Selected Publications:

harnett.colt.

William Michael Harnett. 1890. The Faithful Colt. Oil on canvas


 

Books

Graur, D. and Li, W.-H. 1999. Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution. Second Edition, Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.

havard.flatheadriver.

James Havard. 1976. Flat Head River. Acrylic on canvas

 

Articles


Elhaik, E., Landan, G., and Graur, D. 2009. Can GC Content at Third-Codon Positions Be Used as a Proxy for Isochore Composition? Mol. Biol. Evol. 26: 1829-1833.


Elsik, C. G., Tellam, R. L., Worley, K. C., Gibbs, R. A., Muzny, D. M., Weinstock, G. M., Adelson, D. L., Eichler, E. E., Elnitski, E., Guigo, G., Hamernik, D. L., Kappes, S. M., Lewin, H. A., Lynn, D. J., Nicholas, F. W., Reymond, R., Rijnkels, R., Skow, L. C., Zdobnov, E. M., Schook, S., Womack, W., Alioto, A., Antonarakis, S. E., Astashyn, A., Chapple, C. E., Chen, C., Chrast, C., Camara, C., Ermolaeva, E., Henrichsen, C. N., Hlavina, H., Kapustin, K., Kiryutin, K., Kitts, K., Kokocinski, K., Landrum, L., Maglott, M., Pruitt, P., Sapojnikov, S., Searle, S. M., Solovyev, S., Souvorov, S., Ucla, U., Wyss, W., Anzola, J. M., Gerlach, G., Elhaik, E., Graur, G., Reese, J. T., Edgar, R. C., Mcewan, J. C., Payne, G. M., Raison, J. M., Junier, J., Kriventseva, E. V., Eyras, E., Plass, P., Donthu, D., Larkin, D. M., Reecy, R., Yang, M. Q., Chen, C., Cheng, C., Chitko-Mckown, C. G., Liu, G. E., Matukumalli, L. K., Song, S., Zhu, Z., Bradley, D. G., Brinkman, F. S., Lau, L. P., Whiteside, M. D., Walker, W., Wheeler, T. T., Casey, C., German, B. J., Lemay, D. G., Maqbool, N. J., Molenaar, A. J., Seo, S., Stothard, S., Baldwin, C. L., Baxter, B., Brinkmeyer-Langford, C. L., Brown, W. C., Childers, C. P., Connelley, C., Ellis, S. A., Fritz, F., Glass, E. J., Herzig, C. T., Iivanainen, I., Lahmers, K. K., Bennett, A. K., Dickens, M. C., Gilbert, J. G., Hagen, D. E., Salih, S., Aerts, A., Caetano, A. R., Dalrymple, D., Garcia, J. F., Gill, C. A., Hiendleder, S. G., Memili, M., Spurlock, S., Williams, J. L., Alexander, A., Brownstein, M. J., Guan, G., Holt, R. A., Jones, S. J., Marra, M. A., Moore, M., Moore, S. S., Roberts, R., Taniguchi, T., Waterman, R. C., Chacko, C., Chandrabose, M. M., Cree, C., Dao, M. D., Dinh, H. H., Gabisi, R. A., Hines, H., Hume, H., Jhangiani, S. N., Joshi, J., Kovar, C. L., Lewis, L. R., Liu, L., Lopez, L., Morgan, M. B., Nguyen, N. B., Okwuonu, G. O., Ruiz, S. J., Santibanez, S., Wright, R. A., Buhay, B., Ding, D., Dugan- Rocha, D., Herdandez, H., Holder, H., Sabo, S., Egan, E., Goodell, G., Wilczek-Boney, W., Fowler, G. R., Hitchens, M. E., Lozado, R. J., Moen, M., Steffen, S., Warren, J. T., Zhang, Z., Chiu, C., Schein, J. E., Durbin, J. K., Havlak, H., Jiang, J., Liu, L., Qin, Q., Ren, R., Shen, S., Song, S., Bell, S. N., Davis, D., Johnson, A. J., Lee, L., Nazareth, L. V., Patel, B. M., Pu, P., Vattathil, V., Williams, R. L., Curry, C., Hamilton, H., Sodergren, S., Wheeler, D. A., Barris, B., Bennett, G. L., Eggen, E., Green, R. D., Harhay, G. P., Hobbs, H., Jann, J., Keele, J. W., Kent, M. P., Lien, L., Mckay, S. D., Mcwilliam, M., Ratnakumar, R., Schnabel, R. D., Smith, S., Snelling, W. M., Sonstegard, T. S., Stone, R. T., Sugimoto, S., Takasuga, T., Taylor, J. F., Van Tassell, C. P., Macneil, M. D., Abatepaulo, A. R., Abbey, C. A., Ahola, A., Almeida, I. G., Amadio, A. F., Anatriello, A., Bahadue, S. M., Biase, F. H., Boldt, C. R., Carroll, J. A., Carvalho, W. A., Cervelatti, E. P., Chacko, C., Chapin, J. E., Cheng, C., Choi, C., Colley, A. J., de Campos, T. A., Donato, M. D., Santos, I. K., de Oliveira, C. J., Deobald, D., Devinoy, D., Donohue, K. E., Dovc, D., Eberlein, E., Fitzsimmons, C. J., Franzin, A. M., Garcia, G. R., Genini, G., Gladney, C. J., Grant, J. R., Greaser, M. L., Green, J. A., Hadsell, D. L., Hakimov, H. A., Halgren, H., Harrow, J. L., Hart, E. A., Hastings, H., Hernandez, H., Hu, H., Ingham, I., Iso-Touru, I., Jamis, J., Jensen, J., Kapetis, K., Kerr, K., Khalil, S. S., Khatib, K., Kolbehdari, K., Kumar, C. G., Kumar, K., Leach, L., Lee, J. C., Li, L., Logan, K. M., Malinverni, M., Marques, M., Martin, W. F., Martins, N. F., Maruyama, S. R., Mazza, M., Mclean, K. L., Medrano, J. F., Moreno, B. T., More, D. D., Muntean, C. T., Nandakumar, H. P., Nogueira, M. F., Olsaker, O., Pant, S. D., Panzitta, P., Pastor, R. C., Poli, M. A., Poslusny, P., Rachagani, R., Ranganathan, R., Razpet, R., Riggs, P. K., Rincon, R., Rodriguez-Osorio, R., Rodriguez-Zas, S. L., Romero, N. E., Rosenwald, R., Sando, S., Schmutz, S. M., Shen, S., Sherman, S., Southey, B. R., Lutzow, Y. S., Sweedler, J. V., Tammen, T., Telugu, B. P., Urbanski, J. M., Utsunomiya, Y. T., Verschoor, C. P., Waardenberg, A. J., Wang, W., Ward, W., Weikard, W., Welsh, T. H., White, S. N., Wilming, L. G., Wunderlich, K. R., Yang, Y., and Zhao, Z. 2009. The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution. Science 324: 522-528.


