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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dan Graur \ˈɡra.ur\ is a Romanian-American scientist working in the field of molecular evolution. He is a Moores Professor at the University of Houston and Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is coauthor along with Wen-Hsiung Li of Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution. His Molecular and Genome Evolution was published in 2016.
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Published Works
- Fundamentals of molecular evolution (1990) (1568)
- Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera (2006) (1356)
- The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum (2008) (1262)
- The Genome of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (2006) (1056)
- Functional and Evolutionary Insights from the Genomes of Three Parasitoid Nasonia Species (2010) (819)
- Reading the entrails of chickens: molecular timescales of evolution and the illusion of precision. (2004) (645)
- GUIDANCE: a web server for assessing alignment confidence scores (2010) (584)
- Alu-containing exons are alternatively spliced. (2002) (483)
- Genome sequences of the human body louse and its primary endosymbiont provide insights into the permanent parasitic lifestyle (2010) (478)
- ConSurf: an algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of phylogenetic information. (2001) (476)
- On the Immortality of Television Sets: “Function” in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-Free Gospel of ENCODE (2013) (462)
- Comparison of site-specific rate-inference methods for protein sequences: empirical Bayesian methods are superior. (2004) (414)
- Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade (2014) (356)
- An alignment confidence score capturing robustness to guide tree uncertainty. (2010) (331)
- Is the guinea-pig a rodent? (1991) (315)
- Extent of protein polymosphism and the neutral mutation theory (1984) (315)
- A fast algorithm for joint reconstruction of ancestral amino acid sequences. (2000) (311)
- Draft genome of the globally widespread and invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) (2011) (276)
- Phylogenetic position of the order Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and allies) (1996) (269)
- Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus (2011) (266)
- Patterns of nucleotide substitution in pseudogenes and functional genes (2005) (253)
- The Genome Sequence of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into Its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle (2011) (250)
- Bacterial type III secretion systems are ancient and evolved by multiple horizontal-transfer events. (2003) (234)
- Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution, 2nd Edition (2000) (233)
- Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality (2013) (224)
- Heads or tails: a simple reliability check for multiple sequence alignments. (2007) (207)
- GENE DIVERSITY IN HYMENOPTERA (1985) (206)
- Minimal conditions for exonization of intronic sequences: 5' splice site formation in alu exons. (2004) (172)
- Molecular evidence for the inclusion of cetaceans within the order Artiodactyla. (1994) (170)
- Patterns and rates of indel evolution in processed pseudogenes from humans and murids. (1997) (137)
- Incongruent expression profiles between human and mouse orthologous genes suggest widespread neutral evolution of transcription control. (2004) (135)
- Estimates of Positive Darwinian Selection Are Inflated by Errors in Sequencing, Annotation, and Alignment (2009) (120)
- A comparative analysis of numt evolution in human and chimpanzee. (2007) (112)
- Evolutionary Dynamics of Large Numts in the Human Genome: Rarity of Independent Insertions and Abundance of Post-Insertion Duplications (2003) (107)
- Local Reliability Measures from Sets of Co-Optimal Multiple Sequence Alignments (2007) (105)
- Deletions in processed pseudogenes accumulate faster in rodents than in humans (1989) (98)
- The "inverse relationship between evolutionary rate and age of mammalian genes" is an artifact of increased genetic distance with rate of evolution and time of divergence. (2006) (97)
- Evolution of Microsatellites in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Role of Length and Number of Repeated Units (1999) (86)
- A branch-and-bound algorithm for the inference of ancestral amino-acid sequences when the replacement rate varies among sites: Application to the evolution of five gene families (2002) (84)
- GC composition of the human genome: in search of isochores. (2005) (76)
- Ratios of radical to conservative amino acid replacement are affected by mutational and compositional factors and may not be indicative of positive Darwinian selection. (2002) (76)
- AluGene: a database of Alu elements incorporated within protein-coding genes (2004) (75)
- The "domino theory" of gene death: gradual and mass gene extinction events in three lineages of obligate symbiotic bacterial pathogens. (2006) (74)
- In search of the vertebrate phylotypic stage: a molecular examination of the developmental hourglass model and von Baer's third law. (2005) (74)
- Playing chicken (Gallus gallus): methodological inconsistencies of molecular divergence date estimates due to secondary calibration points. (2002) (74)
- An Evolutionary Classification of Genomic Function (2015) (74)
- An Upper Limit on the Functional Fraction of the Human Genome (2017) (71)
- Soft-coral natural chimerism: a window in ontogeny allows the creation of entities comprised of incongruous parts (2002) (69)
- The molecular taxonomy and evolution of the guinea pig. (1992) (66)
- Analysis of directional mutation pressure and nucleotide content in mitochondrial cytochrome b genes (1994) (61)
- Evolution of isopenicillin N synthase genes may have involved horizontal gene transfer. (1990) (58)
- Speciational Evolution: a Phylogenetic Test With Allozymes in Sceloporus (Reptilia) (1989) (58)
- The Permian bacterium that isn't. (2001) (57)
- Amino acid composition and the evolutionary rates of protein-coding genes (2005) (55)
- Constructing Phylogenies from Quartets: Elucidation of Eutherian Superordinal Relationships (1998) (54)
- Molecular phylogeny and the higher classification of eutherian mammals. (1993) (52)
- Speciation Versus Phenotypic Plasticity in Coral Inhabiting Barnacles: Darwin's Observations in an Ecological Context (1999) (51)
- Evidence from Analyses of Intergenic Regions for Strand-specific Directional Mutation Pressure in Metazoan Mitochondrial DNA (1995) (50)
- Coral-host specificity of Red Sea Lithophaga bivalves: interspecific and intraspecific variation in 12S mitochondrial ribosomal RNA. (1994) (49)
- A Method for the Simultaneous Estimation of Selection Intensities in Overlapping Genes (2008) (43)
- Mitochondrial-DNA sequence evidence on the phylogeny of Australian jack-jumper ants of the Myrmecia pilosula complex. (1995) (41)
- The parasite Trichomonas vaginalis expresses thousands of pseudogenes and long non-coding RNAs independently from functional neighbouring genes (2014) (41)
- Characterization of pairwise and multiple sequence alignment errors. (2009) (40)
- Structure and evolution of opossum, guinea pig, and porcupine cytochrome b genes (1993) (39)
- Multiple cDNAs of wheat voltage-dependent anion channels (VDAC): Isolation, differential expression, mapping and evolution (1995) (38)
- Can GC content at third-codon positions be used as a proxy for isochore composition? (2009) (37)
- Evolutionary affinities of the order Perissodactyla and the phylogenetic status of the superordinal taxa Ungulata and Altungulata. (1997) (37)
- Nucleic acid composition, codon usage, and the rate of synonymous substitution in protein-coding genes (1989) (36)
- Restriction endonuclease profiles of mitochondrial DNA and the origin of the B genome of bread wheat, Triticum aestivum1 (1989) (36)
- Evolution of the sarafotoxin/endothelin superfamily of proteins. (1991) (35)
- The biochemical phylogeny of guinea-pigs and gundis, and the paraphyly of the order rodentia. (1992) (33)
- A potentially novel overlapping gene in the genomes of Israeli acute paralysis virus and its relatives (2009) (30)
- The ‘extremely ancient’ chromosome that isn’t: a forensic bioinformatic investigation of Albert Perry’s X-degenerate portion of the Y chromosome (2014) (28)
- A simple method for estimating the intensity of purifying selection in protein-coding genes. (1999) (28)
- Same-strand overlapping genes in bacteria: compositional determinants of phase bias (2008) (27)
- Neutral mutation hypothesis test (1991) (27)
- Towards a molecular resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of the eutherian mammals (1993) (25)
- The “Phoca standard”: An external molecular reference for calibrating recent evolutionary divergences (1996) (23)
- Nei's Modified Genetic Identity and Distance Measures and their Sampling Variances (1988) (23)
- Polymorphism in soft coral larvae revealed by amplified fragment-length polymorphism (AFLP) markers (2000) (23)
- Origin of rodents and guinea-pigs (1992) (22)
- Comparative testing of DNA segmentation algorithms using benchmark simulations. (2010) (22)
- Research article - The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (2006) (21)
- Neutral evolution of robustness in Drosophila microRNA precursors. (2011) (21)
- Detecting excess radical replacements in phylogenetic trees. (2003) (19)
- A computational tool for the genomic identification of regions of unusual compositional properties and its utilization in the detection of horizontally transferred sequences. (2006) (19)
- Inferring the Pattern of Spontaneous Mutation from the Pattern of Substitution in Unitary Pseudogenes of Mycobacterium leprae and a Comparison of Mutation Patterns Among Distantly Related Organisms (2005) (19)
- The comparative method rules! Codon volatility cannot detect positive Darwinian selection using a single genome sequence. (2005) (17)
- Detection of Functional Overlapping Genes: Simulation and Case Studies (2010) (17)
