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Shaun Patrick Collin

Dean, Head of School of Life Sciences and Co-Director AgriBio, La Trobe University
Verified email at latrobe.edu.au
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The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean

CM Duarte, L Chapuis, SP Collin, DP Costa… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Sound is the sensory cue that travels farthest through the ocean and is used
by marine animals, ranging from invertebrates to great whales, to interpret and explore the …

Evolution of the vertebrate eye: opsins, photoreceptors, retina and eye cup

TD Lamb, SP Collin, EN Pugh - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2007 - nature.com
Charles Darwin appreciated the conceptual difficulty in accepting that an organ as wonderful
as the vertebrate eye could have evolved through natural selection. He reasoned that if …

A conserved pattern of brain scaling from sharks to primates

…, TJ Lisney, RB Darlington, SP Collin… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Several patterns of brain allometry previously observed in mammals have been found to
hold for sharks and related taxa (chondrichthyans) as well. In each clade, the relative size of …

Quantitative comparison of the limits on visual spatial resolution set by the ganglion cell layer in twelve species of reef teleosts

SP Collin, JD Pettigrew - Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 1989 - karger.com
A diverse range of retinal specializations are examined in twelve species of reef teleosts and
estimates of the spatial resolution of neurons within the ganglion cell layer calculated using …

Retinal topography in reef teleosts: I. Some species with well-developed areae but poorly-developed streaks

SP Collin, JD Pettigrew - Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 1988 - karger.com
The retinal ganglion cell layer of five species of teleosts has been studied from Nissl-stained
whole-mounts and the distribution of neuronal elements determined quantitatively. …

Molecular ecology and adaptation of visual photopigments in craniates

WIL Davies, SP Collin, DM Hunt - Molecular ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In craniates, opsin‐based photopigments expressed in the eye encode molecular ‘light
sensors’ that constitute the initial protein in photoreception and the activation of the …

Retinal topography in reef teleosts: II. Some species with prominent horizontal streaks and high-density areae

SP Collin, JD Pettigrew - Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 1988 - karger.com
The retinal ganglion cell layer of five species of reef teleosts was studied from Nissl-stained
whole-mounts and the distribution of neural elements determined quantitatively. Iso-density …

[PDF][PDF] Ancient colour vision: multiple opsin genes in the ancestral vertebrates

SP Collin, MA Knight, WL Davies, IC Potter, DM Hunt… - Current Biology, 2003 - cell.com
Molecular investigation of the origin of colour vision has discovered five visual pigment (opsin)
genes, all of which are expressed in an agnathan (jawless) fish, the lamprey Geotria …

Variation in brain organization and cerebellar foliation in chondrichthyans: sharks and holocephalans

KE Yopak, TJ Lisney, SP Collin… - Brain, behavior and …, 2007 - karger.com
The widespread variation in brain size and complexity that is evident in sharks and
holocephalans is related to both phylogeny and ecology. Relative brain size (expressed as …

The influence of ontogeny and light environment on the expression of visual pigment opsins in the retina of the black bream, Acanthopagrus butcheri

…, LS Carvalho, AEO Trezise, SP Collin… - Journal of …, 2008 - journals.biologists.com
The correlation between ontogenetic changes in the spectral absorption characteristics of
retinal photoreceptors and expression of visual pigment opsins was investigated in the black …