Richards S., Gibbs R. A., Weinstock G. M., Brown S. J., Denell R. E., Beeman R.W. , Bucher G., Friedrich M., Grimmelikhuijzen C. J. P., Klingler M., Lorenzen M., Roth S., Schröder R., Tautz D., Zdobnov E. M., Muzny D., Attaway T., Bell S., Buhay C. J., Chandrabose M. N., Chavez D., Clerk-Blankenburg K. P., Cree A., Dao M., Davis C., Chacko J., Dinh H., Dugan-Rocha S., Fowler G., Garner T. T., Garnes J., Gnirke A., Hawes A., Hernandez J., Hines S., Holder M., Hume J., Jhangiani S. N., Joshi V., Mohid Khan Z., Jackson L., Kovar C., Kowis A., Lee S., Lewis L. R., Margolis J., Morgan M., Nazareth L .V., Nguyen N., Okwuonu G., Parker D., Ruiz S-J., Santibanez J., Savard J., Scherer S. E., Schneider B., Sodergren E., Vattahil S., Villasana D., White C. S., Wright R., Park Y., Lord J., Oppert B., Wang L., Liu Y., Worley K., Elsik C. G., Reese J. T., Elhaik E., Landan G., Graur D., Arensburger P., Atkinson P., Beidler J., Demuth J. P., Drury D. W., Du Y-Z., Fujiwara H., Maselli V., Osanai M., Robertson H. M., Tu Z., Wang J-J., Wang S., Song H., Zhang L., Werner D., Stanke M., Morgenstern B., Solovyev V., Kosarev P., Brown G., Chen H-C., Ermolaeva O., Hlavina W., Kapustin Y., Kiryutin B., Kitts P., Maglott D., Pruitt K., Sapojnikov V., Souvorov A., Mackey A. J., Waterhouse R. M., Wyder S., Kriventseva E. V., Kadowaki T., Bork P., Aranda M., Bao R., Beermann A., Berns N., Bolognesi R., Bonneton F., Bopp D., Butts T., Chaumot A., Ferrier D. E. K., Gordon C. M., Jindra M., Lan Q., Lattorff H. M. G., Laudet V., von Levetsow C., Liu Z., Lutz R., Lynch J. A., Nunes da Fonseca R., Posnien N., Reuter R., Schinko J. B., Schmitt C., Schoppmeier M., Shippy T. D., Simonnet F., Marques-Souza H., Tomoyasu Y., Trauner J., Van der Zee M., Vervoort M., Wittkopp N., Wimmer E. A., Yang X., Jones A. K., Sattelle D. B., Ebert P. R., Nelson D., Scott J. G., Muthukrishnan S., Kramer K. J., Arakane Y., Zhu Q., Hogenkamp D., Dixit R., Jiang H., Zou Z., Marshall J., Elpidina E., Vinokurov K., Oppert C., Evans J., Lu Z., Zhao P., Sumathipala N., Altincicek B., Vilcinskas A., Williams M., Hultmark D., Hetru C., Hauser F., Cazzamali G., Williamson M., Li B., Tanaka Y., Predel R., Neupert S., Schachtner J., Verleyen P., Raible F., Walden K. K. O., Angeli S., Forêt S., Schuetz S., Maleszka R., Miller S. C., and Grossmann D. 2008. The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum. Nature 452: 949-955.


