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Spectral Sensitivities and Color Signals in a Polymorphic Damselfly

(2014) Shao-chang Huang et al.   PLoS One

A Different Form of Color Vision in Mantis Shrimp

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Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

Under- and over-water halves of Gyrinidae beetle eyes harbor different corneal nanocoatings providing adaptation to the water and air environments

(2014) Artem Blagodatski et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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

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(2013) Koichiro Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The classification and diversity of dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata). In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

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Why Aye-Ayes See Blue

(2012) AMANDA D. MELIN et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

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

Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV): high-performance genomics data visualization and exploration

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Coexpression of three middle wavelength-absorbing visual pigments in sexually dimorphic photoreceptors of the butterfly Colias erate

(2012) Yuri Ogawa et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Correlation between Nuptial Colors and Visual Sensitivities Tuned by Opsins Leads to Species Richness in Sympatric Lake Victoria Cichlid Fishes

(2012) Ryutaro Miyagi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

All the better to see you with: a review of odonate color vision with transcriptomic insight into the odonate eye

(2012) Seth M. Bybee et al.   ORGANISMS DIVERSITY & EVOLUTION

In the four-eyed fish (Anableps anableps), the regions of the retina exposed to aquatic and aerial light do not express the same set of opsin genes

(2011) G. L. Owens et al.   Biology Letters

RT-qPCR reveals opsin gene upregulation associated with age and sex in guppies (Poecilia reticulata) - a species with color-based sexual selection and 11 visual-opsin genes

(2011) Christopher RJ Laver et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Shedding new light on opsin evolution

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

The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex

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

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

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

Evolution of color vision in pierid butterflies: blue opsin duplication, ommatidial heterogeneity and eye regionalization in Colias erate

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

Evolution of opsins and phototransduction

(2009) Y. Shichida et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Fish Eye Out of Water: Ten Visual Opsins in the Four-Eyed Fish, Anableps anableps

(2009) Gregory L. Owens et al.   PLoS One

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

Directional Selectivity in the Simple Eye of an Insect

(2008) J. van Kleef et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A review of the evolution of animal colour vision and visual communication signals

(2008) D. Osorio et al.   VISION RESEARCH