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2009. On the evolution of the animal phototransduction cascades. Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology. PhD:131.
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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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2009. Using phylogenetic, functional and trait diversity to understand patterns of plant community productivity. PLoS One. 4:e5695.
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2008. Erratic rates of molecular evolution and incongruence of fossil and molecular divergence time estimates in Ostracoda (Crustacea). Molecular phylogenetics and evolution. 48:157–167.
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2008. Euphilomedes chupacabra (Ostracoda: Myodocopida: Philomedidae), a new demersal marine species from coastal Puerto Rico with male-biased vespertine swimming activity. Zootaxa. 1684:35–57. (954.14 KB)
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2008. Evolutionary history and the effect of biodiversity on plant productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105:17012.
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2008. Genomics and the evolutionary origins of nervous system complexity. Current opinion in genetics & development. 18:479–492.
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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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2008. Myelin sheaths are formed with proteins that originated in vertebrate lineages. Neuron Glia Biology. 4:137–152.
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2008. Opening the “black box”: the genetic and biochemical basis of eye evolution. Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1:390–402. (342.38 KB)
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2008. Reconstructing ancestral genome content based on symmetrical best alignments and Dollo parsimony. Bioinformatics. 24:606. (254.73 KB)
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2008. Type II opsins: evolutionary origin by internal domain duplication? Journal of molecular evolution. 66:417–423. (321.78 KB)
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2007. Furcation, field-splitting, and the evolutionary origins of novelty in arthropod photoreceptors. Arthropod structure & development. 36:386–400.
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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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2007. The new biology: beyond the Modern Synthesis. Biology direct. 2:30.
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2007. The origins of novel protein interactions during animal opsin evolution. PLoS One. 2:e1054.
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2007. A post-synaptic scaffold at the origin of the animal kingdom. PLoS One. 2:e506.
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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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2007. 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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2006. CoMET: A Mesquite package for comparing models of continuous character evolution on phylogenies. Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online. 2:183.
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2006. Repression and loss of gene expression outpaces activation and gain in recently duplicated fly genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103:11637.
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2005. Comparative methods for the analysis of gene-expression evolution: an example using yeast functional genomic data. Molecular biology and evolution. 22:40–50.
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2005. Hierarchical phylogenetics as a quantitative analytical framework for evolutionary developmental biology. Bioessays. 27:1158–1166.
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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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2005. New insights into the evolutionary history of photoreceptor cells. Trends in ecology & evolution. 20:465–467.