Megan L. Porter, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States 
Area:
Population genetics, evolutionary biology, bioinformatics, crustacean systematics

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2024 Iwanicki T, Steck M, Bracken-Grissom H, Porter ML. Localization of multiple opsins in ocular and non-ocular tissues of deep-sea shrimps and the first evidence of co-localization in a rhabdomeric R8 cell (Caridea: Oplophoroidea). Vision Research. 219: 108403. PMID 38581820 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2024.108403  0.699
2024 Steck M, Hanscom SJ, Iwanicki T, Sung JY, Outomuro D, Morehouse NI, Porter ML. Secondary not subordinate: Opsin localization suggests possibility for color sensitivity in salticid secondary eyes. Vision Research. 217: 108367. PMID 38428375 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2024.108367  0.383
2023 Palecanda S, Madrid E, Porter ML. Molecular Evolution of Malacostracan Short Wavelength Sensitive Opsins. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 91: 806-818. PMID 37940679 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-023-10137-w  0.343
2023 Palecanda S, Steck M, Porter ML. Increasing complexity of opsin expression across stomatopod development. Ecology and Evolution. 13: e10121. PMID 37250447 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10121  0.345
2023 McDonald M, Cohen J, Porter M. Physiological and behavioral evidence for multiple spectral channels in the larval stomatopod visual system. The Journal of Experimental Biology. PMID 37078618 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245371  0.36
2023 McDonald MS, Feller KD, Porter ML. Investigation of the ultrastructures and retinal arrangements of larval stomatopod eyes. Arthropod Structure & Development. 73: 101251. PMID 36907144 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2023.101251  0.75
2022 Cronin TW, Porter ML, Bok MJ, Caldwell RL, Marshall J. Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 377: 20210278. PMID 36058241 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0278  0.792
2022 Palecanda S, Iwanicki T, Steck M, Porter ML. Crustacean conundrums: a review of opsin diversity and evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 377: 20210289. PMID 36058240 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0289  0.39
2022 Gühmann M, Porter ML, Bok MJ. The Gluopsins: Opsins without the Retinal Binding Lysine. Cells. 11. PMID 35954284 DOI: 10.3390/cells11152441  0.741
2022 McDonald MS, Palecanda S, Cohen JH, Porter ML. Ultraviolet vision in larval Neogonodactylus oerstedii. The Journal of Experimental Biology. PMID 35029279 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.243256  0.351
2020 Porter ML, Cronin TW, Dick CW, Simon N, Dittmar K. Visual system characterization of the obligate bat ectoparasite Trichobius frequens (Diptera: Streblidae). Arthropod Structure & Development. 101007. PMID 33341370 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2020.101007  0.597
2020 Feller KD, Sharkey CR, McDuffee-Altekruse A, Bracken-Grissom HD, Lord NP, Porter ML, Schweikert LE. Surf and turf vision: Patterns and predictors of visual acuity in compound eye evolution. Arthropod Structure & Development. 101002. PMID 33191145 DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2020.101002  0.795
2020 Palecanda S, Feller KD, Porter ML. Using larval barcoding to estimate stomatopod species richness at Lizard Island, Australia for conservation monitoring. Scientific Reports. 10: 10990. PMID 32620832 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-020-67696-X  0.738
2020 Bracken-Grissom HD, DeLeo DM, Porter ML, Iwanicki T, Sickles J, Frank TM. Author Correction: Light organ photosensitivity in deep-sea shrimp may suggest a novel role in counterillumination. Scientific Reports. 10: 8376. PMID 32409729 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-020-65514-Y  0.659
2020 Porter ML, Awata H, Bok MJ, Cronin TW. Exceptional diversity of opsin expression patterns in (Stomatopoda) retinas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 32241889 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1917303117  0.795
