Opsin diversity and evolution in the Elateroidea superfamily: Insights from transcriptome data

Jewel beetle opsin duplication and divergence is the mechanism for diverse spectral sensitivities

(2023) Camilla R Sharkey et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Spectral tuning of bioluminescence and visual sensitivity in males of Brazilian firefly species inhabiting dim light environments (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Lampyridae)

(2022) Abner B. Lall et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological and Integrative Physiology

Optogenetic tools for microbial synthetic biology

(2022) Natalie Chia et al.   BIOTECHNOLOGY ADVANCES

Insect opsins and evo-devo: what have we learned in 25 years?

(2022) Kyle J. McCulloch et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome analysis of Phrixothrix hirtus (Phengodidae) railroad worm shows the expansion of odorant-binding gene families and positive selection on morphogenesis and sex determination genes

(2022) Danilo Trabuco Amaral et al.   GENE

Evolutionary Constraint on Visual and Nonvisual Mammalian Opsins

(2021) Brian A. Upton et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Conspicuousness, phylogenetic structure, and origins of Müllerian mimicry in 4000 lycid beetles from all zoogeographic regions

(2021) Michal Motyka et al.   Scientific Reports

Phylogenomics of Opsin Genes in Diptera Reveals Lineage-Specific Events and Contrasting Evolutionary Dynamics in Anopheles and Drosophila

(2021) Roberto Feuda et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Molecular Evolution of Phototransduction Pathway Genes in Nocturnal and Diurnal Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)

(2021) Gavin J. Martin et al.   Insects

Opsin Evolution in Flower-Visiting Beetles

(2021) Camilla R. Sharkey et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Identification and Expression Patterns of Opsin Genes in a Forest Insect, Dendrolimus punctatus

(2020) Sufang Zhang et al.   Insects

Evolution of Insect Color Vision: From Spectral Sensitivity to Visual Ecology

(2020) Casper J. van der Kooi et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Optogenetics in plants

(2020) John M. Christie et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The evolution of sexual signal modes and associated sensor morphology in fireflies (Lampyridae, Coleoptera)

(2018) Kathrin F. Stanger-Hall et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hypothesis on monochromatic vision in scorpionflies questioned by new transcriptomic data

(2018) Alexander Böhm et al.   Scientific Reports

The cone opsin repertoire of osteoglossomorph fishes: gene loss in mormyrid electric fish and a long wave-length sensitive cone opsin that survived 3R

(2018) Da-Wei Liu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Overcoming the loss of blue sensitivity through opsin duplication in the largest animal group, beetles

(2017) Camilla R. Sharkey et al.   Scientific Reports

Opsins have evolved under the permanent heterozygote model: insights from phylotranscriptomics of Odonata

(2016) Anton Suvorov et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A new orange emitting luciferase from the Southern-Amazon Pyrophorus angustus (Coleoptera: Elateridae) click-beetle: structure and bioluminescence color relationship, evolutional and ecological considerations

(2016) Danilo T. Amaral et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Variation in opsin genes correlates with signalling ecology in North American fireflies

(2015) S. E. Sander et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Review of the firefly visual system (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) and evolution of the opsin genes underlying color vision

(2015) Gavin J. Martin et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

Extraordinary diversity of visual opsin genes in dragonflies

(2015) Ryo Futahashi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Opsin Clines in Butterflies Suggest Novel Roles for Insect Photopigments

(2014) Francesca D. Frentiu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolution and Expression Plasticity of Opsin Genes in a Fig Pollinator, Ceratosolen solmsi

(2013) Bo Wang et al.   PLoS One

Opsins in Onychophora (Velvet Worms) Suggest a Single Origin and Subsequent Diversification of Visual Pigments in Arthropods

(2012) Lars Hering et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Luciferase from Fulgeochlizus bruchi (Coleoptera:Elateridae), a Brazilian click-beetle with a single abdominal lantern: molecular evolution, biological function and comparison with other click-beetle luciferases

(2012) Danilo T. Amaral et al.   PHOTOCHEMICAL & PHOTOBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Double indexing overcomes inaccuracies in multiplex sequencing on the Illumina platform

(2011) Martin Kircher et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Vision in click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae): pigments and spectral correspondence between visual sensitivity and species bioluminescence emission

(2010) Abner B. Lall et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Evolution and Mechanism of Spectral Tuning of Blue-Absorbing Visual Pigments in Butterflies

(2010) Motohiro Wakakuwa et al.   PLoS One

Positive selection of a duplicated UV-sensitive visual pigment coincides with wing pigment evolution in Heliconius butterflies

(2010) Adriana D. Briscoe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

I-TASSER server for protein 3D structure prediction

(2008) Yang Zhang   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Flash Signal Evolution, Mate Choice, and Predation in Fireflies

(2007) Sara M. Lewis et al.   Annual Review of Entomology