Publications
Today's multiple choice exam:(a) gene duplication;(b) structural mutation;(c) co-option;(d) regulatory mutation;(e) all of the above. Evolution & Development. 9:523–524.
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2007. A review of Gene Sharing and Evolution: The Diversity of Protein Functions, by Joram Piatigorsky. Evolution & Development. 9:514–516.
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2001. Jay Hosler, An Evolutionary Novelty: Optical Allusions. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1:548–551.
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Phylotranscriptomics to Bring the Understudied into the Fold: Monophyletic Ostracoda, Fossil Placement, and Pancrustacean Phylogeny. Molecular biology and evolution. 30:215–233.
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Osiris: accessible and reproducible phylogenetic and phylogenomic analyses within the Galaxy workflow management system. BMC Bioinformatics. 15:230.
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2014. How Complexity Originates: The Evolution of Animal Eyes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 46
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Furcation and fusion: The phylogenetics of evolutionary novelty. Developmental Biology. 431:69-76.
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2017. Eyes to See: The Astonishing Variety of Vision in Nature. Nature. 563:182–183.
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2018. Predictable transcriptome evolution in the convergent and complex bioluminescent organs of squid. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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2014. Comparative tests of evolutionary trade-offs in a palinurid lobster acoustic system. Evolution. 57:2082–2100.
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2003. 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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Phylogenetic relationships among the Salmoninae based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences.. Molecular systematics of fishes. Academic Press, London.
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1997. Evidence supporting the paraphyly of Hucho (Salmonidae) based on ribosomal DNA restriction maps. Journal of fish biology. 47:956–961.
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1995. Prolific origination of eyes in Cnidaria with co-option of non-visual opsins. Current Biology. 28:2413–2419.
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2018. 
The origins of novel protein interactions during animal opsin evolution. PLoS One. 2:e1054.
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2007. New insights into the evolutionary history of photoreceptor cells. Trends in ecology & evolution. 20:465–467.
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2005. 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. 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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2010. Cnidocyte discharge is regulated by light and opsin-mediated phototransduction. BMC biology. 10:17.
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2012. On the evolution of the animal phototransduction cascades. Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology. PhD:131.
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The Evolution of Complexity in the Visual Systems of Stomatopods: Insights from Transcriptomics. Integrative and comparative biology. 53:39–49.
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