Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications (*equal contribution)
- Hauser FE, KL Ilves, RK Schott, Alvi E, H López-Fernández, BSW Chang. 2021. Evolution, inactivation, and loss of short wavelength-sensitive opsin genes during the diversification of Neotropical cichlids. Molecular Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15838.
- Shrimpton SJ*, JW Streicher*, DJ Gower, RC Bell, MK Fujita, RK Schott, KN Thomas. 2021. Eye-body allometry across biphasic ontogeny in anuran amphibians. Evolutionary Ecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-021-10102-3.
- Thomas KN, DJ Gower, RC Bell, MK Fujita, RK Schott, JW Streicher. 2020. Eye size and investment in frogs and toads correlate with adult habitat, activity pattern and breeding ecology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20201393.
- Gemmel NJ, … RK Schott, … Ngatiwai Trust Board [60 authors total]. 2020. The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution. Nature 584: 403–409.
- Schott RK, N Bhattacharyya, BSW Chang. 2019. Evolutionary signatures of photoreceptor transmutation in geckos reveal potential adaptation and convergence with snakes. Evolution 73: 1958–1971.
- Gutierrez EA, GM Castiglione, JM Morrow, RK Schott, LO Loureiro, BK Lim, and BSW Chang. 2018. Functional shifts in bat dim-light visual pigments are associated with differing echolocation abilities and reveal molecular adaptation to photic-limited environments. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 2422–2434.
- Perry BW*, DC Card*, ... RK Schott, ... TA Castoe [32 authors total]. 2018. Molecular adaptations for sensing and securing prey, and insight into amniote genome diversity, from the garter snake genome. Genome Biology and Evolution 10: 2110–2129.
- Gutierrez EA, RK Schott, MW Preston, LO Loureiro, BK Lim, BSW Chang. 2018. The role of ecological factors in shaping bat cone opsin evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285: 20172835.
- Schott RK, A Van Nynatten, DC Card, TA Castoe, BSW Chang. 2018. Shifts in selective pressures on snake phototransduction genes associated with photoreceptor transmutation and dim-light ancestry. Molecular Biology and Evolution 35: 1376–1389.
- Castiglione GM, RK Schott, FE Hauser, BSW Chang. 2018. Convergent selection pressures via divergent mechanisms drive the evolution of rhodopsin kinetics at high altitudes. Evolution 72: 170–186.
- Hauser FE, KL Ilves, RK Schott, GM Castiglione, H López-Fernández, BSW Chang. 2017. Accelerated evolution and functional divergence of the dim light visual pigment accompanies cichlid colonization of Central America. Molecular Biology and Evolution 34: 2650–2664.
- Castiglione GM, FE Hauser, BS Liao, NK Lujan, A Van Nynatten, JM Morrow, RK Schott, N Bhattacharyya, SZ Dungan, BSW Chang. 2017. Evolution of nonspectral rhodopsin function at high altitudes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114: 7385–7390.
- Bhattacharyya N, B Darren, RK Schott, V Tropepe, BSW Chang. 2017. Cone-like rhodopsin expressed in the all cone retina of the colubrid pine snake as a potential adaptation to diurnality. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 2418–2425.
- Schott RK, B Panesar, DC Card, M Preston, TA Castoe, BSW Chang. 2017. Targeted capture of complete coding regions across divergent species. Genome Biology and Evolution 9: 398–414.
- Morrow JM, S Lazic, DM Fox, C Kuo, RK Schott, E Gutierrez, F Santini, V Tropepe, BSW Chang. 2017. A second visual rhodopsin gene, rh1-2, is expressed in zebrafish photoreceptors and found in other ray-finned fishes. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 294–303.
- Schott RK, DC Evans. 2016. Cranial variation and systematics of Foraminacephale brevis gen. nov. and the diversity of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Cerapoda) in the Belly River Group of Alberta, Canada. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12465.
- Elbassiouny AA, RK Schott, JC Wadell, MA Kolmann, E Lehmberg, A Van Nynatten, WGR Crampton, BSW Chang, NR Lovejoy. 2016. Mitochondrial genomes of the South American electric knifefishes (Order Gymnotiformes). Mitochondrial DNA Part B 1: 401–403.
- Schott RK, J Müller, CGY Yang, N Bhattacharyya, N Chan, M Xu, JM Morrow, A-H GhenuU, ER Loew, V Tropepe, BSW Chang. 2016. Evolutionary transformation of rod photoreceptors in the all-cone retina of a diurnal garter snake. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113: 356–361.
- Hauser FE, RK Schott, GM Castiglione, A Van Nynatten, A Kosyakov, PL TangU, DA Gow, BSW Chang. 2016. Comparative sequence analyses of rhodopsin and RPE65 reveal patterns of selective constraint across hereditary retinal disease mutations. Visual Neuroscience 33: E002.
- Bickelmann C, JM Morrow, J Du, RK Schott, I van Hazel, S Lim, J Müller, BSW Chang. 2015. The molecular origin and evolution of dim-light vision in mammals. Evolution 69: 2995–3003.
- Schott RK*, S Refvik*, FE Hauser, H López-Fernández, BSW Chang. 2014. Positive Selection at Non-Overlapping Sites in Rhodopsin from Lake and Riverine Cichlids. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31: 1149-1165.
- Williams R, X Ma*, RK Schott*, N Mohammad, CY Ho, CF Li, BSW Chang, M. Demetriou, JW Dennis. 2014. Encoding asymmetry of the n-glycosylation motif facilitates glycoprotein evolution. PLoS ONE 9: e86088.
- Castoe TA, ... RK Schott, ... DD Pollock [39 authors total]. 2013. The Burmese python genome reveals the molecular basis for extreme adaptation in snakes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110: 20645–20650.
- Evans DC, RK Schott, D Larson, C Brown, MJ Ryan. 2013. The oldest North American pachycephalosaurid and the hidden diversity of small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs. Nature Communications 4: 1828.
- Schott RK, DC Evans. 2012. Squamosal ontogeny and variation in the pachycephalosaurian dinosaur Stegoceras validum from the Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology 32: 903–913.
- Schott RK, DC Evans, MB Goodwin, CM Brown, JR Horner, NR Longrich. 2011. Cranial ontogeny in Stegoceras validum (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauria): a quantitative model of pachycephalosaur dome growth and variation. PLoS ONE 6: e21092.
- Schott RK, DC Evans, TE Williamson, TD Carr, MB Goodwin. 2009. The anatomy and systematics of Colepiocephale lambei (Dinosauria: Pachycephalosauridae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29: 771–786.
Preprint Publications
- Schott RK*, D Gow*, BSW Chang. 2019. BlastPhyMe: A toolkit for rapid generation and analysis of protein-coding sequence datasets. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/059881.
Book and Encyclopedia Chapters
- Schott RK. 2017. Squamate Sensory Systems. In: Vonk J, Shackelford T, editors. Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Cham: Springer International Publishing.