Mineralized rods and cones suggest colour vision in a 300 Myr-old fossil fish

Photoaging of human retinal pigment epithelium is accompanied by oxidative modifications of its eumelanin

(2013) Shosuke Ito et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Discovery of some 400 million year-old sensory structures in the compound eyes of trilobites

(2013) Brigitte Schoenemann et al.   Scientific Reports

High-performance liquid chromatography estimation of cross-linking of dihydroxyindole moiety in eumelanin

(2012) Shosuke Ito et al.   ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Acanthodes and shark-like conditions in the last common ancestor of modern gnathostomes

(2012) Samuel P. Davis et al.   NATURE

Direct chemical evidence for eumelanin pigment from the Jurassic period

(2012) K. Glass et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconstruction ofMicroraptorand the Evolution of Iridescent Plumage

(2012) Quanguo Li et al.   SCIENCE

Usefulness of alkaline hydrogen peroxide oxidation to analyze eumelanin and pheomelanin in various tissue samples: application to chemical analysis of human hair melanins

(2011) Shosuke Ito et al.   Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research

Morphological and Geochemical Evidence of Eumelanin Preservation in the Feathers of the Early Cretaceous Bird, Gansus yumenensis

(2011) Holly E. Barden et al.   PLoS One

The sophisticated visual system of a tiny Cambrian crustacean: analysis of a stalked fossil compound eye

(2011) B. Schoenemann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

Fossilized melanosomes and the colour of Cretaceous dinosaurs and birds

(2010) Fucheng Zhang et al.   NATURE

Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur

(2010) Q. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Structural coloration in a fossil feather

(2009) J. Vinther et al.   Biology Letters

A comparative study of the ocular skeleton of fossil and modern chondrichthyans

(2009) Brettney L. Pilgrim et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

The braincase and jaws of a Devonian ‘acanthodian’ and modern gnathostome origins

(2009) Martin D. Brazeau   NATURE

On the origin of optics

(2009) Andrew R. Parker   OPTICS AND LASER TECHNOLOGY

Eye evolution: common use and independent recruitment of genetic components

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

An exceptionally well-preserved Eocene dolichopodid fly eye: function and evolutionary significance

(2009) G. Tanaka et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The colour of fossil feathers

(2008) J. Vinther et al.   Biology Letters