Ecology and Evolution of Vision
Predator/Prey Interactions in Planktivorous Fish
Physical Optics of Natural Waters
Biochemistry and Ecology of Visual Pigments
Computer Modeling of Visual Processes Using Remote Sensing
Techniques Electro-Optical Instrumentation
Clinical Electroretinography

Loew, E.R. (1973) Analysis of the visual response of the fly, Sarcophaga bullata, during pupal development. Documentia Ophthalmologica Proceedings II (H. Henkes J. Pearlman, eds.), pp. 281-292.

Loew, E.R. (1976) Light and photoreceptor degeneration in the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus (L). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B. 193: 31-44.

Bowmaker, J.K., E.R. Loew and P.A. Liebman (1975) Variation in the lambda max of rhodopsin from individual frogs. Vision Research 15: 997-1003.

Loew, E.R. and H.J.A. Dartnall (1977) MSP measurements of rod and cone visual pigments in a retina that can be either vitamin A1- or vitamin A2-based. In: Research in Photobiology (A. Castellani, ed.). Plenum Press, New York, pp. 639-644.

Loew, E.R. and J.N. Lythgoe (1978) The ecology of cone pigments in teleost fishes. Vision Research 18: 715-722.

Sillman, A.J., D.A. Bolnick, A.E. Walter and E.R. Loew (1981) Microspectro photometry of the photoreceptors of paleognathous birds the emu and the tinamu. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 144: 271-276.

Allen, D.M., E.R. Loew and W.N. McFarland (1982) Seasonal changes in the amount of visual pigment in the retinae of fish. Canadian Journal of Zoology 60: 281-287.

McFarland, W.N. and E.R. Loew (1983) Wave produced changes in underwater light and their relation to vision. Environmental Biology of Fishes 8: 173-184.

Lythgoe, J.N. and E.R. Loew (1985) The ecology of colour vision. Endeavour 9: 170-174.

Loew, E.R. and W.N. McFarland (1990). "The Underwater visual environment. In: "The Visual System of Fish" (R. Douglas M. Djamgoz, eds.) Chapman Hall, London pp1-44

Sillman, A.J., Spanfelder, J., and E.R. Loew. (1990) The visual pigments of the sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus. Can. J. Zoology 68, 1544-1551.

Gruber, S.H., E.R. Loew and W.N. McFarland (1990) Rod and cone pigments of the Atlantic guitarfish, Rhinobatos lentigenosus (Garman). Journal of Experimental Zoology 256(Supp. 5):85-87.

Loew, E.R. and C.M Wahl. (1991) A short-wavelength sensitive mechanism in juvenile yellow perch, Perca flavescens. Vision Res. 31:353-360.

Loew, E.R., W.N. McFarland, E.L. Mills and D. Hunter. (1993) A chromatic action spectrum for planktonic predation by juvenile yellow perch, Perca flavescens. Canadian Journal of Zoology 71:384-386.

Loew, E.R.. and A.J. Sillman. (1993). Age-related changes in the visual pigments of the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 71:1552-1557.

Sillman, A.J.; S.J. Ronan and E.R. Loew. (1993) Scanning electron microscopy and microspectrophotometry of the photoreceptors of ictalurid catfishes. Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 173:801-807.

McFarland, W.N. and E.R. Loew. (1994) Ultraviolet visual pigments in marine fishes of the family Pomacentridae. Vision Research 34:1393-1396.

Sillman, A.J., M.E. Sorsky and E.R. Loew. (1995) The visual pigments of wild sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 73:805-809.

Loew, E.R. (1995) Determinants of visual pigment spectral location and photoreceptor cell spectral sensitivity. In The Outer Retina (M.B.A. Djamgoz, S.N. Archer S. Vallerga, eds.) Chapman Hall, London, pp57-78.