Elhaik, E., Graur, D., and Josić, K. 2008. 'Genome order index' should not be used for defining compositional constraints in nucleotide sequences. Comp. Biol. Chem. 32: 147.


Hazkani-Covo, E. and Graur, D. 2007. A comparative analysis of numt evolution in human and chimpanzee. Mol. Biol. Evol. 24:13-18.



Arcimboldo Water.

René Magritte. 1929-1930. Le Promenoir des Amants (The Promenade of the Lovers). Oil on canvas


Zhang, M., Putonti, C., Chumakov, S., Gupta, A., Fox, G. E., Graur, D., and Fofanov, Y. 2006. Statistical properties of short subsequences in microbial genomes and their link to pathogen identification and evolution. In: Mercado-Uribe, H., Garciá-Torales, G., Flores-Núñez, J.L., and Castillo-Corona, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the Ninth Mexican Symposium on Medical Physics, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings 854:13-18.


Putonti, C., Chumakov, S., Luo, Y., Graur, D., Fox, G. E., and Fofanov, Y. 2006. Regions of unusual statistical properties as tools in the search for horizontally transferred genes in Escherichia coli. In: Mercado-Uribe, H., Garciá-Torales, G., Flores-Núñez, J.L., and Castillo-Corona, E. (eds.) Proceedings of the Ninth Mexican Symposium on Medical Physics, American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings 854:126-128.


Putonti, C., Luo, Y., Katili, C., Chumakov, S., Fox, G.E., Graur, D., and Fofanov, Y. 2006. A computational tool for the genomic identification of regions of unusual compositional properties and its utilization in the detection of horizontally transferred sequences. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23:1863-1868.


Weinstock, G. M., Robinson, G. E., Gibbs, R. A., Worley, K. C., Evans, J. D., Maleszka, R., Robertson, H. M., Weaver, D. B., Beye, M., Bork, P., Elsik, C. G., Hartfelder, K., Hunt, G. J., Zdobnov, E. M., Amdam, G. V., Bitondi, M. M. G., Collins, A. M., Cristino, A. S., Lattorff, H. M. G., Lobo, C. H., Moritz, R. F. A., Nunes, F. M. F., Page Jr., R. E., Simões, Z. L. P., Wheeler, Diana, Carninci, P., Fukuda, S., Hayashizaki, Y., Kai, C., Kawai, J., Sakazume, Sasaki, D., Tagami, M., Albert, S., Baggerman, G., Beggs, K. T., Bloch, G., Cazzamali, G., Cohen, M., Drapeau, M. D., Eisenhardt, D., Emore, C., Ewing, M. A., Fahrbach, S. E., Forêt, S., Grimmelikhuijzen, C. J. P., Hauser, F., Hummon, A. B., Huybrechts, J., Jones, A. K., Kadowaki, T., Kaplan, N., Kucharski, R., Leboulle, G., Linial, M., Littleton, J. T., Mercer, A. R., Richmond, T. A., Rodriguez-Zas, S. L., Rubin, E. B., Sattelle, D. B., Schlipalius, D., Schoofs, L., Shemesh, Y., Sweedler, J. V., Velarde, R., Verleyen, P., Vierstraete, E., Williamson, M. R., Ament, S. A., Brown, S. J., Corona, M., Dearden, P. K., Dunn, W. A., Elekonich, M. M., Fujiyuki, T., Gattermeier, I., Gempe, T., Hasselmann, M., Kage, E., Kamikouchi, A., Kubo, T., Kunieda, T., Lorenzen, M., Milshina, N. V., Morioka, M., Ohashi, K., Overbeek, R., Ross, C. A., Schioett, M., Shippy, T., Takeuchi, H., Toth, A. L., Willis, J. H., Wilson, M. J., Gordon, K. H. J., Letunic, I., Hackett, K., Peterson, J., Felsenfeld, A., Guyer, M., Solignac, M., Agarwala, R., Cornuet, J. M., Monnerot, M., Mougel, F., Reese, J. T., Vautrin, D., Gillespie, J. J., Cannone, J. J., Gutell, R. R., Johnston, J. S., Eisen, M. B., Iyer, V. N., Iyer, V., Kosarev, P., Mackey, A. J., Solovyev, V., Souvorov, A., Aronstein, K. A., Bilikova, K., Chen, Y. P., Clark, A. G., Decanini, L. I., Gelbart, W. M., Hetru, C., Hultmark, D., Imler, J.-L., Jiang, H., Kanost, M., Kimura, K., Lazzaro, B. P., Lopez, D. L., Simuth, J., Thompson, G. J., Zou, Z., de Jong, P., Sodergren, E., Csürös, M., Milosavljevic, A., Osoegawa, K., Richards, S., Shu, C.-L., Duret, L., Elhaik, E., Graur, D., Anzola, J. M., Campbell, K. S., Childs, K. L., Collinge, D., Crosby, M. A., Dickens, C. M., Grametes, L. S., Grozinger, C. M., Jones, P. L., Jorda, M., Ling, X., Matthews, B. B., Miller, J., Mizzen, C., Peinado, M. A., Reid, J. G., Russo, S. M., Schroeder, A. J., St Pierre, S. E., Wang, Y. Zhou, P., Kitts, P., Ruef, B., Venkatraman, A., Zhang, L., Aquino-Perez, G., Whitfield, C. W., Behura, S. K., Berlocher, S. H., Sheppard, W. S., Smith, D. R., Suarez, A. V., Tsutsui, N. D., Wei, X., Wheeler, David, Havlak, P., Li, B., Liu, Y., Jolivet, A., Lee, S., Nazareth, L. V., Pu, L.-L., Thorn, R., Stolc, V., Newman, T., Samanta, M., Tongprasit, W. A., Claudianos, C., Berenbaum, M. R., Biswas, S., de Graaf, D. C., Feyereisen, R., Johnson, R. M., Oakeshott, J. G., Ranson, H., Schuler, M. A., Muzny, D., Chacko, J., Davis, C., Dinh, H., Gill, R., Hernandez, J., Hines, S., Hume, J., Jackson, L., Kovar, C., Lewis, L., Miner, G., Morgan, M., Nguyen, N., Okwuonu, G., Paul, H., Santibanez, J., Savery, G., Svatek, A., Villasana, D., and Wright, R. 2006. Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera. Nature 443: 931-949.


