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Joseph W. Thornton

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54

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Active since

1998

Affiliations

University of Oregon(Current)

University of Chicago

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Emory University

Columbia University

Joseph W. Thornton is an author at University of Oregon specializing in life sciences, molecular evolution, and evolutionary biology.

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Publications per year

1998–2024

54

Publications

54

Resurrecting the Ancestral Steroid Receptor: Ancient Origin of Estrogen Signaling

Joseph W. Thornton, Eleanor F. Need, David Crews · Science · 2003 · 698 citations

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Evolution of vertebrate steroid receptors from an ancestral estrogen receptor by ligand exploitation and serial genome expansions

Joseph W. Thornton · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2001 · 695 citations · Full text

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Performance of maximum parsimony and likelihood phylogenetics when evolution is heterogeneous

Bryan Kolaczkowski, Joseph W. Thornton · Nature · 2004 · 629 citations

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Evolution of Hormone-Receptor Complexity by Molecular Exploitation

Jamie T. Bridgham, Sean M. Carroll, Joseph W. Thornton · Science · 2006 · 613 citations

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Crystal Structure of an Ancient Protein: Evolution by Conformational Epistasis

Eric A. Ortlund, Jamie T. Bridgham, Matthew R. Redinbo et al. · Science · 2007 · 450 citations · Full text

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