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Publications

2021

Kingston, A.C.N, D.R. Chappell, L. Koch, S. Johnsen, and D.I. Speiser. The orbital hoods of snapping shrimp have surface features that may represent tradeoffs between vision and protection. Arthropod Structure & Development 61: 101025. DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2020.101025

2020

Varney, R.M, D.I. Speiser, C. McDougall, B.M. Degnan, and K.M. Kocot. The iron-responsive genome of the chiton Acanthopleura granulata. Genome Biology and Evolution, evaa263. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evaa263
Kingston, A.C.N, D.R. Chappell, and D.I. Speiser (2020).  A snapping shrimp has the fastest vision of any aquatic animal. Biology Letters 16: 20200298. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0298
Chappell, D.R, and D.I. Speiser (2020).  Visual Ecology: Now you see, now you don't. Current Biology 30(2): R71-R73. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.12.002

2019

Harris, O.K, A.C.N. Kingston, C.S. Wolfe, S. Ghoshroy, S. Johnsen, and D.I. Speiser,  (2019). Core–shell nanospheres behind the blue
eyes of the bay scallop
Argopecten irradians. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16: 20190383. DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2019.0383

Juarez, B.H, D.I. Speiser, and T.H. Oakley (2019). Context-dependent evolution of ostracod morphology along the ecogeographical
gradient of ocean depth
. Evolution 73(6): 1213-1225. DOI:10.1111/evo.13748
Kingston, A.C.N, R.L. Lucia, L.T. Havens, T.W. Cronin, and D.I. Speiser (2019). Vision in the snapping shrimp Alpheus heterochaelis. Journal of Experimental Biology 221(21). DOI: 10.1242/jeb.209015
Kingston, A.C.N, J.D. Sigwart, D.R. Chappell, and D.I. Speiser (2019). Monster or multiplacophoran: A teratological specimen of the chiton Acanthopleura granulata (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) with a valve split into independent and symmetrical halves. Acta Zoologica. DOI: 10.1111/azo.12289
Miller, H.V, A.C.N. Kingston, Y.L, Gagnon, and D.I. Speiser (2019). The mirror-based eyes of scallops demonstrate a light-evoked pupillary response. Current Biology 29(9): R313-R314. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.053

2018

Kingston, A.C.N, D.R. Chappell, and D.I. Speiser (2018). Evidence for spatial vision in Chiton tuberculatus, a chiton with eyespots. Journal of Experimental Biology 221(19): jeb183632. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.183632

2017

Kingston, A.C.N, D.R. Chappell, H.V. Miller, S.J. Lee, and D.I. Speiser (2017). Expression of G Proteins in the Eyes and Parietovisceral Ganglion of the Bay Scallop Argopecten irradians. The Biological Bulletin, 233(1), 83-95. DOI: 10.1086/694448
Ramirez, M.D, A.N. Pairett, M.S. Pankey, J.M. Serb, D.I. Speiser, A.J. Swafford, and T.H. Oakley. The Last Common Ancestor of Most Bilaterian Animals Possessed at Least Nine Opsins. Genome Biology and Evolution 8(12): 3640-3652. DOI:10.1093/gbe/evw248
Speiser, D.I, and W.M. Kier (2017). New Insights from Genetic Data Sets on the Function and Evolution of Visual Systems: Introduction to a Virtual Symposium in The Biological Bulletin. The Biological Bulletin, 233(1): 1-2. DOI: 10.1086/695469
Williams, S. T, A.E. Lockyer, P. Dyal, T. Nakano, C.K. Churchill, D.I. Speiser (2017). Colorful seashells: Identification of haem pathway genes associated with the synthesis of porphyrin shell color in marine snails. Ecology and Evolution, 7(23), 10379-10397. DOI:10.1002/ece3.3552

2016

Speiser, D.I, Y.L. Gagnon, R.K. Chhetri, A.L. Oldenburg, and S. Johnsen (2016). Examining the Effects of Chromatic Aberration, Object Distance, and Eye Shape on Image-Formation in the Mirror-Based Eyes of the Bay Scallop Argopecten irradians. Integrative and Comparative Biology  56(5): 796-808. DOI:10.1093/icb/icw099
Speiser, D.I, and L.A. Wilkins (2016). Neurobiology and behaviour of the scallop. In book: Scallops: Biology, Ecology, Aquaculture, and Fisheries 3rd Edition, eds. S.E. Shumway and G.J. Parsons. Elsevier Science, pp. 219-251.
Williams, S.T, S. Ito, K. Wakamatsu, T. Goral, N.P. Edwards, R. A. Wogelius, T. Henkel, L.F.C. de Oliveira, L.F. Maia, S. Strekopytov, T. Jeffries, D.I. Speiser, and J.T. Marsden (2016). Identification of Shell Colour Pigments in Marine Snails Clanculus pharaonius and C. margaritarius (Trochoidea; Gastropoda). PloS ONE 11(7): e0156664. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156664

