)
- Analysis of large scale expression sequenced tags (ESTs) from the anural ascidian, Molgula tectiformis. (2007) (18)
- Chordate origins and evolution (2008) (17)
- Evolutionary loss of melanogenesis in the tunicate Molgula occulta (2017) (17)
- New molecular markers to genetically differentiate populations of Didemnum vexillum (Kott, 2002) - an invasive ascidian species (2009) (16)
- Morphological and molecular identification of Saccoglossus species (Hemichordata: Harrimaniidae) in the Pacific Northwest (2003) (16)
- Developmental mode influences diversification in ascidians (2013) (16)
- Cytoskeletal actin genes function downstream of HNF-3beta in ascidian notochord development. (1998) (16)
- Addressing Grand Challenges In Organismal Biology: The Need For Synthesis (2014) (16)
- Evaluating a lightweight transcriptome assembly pipeline on two closely related ascidian species (2014) (15)
- Procurement and culture of ascidian embryos. (2004) (15)
- Localization of ribosomal protein L5 mRNA in myoplasm during ascidian development. (1996) (14)
- Empowering 21 st Century Biology (2010) (14)
- Developmental significance of a cortical cytoskeletal domain in Chaetopterus eggs. (1985) (12)
- An ankryin-like protein in ascidian eggs and its role in the evolution of direct development (1993) (11)
- Expression of Tbx6, a muscle lineage T-box gene, in the tailless embryo of the ascidian Molgula tectiformis (2002) (11)
- Systematics and the Evolution of Developmental Patterns (2000) (8)
- Patterns of Gene Expression During Ascidian Development (1990) (6)
- Transitional chordates and vertebrate origins: Tunicates. (2021) (6)
- Introduction to the Symposium: The Evolution of Development Patterns and Process (1998) (6)
- Future Tail Tales: A Forward-Looking, Integrative Perspective on Tail Research. (2021) (5)
- Molgula pugetiensis is a Pacific Tailless Ascidian Within the Roscovita Clade of Molgulids (2010) (4)
- Molecular data confirm synonymy of Roscovite molgulid ascidians (2010) (4)
- Getting a Head with Ptychodera flava Larval Regeneration (2018) (4)
- The Degenerate Tale of Ascidian Tails. (2021) (3)
- Genomic and Evolutionary Insights into Chordate Origins (2015) (3)
- Research Infrastructures offer capacity to address scientific questions never attempted before: Are all taxa equal? (2018) (2)
- Mechanism of Dorsoventral Axis Determination in the Ascidian Embryo (1990) (2)
- An introduction to an evolutionary tail: EvoDevo, structure and function of post-anal appendages. (2021) (2)
- A cis-regulatory change underlying the motor neuron-specific loss of terminal selector gene expression in immotile tunicate larvae (2019) (2)
- Ascidian metamorphosis (2002) (1)
- The origin and evolution of animal appendages (1997) (1)
- Investigating the molecular basis of notochord loss in Molgula occulta via transcriptome sequencing (2011) (1)
- A cis‐regulatory change underlying the motor neuron‐specific loss of Ebf expression in immotile tunicate larvae (2020) (1)
- Euro chordates: Ascidian community swims ahead. The 4th International Tunicate meeting in Villefranche sur Mer (2008) (1)
- Molgulid Ascidians Share a Unique Gene Complex (2011) (1)
- SHOP TALK Euro Chordates : Ascidian Community Swims Ahead . The 4 th International Tunicate Meeting in Villefranche sur Mer (2008) (1)
- Making Sense of Changing Animal Embryos (2002) (1)
- Empowering 21 st Century Biology Author ( s ) : Gene (2010) (0)
- The Collagens of the Ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei (2012) (0)
- Author response: Divergent mechanisms regulate conserved cardiopharyngeal development and gene expression in distantly related ascidians (2014) (0)
- The Molecular Evolution of Hedgehog in Stolidobranchia Ascidians (2011) (0)
- BIO (0)
- Arthur H. Whiteley (1916‐2013) (2013) (0)
- Evolutionary loss of melanogenesis in the tunicate Molgula occulta (2017) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Evolution of evolvability in a developmental model. (2008) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Amphioxus and ascidian Dmbx homeobox genes give clues to the vertebrate origins of midbrain development. (2004) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Gene regulatory networks in the early ascidian embryo. (2008) (0)
- Evolutionary biology Developmental mode influences diversification in ascidians (2013) (0)
- The Origins of Neurons and use of Glutamatergic Signaling in the Ctenophore: Pleurobrachia bachei (2012) (0)
- Metamorphosis genes are expressed early during Molgula occulta and Molgula oculata development (2011) (0)
- “I WOULD SWIM 500 MILES”: UNEXPECTED CONNECTIVITY OF NAUTILUS POPULATIONS ACROSS THE INDO-PACIFIC (2017) (0)
- The expression of neural and developmental genes in Pleurobrachia bachei (2012) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of The vertebrate phylotypic stage and an early bilaterian-related stage in mouse embryogenesis defined by genomic information. (2007) (0)
- Evo-Devo Course 2001 References (2001) (0)
- Collagen type IV in the Ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei (2012) (0)
- Boltenia embryos flash an orange crescent (2011) (0)
- Requirement oftheManxGeneforExpression ofChordate Features inaTailless Ascidian Larva (1996) (0)
- Genomic Basis of Neural Organization in a Hemichordate, Saccoglossus bromophenolosus: Do Hemichordate have a Central Nervous System? (2011) (0)
- Out on a LIM: LIM homeobox genes in the ctenophore Pleurobrachia bachei. (2012) (0)
- Phylogenomics offers resolution of major tunicate relationships (2017) (0)
- Apoptosis as Potential Cause for Notochord Cell Loss in Molgula occulta (2011) (0)
- Molecular Searching for Gill Slits in Echinoderms: Hox1 expression in Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (2013) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of The phylogenetic distribution of metazoan microRNAs: insights into evolutionary complexity and constraint. (2006) (0)
- A Quest for novel Signaling Molecules in Pleurobrachia Bachei (2012) (0)
- Wnt Pathway in Sand Dollar Dendraster excentricus Clones (2013) (0)
- Brachyury expression in the adult ctenophore, Pleurobrachia bachei (2012) (0)
- Central nervous system development and regeneration in ptychoderid hemichordates (2009) (0)
- High Time for Hair Cells: An Introduction to the Symposium on Sensory Hair Cells. (2018) (0)
- Origin of the Gonad: A phylogenetic analysis of SoxB1 Tracing back human sex-determining gene Sry to an orthologue involved in echinoid metamorphosis (2013) (0)
- Interspecific hybridization between direct and indirect developing ascidinas (1989) (0)
- Faculty Opinions recommendation of Unusual gene order and organization of the sea urchin hox cluster. (2006) (0)
- I have my notochord cells, but where did I leave my tail: A notochord gene expression analysis of tailed, tailless and hybrid Molgulids. (2011) (0)
- Gone with the Wnts…. The Wnt Signaling Pathway in Pleurobrachia bachei (2012) (0)
- Forthcoming papers (1991) (0)
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