Sodergren, E., Weinstock, G. M., Davidson, E. H., Cameron, R. A., Gibbs, R. A., Angerer, R. C., Angerer, L. M., Arnone, M. I., Burgess, D. R., Burke, R. D., Coffman, J. A., Dean, M., Elphick, M. R., Ettensohn, C. A., Foltz, K. R., Hamdoun, A., Hynes, R. O., Klein, W. H., Marzluff, W., McClay, D. R., Morris, R. L., Mushegian, A., Rast, J. P., Smith, L. C., Thorndyke, M. C., Vacquier, V. D., Wessel, G. M., Wray, G., Zhang, L., Elsik, C. G., Ermolaeva, O., Hlavina, W., Hofmann, G., Kitts, P., Landrum, M. J., Mackey, A. J., Maglott, D., Panopoulou, G., Poustka, A. J., Pruitt, K., Sapojnikov, V., Song, X., Souvorov, A., Solovyev, V., Wei, Z., Whittaker, C. A., Worley, K., Durbin, K. J., Shen, Y., Fedrigo, O., Garfield, D., Haygood, R., Primus, A., Satija, R., Severson, T., Gonzalez-Garay, M. L., Jackson, A., R., Milosavljevic, A., Tong, M., Killian, C. E., Livingston, B. T., Wilt, F. H., Adams, N., Bellé, R., Carbonneau, S., Cheung, R., Cormier, P., Cosson, B., Croce, J., Fernandez-Guerra, A., Genevière, A.-M., Goel, M., Kelkar, H., Morales, J., Mulner-Lorillon, O., Robertson, A. J., Goldstone, J. V., Cole, B., Epel, D., Gold, B., Hahn, M. E., Howard-Ashby, M., Scally, M., Stegeman, J. J., Allgood, E. L., Cool, J., Judkins, K. M., McCafferty, S. S., Musante, A. M., Obar, R. A., Rawson, A. P., Rossetti, B. J., Gibbons, I. R., Hoffman, M. P., Leone, A., Istrail, S., Materna, S. C., Samanta, M. P., Stolc, V., Tongprasit, W., Tu, Q., Bergeron, K.-F., Brandhorst, B. P., Whittle, J., Berney, K., Bottjer, D. J., Calestani, C., Peterson, K., Chow, E., Yuan, Q. A., Elhaik, E., Graur, D., Reese, J. T., Bosdet, I., Heesun, S., Marra, M. A., Schein, J., Anderson, M. K., Brockton, V., Buckley, K. M., Cohen, A. H., Fugmann, S. D., Hibino, T., Loza-Coll, M., Majeske, A. J., Messier, C., Nair, S. V., Pancer, Z., Terwilliger, D. P., Agca, C., Arboleda, E., Chen, N., Churcher, A. M., Hallböök, F., Humphrey, G. W., Idris, M. M., Kiyama, T., Liang, S., Mellott, D., Mu, X., Murray, G., Olinski, R. P., Raible, F., Rowe, M., Taylor, J. S., Tessmar-Raible, K., Wang, D., Wilson, K. H., Yaguchi, S., Gaasterland, T., Galindo, B. E., Gunaratne, H. J., Juliano, C., Kinukawa, M., Moy, G. W., Neill, A. T., Nomura, M., Raisch, M., Reade, A., Roux, M. M., Song, J. L., Su, Y.-H., Townley, I. K., Voronina, E., Wong, J. L., Amore, G., Branno, M., Brown, E. R., Cavalieri, V., Duboc, V., Duloquin, L., Flytzanis, C., Gache, C., Lapraz, F., Lepage, T., Locascio, A., Martinez, P., Matassi, G., Matranga, V., Range, R., Rizzo, F., Röttinger, E., Beane, W., Bradham, C., Byrum, C., Glenn, T., Hussain, S., Manning, G., Miranda, E., Thomason, R., Walton, K., Wikramanayke, A., Wu, S.-Y., Xu, R., Brown, C. T., Chen, L., Gray, R. F., Lee, P. Y., Nam, J., Oliveri, P., Smith, J., Muzny, D., Bell, S., Chacko, J., Cree, A., Curry, S., Davis, C., Dinh, H., Dugan-Rocha, S., Fowler, J., Gill, R., Hamilton, C., Hernandez, J., Hines, S., Hume, J., Jackson, L., Jolivet, A., Kovar, C., Lee, S., Lewis, L., Miner, G., Morgan, M., Nazareth, L. V., Okwuonu, G., Parker, D., Pu, L.-L., Thorn, R., and Wright, R. 2006. The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus. Science 314:941-952.


