Robert James Lucas - Selected publications#

Brown TM, Tsujimura S-I, Allen AE, Wynne J, Bedford R, Vickery G, Vugler A, Lucas RJ (2012) Melanopsin-based brightness discrimination in mice and humans. Current Biology 22:1134-41

Brown TM, Wynne J, Piggins HD, Lucas RJ (2011). Multiple hypothalamic cell populations encoding distinct visual information. Journal of Physiology 589(5)1173-94

Allen AE, Brown TM, Lucas RJ (2011) A distinct contribution of short wavelength sensitive cones to light evoked activity in the mouse pretectal olivary nucleus (PON). Journal of Neuroscience 31:16833-43

Brown TM, Gias C, Hatori M, Keding SR, Semo M, Coffey PJ, Gigg J, Piggins HD, Panda S, Lucas RJ (2010) Melanopsin Contributions to Irradiance Coding in the thalamo-cortical Visual System. PLoS Biology 8(12):e1000558.

Lall GS, Revell VL, Momiji M, al Enezi J, Altimus CM, Güler AD, Aguilar C, Cameron MA, Allender A, Hankins MW, Hattar S and Lucas RJ (2010). Distinct contributions of rod, cone and melanopsin photoreceptors to encoding irradiance. Neuron 66:417-28

Güler AD, Ecker JL, Lall GS, Haq S, Altimus CM, Liao H-W, Barnard AR, Cahill H, Badea TC, Zhao H, Hankins MW, Berson DM, Lucas RJ, Yau K-W and Hattar S. (2008) Melanopsin cells are the principal conduits for rod–cone input to non-image-forming vision. Nature 453:102-105

Bellingham J, Chaurasia SS, Melyan Z, Liu C, Cameron MA, Tarttelin EE, Iuvone PM, Hankins MW, Tossini G, Lucas RJ (2006) Evolution of melanopsin photoreceptors: Discovery and characterization of a new melanopsin gene in non-mammalian vertebrates. PLoS Biology 4(8):e254

Melyan Z, Tarttelin EE, Bellingham J, Lucas RJ, Hankins MW (2005). Addition of human melanopsin renders mammalian cells photoresponsive. Nature 433:741-5

Hattar S, Lucas RJ, Mrosovsky N, Thompson S, Douglas RH, Hankins MW, Lem J, Biel M, Hofmann F, Foster RG, Yau K-W (2003) Melanopsin and rod/cone photoreceptive systems account for all major accessory visual functions in mice. Nature 424:75 – 81

Lucas RJ, Hattar S, Takao M, Berson DM, Foster RG, Yau K-W (2003) Diminished pupillary light reflex at high irradiances in melanopsin-knockout mice. Science 299:245-247.

Lucas RJ, Douglas RH and Foster RG (2001) Characterization of an ocular photopigment capable of driving pupillary constriction in mice. Nature Neuroscience 4:621-626

Lucas RJ, Freedman MS, Munoz M, Garcia-Fernandez JM and Foster RG (1999) Regulation of the mammalian pineal by non-rod, non-cone, ocular photoreceptors. Science 284: 505-7