2019
Bioluminescent flashes drive nighttime schooling behavior and synchronized swimming dynamics in flashlight fish
Gruber DF, Phillips BT, O’Brien R, Boominathan V, Veeraraghavan A, Vasan G, O’Brien P, Pieribone VA, Sparks JS. Bioluminescent flashes drive nighttime schooling behavior and synchronized swimming dynamics in flashlight fish. PLOS ONE 2019, 14: e0219852. PMID: 31412054, PMCID: PMC6693688, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219852.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2014
The Covert World of Fish Biofluorescence: A Phylogenetically Widespread and Phenotypically Variable Phenomenon
Sparks JS, Schelly RC, Smith WL, Davis MP, Tchernov D, Pieribone VA, Gruber DF. The Covert World of Fish Biofluorescence: A Phylogenetically Widespread and Phenotypically Variable Phenomenon. PLOS ONE 2014, 9: e83259. PMID: 24421880, PMCID: PMC3885428, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083259.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFluorescent proteinCoral reef fishesRay-finned fishesNovel fluorescent proteinsColor vision capabilitiesFish lineagesAnimal treeMarine lineagesPhylogenetic distributionEvolutionary historyBony fishIntraspecific communicationLineagesExperimental biologyPhenotypic variabilityFishProteinBiofluorescenceCurrent understandingSpeciesCnidariansGenusDiscoveryBiologyTrees