Publications

Tianshu Li, John D. Kirwan, Maria Ina Arnone, Dan-Eric Nilsson, Giancarlo La Camera (2023). A Model of Decentralized Vision in the Sea Urchin Diadema africanum. iScience.

Lauren Sumner-Rooney, John D. Kirwan, Carsten Lüter, Esther Ullrich-Lüter (2021). Run and Hide: Visual Performance in a Brittle Star. Journal of Experimental Biology.

Lauren Sumner-Rooney, John D. Kirwan, Elijah Lowe, Esther Ullrich-Lüter (2020). Extraocular Vision in a Brittle Star Is Mediated by Chromatophore Movement in Response to Ambient Light. Current Biology.

Peter Olsson, Robin D. Johnsson, James J. Foster, John D. Kirwan, Olle Lind, Almut Kelber (2020). Chicken colour discrimination depends on background colour. Journal of Experimental Biology.

John D. Kirwan, Dan-E. Nilsson (2019). A millipede compound eye mediating low-resolution vision. Vision Research.

James J Foster, John D Kirwan, Basil El Jundi, Jochen Smolka, Lana Khaldy, Emily Baird, Marcus J Byrne, Dan-Eric Nilsson, Sönke Johnsen, Marie Dacke (2019). Orienting to polarized light at night - matching lunar skylight to performance in a nocturnal beetle. Journal of Experimental Biology.

John D. Kirwan, Michael J. Bok, Jochen Smolka, James J. Foster, José Carlos Hernández, Dan-Eric Nilsson (2018). The sea urchin Diadema africanum uses low resolution vision to find shelter and deter enemies. Journal of Experimental Biology.

John D. Kirwan, Josefine Graf, Jochen Smolka, Georg Mayer, Miriam J. Henze, Dan-Eric Nilsson (2018). Low-resolution vision in a velvet worm (Onychophora). Journal of Experimental Biology.

John D. Kirwan (2018). Spatial vision in diverse invertebrates.

John D. Kirwan, Michaël Bekaert, Jennifer M. Commins, Kalina T. J. Davies, Stephen J. Rossiter, Emma C. Teeling (2013). A phylomedicine approach to understanding the evolution of auditory sensory perception and disease in mammals. Evolutionary Applications.

K T Davies, J A Cotton, J D Kirwan, E C Teeling, S J Rossiter (2011). Parallel signatures of sequence evolution among hearing genes in echolocating mammals: an emerging model of genetic convergence. Heredity.