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2008. Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105:17012.
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2013. Evolutionary history and the strength of species interactions: testing the phylogenetic limiting similarity hypothesis. Ecology.
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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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2019. Evolving witnesses of changing environments: An introduction to the 18th International Symposium on Ostracoda. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 39:199–201.
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2022. Expression of Opsins of the Box Jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora Reveals the First Photopigment in Cnidarian Ocelli and Supports the Presence of Photoisomerases. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy. 16:916510.
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2003. The eye as a replicating and diverging, modular developmental unit. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution. 18:623–627.
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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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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.
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2007. Furcation, field-splitting, and the evolutionary origins of novelty in arthropod photoreceptors. Arthropod structure & development. 36:386–400.
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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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2008. Genomics and the evolutionary origins of nervous system complexity. Current opinion in genetics & development. 18:479–492.
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2005. Hierarchical phylogenetics as a quantitative analytical framework for evolutionary developmental biology. Bioessays. 27:1158–1166.
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2016. High Rates of Species Accumulation in Animals with Bioluminescent Courtship Displays. Current Biology. (1.33 MB)
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2003. On homology of arthropod compound eyes. Integrative and comparative biology. 43:522–530.
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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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2000. Independent contrasts succeed where ancestor reconstruction fails in a known bacteriophage phylogeny. Evolution. 54:397–405.
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2008. Jay Hosler, An Evolutionary Novelty: Optical Allusions. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1:548–551. (212.35 KB)
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2007. Key transitions during the evolution of animal phototransduction: novelty,“tree-thinking,” co-option, and co-duplication. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 47:759–769.
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2020. Laboratory culture of the California Sea Firefly Vargula tsujii (Ostracoda: Cypridinidae): Developing a model system for the evolution of marine bioluminescence. Scientific Reports. 10:10443.
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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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2021. Light modulated cnidocyte discharge predates the origins of eyes in Cnidaria. Ecology and evolution. 11:3933–3940.
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2019. Light-induced stress as a primary evolutionary driver of eye origins. Integrative and comparative biology. 59:739–750.
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2019. Luciferase gene of a Caribbean fireworm (Syllidae) from Puerto Rico. Scientific Reports. 9:13015.
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2003. Maximum likelihood models of trait evolution. Comments on Theoretical Biology. 8:609–625.