… Detailed analysis of Cyprogenia is in preparation (Serb, unpubl. data). Seven of the
remaining genera have not yet received detailed phylogenetic study to test their monophyly. …

Molluscs in general, and bivalves in particular, exhibit an extraordinary degree of mitochondrial
gene order variation when compared with other metazoans. Two factors inhibiting our …

The opsin gene family encodes key proteins animals use to sense light and has expanded
dramatically as it originated early in animal evolution. Understanding the origins of opsin …

… This project would not have been possible without the help of the following students in the
Serb lab: Ryann Cressey, Nadya Gonzales, Ashlynn Lewis, Hyo Jung, Autum Pariett, Ashley …

… Genes flanking ND1, which were previously unknown for unionid species, were determined
from the complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Lampsilis ornata (Serb and Lydeard, …

For over 100 years, molluscan eyes have been used as an example of convergent evolution
and, more recently, as a textbook example of stepwise evolution of a complex lens eye via …

Phylogenetics has inherent utility in evolutionary developmental biology (EDB) as it is an
established methodology for estimating evolutionary relationships and for making comparisons …

… gene fragments were amplified for 39 taxa by Puslednik and Serb [32]. Here, we build on
their … and sequencing conditions are described in Puslednik and Serb [32]. We designed new …

The developing retina is an excellent model to study cellular fate determination and differentiation
in the context of a complex tissue. Over the last decade, many basic principles and key …

Background Tools for high throughput sequencing and de novo assembly make the analysis
of transcriptomes (ie the suite of genes expressed in a tissue) feasible for almost any …