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Faculty and Research
Steve Dorus
Associate Professor
email: sdorus@syr.edu
Office: 248 LSC; Lab 253 LSC
Phone: 315-443-7091; Lab 315-443-7075
Lab website: dorus lab
Previous Academic Positions
2009-2012 Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Bath
2006-2009 Ruth Kirschstein NRSA Research Fellow (NIH)
2005-2010 Research Councils of the United Kingdom Research Fellow
Education
2004 PhD, Committee on Genetics, The University of Chicago
1996 BA , Biology, Amherst College
Research interests
Evolutionary genetics and genomics of reproductive systems.
Selected Publications
Fischer, B.E., Wasbrough, E., Meadows, L.A., Randlet, O., Dorus, S., Karr, T.L. and Russell, S. (2012) Conserved properties of Drosophila and human spermatozoal mRNA repertoires. Proceedings of the Royal Society - B, doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0153.
Karr, T.L. and Dorus, S. (2012) Evolutionary genomics of the sperm proteome. In: Singh, R., Xu J. and Kulathinal, R. eds. Rapidly evolving genes and genetic systems. Oxford University Press, pp. 153-162.
Dorus, S., Parker, E.R., Busby, J., and Karr, T.L. (2010) Sperm Proteomics Reveals Intensified Selection on Mouse Sperm Membrane and Acrosome Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27(6):1235–1246.
Dorus, S., Freeman, Z.N. and Karr, T.L. (2008) Recent origins of D. melanogaster genes encoding sperm proteins. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25(10): 2157-2166.
Dorus, S., Busby, S.A., Shabanowitz, J., Hunt, D.F. and Karr, T.L. (2006) Genomic and functional evolution of the sperm proteome. Nature Genetics 38(12): 1440-1445.
Dorus, S., Evans, P.D., Choi, S., Wyckoff, J., and Lahn, B.T. (2004) Rate of molecular evolution of the seminal protein gene SEMG2 correlates with levels of female promiscuity. Nature Genetics 36(12): 1326-1329.
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