- Mode of allozyme evolution: Increased genetic distance associated with speciation events (1990) (17)
- Evolution of multicellularity in Metazoa: comparative analysis of the subcellular localization of proteins in Saccharomyces, Drosophila and Caenorhabditis (2004) (17)
- Identifying compositionally homogeneous and nonhomogeneous domains within the human genome using a novel segmentation algorithm (2010) (17)
- The Evolutionary History of Prosaposin: Two Successive Tandem-Duplication Events Gave Rise to the Four Saposin Domains in Vertebrates (2002) (17)
- Dynamics and genetics of mating behavior inTribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) (1982) (16)
- Revisiting the operational RNA code for amino acids: Ensemble attributes and their implications. (2010) (16)
- Is There a Twelfth Protein-Coding Gene in the Genome of Influenza A? A Selection-Based Approach to the Detection of Overlapping Genes in Closely Related Sequences (2011) (15)
- From four-taxon trees to phylogenies (preliminary report): the case of mammalian evolution (1998) (15)
- Evolution of protein inhibitors of serine proteinases: Positive Darwinian selection or compositional effects? (2005) (15)
- Unbiased Estimation of Symmetrical Directional Mutation Pressure from Protein-Coding DNA (1996) (14)
- Molecular Systematics, 2nd ed. Edited by David M. Hillis, Craig Moritz, and Barbara K. Mable. (1996) (13)
- Public control could be a nightmare for researchers (2007) (12)
- The evolution of electrophoretic mobility of proteins. (1986) (11)
- The Significance of Multicomponent Pheromones in Denoting Specific Compositions (1988) (11)
- Pattern of nucleotide substitution and the extent of purifying selection in retroviruses (1985) (10)
- The multiple personalities of Watson and Crick strands (2011) (10)
- The evolutionary history of the sarafotoxin/endothelin/endothelin-like superfamily. (1991) (10)
- In Retrospect: Lamarck's treatise at 200 (2009) (9)
- pANT: a method for the pairwise assessment of nonfunctionalization times of processed pseudogenes. (2003) (9)
- ASSESSING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SPECIATION AND EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE (1990) (9)
- A Comparative Study and a Phylogenetic Exploration of the Compositional Architectures of Mammalian Nuclear Genomes (2014) (8)
- Single‐base Mutation (2008) (8)
- George MW, Gene ER. Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Nature (2006) (8)
- USAGE OPTIMIZATION OF UNEVENLY SAMPLED DATA THROUGH THE COMBINATION OF QUARTET TREES: A EUTHERIAN DRAFT PHYLOGENY BASED ON 640 NUCLEAR AND MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS (2001) (8)
- Variability and uniformity of mitochondrial DNA in populations of putative diploid ancestors of common wheat (1991) (7)
- Peer review: Payback time for referee refusal (2014) (7)
- Perturbative formulation of general continuous-time Markov model of sequence evolution via insertions/deletions, Part III: Algorithm for first approximation (2015) (6)
- Perturbative formulation of general continuous-time Markov model of sequence evolution via insertions/deletions, Part I: Theoretical basis (2015) (6)
- Perturbative formulation of general continuous-time Markov model of sequence evolution via insertions/deletions, Part IV: Incorporation of substitutions and other mutations (2015) (6)
- Evaluating query languages and systems for high-energy physics data (2021) (6)
- Evolutionary conservation of bacterial operons: does transcriptional connectivity matter? (2005) (6)
- IsoPlotter+: A Tool for Studying the Compositional Architecture of Genomes (2013) (6)
- Perturbative formulation of general continuous-time Markov model of sequence evolution via insertions/deletions, Part II: Perturbation analyses (2015) (6)
- Hermes: Enabling efficient large-scale simulation in MATSim (2021) (5)
- Reply to Mendez et al: the ‘extremely ancient’ chromosome that still isn’t (2014) (5)
- Rubbish DNA: The Functionless Fraction of the Human Genome (2016) (5)
- ProtParCon: A Framework for Processing Molecular Data and Identifying Parallel and Convergent Amino Acid Replacements (2019) (5)
- Phylogenetic relationships and rates of evolution in primates: Allozymic data from catarrhine and platyrrhine species (2006) (4)
- Control elements in the regulation of bacterial heat shock response (1999) (4)
- Undirectional interspecific mating in Tribolium castaneum and T. confusum: evolutionary and ecological implications (1985) (4)
- On the Unfounded Enthusiasm for Soft Selective Sweeps III: The Supervised Machine Learning Algorithm That Isn’t (2021) (4)
- Are Synonymous Sites in Primates and Rodents Functionally Constrained? (2015) (4)
- 'Genome order index' should not be used for defining compositional constraints in nucleotide sequences (2008) (4)
- Reply from d. Graur. (1993) (3)
- Cachew: Machine Learning Input Data Processing as a Service (2022) (3)
- Human genome meeting 2016 (2016) (3)
- A Chemical-Distance-Based Test for Positive Darwinian Selection (2001) (3)
- Unbiased estimation of symmetrical directional mutation pressure from protein-coding DNA (2006) (3)
- Detecting negative selection on recurrent mutations using gene genealogy (2013) (3)
- 'Genome order index' should not be used for defining compositional constraints in nucleotide sequences - a case study of the Z-curve (2010) (3)
- A scale-free method for testing the proportionality of branch lengths between two phylogenetic trees (2015) (2)
- CHARACTERIZATION OF THE WHEAT cDNA ENCODING THE β SUBUNIT OF THE MITOCHONDRIAL ATP SYNTHASE (1996) (2)
- The Coming Age of Pervasive Data Processing (2019) (2)
- Molecular deconstructivism (1993) (2)
- Gene transfers from organelles to the nucleus: How much, what happens, and why none in Elysia? (2012) (2)
- Fast computation of maximum likelihood trees by numerical approximation of amino acid replacement probabilities (2002) (2)
- Patterns of intron sequence conservation in the genus Tetrahymena (2013) (1)
- Finding the missing honey bee genes: lessons learned from a genome upgrade (2014) (1)
- Correlated Selection on Amino Acid Deletion and Replacement in Mammalian Protein Sequences (2017) (1)
- A branch-and-bound algorithm for the inference of ancestral amino-acid sequences when the replacement rate varies among sites (2002) (1)
- Slaying (Yet Again) the Brain-Eating Zombie Called the “Isochore Theory”: A Segmentation Algorithm Used to “Confirm” the Existence of Isochores Creates “Isochores” Where None Exist (2022) (1)
- The parasite Trichomonas vaginalis expresses thousands of pseudogenes and long non-coding RNAs independently from functional neighbouring genes (2014) (1)
- Mutational Change in Evolution (2006) (1)
- HOMOLOGY BETWEEN SNAKE VENOM SARAFOTOXINS AND MAMMALIAN ENDOTHELINS (2013) (1)
- International Symposium on the Origin of Mammalian Orders (2004) (1)
- Detecting negative selection on recurrent mutations using gene genealogy (2013) (1)
- An unusual histone H4 gene from Tilapia nilotica exhibiting characteristics of both a replication‐dependent histone and a basal‐expression histone: evolutionary considerations (1993) (1)
- MOLECULAR EVIDENCE CONCERNING THE PHYLOGENETIC INTEGRITY OF THE MURINAE (2013) (1)
- Statistical properties of short subsequences in microbial genomes and their link to pathogen identification and evolution (2006) (1)
- Corrigendum to: “An Upper Limit on the Functional Fraction of the Human Genome” (2019) (1)
- Regions of Unusual Statistical Properties as Tools in the Search for Horizontally Transferred Genes in Escherichia coli (2006) (0)
- Down with animal lib (1985) (0)
- Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Council and Business Meetings, 2009, Iowa City, IA (2010) (0)
- Book Review:Mammal Phylogeny: Placentals. Frederick S. Szalay, Michael J. Novacek, Malcolm C. McKenna (1994) (0)
- Inferring Site-Specific Evolutionary Rates : Bayesian Methods are Superior (2003) (0)
- Stop using ‘master–slave’ terminology in biology (2021) (0)
- EDITORIAL: On Hope, Resurrection and Raphus cucullatus (2013) (0)
- Positive selection 1 A test for positive Darwinian selection (2001) (0)
- Complex Localization in the Multiple Instance Learning Context (2017) (0)
- The evolution of imperfection and the imperfection of evolution: the functional and functionless fractions of the human genome (2016) (0)
- Books Received (2000) (0)
- linked to sociality composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene Material Supplemental (2013) (0)
- A case for disaggregation of ML data processing (2022) (0)
- attributes and their implications Revisiting the operational RNA code for amino acids : Ensemble Material Supplemental (2009) (0)
- Morphological Evidence for the Conspecific Relationship of the Teiid Lizards, Cnemidophorus tigris aethiops and C. tigris gracilis (1991) (0)
- On the Inapplicability of Supervised Machine Learning to Studying the Driving Forces of Evolution (2021) (0)
- About the Cover: 1859 and All That (2009) (0)
- Evaluating and Improving Large-Scale Machine Learning Frameworks (2019) (0)
- Solidarity with the oppressed flat-Earthers (2005) (0)
- Down with ncRNA! Long live fRNA and jRNA! (2017) (0)
- Are Synonymous Sites in Primates and Rodents Functionally Constrained? (2015) (0)
- Human genome meeting 2016 (2016) (0)
- Specializing generic Java data structures (2021) (0)
- Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) Council and Business Meetings, 2011 Kyoto, Japan (2012) (0)
- Positively discriminating (1996) (0)
- Mother tongue? Muttersprache? Lingua mater? Not so fast! (2018) (0)
- Correlated Selection on Amino Acid Deletion and Replacement in Mammalian Protein Sequences (2018) (0)
- On the Inapplicability of Supervised Machine Learning to Evolutionary Studies (2020) (0)
- Four Billion Years: An Essay on the Evolution of Genes and Organisms, by William F. Loomis (1989) (0)
- STUDIES ON THE PATTERNS OF NUCLEOTIDE AND AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION (ELECTROPHORESIS, MUTATION RATE, SELECTION, BASE, COMPOSITION) (1985) (0)
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