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

The light-sensitive photoprotein berovin from the bioluminescent ctenophore Beroe abyssicola: a novel type of Ca2+-regulated photoprotein

(2012) Svetlana V. Markova et al.   FEBS Journal

A unique EF-hand motif in mnemiopsin photoprotein from Mnemiopsis leidyi: Implication for its low calcium sensitivity

(2011) Vahab Jafarian et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Shedding new light on opsin evolution

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

Cloning, Sequencing, Expression and Structural Investigation of Mnemiopsin from Mnemiopsis leidyi: An Attempt Toward Understanding Ca2+-Regulated Photoproteins

(2011) Mahmoud Reza Aghamaali et al.   PROTEIN JOURNAL

Ciliary photoreceptors in the cerebral eyes of a protostome larva

(2011) Yale J Passamaneck et al.   EvoDevo

Effort required to finish shotgun-generated genome sequences differs significantly among vertebrates

(2010) Robert W Blakesley et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Microsatellites reveal origin and genetic diversity of Eurasian invasions by one of the world’s most notorious marine invader, Mnemiopsis leidyi (Ctenophora)

(2010) THORSTEN B. H. REUSCH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The dynamic genome of Hydra

(2010) Jarrod A. Chapman et al.   NATURE

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

The evolution of phototransduction from an ancestral cyclic nucleotide gated pathway

(2010) D. C. Plachetzki et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The homeodomain complement of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi suggests that Ctenophora and Porifera diverged prior to the ParaHoxozoa

(2010) Joseph F Ryan et al.   EvoDevo

Bioluminescence in the Sea

(2009) Steven H.D. Haddock et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Luciferase a light source for the silica-based optical waveguides (spicules) in the demosponge Suberites domuncula

(2009) W. E. G. Müller et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

JBrowse: A next-generation genome browser

(2009) M. E. Skinner et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Evolution of opsins and phototransduction

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

Gene tree discordance, phylogenetic inference and the multispecies coalescent

(2009) James H. Degnan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phyutility: a phyloinformatics tool for trees, alignments and molecular data

(2008) S. A. Smith et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An Improved General Amino Acid Replacement Matrix

(2008) S. Q. Le et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans

(2008) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

(2008) Nicole King et al.   NATURE

Genome assembly forensics: finding the elusive mis-assembly

(2008) Adam M Phillippy et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Evolution and Functional Diversity of Jellyfish Opsins

(2007) Hiroshi Suga et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY