The Swalla Lab, December 2010

Left to Right: Lena J. Perry, Undergraduate; Dr. Noa Shenkar, Postdoctoral Fellow of NSF and the Israel Taxonomy Initiative; Dr. Char Konikoff, NSF BEACON Postdoctoral Fellow; Dr. Billie J. Swalla, PI; Carla Galvez, Undergraduate; Peter X. Wu, Undergraduate; Savannah Benally, Graduate Student; Max Maliska, Graduate Student.

Current Member Publications

Federico Brown:

Brown, F.D., Swalla, B. J. (2007) Expression of vasa in a Colonial Ascidian, Botrylloides violaceus. Evolution and Development. (in press)

Amanda Rychel:

Rychel, A. L. and Swalla, B. J. (2007). Development and evolution of chordate cartilage JEZ B: Mol. Dev. Evol. (in press)

Rychel, A. L., S. E. Smith, H. T. Shimamoto, and B. J. Swalla. (2006). Evolution and development of the chordates: Collagen and pharyngeal cartilage. Mol Biol Evol.23(3):541-549.

Liyun Zeng:

Zeng, L., M. W. Jacobs and B. J. Swalla.(2006). Coloniality has evolved once in Stolidobranch Ascidians. Integr. Comp. Biol. 46:255-268.

Zeng, L. and Swalla, B.J. (2005). Molecular phylogeny of the protochordates: Chordate evolution. Can. J. Zool. 83:24-33.

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