Publications
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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2007. Jay Hosler, An Evolutionary Novelty: Optical Allusions. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1:548–551. (212.35 KB)
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2008. 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. Independent contrasts succeed where ancestor reconstruction fails in a known bacteriophage phylogeny. Evolution. 54:397–405.
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2000. How Complexity Originates: The Evolution of Animal Eyes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 46 (351.15 KB)
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2015. On homology of arthropod compound eyes. Integrative and comparative biology. 43:522–530.
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2003. High Rates of Species Accumulation in Animals with Bioluminescent Courtship Displays. Current Biology. (1.33 MB)
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2016. Hierarchical phylogenetics as a quantitative analytical framework for evolutionary developmental biology. Bioessays. 27:1158–1166.
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2005. 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. Genomics and the evolutionary origins of nervous system complexity. Current opinion in genetics & development. 18:479–492.
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2008. 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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2017. Genome duplication and multiple evolutionary origins of complex migratory behavior in Salmonidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 69:514-523. (814.25 KB)
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2013. Gene duplication and the origins of morphological complexity in pancrustacean eyes, a genomic approach. BMC evolutionary biology. 10:123.
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2010. Furcation, field-splitting, and the evolutionary origins of novelty in arthropod photoreceptors. Arthropod structure & development. 36:386–400.
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2007. Furcation and fusion: The phylogenetics of evolutionary novelty. Developmental Biology. 431:69-76.
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2017. 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. Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature. Nature. 563:182–183.
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2018. 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. The eye as a replicating and diverging, modular developmental unit. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution. 18:623–627.
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2003. 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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2013. 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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2013. Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105:17012.
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2008. Evolutionary expansion and specialization of the PDZ domains. Molecular biology and evolution. 27:1058–1069.
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2010. The evolution of phototransduction from an ancestral cyclic nucleotide gated pathway. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 277:1963.
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