2015

Battelle, B.A., K.E. Kempler, S.R. Saraf, C.E. Marten, D.R. Dugger, D.I. Speiser, and T.H. Oakley (2015). Opsins in Limulus eyes: characterization of three visible light-sensitive opsins unique to and co-expressed in median eye photoreceptors and a peropsin/RGR that is expressed in all eyes. Journal of Experimental Biology 218:466-479. DOI: 10.1242/jeb.116087.

Li, L, M.J. Connors, M. Kolle, G.T. England, D.I. Speiser, X. Xiao, J. Aizenberg, and C. Ortiz (2015). Multifunctionality of chiton biomineralized armor with an integrated visual system. Science 350(6263):952-956. DOI: 10.1126/science.aad1246

Oakley, T.H. and D.I. Speiser (2015). How Complexity Originates: The Evolution of Animal Eyes. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 46: 237-260. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135907

Stahl, B.A, J.B. Gross, D.I. Speiser, T.H. Oakley, N.H. Patel, D.B. Gould, and M.E. Protas (2015). A Transcriptomic Analysis of Cave, Surface, and Hybrid Isopod Crustaceans of the Species Asellus aquaticus. PLoS ONE 10(10):e0140484.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140484


2014

Gagnon, Y.L, D.I. Speiser, and S. Johnsen (2014). Simplifying numerical ray-tracing for characterisation of optical systems. Applied Optics 53: 4784-4790. DOI:10.1364/AO.53.004784.

Speiser, D.I, M.S. Pankey, A.K. Zaharoff, B.A Battelle, H.D. Bracken-Grissom, J.W. Breinholt, S.M. Bybee, T.W. Cronin, A. Garm, A.R. Lindgren, N.H. Patel, M.L. Porter, M.E. Protas, A.S. Rivera, J.M. Serb, K.S. Zigler, K.A. Crandall, and T.H. Oakley (2014). Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms. BMC Bioinformatics 15:350. DOI:10.1186/s12859-014-0350-x.

Speiser, D.I, D.G. DeMartini, and T.H. Oakley (2014). The shell-eyes of the chiton Acanthopleura granulata (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) use pheomelanin as a screening pigment. Journal of Natural History 48: 2899-2911. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2014.959572.


2013-2008

Brandley, N.C, D.I. Speiser, and S. Johnsen (2013). Eavesdropping on visual secrets. Evolutionary Ecology 27: 1045-1068. DOI:10.1007/s10682-013-9656-9.

Porter, M.L, D.I. Speiser, A.K. Zaharoff, R.L. Caldwell, T.W. Cronin and T.H. Oakley (2013). The evolution of complexity in the visual systems of stomatopods: Insights from transcriptomics. Integrative and Comparative Biology 53: 39-49. DOI:10.1093/icb/ict060.

Speiser, D.I, R.I. Lampe, V.R. Lovdahl, B. Carrillo-Zazueta, A.S. Rivera and T.H. Oakley (2013). Evasion of predators contributes to the maintenance of male eyes in dimorphic Euphilomedes ostracods (Crustacea). Integrative and Comparative Biology 53: 78-88.
DOI: 10.1093/icb/ict025.

Ramirez, M.D, D.I. Speiser, M.S. Pankey, and T.H. Oakley (2011). Understanding the dermal light sense in the context of integrative photoreceptor cell biology. Visual Neuroscience 28: 265-279. DOI:10.1017/S0952523811000150.

Speiser, D.I, D. Eernisse, and S. Johnsen (2011). A chiton uses aragonite lenses to form images. Current Biology 21: 665-670. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.033.

Speiser, D.I, E.R. Loew, and S. Johnsen (2011). Spectral sensitivity of the concave mirror eyes of scallops: Potential influences of habitat, self-screening and longitudinal chromatic aberration. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 422-431.
DOI:10.1242/jeb.048108.

Speiser, D.I, and S. Johnsen (2008). Comparative morphology of the concave mirror eyes of scallops (Pectinoidea). American Malacological Bulletin 26: 27-34. DOI:10.4003/006.026.0204.

Speiser, D.I, and S. Johnsen (2008). Scallops visually respond to the presence and speed of virtual particles. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 2066-2070. DOI:10.1242/jeb.017038.


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