Sillman, A.J., G.A. Letsinger, S. Patel, E.R. Loew and A.P. Klimley (1996). Visual pigments and photoreceptors in two species of shark, Triakis semifasciata and Mustelus henlei. Journal of Experimental Zoology 276:1-10

Fleishman, L.J., M. Bowman, D. Saunders, W.E. Miller and E.R. Loew. (1997). The visual ecology of Puerto Rican anoline lizards: habitat and spectral sensitivity. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. 181:446-460.

Sillman, A.J., J.L Johnson and E.R. LOEW. (2001) Retinal photoreceptors and visual pigments in Boa constrictor imperator. J. Experimental Zool. 290:359-365.

LOEW, E.R. and V.I. Govardovskii. (2001) Photoreceptors and visual pigments in the red-eared turtle, Pseudemys scripta elegans. J. Exp. Biol. 18:753-757.

Britt, L., E.R. LOEW and W.N. McFarland. (2001). The visual pigments of pacific northwest larval marine fishes. J. Exp. Biol. 204:2581-2587.

LOEW, E.R. (2001) Electrical activity of the visual system: the ERG and the VER. In: Small Animal Ophthalmology Secrets” (R.C. Riis, ed). Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia. Pp1-6.

LOEW, E.R. (2002) Color Vision in Animals. In: Small Animal Ophthalmology Secrets” (R.C. Riis, ed). Hanley & Belfus, Philadelphia. Pp7-11.

LOEW, E.R., W.N. McFarland and D. Margulies. (2002) Developmental changes in the visual pigments of the yellowfin tuna, Thunnus Albacares. Mar. Fresh. Behav. Physiol. 35:235-246.

Losey, G.S., W.N. McFarland, E.R. Loew, J.P. Zamzow, P.A. Nelson and N.J. Marshall. (2003) Visual biology of Hawaiian coral reef fishes. I. Ocular transmission and visual pigments. Copeia 2003:433-454.

Marshall, N.J., K. Jennings, W.N. McFarland, E.R. Loew and G.S. Losey. (2003). Visual biology of Hawaiian coral reef fishes. II. Colors of Hawaiian coral reef fish. Copeia 2003:455-466.

Marshall, N.J., K. Jennings, W.N. McFarland, E.R. Loew and G.S. Losey. (2003). Visual biology of Hawaiian coral reef fishes. III. Environmental light and an integrated approach to the ecology of reef fish vision. Copeia 2003:467-480.

Rowe, M.P., C.L. Baube, E.R. Loew, and J.B. Phillips. 2004. Optimal mechanisms for finding and selecting mates: how threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) should encode male throat colors. J. Comp. Physiol. A. 190(3):241-256.

Diau, GY, Loew, ER, Wijendran, V, Sarkadi-Nagy, E, Nathanielsz, PW, Brenna, JT. 2003. Docosahexaenoic and arachidonic acid influence on preterm baboon retinal composition and function. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 44(10):4559-4566.

Siddiqi, A, Cronin, TW, Loew, ER, Vorobyev, M, Summers, K. 2004. Interspecific and intraspecific views of color signals in the strawberry poison frog Dendrobates pumilio. Journal of Experimental Biology. 207(14):2471-2485.

Boal, JG, Shashar, N, Grable, MM, Vaughan, KH, Loew, ER, Hanlon, RT. 2004. Behavioral evidence for intraspecific signaling with achromatic and polarized light by cuttlefish (Mollusca : Cephalopoda). Behaviour. 141:837-861.

Spady, TC, Seehausen, O, Loew, ER, Jordan, RC, Kocher, TD, Carleton, KL. 2005. Adaptive molecular evolution in the opsin genes of rapidly speciating cichlid species. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(6):1412-1422.

Bowmaker, JK, Loew, ER, Ott, M. 2005. The cone photoreceptors and visual pigments of chameleons. Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology. 191(10):925-932.

