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Adriana D. Briscoe publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adriana D. Briscoe sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 533+

This scientist: 85 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 533 publications or more.

Adriana D. Briscoe D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Adriana D. Briscoe sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 122+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 122 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Adriana D. Briscoe is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within the biological sciences, focusing on the interplay between genetics, neurobiology, and ecology, especially as these fields relate to insect physiology and behavior.

Briscoe's work explores primary areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their subfields of study include Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Civil and Structural Engineering.

The main topics of their research cover Plant and Animal Studies, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy, Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies, and Retinal Development and Disorders.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Briscoe are:

  • Andrew Dang
  • Kyle J. McCulloch
  • Aide Macias-Muñoz
  • Ryan I. Hill
  • Susan D. Finkbeiner

Several publication venues have featured Briscoe's research. These include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Briscoe are:

  • Infrared optical and thermal properties of microstructures in butterfly wings, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Multiple Mechanisms of Photoreceptor Spectral Tuning in Heliconius Butterflies, 2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • True UV color vision in a female butterfly with two UV opsins, 2021, Journal of Experimental Biology
  • Insect opsins and evo-devo: what have we learned in 25 years?, 2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Sex-linked gene traffic underlies the acquisition of sexually dimorphic UV color vision in Heliconius butterflies, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Among recognitions received, Briscoe was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2017.

Best Publications

  • The evolution of color vision in insects.

    Adriana D. Briscoe;Lars Chittka

  • Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species

    Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra;James R. Walters;Adriana D. Briscoe

  • Insect Cryptochromes: Gene Duplication and Loss Define Diverse Ways to Construct Insect Circadian Clocks

    Quan Yuan;Danielle Metterville;Adriana D. Briscoe;Steven M. Reppert

  • The two CRYs of the butterfly.

    Haisun Zhu;Quan Yuan;Adriana D. Briscoe;Oren Froy

  • Connecting the navigational clock to sun compass input in monarch butterfly brain.

    Ivo Sauman;Adriana D. Briscoe;Haisun Zhu;Dingding Shi

  • Multifaceted biological insights from a draft genome sequence of the tobacco hornworm moth, Manduca sexta

    Michael R. Kanost;Estela L. Arrese;Xiaolong Cao;Yun Ru Chen

  • Positive selection of a duplicated UV-sensitive visual pigment coincides with wing pigment evolution in Heliconius butterflies

    Adriana D. Briscoe;Seth M. Bybee;Gary D. Bernard;Furong Yuan

  • Female behaviour drives expression and evolution of gustatory receptors in butterflies

    Adriana D. Briscoe;Aide Macias-Muñoz;Krzysztof M. Kozak;James R. Walters

  • Warning signals are seductive: relative contributions of color and pattern to predator avoidance and mate attraction in Heliconius butterflies.

    Susan D. Finkbeiner;Susan D. Finkbeiner;Adriana D. Briscoe;Robert D. Reed;Robert D. Reed;Robert D. Reed

  • Reconstructing the ancestral butterfly eye: focus on the opsins

    Adriana D. Briscoe

  • UV photoreceptors and UV-yellow wing pigments in Heliconius butterflies allow a color signal to serve both mimicry and intraspecific communication.

    Seth M. Bybee;Furong Yuan;Monica D. Ramstetter;Jorge Llorente-Bousquets

  • Beauty in the eye of the beholder: the two blue opsins of lycaenid butterflies and the opsin gene-driven evolution of sexually dimorphic eyes.

    Marilou P. Sison-Mangus;Gary D. Bernard;Jochen Lampel;Adriana D. Briscoe

  • Six opsins from the butterfly Papilio glaucus: molecular phylogenetic evidence for paralogous origins of red-sensitive visual pigments in insects.

    Adriana D. Briscoe

  • Color vision and learning in the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus (Nymphalidae)

    Douglas Blackiston;Adriana D. Briscoe;Martha R. Weiss

  • Molecular characterization and expression of the UV opsin in bumblebees: three ommatidial subtypes in the retina and a new photoreceptor organ in the lamina.

    Johannes Spaethe;Adriana D. Briscoe

  • Evolution of color vision

    Franck Pichaud;Adriana Briscoe;Claude Desplan

  • Multiple recent co-options of Optix associated with novel traits in adaptive butterfly wing radiations.

    Arnaud Martin;Arnaud Martin;Kyle J McCulloch;Nipam H Patel;Adriana D Briscoe

  • Early Duplication and Functional Diversification of the Opsin Gene Family in Insects

    Johannes Spaethe;Adriana D. Briscoe

  • Functional Diversification of Lepidopteran Opsins Following Gene Duplication

    Adriana D. Briscoe

  • Rapid diversification associated with ecological specialization in Neotropical Adelpha butterflies

    Emily R. Ebel;Jeffrey M. DaCosta;Michael D. Sorenson;Ryan I. Hill

  • The benefit of being a social butterfly: communal roosting deters predation

    Susan D. Finkbeiner;Adriana D. Briscoe;Robert D. Reed;Robert D. Reed

  • Female behaviour drives expression and evolution of gustatory receptors in butterflies

    Adriana Briscoe

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Reed
Robert D. Reed Cornell University
Marcus R. Kronforst
Marcus R. Kronforst University of Chicago
Daniel Osorio
Daniel Osorio University of Sussex
Chris D. Jiggins
Chris D. Jiggins University of Cambridge
James Mallet
James Mallet Harvard University
Steven M. Reppert
Steven M. Reppert University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Antónia Monteiro
Antónia Monteiro National University of Singapore
David G. Heckel
David G. Heckel Max Planck Society
Sudhir Kumar
Sudhir Kumar Temple University
Donna M. Muzny
Donna M. Muzny Baylor College of Medicine

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