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2017. Furcation and fusion: The phylogenetics of evolutionary novelty. Developmental Biology. 431:69-76.
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2017. The Genome Sizes of Ostracod Crustaceans Correlate with Body Size and Evolutionary History, but not Environment. Journal of Heredity. 108:701-706.
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2016. High Rates of Species Accumulation in Animals with Bioluminescent Courtship Displays. Current Biology. 
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2016. The last common ancestor of most bilaterian animals possessed at least 9 opsins. Genome biology and evolution. :evw248.
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2015. Common Ancestry Is a Poor Predictor of Competitive Traits in Freshwater Green Algae. PloS one. 10:e0137085.
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2015. The dynamic evolutionary history of pancrustacean eyes and opsins. Integrative and Comparative Biology. :icv100. (5.07 MB)
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2015. Evolutionary relatedness does not predict competition and co-occurrence in natural or experimental communities of green algae. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282:20141745.
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2015. Eye-independent, light-activated chromatophore expansion (LACE) and expression of phototransduction genes in the skin of Octopus bimaculoides. The Journal of experimental biology. 218:1513–1520.
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2015. How Complexity Originates: The Evolution of Animal Eyes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 46 (351.15 KB)
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2015. Phylogenetic distance does not predict competition in green algal communities. Ecosphere. 6:art116.
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2015. Species richness, but not phylogenetic diversity, influences community biomass production and temporal stability in a re-examination of 16 grassland biodiversity studies. Functional Ecology.
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2015. A Transcriptomic Analysis of Cave, Surface, and Hybrid Isopod Crustaceans of the Species Asellus aquaticus. PloS one. 10:e0140484.
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2014. The comb jelly opsins and the origins of animal phototransduction. Genome biology and evolution. 6:1964–1971.
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2014. Eye-specification genes in the bacterial light organ of the bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes and their expression in response to symbiont cues. Mechanisms of development. 131:111-126. (3.54 MB)
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2014. The Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA): Developing Community Resources to Study Diverse Invertebrate Genomes. Journal of Heredity. 105:1-18.
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2014. The influence of phylogenetic relatedness on species interactions among freshwater green algae in a mesocosm experiment. Journal of Ecology. :n/a–n/a.
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2014. Occurrence of Hemocyanin in Ostracod Crustaceans. Journal of Molecular Evolution. :1–9. (1.42 MB)
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2014. Ocular and Extraocular Expression of Opsins in the Rhopalium of Tripedalia cystophora (Cnidaria: Cubozoa)). Plos One. 9(6)
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2014. Opsins in Limulus eyes: Characterization of three visible light-sensitive opsins unique to and co-expressed in median eye photoreceptors and a peropsin/RGR that is expressed in all eyes. The Journal of experimental biology. :jeb–116087.
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2014. Osiris: accessible and reproducible phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses within the Galaxy workflow management system. BMC Bioinformatics. 15:230.
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2014. Predictable transcriptome evolution in the convergent and complex bioluminescent organs of squid. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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2014. Two new sympatric species of Eusarsiella (Ostracoda: Myodocopida: Sarsiellidae) from the Florida Keys with a morphological phylogeny of Sarsiellinae. Zootaxa. 3802:444–458.
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2014. Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms. BMC bioinformatics. 15:350.