Johnelle Sparks to Animals
This is a "connection" page, showing publications Johnelle Sparks has written about Animals.
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Ghedotti MJ, Valdez JJ, Martin RP, Carr EM, Sparks JS. Morphology of the light-organ system and bioluminescent blinking in the ponyfish tribe Equulitini (Teleostei: Leiognathidae). PLoS One. 2026; 21(4):e0347687.
Score: 0.072
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Carr EM, Martin RP, Ghedotti MJ, Sparks JS. A shot in the dark: Comparative morphology of the bioluminescent tube organs in tubeshoulders (Platytroctidae). PLoS One. 2026; 21(1):e0332016.
Score: 0.071
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Carr EM, Thurman MA, Martin RP, Sparks TS, Sparks JS. Marine fishes exhibit exceptional variation in biofluorescent emission spectra. PLoS One. 2025; 20(6):e0316789.
Score: 0.068
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Carr EM, Martin RP, Thurman MA, Cohen KE, Huie JM, Gruber DF, Sparks JS. Repeated and widespread evolution of biofluorescence in marine fishes. Nat Commun. 2025 May 24; 16(1):4826.
Score: 0.068
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Martin RP, Carr EM, Sparks JS. Variation in lanternfish (Myctophidae) photophore structure: A comprehensive comparative analysis. PLoS One. 2024; 19(11):e0310976.
Score: 0.065
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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(8):e0219852.
Score: 0.045
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Martinez CM, Sparks JS. Malagasy cichlids differentially limit impacts of body shape evolution on oral jaw functional morphology. Evolution. 2017 Sep; 71(9):2219-2229.
Score: 0.039
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Gruber DF, Loew ER, Deheyn DD, Akkaynak D, Gaffney JP, Smith WL, Davis MP, Stern JH, Pieribone VA, Sparks JS. Biofluorescence in Catsharks (Scyliorhinidae): Fundamental Description and Relevance for Elasmobranch Visual Ecology. Sci Rep. 2016 04 25; 6:24751.
Score: 0.036
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Martinez CM, Arroyave J, Sparks JS. A new species of Ptychochromis from southeastern Madagascar (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Zootaxa. 2015 Nov 17; 4044(1):79-92.
Score: 0.035
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Chakrabarty P, Sparks JS. Formalizing the names of subfamilies and tribes of ponyfishes (Leiognathidae Gill 1893). Zootaxa. 2015 Jun 02; 3964(2):298-9.
Score: 0.034
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Sparks JS, Chakrabarty P. Description of a new genus of ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), with a review of the current generic-level composition of the family. Zootaxa. 2015 Apr 15; 3947(2):181-90.
Score: 0.034
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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(1):e83259.
Score: 0.031
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Chakrabarty P, Davis MP, Sparks JS. The first record of a trans-oceanic sister-group relationship between obligate vertebrate troglobites. PLoS One. 2012; 7(8):e44083.
Score: 0.028
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Chakrabarty P, Davis MP, Smith WL, Baldwin ZH, Sparks JS. Is sexual selection driving diversification of the bioluminescent ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae)? Mol Ecol. 2011 Jul; 20(13):2818-34.
Score: 0.026
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Chakrabarty P, Davis MP, Smith WL, Berquist R, Gledhill KM, Frank LR, Sparks JS. Evolution of the light organ system in ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae). J Morphol. 2011 Jun; 272(6):704-21.
Score: 0.025
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Ho HC, Chakrabarty P, Sparks JS. Review of the Halieutichthys aculeatus species complex (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of two new species. J Fish Biol. 2010 Sep; 77(4):841-69.
Score: 0.024
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Smith WL, Sparks JS. Gobius lagocephalus: the world's most widespread nomen dubium. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2007 May; 43(2):696-8.
Score: 0.019
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Sparks JS, Smith WL. Sicyopterus lagocephalus: widespread species, species complex, or neither? A critique on the use of molecular data for species identification. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2006 Sep; 40(3):900-2.
Score: 0.018
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Soares DMM, Galeazzo GA, Sgro GG, de Moraes GV, Kronenberg L, Borukh E, Migotto AE, Gruber DF, Sparks JS, Pieribone VA, Stevani CV, Oliveira AG. Velamins: green-light-emitting calcium-regulated photoproteins isolated from the ctenophore Velamen parallelum. FEBS J. 2025 Aug; 292(16):4183-4199.
Score: 0.017
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Sparks JS, Smith WL. Phylogeny and biogeography of the Malagasy and Australasian rainbowfishes (Teleostei: Melanotaenioidei): Gondwanan vicariance and evolution in freshwater. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2004 Dec; 33(3):719-34.
Score: 0.016
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Sparks JS. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Malagasy and South Asian cichlids (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2004 Mar; 30(3):599-614.
Score: 0.016
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Tessler M, Gaffney JP, Oliveira AG, Guarnaccia A, Dobi KC, Gujarati NA, Galbraith M, Mirza JD, Sparks JS, Pieribone VA, Wood RJ, Gruber DF. A putative chordate luciferase from a cosmopolitan tunicate indicates convergent bioluminescence evolution across phyla. Sci Rep. 2020 10 20; 10(1):17724.
Score: 0.012
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Kuang T, Tornabene L, Li J, Jiang J, Chakrabarty P, Sparks JS, Naylor GJP, Li C. Phylogenomic analysis on the exceptionally diverse fish clade Gobioidei (Actinopterygii: Gobiiformes) and data-filtering based on molecular clocklikeness. Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2018 11; 128:192-202.
Score: 0.011
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Davis MP, Sparks JS, Smith WL. Repeated and Widespread Evolution of Bioluminescence in Marine Fishes. PLoS One. 2016; 11(6):e0155154.
Score: 0.009
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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(11):e0140972.
Score: 0.009
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McMahan CD, Chakrabarty P, Sparks JS, Smith WM, Davis MP. Temporal patterns of diversification across global cichlid biodiversity (Acanthomorpha: Cichlidae). PLoS One. 2013; 8(8):e71162.
Score: 0.008
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Wainwright PC, Smith WL, Price SA, Tang KL, Sparks JS, Ferry LA, Kuhn KL, Eytan RI, Near TJ. The evolution of pharyngognathy: a phylogenetic and functional appraisal of the pharyngeal jaw key innovation in labroid fishes and beyond. Syst Biol. 2012 Dec 01; 61(6):1001-27.
Score: 0.007