2020 Bracken-Grissom HD, DeLeo DM, Porter ML, Iwanicki T, Sickles J, Frank TM. Light organ photosensitivity in deep-sea shrimp may suggest a novel role in counterillumination. Scientific Reports. 10: 4485. PMID 32161283 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-020-61284-9  0.692
2020 Ahyong ST, Porter ML, Caldwell RL. The Leopard Mantis Shrimp, Ankersquilla pardus, a new genus and species of eurysquillid from Indo-West Pacific coral reefs Records of the Australian Museum. 72: 1-8. DOI: 10.3853/J.2201-4349.72.2020.1758  0.335
2019 Simon N, Fujita S, Porter M, Yoshizawa M. Expression of extraocular genes and light-dependent basal activity of blind cavefish. Peerj. 7: e8148. PMID 31871836 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8148  0.336
2018 Porter ML, Sumner-Rooney L. Evolution in the Dark: Unifying our Understanding of Eye Loss. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 58: 367-371. PMID 30239782 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Icy082  0.409
2018 Valdez-Lopez JC, Donohue MW, Bok MJ, Wolf J, Cronin TW, Porter ML. Sequence, Structure, and Expression of Opsins in the Monochromatic Stomatopod Squilla empusa. Integrative and Comparative Biology. PMID 29697793 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Icy007  0.794
2017 Porter ML, Steck M, Roncalli V, Lenz PH. Molecular Characterization of Copepod Photoreception. The Biological Bulletin. 233: 96-110. PMID 29182504 DOI: 10.1086/694564  0.487
2017 Morehouse NI, Buschbeck EK, Zurek DB, Steck M, Porter ML. Molecular Evolution of Spider Vision: New Opportunities, Familiar Players. The Biological Bulletin. 233: 21-38. PMID 29182503 DOI: 10.1086/693977  0.363
2017 Bok MJ, Porter ML, Ten Hove HA, Smith R, Nilsson DE. Radiolar Eyes of Serpulid Worms (Annelida, Serpulidae): Structures, Function, and Phototransduction. The Biological Bulletin. 233: 39-57. PMID 29182501 DOI: 10.1086/694735  0.773
2017 Bok MJ, Porter ML, Nilsson DE. Phototransduction in fan worm radiolar eyes. Current Biology : Cb. 27: R698-R699. PMID 28743013 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2017.05.093  0.756
2016 Porter ML, Roberts NW, Partridge JC. Evolution under pressure and the adaptation of visual pigment compressibility in deep-sea environments. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. PMID 27530706 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2016.08.007  0.339
2016 Porter ML. Beyond the Eye: Molecular Evolution of Extraocular Photoreception. Integrative and Comparative Biology. PMID 27252216 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Icw052  0.379
2016 Battelle BA, Ryan JF, Kempler KE, Saraf SR, Marten CE, Warren WC, Minx P, Montague MJ, Green PJ, Schmidt SA, Fulton L, Patel NH, Protas ME, Wilson RK, Porter ML. Opsin repertoire and expression patterns in horseshoe crabs: evidence from the genome of Limulus polyphemus (Arthropoda: Chelicerata). Genome Biology and Evolution. PMID 27189985 DOI: 10.1093/Gbe/Evw100  0.341
2015 Bok MJ, Porter ML, Cronin TW. Ultraviolet filters in stomatopod crustaceans: diversity, ecology and evolution. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 218: 2055-66. PMID 25964422 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.122036  0.772
2015 Meland K, Mees J, Porter M, Wittmann KJ. Taxonomic review of the orders Mysida and Stygiomysida (crustacea, peracarida). Plos One. 10: e0124656. PMID 25927358 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0124656  0.374
2014 Speiser DI, Pankey MS, Zaharoff AK, Battelle BA, Bracken-Grissom HD, Breinholt JW, Bybee SM, Cronin TW, Garm A, Lindgren AR, Patel NH, Porter ML, Protas ME, Rivera AS, Serb JM, et al. Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms. Bmc Bioinformatics. 15: 350. PMID 25407802 DOI: 10.1186/S12859-014-0350-X  0.751
2014 Porter ML, Kingston AC, McCready R, Cameron EG, Hofmann CM, Suarez L, Olsen GH, Cronin TW, Robinson PR. Characterization of visual pigments, oil droplets, lens and cornea in the whooping crane Grus americana. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 217: 3883-90. PMID 25267845 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.108456  0.76
