A comparative study of rhodopsin function in the great bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis): Spectral tuning and light-activated kinetics

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

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

Out of the blue: adaptive visual pigment evolution accompanies Amazon invasion

(2015) Alexander Van Nynatten et al.   Biology Letters

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 of Killer Whale (Orcinus orca) Rhodopsin: Evidence for Positive Selection and Functional Adaptation in a Cetacean Visual Pigment

(2015) Sarah Z. Dungan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2015) Natasha I. Bloch et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Origin of the low thermal isomerization rate of rhodopsin chromophore

(2015) Masataka Yanagawa et al.   Scientific Reports

Epistasis Constrains Mutational Pathways of Hemoglobin Adaptation in High-Altitude Pikas

(2014) Danielle M. Tufts et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Amino acid conservation and interactions in rhodopsin: Probing receptor activation by NMR spectroscopy

(2013) Andreyah Pope et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOENERGETICS

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

Rapid Release of Retinal from a Cone Visual Pigment following Photoactivation

(2012) Min-Hsuan Chen et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY

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

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

(2012) CONSTANZE BICKELMANN et al.   VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE

Crystal structure of metarhodopsin II

(2011) Hui-Woog Choe et al.   NATURE

Structure and Activation of the Visual Pigment Rhodopsin

(2010) Steven O. Smith   Annual Review of Biophysics

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

Vertebrate Rhodopsin Adaptation to Dim Light via Rapid Meta-II Intermediate Formation

(2009) T. Sugawara et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Rhodopsin Molecular Evolution in Mammals Inhabiting Low Light Environments

(2009) Huabin Zhao et al.   PLoS One

Evolutionary and functional insights into the mechanism underlying high-altitude adaptation of deer mouse hemoglobin

(2009) J. F. Storz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanism of Spectral Tuning Going from Retinal in Vacuo to Bovine Rhodopsin and its Mutants: Multireference ab Initio Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Studies

(2008) Ahmet Altun et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Evolution of vertebrate visual pigments

(2008) James K. Bowmaker   VISION RESEARCH