Roy J. Britten

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms(60), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry(46), Marine and coastal plant biology(44), Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry(32), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies(30)

Publications229 total

This paper was presented at a colloquium entitled "Biology of Developmental Transcription Control, " organized by Eric
2016
Transposable element insertions have strongly affected human evolution
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2010· 113 cited
Climate Change and the Integrity of Science
Science·2010· 195 citedOpen Access
Idiosyncratic evolution of conserved eukaryote proteins that are similar in sequence to archaeal or bacterial proteins
Nature Precedings·2008· 1 citedOpen Access
<i>In Vivo</i> Competition Identifies Positive <i>Cis</i> ‐Regulatory Elements Required for Lineage‐Specific Gene Expression in the Sea Urchin Embryo
Novartis Foundation symposium·2007
Precise Similarity of Many Human Proteins to Proteins of Prokarya
Nature Precedings·2007Open Access
Precise Similarity of Many Human Proteins to Proteins of Prokarya
Nature Precedings·2007Open Access
Almost all human genes resulted from ancient duplication
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2006· 24 citedOpen Access
Transposable elements have contributed to thousands of human proteins
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2006· 66 citedOpen Access
The majority of human genes have regions repeated in other human genes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2005· 9 citedOpen Access
Coding sequences of functioning human genes derived entirely from mobile element sequences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2004· 52 citedOpen Access
Majority of divergence between closely related DNA samples is due to indels
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2003· 257 citedOpen Access
Only Details Determine
The MIT Press eBooks·2003· 2 cited
Divergence between samples of chimpanzee and human DNA sequences is 5%, counting indels
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2002· 296 citedOpen Access
Repeated <scp>DNA</scp> Sequence Interspersion
Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology·2002
Prediction of aerodynamic coefficients for wind tunnel data using a genetic algorithm optimized neural network
International Conference on Data Mining·2002· 4 cited
A sea urchin genome project: Sequence scan, virtual map, and additional resources
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2000· 114 citedOpen Access
Identification of new skeletogenic genes of the sea urchin embryo by use of conserved sequence motifs among the<i>SM50</i>gene family
Zygote·1999
EST analysis of gene expression in early cleavage-stage sea urchin embryos*
Development·1999· 73 cited
<i>SM37,</i> a skeletogenic gene of the sea urchin embryo linked to the <i>SM50</i> gene
Development Growth & Differentiation·1999· 44 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Eric H. Davidson(34), William H. Klein(4), R. Andrew Cameron(4), Barbara R. Hough‐Evans(4), Berney R. Neufeld(3), Richard B. Roberts(3), Barbara R. Hough(3), Frank J. Calzone(3), James J. Lee(3), Dale E. Graham(2), Glenn A. Galau(2), B Wold(2), Michael J. Smith(2), Howard T. Jacobs(2), Rosemary J. Shott(2), David E. Kohne(1), Christopher S. Amenson(1), Tom I. Bonner(1), D J Brenner(1), Wia Baron(1)