The nocturnal bottleneck and the evolution of activity patterns in mammals

The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post-K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

Inner Ear Evolution in Primates Through the Cenozoic: Implications for the Evolution of Hearing

(2012) Mark N. Coleman et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Genomic characterization of the European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax reveals the presence of a novel uncoupling protein (UCP) gene family member in the teleost fish lineage

(2012) Mbaye Tine et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Deep Brain Photoreceptors Control Light-Seeking Behavior in Zebrafish Larvae

(2012) António M. Fernandes et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Ultraviolet Light Provides a Major Input to Non-Image-Forming Light Detection in Mice

(2012) Floor van Oosterhout et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Molecular ecology and adaptation of visual photopigments in craniates

(2012) WAYNE I. L. DAVIES et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolution and Functional Characterisation of Melanopsins in a Deep-Sea Chimaera (Elephant Shark, Callorhinchus milii)

(2012) Wayne I. L. Davies et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny

(2012) M. dos Reis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eye shape and the nocturnal bottleneck of mammals

(2012) M. I. Hall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse

(2012) Y. Sun et al.   SCIENCE

Thermogenesis, muscle hyperplasia, and the origin of birds

(2011) Stuart A. Newman   BIOESSAYS

Vertebrate ancient opsin photopigment spectra and the avian photoperiodic response

(2011) W. I. L. Davies et al.   Biology Letters

Functional diversity of melanopsins and their global expression in the teleost retina

(2011) Wayne I. L. Davies et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

PHYLOGENETIC VERSUS FUNCTIONAL SIGNALS IN THE EVOLUTION OF FORM-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN TERRESTRIAL VISION

(2011) Ryosuke Motani et al.   EVOLUTION

A Jurassic eutherian mammal and divergence of marsupials and placentals

(2011) Zhe-Xi Luo et al.   NATURE

Anatomical Specializations for Nocturnality in a Critically Endangered Parrot, the Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus)

(2011) Jeremy R. Corfield et al.   PLoS One

The Potorous CPD Photolyase Rescues a Cryptochrome-Deficient Mammalian Circadian Clock

(2011) Inês Chaves et al.   PLoS One

Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology

(2011) L. Schmitz et al.   SCIENCE

Using new tools to solve an old problem: the evolution of endothermy in vertebrates

(2011) Roberto F. Nespolo et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Nocturnal Bottleneck and the Evolution of Mammalian Vision

(2010) Christopher P. Heesy et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

A comparative analysis of vibrissa count and infraorbital foramen area in primates and other mammals

(2010) Magdalena N. Muchlinski   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Vertebrate ancient opsin and melanopsin: divergent irradiance detectors

(2010) Wayne L. Davies et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Light-induced body color change in developing zebrafish

(2010) Tomoya Shiraki et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diversity of Color Vision: Not All Australian Marsupials Are Trichromatic

(2010) Wiebke Ebeling et al.   PLoS One

The Chicxulub Asteroid Impact and Mass Extinction at the Cretaceous-Paleogene Boundary

(2010) P. Schulte et al.   SCIENCE

Morphological differences between the eyeballs of nocturnal and diurnal amniotes revisited from optical perspectives of visual environments

(2010) Lars Schmitz et al.   VISION RESEARCH

AQUEOUS HUMOUR AND ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION

(2009) AMUND RINGVOLD   ACTA OPHTHALMOLOGICA

Nuclear Architecture of Rod Photoreceptor Cells Adapts to Vision in Mammalian Evolution

(2009) Irina Solovei et al.   CELL

VA Opsin-Based Photoreceptors in the Hypothalamus of Birds

(2009) Stephanie Halford et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Transcriptional control of brown adipocyte development and physiological function--of mice and men

(2009) P. Seale et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Endothermy in birds: underlying molecular mechanisms

(2009) I. Walter et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evolutionary history of the UCP gene family: gene duplication and selection

(2008) Joseph Hughes et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Photic Sensitivity Ranges of Hamster Pupillary and Circadian Phase Responses Do Not Overlap

(2008) Roelof A. Hut et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

The acute light-induction of sleep is mediated by OPN4-based photoreception

(2008) Daniela Lupi et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Cone visual pigments of monotremes: Filling the phylogenetic gap

(2008) MATTHEW J. WAKEFIELD et al.   VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE