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1988 • 11,455 citations

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1986 • 4,940 citations

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1991 • 2,629 citations

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1988 • 1,968 citations

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1994 • 1,560 citations

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1994 • 1,471 citations

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1996 • 1,066 citations

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1990 • 486 citations

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1979 • 463 citations

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1996 • 370 citations

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1996 • 367 citations

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1995 • 362 citations

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Positive Darwinian selection promotes charge profile diversity in the antigen-binding cleft of class I major-histocompatibility-complex molecules.

1990 • 287 citations

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1993 • 245 citations

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1990 • 237 citations

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

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1991 • 204 citations

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1995 • 130 citations

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1995 • 130 citations

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

1992 • 116 citations

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1990 • 83 citations

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1993 • 76 citations

The Crystal Structure of Lysin, a Fertilization Protein

1993 • 54 citations

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1995 • 40 citations

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1995 • 39 citations

Crystal structure and subunit dynamics of the abalone sperm lysin dimer: egg envelopes dissociate dimers, the monomer is the active species.

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A complete, yet flexible, system for DNA/protein sequence analysis using VAX/VMS computers

1988 • 27 citations

Characterization of the membrane-associating domain of the sperm adhesive protein, bindin

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Purification and immunocytochemical localization of the vitelline coat lysin of abalone spermatozoa

1986 • 17 citations

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