Adriana D. BriscoeAssociate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology |
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Research Interests |
Molecular evolution, evolutionary physiology, color vision, color, behavior | |
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Academic Distinctions |
2005-present Associate Editor, Molecular Biology and Evolution 2010-present Advisory Board Member, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCENT) 2008 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Diversity Award 2000-2001 Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship 1993-1998 Howard Hughes Medical Institute PreDoctoral Fellowship 1993 Fox Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Performance, Biological Sciences, Stanford University |
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Research Abstract |
My lab's research focuses around understanding what happens to gene products underlying physiological and behavioral traits following the processes of gene duplication and functional diversification. We use butterflies as model systems for examining how natural selection shapes the primary amino acid sequence of proteins and leads to changes in physiology and behavior, specifically wing color and color vision. We are also interested in how changes in the spatial expression of photoreceptors and colored filters in the eye have direct consequences for butterflies in their behavioral interactions with predators, potential mates and the environment. As an example, we have shown that Heliconius butterflies have evolved a second receptor for ultraviolet light around the same time they began displaying UV-yellow pigments on their wings. | |
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Briscoe AD, Bybee SM, Bernard GD, Yuan F, Sison-Mangus MP, Reed RD, Warren AD, Llorente-Bousquets J, Chiao C-C. 2010. Positive selection of a duplicated UV-sensitive visual pigment coincides with wing pigment evolution in Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas0910085107 Bradley TJ, Briscoe AD, Brady SG, Contreras HL, Danforth BN, Dudley R, Grimaldi D, Harrison JF, Kaiser JA, Merlin C, Reppert SM, VandenBrooks JM, Yanoviak SP. 2009. Episodes in insect evolution. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49: 590-606. Sison-Mangus MP, Briscoe AD. 2009. Molecular and physiological innovations of butterfly eyes. In: Molecular Biology and Genetics of the Lepidoptera. Edited by Marian R. Goldsmith and Franti?ek Marec. CRC Press: Boca Raton, FL. pp. 121-135 Pohl N, Sison-Mangus MP, Yee EN, Liswi SW, Briscoe AD. 2009. Impact of duplicate gene copies on phylogenetic analysis and divergence time estimates in butterflies. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 9:99 Frentiu FD, Briscoe AD. 2008. A butterfly’s eye view of birds. BioEssays 30: 1151-1162. Briscoe AD. 2008. Reconstructing the ancestral butterfly eye: Focus on the opsins. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 1805-1813. Sison-Mangus MP, Briscoe AD, Zaccardi G, Knüttel H, Kelber A. 2008. The lycaenid butterfly Polyommatus icarus uses a duplicated blue opsin to see green. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211: 361-369. Frentiu FD, Bernard GD, Sison-Mangus MP, Brower AVZ, Briscoe AD. 2007. Gene duplication is an evolutionary mechanism for expanding spectral diversity in the long wavelength photopigments of butterflies. Molecular Biology and Evolution 24:2016-2028. Frentiu FD, Bernard GD, Cuevas CI, Sison-Mangus MP, Prudic KL, Briscoe AD. 2007. Adaptive evolution of color vision as seen through the eyes of butterflies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U.S.A. 104 Suppl 1:8634-8640. Yuan Q, Metterville D, Briscoe AD, Reppert SM. 2007. Insect cryptochromes: gene duplication and loss define diverse ways to construct insect circadian clocks. Mol Biol Evol. 24:948-55. Sison-Mangus MP, Bernard GD, Lampel J, Briscoe AD. 2006. Beauty in the eye of the beholder: the two blue opsins of lycaenid butterflies and the opsin gene-driven evolution of sexually dimorphic eyes. J Exp Biol. 209:3079-90. Zaccardi G, Kelber A, Sison-Mangus MP, Briscoe AD. 2006. Color discrimination in the red range with only one long-wavelength sensitive opsin. J Exp Biol. 209:1944-55. Zhu H, Yuan Q, Briscoe AD, Froy O, Casselman A, Reppert SM. 2005. The two CRYs of the butterfly. Curr Biol. 15:R953-4. Erratum in: Curr Biol. 2006. 