The Comb Jelly Opsins and the Origins of Animal Phototransduction

The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems

(2014) Leonid L. Moroz et al.   NATURE

Novel Scenarios of Early Animal Evolution--Is It Time to Rewrite Textbooks?

(2013) M. Dohrmann et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

(2013) Tetyana Nosenko et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

Genomic organization, evolution, and expression of photoprotein and opsin genes in Mnemiopsis leidyi: a new view of ctenophore photocytes

(2012) Christine E Schnitzler et al.   BMC 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

Evidence for Multiple Phototransduction Pathways in a Reef-Building Coral

(2012) Benjamin Mason et al.   PLoS One

Metazoan opsin evolution reveals a simple route to animal vision

(2012) R. Feuda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Serine Codon-Usage Bias in Deep Phylogenomics: Pancrustacean Relationships as a Case Study

(2012) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Shedding new light on opsin evolution

(2011) M. L. Porter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Survey of Branch Support Methods Demonstrates Accuracy, Power, and Robustness of Fast Likelihood-based Approximation Schemes

(2011) Maria Anisimova et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

PhyloBayes 3: a Bayesian software package for phylogenetic reconstruction and molecular dating

(2009) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods

(2009) A. Hejnol et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Empirical profile mixture models for phylogenetic reconstruction

(2008) Le Si Quang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A multi criterion approach for the selection of optimal outgroups in phylogeny: Recovering some support for Mandibulata over Myriochelata using mitogenomics

(2008) Omar Rota-Stabelli et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

Jellyfish vision starts with cAMP signaling mediated by opsin-Gs cascade

(2008) M. Koyanagi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution and Functional Diversity of Jellyfish Opsins

(2007) Hiroshi Suga et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY