Revealing the Biochemical and Genetic Basis of Color Variation in a Polymorphic Lizard

Behavioural differences across contexts may indicate morph-specific strategies in the lizard Ctenophorus decresii

(2016) Madeleine St Clair Yewers et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The genetic basis of discrete and quantitative colour variation in the polymorphic lizard, Ctenophorus decresii

(2016) Katrina J. Rankin et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Divergence and Functional Degradation of a Sex Chromosome-like Supergene

(2016) Elaina M. Tuttle et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Plumage Genes and Little Else Distinguish the Genomes of Hybridizing Warblers

(2016) David P.L. Toews et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Red Carotenoid Coloration in the Zebra Finch Is Controlled by a Cytochrome P450 Gene Cluster

(2016) Nicholas I. Mundy et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The Cellular Basis of Polymorphic Coloration in Common Side-Blotched Lizards,Uta stansburiana

(2015) David C. Haisten et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Spectral sensitivity of cone photoreceptors and opsin expression in two colour-divergent lineages of the lizard Ctenophorus decresii

(2015) M. S. Yewers et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Targeted capture and resequencing of 1040 genes reveal environmentally driven functional variation in grey wolves

(2015) Rena M. Schweizer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Transcriptomics of colour patterning and coloration shifts in crows

(2015) J. W. Poelstra et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Testosterone-Induced Expression of Male Colour Morphs in Females of the Polymorphic Tawny Dragon Lizard, Ctenophorus decresii

(2015) Katrina Rankin et al.   PLoS One

High-coverage sequencing and annotated assembly of the genome of the Australian dragon lizard Pogona vitticeps

(2015) Arthur Georges et al.   GigaScience

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogeographic structure, demographic history and morph composition in a colour polymorphic lizard

(2014) C. A. McLean et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Local adaptation and divergence in colour signal conspicuousness between monomorphic and polymorphic lineages in a lizard

(2014) C. A. McLean et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Precise colocalization of interacting structural and pigmentary elements generates extensive color pattern variation in Phelsuma lizards

(2013) Suzanne V Saenko et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Discrete colour polymorphism in the tawny dragon lizard (Ctenophorus decresii) and differences in signal conspicuousness among morphs

(2013) L. C. Teasdale et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Carotenoid metabolism in mammals, including man: formation, occurrence, and function of apocarotenoids

(2013) Abdulkerim Eroglu et al.   JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH

Pleiotropy in the melanocortin system: expression levels of this system are associated with melanogenesis and pigmentation in the tawny owl (Strix aluco)

(2013) Guillaume Emaresi et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

(2013) Brian J Haas et al.   Nature Protocols

Gene Expression Analysis of Zebrafish Melanocytes, Iridophores, and Retinal Pigmented Epithelium Reveals Indicators of Biological Function and Developmental Origin

(2013) Charles W. Higdon et al.   PLoS One

Genetics and evolution of colour patterns in reptiles

(2013) Mats Olsson et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Genetics of colouration in birds

(2013) Alexandre Roulin et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The Vitamin A–Redox Hypothesis: A Biochemical Basis for Honest Signaling via Carotenoid Pigmentation

(2012) Geoffrey E. Hill et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Carotenoid-based signals in behavioural ecology: a review

(2011) Svensson et al.   BEHAVIOUR

RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

(2011) Bo Li et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Pteridine, not carotenoid, pigments underlie the female-specific orange ornament of striped plateau lizards (Sceloporus virgatus)

(2011) S.L. Weiss et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Carotenoid Access, Nutritional Stress, and the Dewlap Color of Male Brown Anoles

(2011) John E. Steffen et al.   COPEIA

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

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Fast Identification and Removal of Sequence Contamination from Genomic and Metagenomic Datasets

(2011) Robert Schmieder et al.   PLoS One

Colors with Functions: Elucidating the Biochemical and Molecular Basis of Carotenoid Metabolism

(2010) Johannes von Lintig   Annual Review of Nutrition

Phylogeny of Australasian agamid lizards based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes: implications for morphological evolution and biogeography

(2010) ANDREW F. HUGALL et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Vertebrate pigmentation: from underlying genes to adaptive function

(2010) Joanna K. Hubbard et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

A scaling normalization method for differential expression analysis of RNA-seq data

(2010) Mark D Robinson et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

(2009) M. D. Robinson et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

How dewlap color reflects its carotenoid and pterin content in male and female brown anoles (Norops sagrei)

(2009) John E. Steffen et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Sex steroid correlates of female-specific colouration, behaviour and reproductive state in Lake Eyre dragon lizards, Ctenophorus maculosus

(2009) Tim S. Jessop et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Pathway Enrichment Based on Text Mining and Its Validation on Carotenoid and Vitamin A Metabolism

(2009) Andra Waagmeester et al.   OMICS-A JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY

Carotenoid-Based Colours Reflect the Stress Response in the Common Lizard

(2009) Patrick S. Fitze et al.   PLoS One

Complex signatures of selection for the melanogenic loci TYR, TYRP1 and DCT in humans

(2008) Santos Alonso et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Carotenoid intake does not mediate a relationship between reactive oxygen species and bright colouration: experimental test in a lizard

(2008) M. Olsson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Testosterone stimulates the expression of a social color signal in Yarrow's Spiny Lizard,Sceloporus jarrovii

(2008) Robert M. Cox et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology