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Castiglione GM, Hauser FE, Liao BS, Lujan NK, Van Nynatten A, Morrow JM, Schott RK, Bhattacharyya N, Dungan SZ, Chang BSW. 2017. Evolution of non-spectral rhodopsin function at high altitudes. PNAS, 14(28): 7385-7390. Download

Morrow JM, Castiglione GM, Dungan SZ, Tang P, Bhattacharyya N, Hauser FE, Chang BSW. 2017. An experimental comparison of human and bovine rhodopsin provides insight into the molecular mechanisms of retinal disease. FEBS Letters, 591(12):1720-1731. Download.

Dungan SZ, Chang BSW. 2017. Epistatic interactions influence terrestrial–marine functional shifts in cetacean rhodopsin. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 284(1850): 20162743. Download

 

van Hazel I*, Dungan SZ*, Hauser FE, Morrow JM, Endler JA, Chang BSW. 2016. A comparative study of rhodopsin function in the great bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus nuchalis): Spectral tuning and light-activated kinetics. Protein Science, 25(7): 1308-18. *Authors contributed equally Download

 

Dungan SZ, Kosyakov A, Chang BSW. 2016. Spectral tuning of killer whale (Orcinus orca) rhodopsin: Positive selection and adaptation in a cetacean visual pigment. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 33(2): 323-336. Download

 

Wang JY, Riehl KN, Klein MN, Javdan S, Hoffman JM, Dungan SZ, Dares LE, Araujo-Wang C. 2016. Chapter Four - Biology and conservation of the Taiwanese humpback dolphin, Sousa chinensis taiwanensis. In: Humpback Dolphins (Sousa spp.): Current Status and Conservation (TA Jefferson & BE Curry, eds) Advances in Marine Biology Series, 73: 91-117. Download

 

Dungan SZ, Wang JY, Araujo CC, Yang S-C, White BN. 2015. Social structure in a critically endangered Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) population. Aquatic Conservation, 26(3): 517-529. Download

 

Du J, Dungan SZ, Sabouhanian A, Chang BSW. 2014. Selection on synonymous codons in mammalian rhodopsins: A possible role in optimizing translational processes. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14: 96. Download

 

Slooten E, Wang JY, Dungan SZ, Forney KA, Hung SK, Jefferson TA, Riehl KN, Rojas-Bracho L, Ross PS, Wee A, Winkler R, Yang S-C, Chen A. 2013. Direct and indirect impacts of fisheries on the critically endangered humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) in the eastern Taiwan Strait. Endangered Species Research, 22: 99-114. Download

 

Dungan SZ, Hung SK, Wang JY, White BN. 2012. Two social communities in the Pearl River Estuary population of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, Sousa chinensis. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 90(8): 1031-1043. Download

 

Dungan SZ, Riehl KN, Wee A, Wang JY. 2011. A review of the impacts of anthropogenic activities on the critically endangered eastern Taiwan Strait Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis). Journal of Marine Animals and their Ecology, 4(2): 3-9. Download

 

Ross PS, Dungan SZ, Hung SK, Jefferson TA, MacFarquhar C, Perrin WF, Riehl KN, Slooten E, Wang JY, White BN, Wursig B, Yang S-C, Reeves RR. 2010. Averting the baiji syndrome: Conserving habitat for critically endangered dolphins in the eastern Taiwan Strait. Aquatic Conservation, 20(6): 685-694. Download

Wang JY, Dungan SZ, Riehl KN. 2014. Family Delphinidae (Ocean Dolphins) In: Handbook of the Mammals of the World Vol. 4 Sea Mammals (DE Wilson & RA Mittermeier, eds). Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain. Look Inside

 

Dungan SZ. 2011. Comparing the Social Structures of Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins (Sousa chinensis) from the Pearl River Estuary and Eastern Taiwan Strait. M.Sc. Thesis, Trent University, 111 pp.

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