Sonke Johnsen, Associate Professor
Education:
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996
BA with Distinction (highest honor), Swarthmore College, 1988
Office Location: BioSci: 301
Office Phone: (919) 660-7321
Email Address: sjohnsen@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/
Specialties:
Organismal Biology and Behavior
Ecology and Population Biology
Evolution
Research Categories: Comparative physiology; focusing on vision, crypsis, optics, and bioluminescence in the open ocean
Research Description:
Recent Publications (More Publications) (search)
- D. M. Leech and S. Johnsen, Light, Biological Receptors, in Encyclopedia of Inland Waters, edited by G. E. Likens, vol. 2 (2009), pp. 671-681, Academic Press .
- J. L. Baldwin and S. Johnsen, The importance of color in mate choice in the blue crab Callinectes sapidus, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 212 (2009), pp. 3762-3768 .
- D. Yerramilli and S. Johnsen, Spatial vision in the purple sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus (Echinoidea), Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 213 (2009) .
- H. Marlow, D.I. Speiser, D. Matus, S. Johnsen, E.C. Seaver and M.Q. Martindale, The evolution of a complex trait: Photoreception in the Metazoa, Nature (Submitted, 2009) .
- D. Speiser and S. Johnsen, Comparative morphology of the mirror-based eyes of scallops (Pectinoidea), American Malacological Bulletin, vol. 26 (2009), pp. 27-34 .
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