Walter Monroe Fitch - Publications

Affiliations: 
1962-1986 Physiological Chemistry University of Wisconsin Medical School 
 1986-1989 Biological Sciences University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States 
 1989-2009 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 
Area:
Genetics, Mathematics, Biostatistics Biology
Website:
https://www.bio.uci.edu/faculty/in-memoriam/walter-m-fitch-ph-d/

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2007 Wallace RG, Hodac H, Lathrop RH, Fitch WM. A statistical phylogeography of influenza A H5N1. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104: 4473-8. PMID 17360548 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0700435104  0.304
2004 Salemi M, Fitch WM, Ciccozzi M, Ruiz-Alvarez MJ, Rezza G, Lewis MJ. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus sequence characteristics and evolutionary rate estimate from maximum likelihood analysis. Journal of Virology. 78: 1602-3. PMID 14722315 DOI: 10.1128/Jvi.78.3.1602-1603.2004  0.4
2000 Bush RM, Smith CB, Cox NJ, Fitch WM. Effects of passage history and sampling bias on phylogenetic reconstruction of human influenza A evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 97: 6974-80. PMID 10860959 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.97.13.6974  0.338
2000 Fitch WM, Bush RM, Bender CA, Subbarao K, Cox NJ. Predicting the evolution of human influenza A Journal of Heredity. 91: 183-185. PMID 10833042 DOI: 10.1126/Science.286.5446.1921  0.353
2000 Atchley WR, Wollenberg KR, Fitch WM, Terhalle W, Dress AW. Correlations among amino acid sites in bHLH protein domains: an information theoretic analysis. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17: 164-78. PMID 10666716 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A026229  0.338
2000 Fitch WM. Reply to Egel Trends in Genetics. 16: 439. DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9525(00)02098-9  0.327
1999 Bush RM, Fitch WM, Bender CA, Cox NJ. Positive selection on the H3 hemagglutinin gene of human influenza virus A Molecular Biology and Evolution. 16: 1457-1465. PMID 10555276 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A026057  0.378
1998 FITCH WM, CHAIKOFF IL. Effect of previous diet on response of hepatic enzyme activities to a 24-hour fast. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 94: 380-6. PMID 13700034 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(61)90064-9  0.381
1998 FITCH WM, CHAIKOFF IL, HILL R. Effects of dietary hexoses on changes induced in hepatic enzyme activities of the rat by a lethal dose of x-rays. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 94: 387-91. PMID 13700033 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(61)90065-0  0.386
1998 Finkelstein M, Fitch WM, Lanciani CA, Miyamoto MM. Estimating the Probabilities of Runs of Identical Events Within Biological Sequences Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15: 470-472. DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A025944  0.313
1997 Fitch WM, Bush RM, Bender CA, Cox NJ. Long Term Trends in the Evolution of H(3) HA1 Human Influenza Type A Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 94: 7712-7718. PMID 9223253 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.94.15.7712  0.383
1997 Atchley WR, Fitch WM. A natural classification of the basic helix-loop-helix class of transcription factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 94: 5172-6. PMID 9144210 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.94.10.5172  0.373
1996 Rodríguez LL, Fitch WM, Nichol ST. Ecological factors rather than temporal factors dominate the evolution of vesicular stomatitis virus Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 93: 13030-13035. PMID 8917539 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.93.23.13030  0.331
1996 Fitch WM. The variety of human virus evolution Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 5: 247-258. PMID 8673293 DOI: 10.1006/Mpev.1996.0018  0.322
1995 Fitch WM. Uses for evolutionary trees Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 349: 93-102. PMID 8748022 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.1995.0095  0.355
1995 Miyamoto MM, Fitch WM. Testing the covarion hypothesis of molecular evolution Molecular Biology and Evolution. 12: 503-513. PMID 7739391 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040224  0.337
