StephenJamesRossiterMD

Thoracic Surgery • Sacramento, CA

Adult Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery

Cardiac Surgeon

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Office
3941 J St
Suite 270
Sacramento, CA 95819
Phone+1 916-733-6850
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Education & Training

Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityFellowship, Congenital Cardiac Surgery, 1977 - 1978
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Thoracic Surgery - Integrated, 1976 - 1977
Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityResidency, Surgery, 1971 - 1976
University of Michigan Medical SchoolClass of 1971

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1972 - 2026
American Board of Thoracic Surgery Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

10 citations
The relationship between individual phenotype and the division of labour in naked mole-rats: it's complicated.
James D Gilbert, Stephen J. Rossiter, Chris G. Faulkes> ;Peerj. 2020 Sep 29
4 citations
Echolocation call frequency variation in horseshoe bats: molecular basis revealed by comparative transcriptomics.
Haijian Sun, Wenli Chen, Jiaying Wang, Libiao Zhang, Stephen J. Rossiter, Xiuguang Mao> ;Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 2020 Sep 9
9 citations
Genome-wide data reveal discordant mitonuclear introgression in the intermediate horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus affinis).
Xiuguang Mao, Stephen J. Rossiter> ;Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 2020 Jun 10
12 citations
Foraging shifts and visual preadaptation in ecologically diverse bats.
Kalina T. J. Davies, Laurel R Yohe, Jesus Almonte, Miluska K R Sanchez, Edgardo M. Rengifo, Elizabeth R. Dumont, Karen E. Sears, Liliana M. Dávalos, Stephen J. Rossiter> ;Molecular Ecology. 2020 May 13
5 citations
Wing morphology predicts individual niche specialization in Pteronotus mesoamericanus (Mammalia: Chiroptera).
Hernani Fernandes Magalhães de Oliveira, Nícholas F. de Camargo, David R. Hemprich-Bennett, Bernal Rodríguez-Herrera, Stephen J. Rossiter, Elizabeth L. Clare> ;Plos One. 2020 May 11
83 citations
Phylogenomic Resolution of the Cetacean Tree of Life Using Target Sequence Capture
Michael R. McGowen, Georgia Tsagkogeorga, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Mario dos Reis, Monika Struebig, Robert Deaville, Paul Jepson, Simon N. Jarman, Andrea M. Polanowsk...> ;Systematic Biology. 2020 May 1
6 citations
Convergent spectral shifts to blue-green vision in mammals extends the known sensitivity of vertebrate M/LWS pigments
Hai Chi, Yimeng Cui, Stephen J. Rossiter, Yang Liu> ;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2020 Apr 14
8 citations
Tissue Collection of Bats for -Omics Analyses and Primary Cell Culture.
Laurel R Yohe, Paolo Devanna, Kalina T. J. Davies, Joshua H T Potter, Stephen J. Rossiter, Emma C. Teeling, Sonja C. Vernes, Liliana M. Dávalos> ;Journal of Visualized Experiments. 2019 Oct 23
10 citations
Evaluating the performance of targeted sequence capture, RNA-Seq, and degenerate-primer PCR cloning for sequencing the largest mammalian multigene family
Laurel R Yohe, Kalina T. J. Davies, Nancy B. Simmons, Karen E. Sears, Elizabeth R. Dumont, Stephen J. Rossiter, Liliana M. Dávalos> ;Molecular Ecology Resources. 2020 Jan 1
10 citations
Expressed Vomeronasal Type-1 Receptors (V1rs) in Bats Uncover Conserved Sequences Underlying Social Chemical Signaling.
Laurel R Yohe, Kalina T. J. Davies, Stephen J. Rossiter, Liliana M. Dávalos> ;Genome Biology and Evolution. 2019 Oct 1
Resolving evolutionary relationships among six closely related taxa of the horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus) with targeted resequencing data.
Mao, X., Tsagkogeorga, G., Thong, V. D., Rossiter, S. J.> ;Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. 2019 Jul 6
10 citations
Scotopic rod vision in tetrapods arose from multiple early adaptive shifts in the rate of retinal release.