Dagan, T., Blekhman, R., and Graur, D. 2006. The "domino theory" of gene death: Gradual and mass gene extinction events in three lineages of obligate symbiotic bacterial pathogens. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23: 310-316


Elhaik, E., Sabath, N., and Graur, D. 2006. The "inverse relationship between evolutionary rate and age of mammalian genes" is an artifact of increased genetic distance with rate of evolution and time of divergence. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23: 1-3.



Arcimboldo Water.

Cy Twombly. 1962. Leda and the Swan. Oil, pencil and crayon on canvas


Mitchell, A. and Graur, D. 2005. The pattern of spontaneous mutation in Mycobacterium leprae and a comparison of mutation patterns across large evolutionary distances. J. Mol. Evol. 61:795-803


Hazkani-Covo, E. and Graur, D. 2005. Evolutionary conservation of bacterial operons: Does transcriptional connectivity matter? Genetica 124:145-166


Hazkani-Covo, E., Wool, D., and Graur, D. 2005. In search of the vertebrate phylotypic stage: A molecular examination of the developmental hourglass model and von Baer's third law. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 304B:150-158.


Cohen, N. Dagan, T., Stone, S., and Graur, D. 2005. GC Composition of the human genome: In search of isochores. Mol. Biol Evol. 22:1260-1272.


Dagan, T., and Graur, D. 2005. The comparative method rules! Codon volatility cannot detect positive Darwinian selection using a single genome sequence. Mol. Biol. Evol. 22: 496-500.


Yorav, A., Dagan, T., and Graur, D. 2005. An exploratory study on the use of a phylogenetic algorithm in the reconstruction of stemmata of Halachic texts. Hebrew Union College Annual 76:273-288.


 

Arcimboldo Water.

Giuseppe Arcimboldo. 1566. "Water," Oil on wood


Mayrose, I., Graur, D., Ben-Tal, N., and Pupko, T. 2004. Comparison of site-specific rate-inference methods for protein sequences: Empirical Bayesian methods are superior. Mol. Biol. Evol. 21: 1781-1791.


Yanai, I., Graur, D., and Ophir, R. 2004. Incongruent expression profiles between human and mouse suggest widespread neutral transcription. OMICS 8:15-24.


Sorek, R., Lev-Maor, G., Reznik, M., Dagan, T., Belinky, F., Graur, D., and Ast, G. 2004. Minimal conditions for exonization of intronic sequences: 5’ splice site formation in Alu exons. Mol. Cell 14:221-231.


Hazkani-Covo, E., Levanon, E. Y., Rotman, G. , Graur, D. and Novik, A. 2004. Evolution of multicellularity in Metazoa: Comparative analysis of the subcellular localization of proteins in Saccharomyces, Drosophila and Caenorhabditis. Cell Biol Int. 28:171-178.


Graur, D. and Martin, W. 2004. Reading the entrails of chickens: Molecular timescales of evolution and the illusion of precision. Trends Genet. 20:80-86.


Dagan, T., Sorek, R., Sharon, E., Ast, G., and Graur, D. 2004. AluGene: A database of Alu elements incorporated within protein-coding genes. Nucleic Acids Res. 32: D489-D492.


 

ray.cadeau.

Man Ray. 1921 (fabricated 1974). Cadeau. Cast iron, tacks


Fleishman, S. J., Dagan, T., and Graur, D. 2003. pANT: A method for the pairwise assessment of nonfunctionalization times of processed pseudogenes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 20: 1876-1880.


Pupko, T., Sharan, R., Hasegawa, M., Shamir, R., and Graur, D. 2003. Detecting excess radical replacements in phylogenetic trees. Gene 319:127-135.


Gophna, U., Ron, E. Z., and Graur, D. 2003. Bacterial type III secretion systems are ancient and evolved by multiple horizontal-transfer events. Gene 312:151-163.


