Evolutionary dynamics of Rh2 opsins in birds demonstrate an episode of accelerated evolution in the New World warblers(Setophaga)

Comparative Mutagenesis Studies of Retinal Release in Light-Activated Zebrafish Rhodopsin Using Fluorescence Spectroscopy

(2015) J. M. Morrow et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

SWS2 visual pigment evolution as a test of historically contingent patterns of plumage color evolution in warblers

(2015) Natasha I. Bloch et al.   EVOLUTION

Spectral tuning in vertebrate short wavelength-sensitive 1 (SWS1) visual pigments: Can wavelength sensitivity be inferred from sequence data?

(2014) Frances E. Hauser et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Divergent Positive Selection in Rhodopsin from Lake and Riverine Cichlid Fishes

(2014) Ryan K. Schott et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Niche filling slows the diversification of Himalayan songbirds

(2014) Trevor D. Price et al.   NATURE

Evolution of opsin expression in birds driven by sexual selection and habitat

(2014) N. I. Bloch   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation

(2014) G. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Functional characterization of spectral tuning mechanisms in the great bowerbird short-wavelength sensitive visual pigment (SWS1), and the origins of UV/violet vision in passerines and parrots

(2013) Ilke van Hazel et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The vertebrate ancestral repertoire of visual opsins, transducin alpha subunits and oxytocin/vasopressin receptors was established by duplication of their shared genomic region in the two rounds of early vertebrate genome duplications

(2013) David Lagman et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Branch-Site Test of Positive Selection Is Surprisingly Robust but Lacks Power under Synonymous Substitution Saturation and Variation in GC

(2013) Walid H. Gharib et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Limited variation in visual sensitivity among bowerbird species suggests that there is no link between spectral tuning and variation in display colouration

(2012) B. J. Coyle et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Opsin Evolution in Damselfish: Convergence, Reversal, and Parallel Evolution Across Tuning Sites

(2012) Christopher M. Hofmann et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Looking for Darwin in Genomic Sequences—Validity and Success of Statistical Methods

(2012) Weiwei Zhai et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Functional characterization of the rod visual pigment of the echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), a basal mammal

(2012) CONSTANZE BICKELMANN et al.   VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE

Protein Biophysics Explains Why Highly Abundant Proteins Evolve Slowly

(2012) Adrian W.R. Serohijos et al.   Cell Reports

An Improved Likelihood Ratio Test for Detecting Site-Specific Functional Divergence among Clades of Protein-Coding Genes

(2011) Cameron J. Weadick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Molecular spandrels: tests of adaptation at the genetic level

(2011) Rowan D. H. Barrett et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

The effect of photopigment optical density on the color vision of the anomalous trichromat

(2011) P.B.M. Thomas et al.   VISION RESEARCH

Statistical Properties of the Branch-Site Test of Positive Selection

(2010) Z. Yang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A comprehensive multilocus phylogeny for the wood-warblers and a revised classification of the Parulidae (Aves)

(2010) Irby J. Lovette et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The p1D4-hrGFP II expression vector: A tool for expressing and purifying visual pigments and other G protein-coupled receptors

(2010) James M. Morrow et al.   PLASMID

Evolution and spectral tuning of visual pigments in birds and mammals

(2009) D. M. Hunt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

In defense of statistical methods for detecting positive selection

(2009) Z. Yang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods

(2009) M. Nozawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of Dim-Light and Color Vision Pigments

(2008) Shozo Yokoyama   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

False-positive results obtained from the branch-site test of positive selection

(2008) Yoshiyuki Suzuki   GENES & GENETIC SYSTEMS

Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish

(2008) Ole Seehausen et al.   NATURE

Elucidation of phenotypic adaptations: Molecular analyses of dim-light vision proteins in vertebrates

(2008) S. Yokoyama et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of vertebrate visual pigments

(2008) James K. Bowmaker   VISION RESEARCH