Pushing the limits of photoreception in twilight conditions: The rod-like cone retina of the deep-sea pearlsides

Cone-like rhodopsin expressed in the all-cone retina of the colubrid pine snake as a potential adaptation to diurnality

(2017) Nihar Bhattacharyya et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

The opsin genes of amazonian cichlids

(2017) Daniel Escobar-Camacho et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Recruitment of Rod Photoreceptors from Short-Wavelength-Sensitive Cones during the Evolution of Nocturnal Vision in Mammals

(2016) Jung-Woong Kim et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

From crypsis to mimicry: changes in colour and the configuration of the visual system during ontogenetic habitat transitions in a coral reef fish

(2016) Fabio Cortesi et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

A second visual rhodopsin gene,rh1-2, is expressed in zebrafish photoreceptors and found in other ray-finned fishes

(2016) James M. Morrow et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Evolution of Vertebrate Phototransduction: Cascade Activation

(2016) Trevor D. Lamb et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Multiple rod–cone and cone–rod photoreceptor transmutations in snakes: evidence from visual opsin gene expression

(2016) Bruno F. Simões et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spectral Tuning in the Eyes of Deep-Sea Lanternfishes (Myctophidae): A Novel Sexually Dimorphic Intra-Ocular Filter

(2015) Fanny de Busserolles et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Single-Photon Sensitivity of Lamprey Rods with Cone-like Outer Segments

(2015) Ala Morshedian et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cyp27c1 Red-Shifts the Spectral Sensitivity of Photoreceptors by Converting Vitamin A1 into A2

(2015) Jennifer M. Enright et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

An extended family of novel vertebrate photopigments is widely expressed and displays a diversity of function

(2015) Wayne I.L. Davies et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Evolutionary transformation of rod photoreceptors in the all-cone retina of a diurnal garter snake

(2015) Ryan K. Schott et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomics Virtual Laboratory: A Practical Bioinformatics Workbench for the Cloud

(2015) Enis Afgan et al.   PLoS One

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Retinal Ganglion Cell Distribution and Spatial Resolving Power in Deep-Sea Lanternfishes (Myctophidae)

(2014) Fanny de Busserolles et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

The Influence of Photoreceptor Size and Distribution on Optical Sensitivity in the Eyes of Lanternfishes (Myctophidae)

(2014) Fanny de Busserolles et al.   PLoS One

A Comparison of Spatial Analysis Methods for the Construction of Topographic Maps of Retinal Cell Density

(2014) Eduardo Garza-Gisholt et al.   PLoS One

Ancestral duplications and highly dynamic opsin gene evolution in percomorph fishes

(2014) Fabio Cortesi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Evolution of phototransduction, vertebrate photoreceptors and retina

(2013) Trevor D. Lamb   PROGRESS IN RETINAL AND EYE RESEARCH

Retinal Ganglion Cell Topography and Spatial Resolving Power in Penguins

(2012) João Paulo Coimbra et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

Next-generation sequencing in health-care delivery: lessons from the functional analysis of rhodopsin

(2012) Wayne I.L. Davies et al.   GENETICS IN MEDICINE

Isolation and characterization of melanopsin photoreceptors of atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)

(2012) Mari Sandbakken et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Challenges and strategies in transcriptome assembly and differential gene expression quantification. A comprehensivein silicoassessment of RNA-seq experiments

(2012) Nagarjun Vijay et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Vertebrate ancient opsin photopigment spectra and the avian photoperiodic response

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

The Retinal Wholemount Technique: A Window to Understanding the Brain and Behaviour

(2011) Jeremy F.P. Ullmann et al.   BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Twilight spectral dynamics and the coral reef invertebrate spawning response

(2011) A. M. Sweeney et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Myelination transition zone astrocytes are constitutively phagocytic and have synuclein dependent reactivity in glaucoma

(2011) J. V. Nguyen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Manipulation of FASTQ data with Galaxy

(2010) D. Blankenberg et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Follow the light—diurnal and seasonal variations in vertical distribution of the mesopelagic fish Maurolicus muelleri 

(2010) A Staby et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Vertebrate ancient opsin and melanopsin: divergent irradiance detectors

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

Bioluminescence in the Ocean: Origins of Biological, Chemical, and Ecological Diversity

(2010) E. A. Widder   SCIENCE

Into the blue: Gene duplication and loss underlie color vision adaptations in a deep-sea chimaera, the elephant shark Callorhinchus milii

(2009) W. L. Davies et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Number and distribution of neurons in the retinal ganglion cell layer in relation to foraging behaviors of tyrant flycatchers

(2009) João Paulo Coimbra et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE NEUROLOGY

Shedding Light on Serpent Sight: The Visual Pigments of Henophidian Snakes

(2009) W. L. Davies et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Evolution of Dim-Light and Color Vision Pigments

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

High-resolution in situ hybridization to whole-mount zebrafish embryos

(2007) Christine Thisse et al.   Nature Protocols