1995 Ludwig S, Stitz L, Planz O, Van H, Fitch WM, Scholtissek C. European swine virus as a possible source for the next influenza pandemic? Virology. 212: 555-561. PMID 7571425 DOI: 10.1006/Viro.1995.1513  0.309
1995 Atchley WR, Fitch WM. Myc and Max: molecular evolution of a family of proto-oncogene products and their dimerization partner. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 92: 10217-21. PMID 7479755 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.92.22.10217  0.357
1994 Fitch WM, Ayala FJ. The superoxide dismutase molecular clock revisited Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 91: 6802-6807. PMID 8041700 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.91.15.6802  0.366
1994 Fitch WM, Ayala FJ. Tempo and mode in evolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 91: 6717-6720. PMID 8041688 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.91.15.6717  0.317
1994 Atchley WR, Fitch WM, Bronner-Fraser M. Molecular evolution of the MyoD family of transcription factors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 91: 11522-6. PMID 7972095 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.91.24.11522  0.342
1994 Tsuji S, Qureshi MA, Hou EW, Fitch WM, Li SSL. Evolutionary relationships of lactate dehydrogenases (LDHs) from mammals, birds, an amphibian, fish, barley, and bacteria: LDH cDNA sequences from Xenopus, pig, and rat Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 91: 9392-9396. PMID 7937776 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.91.20.9392  0.332
1993 Fitch WM, Peterson EM, de la Maza LM. Phylogenetic analysis of the outer-membrane-protein genes of Chlamydiae, and its implication for vaccine development. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 10: 892-913. PMID 8355605 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040048  0.316
1993 Scholtissek C, Ludwig S, Fitch WM. Analysis of influenza A virus nucleoproteins for the assessment of molecular genetic mechanisms leading to new phylogenetic virus lineages Archives of Virology. 131: 237-250. PMID 8347076 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01378629  0.325
1993 Nichol ST, Rowe JE, Fitch WM. Punctuated equilibrium and positive Darwinian evolution in vesicular stomatitis virus Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 90: 10424-10428. PMID 8248125 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.90.22.10424  0.346
1991 Schultz U, Fitch WM, Ludwig S, Mandler J, Scholtissek C. Evolution of pig influenza viruses Virology. 183: 61-73. PMID 2053297 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90118-U  0.348
1991 Atchley WR, Fitch WM. Gene trees and the origins of inbred strains of mice. Science (New York, N.Y.). 254: 554-8. PMID 1948030 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1948030  0.31
1991 Fitch WM, Leiter JME, Li X, Palese P. Positive Darwinian evolution in human influenza A viruses Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 88: 4270-4274. PMID 1840695 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.88.10.4270  0.347
1991 Ludwig S, Schultz U, Mandler J, Fitch WM, Scholtissek C. Phylogenetic relationship of the nonstructural (NS) genes of influenza A viruses Virology. 183: 566-577. PMID 1830182 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(91)90985-K  0.367
1990 Mandler J, Gorman OT, Ludwig S, Schroeder E, Fitch WM, Webster RG, Scholtissek C. Derivation of the nucleoproteins (NP) of influenza A viruses isolated from marine mammals Virology. 176: 255-261. PMID 2330674 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(90)90250-U  0.303
1990 Fitch WM, Beintema JJ. Correcting parsimonious trees for unseen nucleotide substitutions: the effect of dense branching as exemplified by ribonuclease. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 7: 438-43. PMID 2263194 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040617  0.352
1990 Bilsel PA, Rowe JE, Fitch WM, Nichol ST. Phosphoprotein and nucleocapsid protein evolution of vesicular stomatitis virus New Jersey Journal of Virology. 64: 2498-2504. PMID 2159527 DOI: 10.1128/Jvi.64.6.2498-2504.1990  0.398
1989 Nichol ST, Rowe JE, Fitch WM. Glycoprotein evolution of vesicular stomatitis virus New Jersey Virology. 168: 281-291. PMID 2536983 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(89)90268-7  0.407
1988 Yamashita M, Krystal M, Fitch WM, Palese P. Influenza B virus evolution: Co-circulating lineages and comparison of evolutionary pattern with those of influenza A and C viruses Virology. 163: 112-122. PMID 3267218 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(88)90238-3  0.316
1987 Fitch WM, Upper K. The phylogeny of tRNA sequences provides evidence for ambiguity reduction in the origin of the genetic code Cold Spring Harbor Symposia On Quantitative Biology. 52: 759-767. PMID 3454288 DOI: 10.1101/Sqb.1987.052.01.085  0.322
1987 Fitch WM, Bruschi M. The evolution of prokaryotic ferredoxins--with a general method correcting for unobserved substitutions in less branched lineages Molecular Biology and Evolution. 4: 381-394. PMID 3447013 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040452  0.402
1987 Fitch WM. Of urfs and orfs: A primer on how to analyze derived amino acid sequences Cell. 50: 329. DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(87)90486-7  0.358
1986 Beintema JJ, Fitch WM, Carsana A. Molecular evolution of pancreatic-type ribonucleases. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 3: 262-75. PMID 3444402 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040393  0.394
1986 Fitch WM, Smith T, Breslow JL. Detecting internally repeated sequences and inferring the history of duplication Methods in Enzymology. 773-787. PMID 3088394 DOI: 10.1016/0076-6879(86)28105-7  0.379
1986 Buonagurio DA, Nakada S, Fitch WM, Palese P. Epidemiology of influenza C virus in man: Multiple evolutionary lineages and low rate of change Virology. 153: 12-21. PMID 2943076 DOI: 10.1016/0042-6822(86)90003-6  0.36
1986 Buonagurio DA, Nakada S, Parvin JD, Krystal M, Palese P, Fitch WM. Evolution of human influenza A viruses over 50 years: Rapid, uniform rate of change in NS gene Science. 232: 980-982. PMID 2939560 DOI: 10.1126/Science.2939560  0.347
1986 Fitch WM. The estimate of total nucleotide substitutions from pairwise differences is biased Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 312: 317-324. PMID 2870524 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.1986.0010  0.341
1984 Fitch WM. Alignment of base sequences Nature. 309: 410. PMID 6727999 DOI: 10.1038/309410A0  0.335
1984 Maeda N, Zhu D, Fitch WM. Amino acid sequences of lower vertebrate parvalbumins and their evolution: Parvalbumins of boa, turtle, and salamander Molecular Biology and Evolution. 1: 473-488. PMID 6599978 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040332  0.383
1983 Fitch WM, Smith TF. Optimal sequence alignments Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 80: 1382-1386. PMID 16593289 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.80.5.1382  0.327
1983 Fitch WM. Calculating the expected frequencies of potential secondary structure in nucleic acids as a function of stem length, loop size, base composition and nearest-neighbor frequencies Nucleic Acids Research. 11: 4655-4663. PMID 6306598 DOI: 10.1093/Nar/11.13.4655  0.3
1983 Gray GS, Fitch WM. Evolution of antibiotic resistance genes: The DNA sequence of a kanamycin resistance gene from Staphylococcus aureus Molecular Biology and Evolution. 1: 57-66. PMID 6100986 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040298  0.307
1983 Fitch WM. Hypercycling across the evolutionary countryside Cell. 35: 1-2. DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(83)90196-4  0.304
1982 Müller UR, Fitch WM. Evolutionary selection for perfect hairpin structures in viral DNAs Nature. 298: 582-585. PMID 7099254 DOI: 10.1038/298582A0  0.325
1982 Smith TF, Waterman MS, Fitch WM. Comparative biosequence metrics Journal of Molecular Evolution. 18: 423. DOI: 10.1007/Bf01733210  0.328
1981 Fitch WM. The old REH theory remains unsatisfactory and the new REH theory is problematical - a reply to holmquist and jukes Journal of Molecular Evolution. 18: 60-67. PMID 7334529 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01733212  0.327
1981 Keim P, Heinrikson RL, Fitch WM. An examination of the expected degree of sequence similarity that might arise in proteins that have converged to similar conformational states. The impact of such expectations on the search for homology between the structurally similar domains of rhodanese Journal of Molecular Biology. 151: 179-197. PMID 6948967 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(81)90227-8  0.392
