Publications
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. (2.06 MB)
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2018. Light modulated cnidocyte discharge predates the origins of eyes in Cnidaria. Ecology and evolution. 11:3933–3940.
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2021. 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. (2.56 MB)
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2009. The Evolution of Complexity in the Visual Systems of Stomatopods: Insights from Transcriptomics. Integrative and comparative biology. 53:39–49.
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2013. Understanding the dermal light sense in the context of integrative photoreceptor cell biology. Visual neuroscience. 28:265–279. (297.05 KB)
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2011. 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 last common ancestor of most bilaterian animals possessed at least 9 opsins. Genome biology and evolution. :evw248.
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2016. An AluI fragment isolated from lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), maps to the intergenic spacer region of the rDNA cistron. Gene. 186:7–11.
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1997. Ontogeny of sexual dimorphism via tissue duplication in an ostracod (Crustacea). Evolution & Development. 11:233–243.
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2009. Gene duplication and the origins of morphological complexity in pancrustacean eyes, a genomic approach. BMC evolutionary biology. 10:123.
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2010. Blue-light-receptive cryptochrome is expressed in a sponge eye lacking neurons and opsin. The Journal of experimental biology. 215:1278–1286. (1.07 MB)
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2012. The new biology: beyond the Modern Synthesis. Biology direct. 2:30.
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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. Evolutionary expansion and specialization of the PDZ domains. Molecular biology and evolution. 27:1058–1069.
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2010. Reconstructing ancestral genome content based on symmetrical best alignments and Dollo parsimony. Bioinformatics. 24:606. (254.73 KB)
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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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