Category Archives: Publications

Convergent Evolution of Dim Light Vision in Owls and Deep-Diving Whales

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Chang Lab

Rhodopsin light activation produces all-trans retinal, a toxic byproduct. As a result, animals with enhanced dim light sensitivity are at higher risk of retinal degeneration when exposed to bright light conditions. Rod arrestin (Arr-1) binds to rhodopsin and promotes sequestration … Continue reading →

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Context Matters: Epistasis in a Whale Visual Gene

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Chang Lab

Does a genetic mutation in one organism have the same effect in another from a different species? New research from Ph.D. candidate Sarah Dungan in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences highlights a case where parallel genetic changes … Continue reading →

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Capturing coding-sequences across divergent species

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Chang Lab

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Ryan Schott who published a novel approach for capturing full-length coding-sequences in Genome Biology and Evolution!

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Cone-like rhodopsin in the all-cone Colubrid retina

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Chang Lab

Congratulations to Ph.D. candidates Nihar Bhattacharyya and Ryan Schott for their new paper on in the Journal of Experimental Biology!  The study is highlighted in an “Inside JEB” feature, and is the current “Editor’s choice”!

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Three new publications: Protein Science, Nature Communications, and Journal of Experimental Biology

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Chang Lab

We have three new publication announcements to make, covering the last two papers of 2016, and the first of 2017. In 2016, Chang Lab members in collaboration with Professor John A. Endler (Deakin University) published “A comparative study of rhodopsin function in the great … Continue reading →

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Two new publications: Mitochondrial DNA and The Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Chang Lab

From Elbassiouny et al. (in collaboration with Chang Lab members Ryan K. Schott, Alexander Van Nynatten, and B.S.W. Chang) in Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources, is a mitogenome announcement entitled Mitochondrial genomes of the South American electric knifefishes (Order Gymnotiformes). Next, Gutierrez et … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 21, 2016 by Chang Lab

We’re happy to announce two new publications for 2016 to help ring in the new year! First, Schott et al. continue their research into reptile vision with Evolutionary transformation of rod photoreceptors in the all-cone retina of a diurnal garter … Continue reading →

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