Hazkani-Covo, E., Sorek, R., and Graur, D. 2003. Evolutionary dynamics of large numts in the human gemone: Rarity of independent insertions and abundance of post-insertion duplications. J. Mol. Evol. 56:169-174.


 

hesse.hangup.

Eva Hesse. 1966. Hang up. Acrylic, cord, cloth, wood, steel


Shaul, S. and Graur, D. 2002. Playing chicken (Gallus gallus): Methodological inconsistencies of molecular divergence date estimates due to secondary calibration points. Gene. 300:59-61.


Pupko, T., Pe'er, I., Hasegawa, M., Graur, D., and Friedman, N. 2002. A branch-and-bound algorithm for the inference of ancestral amino-acid sequences when the replacement rate varies among sites: Application to the evolution of five gene families. Bioinformatics 18:1116-1123.


Pupko, T. and Graur, D. 2002. Fast computation of maximum likelihood trees by numerical approximation of amino-acid replacement probabilities. Comput. Stat. Data Analysis 40:285-291.


Sorek, R., Ast, G., and Graur, D. 2002. Alu-containing exons are alternatively spliced. Genome Res. 12:1060-1067.


Dagan, T., Talmor, Y., and Graur, D. 2002. Ratios of radical to conservative amino acid replacement are affected by mutational and compositional factors and may not be indicative of positive Darwinian selection. Mol Biol Evol. 19:1022-102.


Hazkani-Covo, E., Altman, N., Horowitz, M., and Graur, D. 2002. The evolutionary history of prosaposin: Two successive tandem-duplication events gave rise to the four saposin domains. J. Mol. Evol. 54:30-34.


Barki, Y., Gateño, D., Graur, D., and Rinkevich, B. 2002. Soft-coral natural chimerism: A window in ontogeny allows the creation of entities comprised of incongruous parts. Marine Ecol. Progress Ser. 231:91-99.


 

oldenburg.spoonbridge.

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. 1985-1988. Spoonbridge and cherry. Aluminum, stainless steel, paint


Graur, D. and Pupko, T. 2001. The Permian bacterium that isn't. Mol. Biol. Evol. 18:1143-1146.


Robinson-Rechavi, M., and Graur, D. 2001. Usage optimization of unevenly sampled data through the combination of quartet trees: An eutherian draft phylogeny based on 640 nuclear and mitochondrial proteins. Israel J. Zool. 47: 259-270.


Armon, A., Graur, D., and Ben-Tal, N. 2001. ConSurf: An algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of phylogenetic information. J. Mol. Biol. 307:447-463.


 

nevelson.goldbox.

Louise Nevelson. 1960. Gold box. Wood, gold paint


Pupko, T., Pe'er, I., Shamir, R., and Graur, D. 2000. A fast algorithm for joint reconstruction of ancestral amino-acid sequences. Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:890-896.


Barki, Y., Douek, J., Graur, D., Gateño, D., and Rinkevich, B. 2000. Polymorphism in soft coral larvae revealed by amplified fragment-length polymorphism (AFLP) markers. Marine Biol. 136:37-41.


 

stevemiller.geneticport.

Steve Miller. 1993. Genetic portrait of Isabel Goldsmith. Acrylic and silkscreen enamel on canvas


Pupko, T. and Graur, D. 1999. Evolution of microsatellites in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Role of length and number of repeated units. J. Mol. Evol. 48:313-316.


Mokady, O., Loya, Y., Achituv, Y., Geffen, E., Graur, D., Rozenblatt, S., and Brickner, I. 1999. Speciation versus phenotypic plasticity in coral inhabiting barnacles: Darwin's observations in an ecological context. J. Mol. Evol. 49:367-375.


Ophir, R., Itoh, T., Graur, D., and Gojobori, T. 1999. A simple method for estimating the intensity of purifying selection in protein-coding genes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 16:49-53.


 

kashi.untitled.

Mosh Kashi. 2000. Untitled. Oil on canvas


Ben-Dor, A., Chor, B., Graur, D., Ophir, R., and Pelleg, D. 1998. Constructing phylogenies from quartets: Elucidation of eutherian superordinal relationships. J. Comput. Biol. 5:377-390.  


 

butterfield.horse#2-85.

Deborah Butterfield. 1985. Horse #2-85. Barbed wire, pipes, fencing material, tire, corroded scraps of metal, wood


Ophir, R. and Graur, D. 1997. Patterns and rates of indel evolution in processed pseudogenes from humans and murids. Gene 205:191-202.


Graur, D., Gouy, M., and Duret, L. 1997. Evolutionary affinities of the order Perissodactyla and the phylogenetic status of the superordinal taxa Ungulata and Altungulata. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 7:195-200.


 

bravo.Adventus.

Claudio Bravo. 1999. Adventus. Oil on canvas


Árnason, Ú.,  Xu, X., Gullberg, A., and Graur, D. 1996. The " Phoca " standard : An external molecular reference for calibrating recent evolutionary divergences. J. Mol. Evol. 43: 41-45.