1980 Fitch WM. Estimating the total number of nucleotide substitutions since the common ancestor of a pair of homologous genes: Comparison of several methods and three beta hemoglobin messenger RNA's Journal of Molecular Evolution. 16: 153-209. PMID 7009879 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01804976  0.399
1980 Kurosky A, Barnett DR, Lee TH, Touchstone B, Hay RE, Arnott MS, Bowman BH, Fitch WM. Covalent structure of human haptoglobin: A serine protease homolog Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 77: 3388-3392. PMID 6997877 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.77.6.3388  0.331
1980 Siegel AF, Fitch WM. Degeneracy when DNA codes for overlapping genes Mathematical Biosciences. 49: 1-16. DOI: 10.1016/0025-5564(80)90107-8  0.318
1977 Beintema JJ, Gaastra W, Lenstra JA, Welling GW, Fitch WM. The molecular evolution of pancreatic ribonuclease. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 10: 49-71. PMID 903984 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01796134  0.35
1977 Fitch WM. The restriction of codon ambiguity on the basis of known variants Journal of Molecular Evolution. 10: 97-102. PMID 592425 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01751803  0.363
1977 Niece RL, Margoliash E, Fitch WM. Complete amino acid sequence of guanaco (Lama guanicoe) cytochrome c Biochemistry. 16: 68-72. PMID 188448 DOI: 10.1021/Bi00620A011  0.369
1976 Fitch WM. The molecular evolution of cytochrome c in eukaryotes Journal of Molecular Evolution. 8: 13-40. PMID 181584 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01738880  0.413
1975 Fitch WM, Yasunobu KT. Phylogenies from amino acid sequences aligned with gaps: The problem of gap weighting Journal of Molecular Evolution. 5: 1-24. PMID 1177324 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01732010  0.392
1974 Fitch WM. The large extent of putative secondary nucleic acid structure in random nucleotide sequences or amino acid derived messenger-RNA Journal of Molecular Evolution. 3: 279-291. PMID 4416342 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01796043  0.403
1974 Fitch WM, Farris JS. Evolutionary trees with minimum nucleotide replacements from amino acid sequences Journal of Molecular Evolution. 3: 263-278. PMID 4413342 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01796042  0.383
1974 Wu TT, Fitch WM, Margoliash E. The information content of protein amino acid sequences Annual Review of Biochemistry. 43: 539-566. PMID 4369316 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Bi.43.070174.002543  0.334
1974 Langley CH, Fitch WM. An examination of the constancy of the rate of molecular evolution Journal of Molecular Evolution. 3: 161-177. PMID 4368400 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01797451  0.321
1973 Fitch WM. Is the fixation of observable mutations distributed randomly among the three nucleotide positions of the codon? Journal of Molecular Evolution. 2: 123-136. PMID 4377770 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01653992  0.357
1973 Nolan C, Fitch WM, Uzzell T, Weiss LJ, Margoliash E. Amino acid sequence of a cytochrome c from the common Pacific lamprey, Entosphenus tridentatus Biochemistry. 12: 4052-4060. PMID 4355549 DOI: 10.1021/Bi00745A005  0.353
1973 Lin DM, Niece RL, Fitch WM. The properties and amino-acid sequence of cytochrome c from Euglena gracilis. Nature. 241: 533-5. PMID 4348415 DOI: 10.1038/241533A0  0.368
1973 Fitch WM, Dayhoff MO. Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure, 1972. Systematic Zoology. 22: 196. DOI: 10.2307/2412105  0.318
1972 Fitch WM. Considerations regarding the regulation of gene transcription and messenger translation Journal of Molecular Evolution. 1: 185-207. PMID 5173654 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01659164  0.304
1972 Fitch WM. Amino-acid sequences of different species as source of information about mutation mechanisms Humangenetik. 16: 67-69. PMID 4647444 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00393988  0.343
1971 Fitch WM. The nonidentity of invariable positions in the cytochromes c of different species Biochemical Genetics. 5: 231-241. PMID 5088800 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00485794  0.326
