RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am a cell and developmental biologist studying reproduction with recent work being regulation of hamster sperm motility and the reproductive biology of a marine colonial hermaphrodite.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Newlon AW, III, Yund PO, Stewart-Savage J.  2003.  Phenotypic plasticity of reproductive effort in a colonial ascidian, Botryllus schlosseri.  J Exp Zool 297A:180-188.
• Stewart-Savage J, Stires A, Yund PO.  2001.  Environmental effect on the reproductive effort of Botryllus schlosseri.  In Biology of Ascidians, Sawada H, Yokosawa H, Lambert CC, eds.  Springer-Verlag, Tokyo, pp 311-314.
• Stewart-Savage J, Phillippi A, Yund PO.  2001.  Delayed insemination results in embryo mortality in a brooding ascidian.  Biol Bull 201:52-58.
• Visconti PE, Stewart-Savage J, Blasco A, Battaglia L, Miranda P, Kopf GS, Tezon JG.  1999.  Roles of bicarbonate, cAMP and protein tyrosine phosphorylation on capacitation and the spontaneous acrosome reaction of hamster sperm.  Biol Reprod 61:76-84.
• Stewart-Savage J, Wagstaff BJ , Yund PO.  1999.  Developmental basis of phenotypic variation in egg production in a colonial ascidian: primary oocyte production versus oocyte development.  Biol Bull 196:63-69.