Graur, D., Duret, L., and Gouy, M. 1996. Phylogenetic position of the order Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and allies). Nature 379:333-335.


Abulafia, S., Graur, D., Devos, K., and Breiman, A. 1996. Characterization of the wheat cDNA encoding the b subunit of the mitochondrial ATP synthase. Isr. J. Plant. Sci. 44:77-88.


Jermiin, L.S., Foster, P.G., Graur, D., Lowe, R.M., and Crozier, R.H. 1996. Unbiased estimation of symmetrical directional mutational pressure from protein-coding DNA. J. Mol. Evol. 42:476-480. (erratum J. Mol. Evol. 1997. 44: 468.)


 

gillespie.myself.

Gregory Gillespie. 1980-1981. Myself Painting a Self-Portrait. Oil, alkyd, pencil, crayon, conté crayon, wood, felt-tipped pen and ink, ball-point pen and ink, masking tape, photomechanical reproductions on wood


Crozier, R. H., Dobric, N., Imai, H. T., Graur, D., Cornuet, J. M., and Taylor, R. W. 1995. Mitochonrial-DNA sequence evidence on the phylogeny of Australian jack-jumper ants of the Myrmecia pilosula complex. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 4:20-30.


Elkeles, A., Devos, K. M., Graur, D., Zizi, M., and Breiman, A. 1995. Multiple cDNAs of wheat voltage-dependent anion channels (VDACs): isolation, differential expression, mapping and evolution. Plant Mol. Biol. 29:109-124.


Breiman, A., and Graur, D. 1995. Wheat evolution. Israel J. Plant Sci. 43:85-98.


Jermiin, L.S., Graur, D., and Crozier, R.H. 1995. Evidence from analyses of intergenic regions for strand-specific directional mutation pressure in metazoan mitochondrial DNA. Mol. Biol. Evol. 12:558-563.


 

Ruscha.Truth.

Ed Ruscha. 1973. Truth. Oil on canvas


Jermiin, L. S., Graur, D., Lowe, R. M., and Crozier, R. H. 1994. Analysis of directional mutational pressure and nucleotide content in mitochondrial cytochrome b genes. J. Mol. Evol. 39:160-173.


Graur, D. 1994. Molecular evidence concerning the phylogenetic integrity of the Murinae. Israel J. Zool.


Mokady, O., Rozenblatt, S., Graur, D., and Loya, Y. 1994. Coral-host specificity of Red Sea Litophaga bivalves: Interspecific and intraspecific variation in 12S mitochondrial ribosomal RNA. Mol. Marine Biol. Biotechnol. 3:158-164.


Graur, D. and Higgins, D. G. 1994. Molecular evidence for the inclusion of cetaceans within the order Artiodactyla. Mol. Biol Evol. 11:357-364.


 

salle.michaelrips.

David Salle. 1998. Michael Rips. Oil and acrylic on canvas and linen


Graur, D. 1993. Towards a molecular resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of the eutherian mammals. FEBS Lett. 325:152-159.


Graur, D. 1993. Mammalian phylogeny: Morphology and molecules - Reply. Trends Ecol. Evol. 8:341-342.


Ma, D.-P., Zharkikh, A., Graur, D., VandeBerg, J. L., and Li, W.-H. 1993. Structure and evolution of opossum, guinea pig, and porcupine cytochrome-b genes. J. Mol. Evol. 36:327-334.


Englander, E., Moav, B., Tabachnik, M., and Graur, D. 1993. An unusual histone H4 from Tilapia nilotica exhibiting characteristics of both a replication-dependent histone and a basal-expression histone: Evolutionary considerations. J. Evol. Biol. 6:129-137.


Graur, D. 1993. Molecular phylogeny and the higher classification of eutherian mammals. Trends Ecol. Evol. 8:141-147.


 

magritte.redmodel.

René Magritte. 1936. The red model. Oil on canvas


Li, W.-H., Hide, W. A., Zharkikh, A., Ma, D.-P., and Graur, D. 1992. The molecular taxonomy and evolution of the guinea pig. J. Hered. 83:174-181.


Li, W.-H., Hide, W. A., and Graur, D. 1992. Origin of rodents and guinea-pigs. Nature 359:277-278.


Graur, D., Hide, W. A., Zharkikh, A., and Li, W.-H. 1992. The biochemical phylogeny of guinea-pigs and gundis, and the paraphyly of the order Rodentia. Comp. Physiol. Biochem. 101B:495-498.


 

gonzaleztorres.throat.

Felix Gonzales-Torres. 1991. Untitled (Throat). Handkerchief, candy wrapped in blue cellophane


Landan, G., Bdolah, A., Wollberg, Z., Kochva, E., and Graur, D. 1991. The evolutionary history of the sarafotoxin/endothelin/endothelin-like superfamily. J. Cardiovasc. Pharmacol. 17:517-519.


