Publications
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. Molecular evolution of bat color vision genes. Molecular biology and evolution. 21:295–302.
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2004. Molecular clocks indicate turnover and diversification of modern coleoid cephalopods during the Mesozoic Marine Revolution. Proc. R. Soc. B.
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2017. Maximum likelihood models of trait evolution. Comments on Theoretical Biology. 8:609–625.
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2003. 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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2019. Light modulated cnidocyte discharge predates the origins of eyes in Cnidaria. Ecology and evolution. 11:3933–3940.
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2021. The last common ancestor of most bilaterian animals possessed at least 9 opsins. Genome biology and evolution. :evw248.
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2016. 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. 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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