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2019. Phenotypic evolution shaped by current enzyme function in the bioluminescent courtship signals of sea fireflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286:20182621.
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2015. The dynamic evolutionary history of pancrustacean eyes and opsins. Integrative and Comparative Biology. :icv100.
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2018. Ecological engineering helps maximize function in algal oil production. Applied and environmental microbiology. :AEM–00953.
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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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2011. Light influence on nematocyst firing in the sea anemone Haliplanella luciae. Lund Vision Group and UCSB EEMB. MS:22. (432.09 KB)
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2019. Context-dependent evolution of ostracod morphology along the ecogeographical gradient of ocean depth. Evolution. (579.69 KB)
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2011. Support for the dimorphic niche hypothesis: Natural selection drives sexual eye dimorphism in ostracods. Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology. MA:42. (625.01 KB)
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2008. Type II opsins: evolutionary origin by internal domain duplication? Journal of molecular evolution. 66:417–423. (321.78 KB)
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2021. Multi-level convergence of complex traits and the evolution of bioluminescence. Biological Reviews. 96:673–691.
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2005. Testing Trait Evolution Models on Phylogenetic Trees. Computer Science. MS:34. (834.6 KB)
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2006. CoMET: A Mesquite package for comparing models of continuous character evolution on phylogenies. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online. 2:183.
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2012. A multi-gene phylogeny of Cephalopoda supports convergent morphological evolution in association with multiple habitat shifts in the marine environment. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12:129.
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2008. Euphilomedes chupacabra (Ostracoda: Myodocopida: Philomedidae), a new demersal marine species from coastal Puerto Rico with male-biased vespertine swimming activity. Zootaxa. 1684:35–57. (954.14 KB)
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2014. Occurrence of Hemocyanin in Ostracod Crustaceans. Journal of Molecular Evolution. :1–9. (1.42 MB)
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2019. Luciferase gene of a Caribbean fireworm (Syllidae) from Puerto Rico. Scientific Reports. 9:13015.
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2017. Ecological interactions and coexistence are predicted by gene expression similarity in freshwater green algae. Journal of Ecology. 105:580–591.
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2013. Experimental evidence that evolutionary relatedness does not affect the ecological mechanisms of coexistence in freshwater green algae. Ecology Letters. 16:1373–1381. (366.91 KB)
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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. Phylogenetic distance does not predict competition in green algal communities. Ecosphere. 6:art116.
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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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2015. How Complexity Originates: The Evolution of Animal Eyes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 46 (351.15 KB)
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2013. Phylotranscriptomics to Bring the Understudied into the Fold: Monophyletic Ostracoda, Fossil Placement, and Pancrustacean Phylogeny. Molecular biology and evolution. 30:215–233. (1.19 MB)
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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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2018. Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature. Nature. 563:182–183.