Yang Liu, Yimeng Cui, Hai Chi, Yu Xia, Haonan Liu, Stephen J. Rossiter, Shuyi Zhang> ;Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2019 Jun 25
Erratum to: Degenerative Expansion of a Young Supergene.
Eckart Stolle, Rodrigo Pracana, Philip Howard, Carolina I. Paris, Susan J. Brown, Claudia Castillo-Carrillo, Stephen J. Rossiter, Yannick Wurm> ;Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2019 May 1
17 citations
As Blind as a Bat? Opsin Phylogenetics Illuminates the Evolution of Color Vision in Bats.
Bruno F. Simões, Nicole M. Foley, Graham M. Hughes, Huabin Zhao, Shuyi Zhang, Stephen J. Rossiter, Emma C. Teeling> ;Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2019 Jan 1
31 citations
Degenerative Expansion of a Young Supergene.
Eckart Stolle, Rodrigo Pracana, Philip Howard, Carolina I. Paris, Susan J Brown, Claudia Castillo-Carrillo, Stephen J. Rossiter, Yannick Wurm> ;Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2019 Mar 1
26 citations
Multifactorial processes underlie parallel opsin loss in neotropical bats.
Alexa Sadier, Kalina T. J. Davies, Laurel R Yohe, Kun Yun, Paul Donat, Brandon P. Hedrick, Elizabeth R. Dumont, Liliana M. Dávalos, Stephen J. Rossiter, Karen E. Sears> ;Elife. 2018 Dec 18
26 citations
Limited evidence for parallel molecular adaptations associated with the subterranean niche in mammals : a comparative study of three superorders
Kalina T. J. Davies, Nigel C. Bennett, Chris G. Faulkes, Stephen J. Rossiter> ;Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2018 Oct 1
14 citations
Using metabarcoding to compare the suitability of two blood‐feeding leech species for sampling mammalian diversity in North Borneo
Rosie Drinkwater, Ida Bærholm Schnell, Kristine Bohmann, Henry Bernard, Géraldine Veron, Elizabeth L. Clare, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Stephen J. Rossiter> ;Molecular Ecology Resources. 2019 Jan 1
Assessing Soft-Tissue Shrinkage Estimates in Museum Specimens Imaged With Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography (diceCT).
Hedrick, B. P., Yohe, L., Vander Linden, A., DÃ¡valos, L. M., Sears, K., Sadier, A., Rossiter, S. J., Davies, K. T., Dumont, E.> ;Microscopy and microanalysis : the official journal of Microscopy Society of America, Microbeam Analysis Society, Microscopical Society of Canada. 2018 Jun 20
10 citations
Molecular Data Support an Early Shift to an Intermediate-Light Niche in the Evolution of Mammals
Yang Liu, Hai Chi, Longfei Li, Stephen J. Rossiter, Shuyi Zhang> ;Molecular Biology and Evolution. 2018 May 1
45 citations
Ageing-associated DNA methylation dynamics are a molecular readout of lifespan variation among mammalian species
Robert Lowe, Carl Barton, Christopher A. Jenkins, Christina Ernst, Oliver P. Forman, Denise S. Fernandez-Twinn, Christoph Bock, Stephen J. Rossiter, Chris G. Faulkes, ...> ;Genome Biology. 2018 Feb 16
13 citations
Comparative genomics reveals contraction in olfactory receptor genes in bats
Georgia Tsagkogeorga, Steven Müller, Christophe Dessimoz, Stephen J. Rossiter> ;Scientific Reports. 2017 Mar 21
20 citations
Trpc2 pseudogenization dynamics in bats reveal ancestral vomeronasal signaling, then pervasive loss.
Laurel R Yohe, Ramatu Abubakar, Christina Giordano, Elizabeth R. Dumont, Karen E. Sears, Stephen J. Rossiter, Liliana M. Dávalos> ;Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 2017 Apr 1
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project.
Hudson, L. N., Hudson, L. N., Hudson, L. N., Hudson, L. N., Newbold, T., Newbold, T., Newbold, T., Newbold, T., Contu, S., Contu, S., Contu, S., Contu, S., Hill, S. L....> ;Ecology and evolution. 2017 Jan 11
Differential introgression suggests candidate beneficial and barrier loci between two parapatric subspecies of Pearson's horseshoe bat
Mao, X., Zhang, S., Rossiter, S. J.> ;Current zoology. 2016 Aug 1
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