V D Vacquier

Positive selection is a general phenomenon in the evolution of abalone sperm lysin.

Young Ho Lee, Tatsuya Ota, V D Vacquier · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1995 · 240 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +14

The Divergence of Species-Specific Abalone Sperm Lysins is Promoted by Positive Darwinian Selection

Y. H. Lee, V D Vacquier · Biological Bulletin · 1992 · 119 citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Molecular Biology +17

Species-specific sequences of abalone lysin, the sperm protein that creates a hole in the egg envelope.

V D Vacquier, Kristin Carner, C.D. Stout · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1990 · 84 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +11

ZP Domain Proteins in the Abalone Egg Coat Include a Paralog of VERL under Positive Selection That Binds Lysin and 18-kDa Sperm Proteins

Jan Aagaard, V D Vacquier, Michael J. MacCoss et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2009 · 65 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Molecular Biology +16

The Crystal Structure of Lysin, a Fertilization Protein

A. Shaw, D.E. Mcree, V D Vacquier et al. · Science · 1993 · 55 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology +17