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Caro-Beth Stewart

Recent and Other Relevant Publications:
  • Sterner KN, Raaum RL, Zhang YP, Stewart CB, Disotell TR. Mitochondrial data support an odd-nosed colobine clade. Mol Phylogenet Evol. (2006) [Epub ahead of print]

  • Xing J, Wang H, Han K, Ray DA, Huang CH, Chemnick LG, Stewart CB, Disotell TR, Ryder OA, Batzer MA. A mobile element based phylogeny of Old World monkeys. Mol Phylogenet Evol. (2005) 37(3):872-80.

  • Raina SZ, Faith JJ, Disotell TR, Seligmann H, Stewart CB, Pollock DD. Evolution of base-substitution gradients in primate mitochondrial genomes. Genome Res. (2005) 15(5):665-73.

  • Raaum RL, Sterner KN, Noviello CM, Stewart CB, Disotell TR. Catarrhine primate divergence dates estimated from complete mitochondrial genomes: concordance with fossil and nuclear DNA evidence. J Hum Evol. (2005) 48(3):237-57.

  • Krishnan NM, Seligmann H, Stewart CB, De Koning AP, Pollock DD. Ancestral sequence reconstruction in primate mitochondrial DNA: compositional bias and effect on functional inference. Mol Biol Evol. (2004) 21(10):1871-83.

  • Xing J, Salem AH, Hedges DJ, Kilroy GE, Watkins WS, Schienman JE, Stewart CB, Jurka J, Jorde LB, Batzer MA. Comprehensive analysis of two Alu Yd subfamilies. J Mol Evol. (2003) 57 Suppl 1:S76-89.

  • Brandon-Jones, D., Eudey, A.A., Geissmann, T., Melnick, D.J., Morales, J.C., Shekelle, M., Stewart, C.B. (in press) A Taxonomy of the Asian Primates. A working document from the workshop "Primate Taxonomy for the New Millenium".

  • McConkey, E.H. & Varki, A. Cosignatories: Allman, J., Benirschke, K., Crick, F., Deacon, T.W., de Waal, F., Dugaiczyk, A., Gagneux, P., Goodman, M., Grossman, L.I., Gumucio, D., Insel, T., Kidd, K.K., King, M.-C., Krauter, K., Kucherkapati, R., Motulsky, A.G., Nelson, D., Oefner, P., Palade, G., Ruvolo, M., Ryder, O.A., Sikela, J., Stewart, C.-B., Stone, A. & Woodruff, D. (2000) A primate genome project deserves high priority. Science 289: 1295-1296.

  • Gervasi, C., Stewart, C.-B., Szaro, B.G. (2000) Xenopus laevis peripherin (XIF3) is expressed in radial glia and proliferating neural epithelial cells as well as in neurons. Journal of Comparative Neurology 423: 512-531. Abstract

  • McConkey, E.H., Fouts, R., Goodman, M., Nelson, D., Penny, D., Ruvolo, M., Sikela, J., Stewart, C.-B., Varki, A. & Wise, S. (2000) Editorial: Proposal for a human genome evolution project. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 15: 1-4.

  • Moyà-Solà, S., Köhler, M., Alba, D.M., Stewart, C.-B. & Disotell, T.R. (1999) Correspondence: Primate evolution - in and out of Africa. Current Biology 9: R547-50.

  • Stewart, C.-B. (1999) The Colobine Old World Monkeys as a Model System for the Study of Adaptive Evolution at the Molecular Level. In The Nonhuman Primates, P.J. Dolhinow & A. Fuentes, eds. Mayfield Press.

  • Jablonksi, N., Zhang, Y.-P., Ryder, O., Stewart, C.-B. & Disotell, T.R. (1999) Correspondence: Primate evolution - in and out of Africa. Current Biology 9: R119-122.

  • Miyamoto, M.M., Young, T.S., Ward, C., Zihlman A.L., Lowenstein, J.M., Groves, C., Covert, H., Stewart, C.-B .& Disotell, T.R. (1998) Correspondence: Primate evolution - in and out of Africa. Current Biology 8: R747-748.

  • Stewart, C.-B. & Disotell, T.R. (1998) Primate evolution: In and out of Africa. Current Biology 8: R582-588. Abstract

  • Messier, W. & Stewart, C.-B. (1997) Episodic adaptive evolution of primate lysozymes. Nature 385: 151-154. Abstract

  • Collura, R.V., Auerbach, M. R. & Stewart, C.-B. (1996) A quick, direct method that can differentiate expressed mitochondrial genes from their nuclear pseudogenes. Current Biology 6: 1337-1339. Abstract

  • Messier, W., Li, S.-H. & Stewart, C.-B. (1996) The birth of microsatellites. Nature 381: 483.

  • Turcich, M.P., Bokhari-Riza, A., Hamilton, D.A., He, C., Messier, W., Stewart, C.-B. & Mascarenhas, J.P. (1996) PREM-2, a copia-type retroelement in maize is expressed preferentially in early microspores. Sexual Plant Reproduction 9: 65-74.

  • Collura, R.V. & Stewart, C.-B. (1995) Insertions and duplications of mitochondrial DNA in the nuclear genomes of Old World monkeys and hominoids. Nature 378: 485-489. Abstract

  • Stewart, C.-B. (1995) Active ancestral molecules. Nature 374: 12-13.

  • Messier, W. & Stewart, C.-B. (1994) Dissolving the barriers. Current Biology 4: 911-913. Abstract

  • Stewart, C.-B. (1994) Parsimony or statistics? Nature 367: 26-27.

  • Takeuchi, K., Irwin, D.M., Gallup, M., Shinbrot, E., Stewart, C.-B. & Basbaum, C. (1993) Multiple cDNA sequences of bovine tracheal lysozyme. Journal of Biological Chemistry 268: 27440-27446. Abstract

  • Stewart, C.-B. (1993) Comparative method in study of protein structure and function: Enzyme specificity as an example. Methods in Enzymology 224: 591-603.

  • Stewart, C.-B. (1993) The powers and pitfalls of parsimony. Nature 361: 603-607. Abstract

  • Stewart, C.-B. (1993) Structural convergence and horizontal transfer? Current Biology 3: 158-160.

  • Natsuaki, M., Stewart, C.-B., Vanderslice, P., Schwartz, L.B., Natsuaki, M., Wintroub, B.U., Rutter, W. J. & Goldstein, S.M. (1992) Human skin mast cell carboxypeptidase: functional characterization, cDNA cloning, and genealogy. Journal of Investigative Dermatology 99: 138-145. Abstract

  • Faming, Z., Kobe, B., Stewart, C.-B., Rutter, W.J. & Goldsmith, E.J. (1991) Structural evolution of an enzyme specificity: the structure of rat carboxypeptidase A2 at 1.9-Å resolution. Journal of Biological Chemistry 266: 24606-24612. Abstract

  • Hedstrom, L., Graf, L., Stewart, C.-B., Rutter, W.J. & Phillips, M.A. (1991) Modulation of enzyme specificity by site-directed mutagenesis. Methods in Enzymology 202: 671-687.

  • Jollès, J., Jollès, P., Bowman, B.H., Prager, E.M., Stewart, C.-B. & Wilson, A.C. (1989) Episodic evolution in the stomach lysozymes of ruminants. Journal of Molecular Evolution 28: 528-535. Abstract

  • Stewart, C.-B., Schilling, J.W. & Wilson, A.C. (1988) Convergent evolution of lysozymes? Nature 332: 787-788.

  • Gardell, S.J., Craik, C.S., Clauser, E., Goldsmith, E.J., Stewart, C.-B., Graf, M. & Rutter, W.J. (1988) A novel rat carboxypeptidase, CPA2: Characterization, molecular cloning and evolutionary implications on substrate specificity in the carboxypeptidase gene family. Journal of Biological Chemistry 263: 17828-17836. Abstract

  • Stewart, C.-B. & Wilson, A.C. (1987) Sequence convergence and functional adaptation of stomach lysozymes from foregut fermenters. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 52: 891-899. Abstract

  • Stewart, C.-B., Schilling, J.W. & Wilson, A.C. (1987) Adaptive evolution in the stomach lysozymes of foregut fermenters. Nature 330: 401-404. Abstract

Computer Program:

  • de Koning, A.P.J., Palumbo, M., Messier, W. & Stewart, C.-B. (1998) Facilitated Estimates of Nucleotide Substitutions (FENS), version 1.0. (Software for Ka-to-Ks calculations by a variety of methods, with statistical tests; available from C.-B.S.)

  • deKoning, A.P.J. & Stewart, C.-B. (2001) Facilitated Estimates of Nucleotide Substitutions (FENS), version 2.0. Available from the authors.

 

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