16:730. Briscoe, Adriana D [added]. Lampel J, Briscoe AD, Wasserthal LT. 2005. Expression of UV-, Blue-, Long Wavelength-Sensitive Opsins and Melatonin in Extraretinal Photoreceptors of the Optic Lobes of Hawkmoths. Cell and Tissue Research, 321:443-458. Spaethe J, Briscoe AD. 2005. Molecular Characterization and Expression of the UV Opsin in Bumblebees: Three Ommatidial Subtypes in the Retina and a New Photoreceptor Organ in the Lamina. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 2347-2361. Sauman I*, Briscoe AD*, Zhu H, Shi DD, Froy O, Stalleicken J, Yuan Q, Casselman A and Reppert SM. 2005. Connecting the Navigational Clock to Sun Compass Input in Monarch Butterfly Brain. Neuron, 46: 457-467. Briscoe AD, Bernard GD. 2005. Eyeshine and Spectral Tuning of Long Wavelength-Sensitive Rhodopsins: No Evidence for Red-Sensitive Photoreceptors Among Five Nymphaline Butterfly Species. Journal of Experimental Biology, 208: 687-696. Briscoe AD, White RH. 2005. Adult Stemmata of the Butterfly Vanessa cardui Express UV and Green Opsin mRNAs. Cell and Tissue Research, 319:175-9. Spaethe J, Briscoe AD. 2004. Early Duplication and Functional Diversification of the Opsin Gene Family in Insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 21: 1583-1594. Briscoe AD, Gaur C, Kumar S. 2004. The Spectrum of Human Rhodopsin Disease Mutations Through the Lens of Interspecific Variation. Gene, 332: 107-118. Briscoe AD, Bernard GD, Szeto AS, Nagy LM, White RH. 2003. Not All Butterfly Eyes are Created Equal: Rhodopsin Absorption Spectra, Molecular Identification and Localization of UV-, Blue- and Green-sensitive Opsins in the Retina of Vanessa cardui. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 458:334-349 Briscoe AD. 2003. Molecular and Physiological Diversity of Visual Mechanisms in Papilio Butterflies. In Boggs CL, Watt WB and Ehrlich PR, (Eds.) Butterflies: Ecology and Evolution Taking Flight. University of Chicago Press. pp. 27-41 Briscoe AD. 2002. Homology Modeling Suggests a Functional Role for Parallel Amino Acid Substitutions Between Bee and Butterfly Red- and Green-Sensitive Opsins. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19 (6): 983-986. Briscoe AD. 2001. Functional Diversification of Lepidopteran Opsins Following Gene Duplication. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 18(12): 2270-2279 Briscoe AD and Chittka L. 2001. The Evolution of Color Vision in Insects. Annual Review of Entomology, 46: 571-510 Hsu R, Briscoe AD, Chang BSW, Pierce NE. 2001. Molecular Evolution of a Long Wavelength-Sensitive Opsin in Mimetic Heliconius Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 72: 435-449. Chittka L and Briscoe A. 2001. Why Sensory Ecology Needs to Become More Evolutionary-Insect Color Vision as a Case in Point. In Barth FG, Schmid A (Eds.) Ecology of Sensing. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, pp.19-37. Briscoe AD. 2000. Six Opsins from the Butterfly Papilio glaucus: Molecular Phylogenetic Evidence for Paralogous Origins of Red-sensitive Visual Pigments in Insects. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 51: 110-121 Pichaud F, Briscoe A, and Desplan C. 1999. Evolution of Color Vision. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 9: 622-627 Briscoe AD. 1998. Molecular Diversity of Visual Pigments in the Butterfly Papilio glaucus. Naturwissenschaften, 85 (1): 33-35 |
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