Landan, G., Bdolah, A., Wollberg, Z., Kochva, E., and Graur, D. 1991. Evolution of the sarafotoxin/endothelin superfamily of proteins. Toxicon 29:237-244.


Graur, D. and Li, W.-H. 1991. Neutral mutation hypothesis test. Nature 354:114-115.


Graur, D., Hide, W. A., and Li, W.-H. 1991. Is the guinea pig a rodent? Nature 351:649-652.


Mindell, D. P., Sites, J. W., and Graur, D. 1991. Assessing the relationship between speciation and evolutionary change. Cladistics 6:393- 398.


Breiman, A., Bogher, M., Sternberg, H., and Graur, D. 1991. Variability and uniformity of mitochondrial DNA in populations of putative diploid ancestors of common wheat. Theor. Appl. Genet. 28:201-208.


 

thiebaud.aroundthecake.

Wayne Thiebaud. 1962. Around the cake. Oil on canvas


Landan, G., Cohen, G., Aharonowitz, Y., Shuali, Y., Graur, D., and Shifman, D. 1990. Evolution of isopenicillin-N-synthase may have involved horizontal gene transfer. Mol. Biol. Evol. 7:399-406.


Mindell, D.P., Sites, J.W., and Graur, D. 1990. Mode of allozyme evolution: Increased genetic distance associated with speciation events. J. Evol. Biol. 3:125-131.


Schmitt, J., Graur, D., and Tomiut, J. 1990. Phylogenetic relationships and rates of evolution in primates: Allozymic data from catarrhine and platyrrhine species. Primates 31:95-108.


 

wood.americangothic.

Grant Wood. 1930. American gothic. Oil on beaverboard


Graur, D., Bogher, M., and Breiman, A. 1989. Restriction endonuclease profiles of mitochondrial DNA and the origin of the B genome of bread wheat, Triticum aestivum. Heredity 62:335-342.


Mindell, D. P., Sites, J. W., and Graur, D. 1989. Speciational evolution: a phylogenetic test with allozymes in Sceloporus (Reptilia). Cladistics. 5:49-61.


Ticher, A., and Graur, D. 1989. Nucleic acid composition, codon usage and the rate of synonymous substitution in protein coding genes. J. Mol. Evol. 28:286-298.


Graur, D., Shualy, Y., and Li, W.-H. 1989. Deletions in processed pseudogenes accumulate faster in rodents than in humans. J. Mol. Evol. 28:279-285.


 

bing.bookfromthesky.

Xu Bing. 1987-1991. Book from the sky. Ink on paper.


Graur, D., and Li, W.-H. 1988. Evolution of protein inhibitoes of serine proteinases: positive Darwinian selection or compositional effects? J. Mol. Evol. 28:131-135.


Graur, D., Bdolah, H., Wollberg, Z., and Kochva, E. 1988. Homology between snake venom sarafotoxin and mammalian endothelins. Israel. J. Zool. 25:171-175.


Tomiuk, J., and Graur, D. 1988. Nei's modified genetic identity and distance measures and their sampling variances. Syst. Zool. 37:156-162.


Hefetz, A., and Graur, D. 1988. The significance of multicomponent pheromones in denoting specific compositions. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 16:557-566.


 

gabo.linear.

Naum Gabo. 1950. Linear construction No. 2 (Variation No. 1). Perspex with nylon monofilament


Graur, D. 1986. The evolution of electophoretic mobility of proteins. J. Theor. Biol. 118:443-469.


 

cornell.swanlake.

Joseph Cornell. 1946. A swan lake for Tamara Toumanova (homage to the romantic ballet). Box construction, painted wood, glass pane, photostats on wood, blue glass, mirrors, painted paperboard, feathers, velvet, rhinestones


Graur, D. 1985. Amino acid composition and the evolutionary rates of protein-coding genes. J. Mol. Evol. 22:53-62.


Graur, D. 1985. Pattern of nucleotide substitution and the extent of purifying selection in retroviruses. J. Mol. Evol. 21:221-231.


Graur, D., and Wool, D. 1985. Unidirectional interspecific mating in Tribolium castaneum and T. confusum: evolutionary and ecological implications. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 38:261-265.


 

ghirlandaio.portraitofgiova.

Domienico di Tommaso Bigordi (Ghirlandaio). 1488. Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni. Tempera on wood


Graur, D. 1984. Gene diversity in Hymenoptera. Evolution 39:190-199.


Nei, M., and Graur, D. 1984. Extent of protein polymorphism and the neutral mutation theory. Evol. Biol. 17:73-118.


 

soans.h2o.

Jaak Soans. 1999. H2O. Water, wood, glass, steel coils


Gojobori, T., Li, W.-H., and Graur, D. 1982. Patterns of nucleotide substitution in pseudogenes and functional genes. J. Mol. Evol. 18:360-369.


Graur, D. and Wool, D. 1982. Dynamics and genetics of mating behavior in Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Behav. Genet. 12:161-180.


 

honghao.hempclothphrenology.

Hong Hao. 1994. The hemp cloth phrenology. Silkscreen on paper