1971 Fitch WM. Rate of change of concomitantly variable codons Journal of Molecular Evolution. 1: 84-96. PMID 4377447 DOI: 10.1007/Bf01659396  0.327
1971 Fitch WM. Toward defining the course of evolution: Minimum change for a specific tree topology Systematic Biology. 20: 406-416. DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/20.4.406  0.331
1970 Fitch WM, Markowitz E. An improved method for determining codon variability in a gene and its application to the rate of fixation of mutations in evolution. Biochemical Genetics. 4: 579-93. PMID 5489762 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00486096  0.336
1970 Fitch WM. Further improvements in the method of testing for evolutionary homology among proteins Journal of Molecular Biology. 49: 1-14. PMID 5465386 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(70)90372-4  0.343
1970 Fitch WM. A method for estimating the probability that a specific frameshift mutation was selected in the course of evolution Journal of Molecular Biology. 49: 15-21. PMID 5450513 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(70)90373-6  0.391
1970 Fitch WM. Distinguishing homologous from analogous proteins Systematic Zoology. 19: 99-113. PMID 5449325 DOI: 10.2307/2412448  0.39
1969 Fitch WM. Locating gaps in amino acid sequences to optimize the homology between two proteins Biochemical Genetics. 3: 99-108. PMID 5364927 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00520346  0.394
1967 Fitch WM. Evidence suggesting a non-random character to nucleotide replacements in naturally occurring mutations Journal of Molecular Biology. 26: 499-507. PMID 6029740 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(67)90317-8  0.332
1967 Fitch WM, Margoliash E. A method for estimating the number of invariant amino acid coding positions in a gene using cytochrome c as a model case Biochemical Genetics. 1: 65-71. PMID 5610702 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00487738  0.364
1967 Fitch WM, Margoliash E. Construction of phylogenetic trees Science. 155: 285-291. DOI: 10.1126/Science.155.3760.279  0.338
1966 Fitch WM. An improved method of testing for evolutionary homology Journal of Molecular Biology. 16: 9-16. PMID 5917736 DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(66)80258-9  0.323
1966 Fitch WM. Evidence suggesting a partial, internal duplication in the ancestral gene for heme-containing globins Journal of Molecular Biology. 16: 17-27. PMID 5917728 DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(66)80259-0  0.377
1966 Fitch WM. The relation between frequencies of amino acids and ordered trinucleotides Journal of Molecular Biology. 16: 1-8. PMID 5296819 DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(66)80257-7  0.332
1964 FITCH WM. THE PROBABLE SEQUENCE OF NUCLEOTIDES IN SOME CODONS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States Of. 52: 298-305. PMID 14206594 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.52.2.298  0.348
1962 Fitch WM, Chaikoff IL. Directions and patterns of adaptation induced in liver enzymes of the diabetic rat by the feeding of glucose and fructose Bba - Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta. 57: 588-595. PMID 13893331 DOI: 10.1016/0006-3002(62)91168-X  0.382
1961 Abraham S, Fitch WM, Chaikoff IL. Mannose metabolism and the demonstration of mannokinase and phosphomannoisomerase activities in the lactating rat mammary gland Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 93: 278-282. PMID 13681085 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(61)90262-4  0.362
1961 Fitch WM, Chaikoff IL, Hill R. Effects of dietary hexoses on changes induced in hepatic enzyme activities of the rat by a lethal dose of X-rays Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 94: 387-391.  0.386
1961 Fitch WM, Chaikoff IL. Effect of previous diet on response of hepatic enzyme activities to a 24-hour fast Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 94: 380-386.  0.381
1959 FITCH WM, HILL R, CHAIKOFF IL. Hepatic glycolytic enzyme activities in the alloxan-diabetic rat: The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 234: 2811-2813. PMID 13823293  0.378
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