Sonke Johnsen, 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)
- S. Johnsen, The Optics of Life: A biologist's guide to light in nature (December, 2011) .
- S. Zylinski and S. Johnsen, Mesopelagic cephalopods switch between transparency and pigmentation to optimize camouflage in the deep, Current Biology, vol. 21 (2011), pp. 1937-1941 .
- N. J. Marshall and S. Johnsen, Camouflage in Marine fish, in Animal Camouflage: Current issues and new perspectives (2011) .
- J. L. Baldwin and S. Johnsen, The effects of molting on the visual acuity of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus, Journal of Experimental Biology, vol. 214 (2011), pp. 3055-3061 .
- E. Jackson and S. Johnsen, Orientation to objects in the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus depends on apparent and not actual object size, Biological Bulletin, vol. 220 (2011), pp. 86-88 .
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