2018
A Dexterous, Glove-Based Teleoperable Low-Power Soft Robotic Arm for Delicate Deep-Sea Biological Exploration
Phillips BT, Becker KP, Kurumaya S, Galloway KC, Whittredge G, Vogt DM, Teeple CB, Rosen MH, Pieribone VA, Gruber DF, Wood RJ. A Dexterous, Glove-Based Teleoperable Low-Power Soft Robotic Arm for Delicate Deep-Sea Biological Exploration. Scientific Reports 2018, 8: 14779. PMID: 30283051, PMCID: PMC6170437, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-33138-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMarine biologistsDeep-sea organismsMultitude of organismsCoral reefsMarine organismsMarine systemsShallow marine systemsBiological interactionsBiological explorationOrganismsDeep seaSuction samplerBiologistsBiological samplingScuba divingDelicate interactionSCUBABiodiversityField trialsFaunaReefsEcosystemsInteractionPhysiologyClaws
2015
Adaptive Evolution of Eel Fluorescent Proteins from Fatty Acid Binding Proteins Produces Bright Fluorescence in the Marine Environment
Gruber DF, Gaffney JP, Mehr S, DeSalle R, Sparks JS, Platisa J, Pieribone VA. Adaptive Evolution of Eel Fluorescent Proteins from Fatty Acid Binding Proteins Produces Bright Fluorescence in the Marine Environment. PLOS ONE 2015, 10: e0140972. PMID: 26561348, PMCID: PMC4641735, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0140972.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcid-binding proteinFluorescent proteinFatty acid-binding proteinDuplication eventsGene duplication eventsStrong positive selectionNew fluorescent proteinsMarine environmentAdaptive evolutionEvolutionary switchCryptic genusVertebrate ordersVertebrate taxaPhylogenetic reconstructionProtein familyPhylogenetic analysisSequence motifsSister groupEvolutionary adaptationTranscriptomic analysisPositive selectionFatty acid binding proteinAcid binding proteinBinding proteinBright green fluorescence