2014 How MJ, Porter ML, Radford AN, Feller KD, Temple SE, Caldwell RL, Marshall NJ, Cronin TW, Roberts NW. Out of the blue: the evolution of horizontally polarized signals in Haptosquilla (Crustacea, Stomatopoda, Protosquillidae). The Journal of Experimental Biology. 217: 3425-31. PMID 25104760 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.107581  0.763
2014 Bok MJ, Porter ML, Place AR, Cronin TW. Biological sunscreens tune polychromatic ultraviolet vision in mantis shrimp. Current Biology : Cb. 24: 1636-42. PMID 24998530 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2014.05.071  0.785
2014 Roberts NW, How MJ, Porter ML, Temple SE, Caldwell RL, Powell SB, Gruev V, Marshall NJ, Cronin TW. Animal polarization imaging and implications for optical processing Proceedings of the Ieee. 102: 1427-1434. DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2014.2341692  0.423
2014 Akinnola I, Ortiz E, Ujla D, McCready R, Cameron E, Kingston A, Porter M, Cronin T, Robinson P. The Cloning and Expression of Whooping Crane Photopigments Biophysical Journal. 106: 597a. DOI: 10.1016/J.Bpj.2013.11.3307  0.654
2013 Feller KD, Cronin TW, Ahyong ST, Porter ML. Morphological and molecular description of the late-stage larvae of Alima Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) from Lizard Island, Australia. Zootaxa. 3722: 22-32. PMID 26171512 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.3722.1.2  0.757
2013 Porter ML, Speiser DI, Zaharoff AK, Caldwell RL, Cronin TW, Oakley TH. The evolution of complexity in the visual systems of stomatopods: insights from transcriptomics. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53: 39-49. PMID 23727979 DOI: 10.1093/Icb/Ict060  0.674
2013 Engel AS, Johnson LR, Porter ML. Arsenite oxidase gene diversity among Chloroflexi and Proteobacteria from El Tatio Geyser Field, Chile. Fems Microbiology Ecology. 83: 745-56. PMID 23066664 DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12030  0.34
2012 Breinholt JW, Porter ML, Crandall KA. Testing phylogenetic hypotheses of the subgenera of the freshwater crayfish genus Cambarus (Decapoda: Cambaridae). Plos One. 7: e46105. PMID 23049950 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0046105  0.732
2012 Porter ML, Blasic JR, Bok MJ, Cameron EG, Pringle T, Cronin TW, Robinson PR. Shedding new light on opsin evolution. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 279: 3-14. PMID 22012981 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2011.1819  0.779
2011 Roberts NW, Porter ML, Cronin TW. The molecular basis of mechanisms underlying polarization vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 366: 627-37. PMID 21282166 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2010.0206  0.552
2011 Pérez-Losada M, Porter ML, Viscidi RP, Crandall KA. Multilocus sequence typing of Pathogens Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases. 503-521. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384890-1.00017-0  0.418
2010 Porter ML, Zhang Y, Desai S, Caldwell RL, Cronin TW. Evolution of anatomical and physiological specialization in the compound eyes of stomatopod crustaceans. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 213: 3473-86. PMID 20889828 DOI: 10.1242/Jeb.046508  0.64
2010 Cronin TW, Porter ML, Bok MJ, Wolf JB, Robinson PR. The molecular genetics and evolution of colour and polarization vision in stomatopod crustaceans. Ophthalmic & Physiological Optics : the Journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists). 30: 460-9. PMID 20883329 DOI: 10.1111/J.1475-1313.2010.00762.X  0.815
2010 Katti C, Kempler K, Porter ML, Legg A, Gonzalez R, Garcia-Rivera E, Dugger D, Battelle BA. Opsin co-expression in Limulus photoreceptors: differential regulation by light and a circadian clock. The Journal of Experimental Biology. 213: 2589-601. PMID 20639420 DOI: 10.1242/jeb.043869  0.328
2010 Cronin TW, Porter ML. Visual system: Invertebrates Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. 351-358. DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045046-9.00905-0  0.528