Sillman, AJ, Beach, AK, Dahlin, DA, Loew, ER. 2005. Photoreceptors and visual pigments in the retina of the fully anadromous green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostrus) and the potamodromous pallid sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus). Journal of Comparative Physiology A-Neuroethology Sensory Neural and Behavioral Physiology. 191(9):799-811

Korner, KE, Schlupp, I, Plath, M, Loew, ER. 2006. Spectral sensitivity of mollies: comparing surface- and cave-dwelling Atlantic mollies, Poecilia mexicana. Journal of Fish Biology. 69(1):54-65.

Sillman, AJ, Ong, EK, Loew, ER. 2007. Spectral absorbance, structure, and population density of photoreceptors in the retina of the lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Canadian Journal of Zoology. 85(4):584-587.

Beason, R.C. and E.R. Loew (2008). Visual pigment and oil droplet characteristics of the bobolink(Dolichonyx oryzivorus), a New World migratory bird. Vision Res. 48:1-8.

Loew, E.R. and C.M. Wahl. (2008). Photoreception. In: R.N. Finn & B.G. Kapoor (ed.) Fish Larval Physiology. Science Publishers, Enfield, NH. PP. 395-424.

Bowmaker J.K. and E.R. Loew (2008) Vision in fish. In: R.R.Hoy, G.M. Shepherd, A.I. Basbaum, A. Kaneko and G. Westheimer(eds). The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference Vol. 1. Elsevier, Oxford, UK. PP 53-76.

Gray, S.M., L.M. Dill, F.Y. Tantu, E.R. Loew, F. Herder and J.S. McKinnon. (2008) Environment-contingent sexual selection in a colour polymorphic fish. Proc. R. Soc. B. 10.1098/rspb.2008.0283

Carleton. K.L., T.C. Spady, J.T. Streelman, M.R. Kidd, W.N. McFarland and E.R. Loew. (2008). Visual sensitivities tuned by heterochromatic shifts in opsin gene expression. BMC Biology 6:22-36.

Young, J.D., N.D. Yan and E.R. Loew (2009). Examination of direct daytime predation by Coregonus artedi on Bythotrephes longimanus in Harp Lake, Ontario, Canada: No evidence for the refuge hypothesis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66:449-459.

Feller, K.D., S. Lagerholm, R. Clubwala, M.T. Silver, D. Haughey, J.M. Ryan, E.R. Loew, M.E. Deutschlander and K.L. Kenyon (2009). Characterization of photoreceptor cell types in the little brown bat Myotis lucifugus (Vespertilionidae). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. B. 154:412-418.

Solessio, E., G.A. Engbretson, D.A. Cameron, E.R. Loew, Y. Umino, R.B. Barlow and B.E. Knox. (2009). Light responses in vitamin A-deprived rods. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 50:4477- 4486.

Boscarino, B.T., L.G. Rudstam, E.R. Loew and E.L. Mills (2009). Predicting the vertical distribution of the opossum shrimp, Mysis relicta, in Lake Ontario: a test of laboratory-based light preferences. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66:101-113.

Watson, C.T., K.P. Lubieniecki, E.Loew, W.S. Davidson and F. Breden. (2010). Genomic organization of duplicated short wave-sensitive and long wave-sensitive opsin genes in the green swordtail, Xiphophorus helleri. BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: Article 87.

Boscarino, B.T., L.G. Rudstam, J. Tirabassi, J. Janssen and E.R. Loew. (2010). Light effects on alewife-mysid interactions in Lake Ontario: A combined sensory physiology, behavioral and spatial approach. Limnol. Oceanography 55:2061-2072

Taylor, S.M., E.R. Loew.,& M.S. Grace (2011) A rod-dominated visual system in elopomorph fishes (Elopomorpha: Teleostei). Environmental Biology of Fishes. (In Press)

Speiser, D.I., E.R. Loew & S. Johnsen. 2011. Spectral sensitivity of the concave mirror eyes of scallops: potential influences of habitat, self-screening and longitudinal chromatic aberration. Journal of Experimental Biology 214: 422-431.


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