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2007. The origins of novel protein interactions during animal opsin evolution. PLoS One. 2:e1054.
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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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2008. Opening the “black box”: the genetic and biochemical basis of eye evolution. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1:390–402.
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2009. Ontogeny of sexual dimorphism via tissue duplication in an ostracod (Crustacea). Evolution & Development. 11:233–243.
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2014. Occurrence of Hemocyanin in Ostracod Crustaceans. Journal of Molecular Evolution. :1–9. (1.42 MB)
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2005. New insights into the evolutionary history of photoreceptor cells. Trends in ecology & evolution. 20:465–467.
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2007. The new biology: beyond the Modern Synthesis. Biology direct. 2:30.
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2005. Myodocopa (Crustacea: Ostracoda) as models for evolutionary studies of light and vision: multiple origins of bioluminescence and extreme sexual dimorphism. Hydrobiologia. 538:179–192.
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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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2024. A morphological basis for path-dependent evolution of visual systems. Science. 383:983–987.
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2002. Molecular phylogenetic evidence for the independent evolutionary origin of an arthropod compound eye. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99:1426.
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2017. Molecular clocks indicate turnover and diversification of modern coleoid cephalopods during the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Proc. R. Soc. B.
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2003. Maximum likelihood models of trait evolution. Comments on Theoretical Biology. 8:609–625.
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2019. Luciferase gene of a Caribbean fireworm (Syllidae) from Puerto Rico. Scientific Reports. 9:13015.
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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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2021. Light modulated cnidocyte discharge predates the origins of eyes in Cnidaria. Ecology and evolution. 11:3933–3940.
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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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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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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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2008. Jay Hosler, An Evolutionary Novelty: Optical Allusions. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1:548–551. (212.35 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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2015. How Complexity Originates: The Evolution of Animal Eyes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 46 (351.15 KB)
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2003. On homology of arthropod compound eyes. Integrative and comparative biology. 43:522–530.
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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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2005. Hierarchical phylogenetics as a quantitative analytical framework for evolutionary developmental biology. Bioessays. 27:1158–1166.