Sonke Johnsen, Ida Stephens Owens Distinguished Professor  

Sonke Johnsen

Education:
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1996
B.A., Swarthmore College, 1988

Office Location: 301 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: sjohnsen@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.biology.duke.edu/johnsenlab/
Additional Web Page: http://opticsoflife.org/

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)

  1. McCoy, DE; Burns, DH; Klopfer, E; Herndon, LK; Ogunlade, B; Dionne, JA; Johnsen, S, Heart cockle shells transmit sunlight to photosymbiotic algae using bundled fiber optic cables and condensing lenses., Nature communications, vol. 15 no. 1 (November, 2024), pp. 9445 [doi]  [abs].
  2. Notar, JC; Go, MC; Johnsen, S, Correction to: Learning without a brain: classical conditioning in the ophiuroid Ophiocoma echinata(Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 10.1007/s00265-023-03402-x), Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 78 no. 8 (August, 2024) [doi]  [abs].
  3. Caves, EM; Davis, AL; Johnsen, S, Nanoscale ultrastructures increase the visual conspicuousness of signalling traits in obligate cleaner shrimps., The Journal of experimental biology, vol. 227 no. 16 (August, 2024), pp. jeb248064 [doi]  [abs].
  4. Lohmann, KJ; Putman, NF; Johnsen, S; Lohmann, CMF, Animal magnetic sensitivity and magnetic displacement experiments., Communications biology, vol. 7 no. 1 (May, 2024), pp. 650 [doi] .
  5. Caves, EM; Davis, AL; Nowicki, S; Johnsen, S, Backgrounds and the evolution of visual signals., Trends in ecology & evolution, vol. 39 no. 2 (February, 2024), pp. 188-198 [doi]  [abs].