• An EvoDevo Study of Salmonid Visual Opsin Dynamics and Photopigment Spectral Sensitivity 

      Eilertsen, Mariann; Davies, Wayne I. L.; Patel, Dharmeshkumar; Barnes, Jonathan E.; Karlsen, Rita; Mountford, Jessica Kate; Stenkamp, Deborah; Patel, Jagdish Suresh; Helvik, Jon Vidar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Salmonids are ideal models as many species follow a distinct developmental program from demersal eggs and a large yolk sac to hatching at an advanced developmental stage. Further, these economically important teleosts ...
    • Pushing the limits of photoreception in twilight conditions: The rod-like cone retina of the deep-sea pearlsides 

      Busserolles de, Fanny; Cortesi, Fabio; Helvik, Jon Vidar; Davies, Wayne I. L.; Templin, Rachel M.; Sullivan, Robert K. P.; Michell, Craig T.; Mountford, Jessica K.; Collin, Shaun P.; Irigoien, Xabier; Kaartvedt, Stein; Marshall, Justin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)
      Most vertebrates have a duplex retina comprising two photoreceptor types, rods for dim-light (scotopic) vision and cones for bright-light (photopic) and color vision. However, deep-sea fishes are only active in dim-light ...