2009 Porter ML, Bok MJ, Robinson PR, Cronin TW. Molecular diversity of visual pigments in Stomatopoda (Crustacea). Visual Neuroscience. 26: 255-65. PMID 19534844 DOI: 10.1017/S0952523809090129  0.814
2009 Frank TM, Porter M, Cronin TW. Spectral sensitivity, visual pigments and screening pigments in two life history stages of the ontogenetic migrator Gnathophausia ingens Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 89: 119-129. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315408002440  0.579
2008 Porter ML, Engel AS. Diversity of uncultured Epsilonproteobacteria from terrestrial sulfidic caves and springs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 74: 4973-7. PMID 18539784 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.02915-07  0.341
2008 Cronin TW, Porter ML. Exceptional Variation on a Common Theme: The Evolution of Crustacean Compound Eyes Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1: 463-475. DOI: 10.1007/S12052-008-0085-0  0.593
2008 Porter ML, Meland K, Price W. Global diversity of mysids (Crustacea-Mysida) in freshwater Hydrobiologia. 595: 213-218. DOI: 10.1007/S10750-007-9016-2  0.352
2008 Pérez-Losada M, Porter M, Crandall KA. Methods for analyzing viral evolution Plant Virus Evolution. 165-204. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-75763-4_10  0.38
2007 Porter ML, Cronin TW, McClellan DA, Crandall KA. Molecular characterization of crustacean visual pigments and the evolution of pancrustacean opsins. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24: 253-68. PMID 17053049 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msl152  0.715
2007 Pérez-Losada M, Porter ML, Tazi L, Crandall KA. New methods for inferring population dynamics from microbial sequences. Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases. 7: 24-43. PMID 16627010 DOI: 10.1016/J.Meegid.2006.03.004  0.517
2006 Campbell BJ, Engel AS, Porter ML, Takai K. The versatile epsilon-proteobacteria: key players in sulphidic habitats. Nature Reviews. Microbiology. 4: 458-68. PMID 16652138 DOI: 10.1038/Nrmicro1414  0.31
2006 Dittmar K, Porter ML, Murray S, Whiting MF. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of nycteribiid and streblid bat flies (Diptera: Brachycera, Calyptratae): implications for host associations and phylogeographic origins. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 38: 155-70. PMID 16087354 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2005.06.008  0.36
2005 Jokela-Määttä M, Pahlberg J, Lindström M, Zak PP, Porter M, Ostrovsky MA, Cronin TW, Donner K. Visual pigment absorbance and spectral sensitivity of the Mysis relicta species group (Crustacea, Mysida) in different light environments. Journal of Comparative Physiology. a, Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology. 191: 1087-97. PMID 16133501 DOI: 10.1007/S00359-005-0039-8  0.613
2005 Porter ML, Pérez-Losada M, Crandall KA. Model-based multi-locus estimation of decapod phylogeny and divergence times. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 37: 355-69. PMID 16112880 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2005.06.021  0.508
2005 Taylor SD, de la Cruz KD, Porter ML, Whiting MF. Characterization of the long-wavelength opsin from Mecoptera and Siphonaptera: does a flea see? Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22: 1165-74. PMID 15703237 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msi110  0.44
2003 Engel AS, Lee N, Porter ML, Stern LA, Bennett PC, Wagner M. Filamentous "Epsilonproteobacteria" dominate microbial mats from sulfidic cave springs. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 69: 5503-11. PMID 12957939 DOI: 10.1128/Aem.69.9.5503-5511.2003  0.315
2003 Porter ML, Crandall KA. Lost along the way: The significance of evolution in reverse Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 18: 541-547. DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00244-1  0.51
2002 Pérez-Losada M, Jara CG, Bond-Buckup G, Porter ML, Crandall KA. Phylogenetic position of the freshwater Anomuran family Aeglidae Journal of Crustacean Biology. 22: 670-676. DOI: 10.1651/0278-0372(2002)022[0670:Ppotfa]2.0.Co;2  0.524
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