Publications
Genomics and the evolutionary origins of nervous system complexity. Current opinion in genetics & development. 18:479–492.
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2008. 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. Hierarchical phylogenetics as a quantitative analytical framework for evolutionary developmental biology. Bioessays. 27:1158–1166.
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2005. High Rates of Species Accumulation in Animals with Bioluminescent Courtship Displays. Current Biology. (1.33 MB)
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2016. On homology of arthropod compound eyes. Integrative and comparative biology. 43:522–530.
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2003. How Complexity Originates: The Evolution of Animal Eyes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics. 46 (351.15 KB)
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2015. Independent contrasts succeed where ancestor reconstruction fails in a known bacteriophage phylogeny. Evolution. 54:397–405.
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2000. 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. Jay Hosler, An Evolutionary Novelty: Optical Allusions. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1:548–551. (212.35 KB)
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2008. 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. 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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2020. The last common ancestor of most bilaterian animals possessed at least 9 opsins. Genome biology and evolution. :evw248.
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2016. Light modulated cnidocyte discharge predates the origins of eyes in Cnidaria. Ecology and evolution. 11:3933–3940.
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2021. 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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2019. Maximum likelihood models of trait evolution. Comments on Theoretical Biology. 8:609–625.
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2003. Molecular clocks indicate turnover and diversification of modern coleoid cephalopods during the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Proc. R. Soc. B.
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2017. Molecular evolution of bat color vision genes. Molecular biology and evolution. 21:295–302.
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2004. 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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2002. A morphological basis for path-dependent evolution of visual systems. Science. 383:983–987.
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2024. 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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2012. Multi-level convergence of complex traits and the evolution of bioluminescence. Biological Reviews. 96:673–691.
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2021. Multimodal sensorimotor system in unicellular zoospores of a fungus. Journal of Experimental Biology. 221
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2018. Myelin sheaths are formed with proteins that originated in vertebrate lineages. Neuron Glia Biology. 4:137–152.
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