The Dynamic Evolutionary History of Pancrustacean Eyes and Opsins

Spectral sensitivity in Onychophora (velvet worms) revealed by electroretinograms, phototactic behaviour and opsin gene expression

(2015) H. Beckmann et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

The evolutionary diversity of insect retinal mosaics: common design principles and emerging molecular logic

(2015) Mathias F. Wernet et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms

(2014) Daniel I Speiser et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Analysis of the Opsin Repertoire in the Tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini Provides Insights into the Evolution of Opsin Genes in Panarthropoda

(2014) Lars Hering et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Attraction to Different Wavelength Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), the Compound Eye Structure, and opsin Genes in Nilaparvata lugens

(2014) Yukiko Matsumoto et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Opsin expression in Limulus eyes: a UV opsin is expressed in each eye type and co-expressed with a visible light-sensitive opsin in ventral larval eyes

(2014) B.-A. Battelle et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Opsins in Limulus eyes: characterization of three visible light-sensitive opsins unique to and co-expressed in median eye photoreceptors and a peropsin/RGR that is expressed in all eyes

(2014) B.-A. Battelle et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Opsin expression, physiological characterization and identification of photoreceptor cells in the dorsal rim area and main retina of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria

(2014) F. Schmeling et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

Characterisation and localisation of the opsin protein repertoire in the brain and retinas of a spider and an onychophoran

(2013) Bo Joakim Eriksson et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evasion of Predators Contributes to the Maintenance of Male Eyes in Sexually Dimorphic Euphilomedes Ostracods (Crustacea)

(2013) Daniel I. Speiser et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Complexity in the Visual Systems of Stomatopods: Insights from Transcriptomics

(2013) Megan L. Porter et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Rhodopsin coexpression in UV photoreceptors of Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

(2013) X. Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh 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

Opsin evolution and expression in Arthropod compound Eyes and Ocelli: Insights from the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus

(2012) Miriam J Henze et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Deep Phylogeny and Character Evolution in Thecostraca (Crustacea: Maxillopoda)

(2012) M. Perez-Losada et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Blue-light-receptive cryptochrome is expressed in a sponge eye lacking neurons and opsin

(2012) A. S. Rivera et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

Phylotranscriptomics to Bring the Understudied into the Fold: Monophyletic Ostracoda, Fossil Placement, and Pancrustacean Phylogeny

(2012) Todd H. Oakley et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genome Features of “Dark-Fly”, a Drosophila Line Reared Long-Term in a Dark Environment

(2012) Minako Izutsu et al.   PLoS One

Wiring a Periscope – Ocelli, Retinula Axons, Visual Neuropils and the Ancestrality of Sea Spiders

(2012) Tobias Lehmann et al.   PLoS One

ProtTest 3: fast selection of best-fit models of protein evolution

(2011) Diego Darriba et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Aligning short reads to reference alignments and trees

(2011) Simon A. Berger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes

(2011) John R. Paterson et al.   NATURE

The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex

(2011) J. K. Colbourne et al.   SCIENCE

SATé-II: Very Fast and Accurate Simultaneous Estimation of Multiple Sequence Alignments and Phylogenetic Trees

(2011) Kevin Liu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

UniProt Knowledgebase: a hub of integrated protein data

(2011) M. Magrane et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

Molecular evidence for color discrimination in the Atlantic sand fiddler crab, Uca pugilator

(2010) P. Rajkumar et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

The post-embryonic development of Remipedia (Crustacea)—additional results and new insights

(2009) Stefan Koenemann et al.   DEVELOPMENT GENES AND EVOLUTION

Identification and characterization of a protostome homologue of peropsin from a jumping spider

(2009) Takashi Nagata et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Molecular diversity of visual pigments in Stomatopoda (Crustacea)

(2009) MEGAN L. PORTER et al.   VISUAL NEUROSCIENCE

Reconstructing the ancestral butterfly eye: focus on the opsins

(2008) A. D. Briscoe   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Molecular Evolution of Arthropod Color Vision Deduced from Multiple Opsin Genes of Jumping Spiders

(2008) Mitsumasa Koyanagi et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Molecular Characterization of Visual Pigments in Branchiopoda and the Evolution of Opsins in Arthropoda

(2008) K. Kashiyama et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of vertebrate visual pigments

(2008) James K. Bowmaker   VISION RESEARCH

Iroquois Complex Genes Induce Co-Expression of rhodopsins in Drosophila

(2008) Esteban O Mazzoni et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY