Gary D. Bernard

4.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Gary D. Bernard is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Gary D. Bernard has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 28 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 20 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Gary D. Bernard's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (30 papers), Plant and animal studies (21 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (14 papers). Gary D. Bernard is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (30 papers), Plant and animal studies (21 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (14 papers). Gary D. Bernard collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Australia. Gary D. Bernard's co-authors include Rüdiger Wehner, Catherine L. Craig, Nanfang Yu, Cheng‐Chia Tsai, Norman Nan Shi, Fernando Camino, Mandyam V. Srinivasan, Adriana D. Briscoe, Les Atlas and Charles L. Remington and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gary D. Bernard

84 papers receiving 3.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Keeping cool: Enhanced optical reflection and radiative heat dissipation in Saharan silver ants

2015 614 citations Norman Nan Shi, Cheng‐Chia Tsai et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gary D. Bernard United States	32	1.3k	1.2k	872	563	345	87	3.3k
Roy E. Ritzmann United States	45	1.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.6×	1.6k 1.9×	141 0.3×	55 0.2×	125	5.1k
Roger T. Hanlon United States	56	7.2k 5.7×	3.6k 2.9×	814 0.9×	172 0.3×	62 0.2×	243	10.3k
Horst Bleckmann Germany	41	1.0k 0.8×	727 0.6×	529 0.6×	37 0.1×	41 0.1×	153	5.3k
Doekele G. Stavenga Netherlands	51	4.1k 3.2×	3.4k 2.8×	2.1k 2.4×	132 0.2×	52 0.2×	207	8.4k
Dan‐Eric Nilsson Sweden	41	1.4k 1.1×	1.7k 1.4×	864 1.0×	24 0.0×	37 0.1×	133	5.4k
Lydia M. Mäthger United States	30	1.6k 1.3×	1.1k 0.9×	132 0.2×	63 0.1×	24 0.1×	51	2.5k
Friedrich G. Barth Austria	45	3.0k 2.4×	2.0k 1.6×	3.0k 3.5×	38 0.1×	9 0.0×	153	6.7k
Stacey A. Combes United States	29	1.1k 0.9×	475 0.4×	784 0.9×	43 0.1×	14 0.0×	53	3.1k
Jochen Zeil Australia	43	2.9k 2.3×	2.3k 1.9×	1.9k 2.2×	11 0.0×	34 0.1×	109	5.0k
Camille Buhl Australia	21	927 0.7×	142 0.1×	842 1.0×	56 0.1×	20 0.1×	38	2.5k

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Dang, Andrew, Gary D. Bernard, Furong Yuan, et al.. (2025). Trichromacy is insufficient for mate detection in a mimetic butterfly. Communications Biology. 8(1). 189–189. 1 indexed citations

Childers, Richard Rabideau, Gary D. Bernard, Cheng‐Chia Tsai, et al.. (2023). A hypothesis for robust polarization vision: an example from the Australian imperial blue butterfly,Jalmenus evagoras. Journal of Experimental Biology. 226(7). 1 indexed citations

Childers, Richard Rabideau, Cheng‐Chia Tsai, Andrei Sourakov, et al.. (2022). A high-throughput multispectral imaging system for museum specimens. Communications Biology. 5(1). 1318–1318. 8 indexed citations

Liénard, Marjorie A., Gary D. Bernard, Jean‐Marc Lassance, et al.. (2021). The evolution of red color vision is linked to coordinated rhodopsin tuning in lycaenid butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(6). 34 indexed citations

Shi, Norman Nan, et al.. (2017). Butterflies regulate wing temperatures using radiative cooling. 9–9. 3 indexed citations

Briscoe, Adriana D., Seth Bybee, Gary D. Bernard, et al.. (2010). Positive selection of a duplicated UV-sensitive visual pigment coincides with wing pigment evolution in Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(8). 3628–3633. 124 indexed citations

Labhart, Thomas, et al.. (2009). Specialized ommatidia of the polarization-sensitive dorsal rim area in the eye of monarch butterflies have non-functional reflecting tapeta. Cell and Tissue Research. 338(3). 391–400. 29 indexed citations

Mouchet, Florence, Périne Landois, Gary D. Bernard, et al.. (2008). Characterisation and in vivo ecotoxicity evaluation of double-wall carbon nanotubes in larvae of the amphibian Xenopus laevis. Aquatic Toxicology. 87(2). 127–137. 105 indexed citations

Frentiu, Francesca D., et al.. (2007). Adaptive evolution of color vision as seen through the eyes of butterflies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(suppl_1). 8634–8640. 2 indexed citations

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Atlas, Les, et al.. (2002). Automatic clustering of vector time-series for manufacturing machine monitoring. 4. 3393–3396. 14 indexed citations

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Palacios, Adrián G., Timothy H. Goldsmith, & Gary D. Bernard. (1996). Sensitivity of cones from a cyprinid fish (Danio aequipinnatus) to ultraviolet and visible light. Visual Neuroscience. 13(3). 411–421. 87 indexed citations

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Bernard, Gary D.. (1987). Spectral characterization of butterfly L-receptors using extended Dartnall/MacNichol template functions. Annual Meeting Optical Society of America. FF3–FF3. 14 indexed citations

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Bernard, Gary D.. (1983). Bleaching of Rhabdoms in Eyes of Intact Butterflies. Science. 219(4580). 69–71. 27 indexed citations

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Bernard, Gary D.. (1978). Optical physiology: a technique for isolation of pupillary responses from single types of insect photoreceptors (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 68. 1427. 3 indexed citations

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Bernard, Gary D. & Doekele G. Stavenga. (1978). Spectral sensitivities of retinular cells measured in intact, living bumblebees by an optical method. Die Naturwissenschaften. 65(8). 442–443. 23 indexed citations

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Bernard, Gary D. & Doekele G. Stavenga. (1977). The pupillary response of flies as an optical probe for determining spectral sensitivities of retinular cells in completely intact animals. Biological Bulletin. 153(2). 415–415. 7 indexed citations

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Srinivasan, Mandyam V., Gary D. Bernard, & Doekele G. Stavenga. (1977). Effects of temperature on the pupillary response of the butterfly eye. Biological Bulletin. 153(2). 445–446. 6 indexed citations

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Bernard, Gary D.. (1977). Noninvasive microspectrophotometry of butterfly photoreceptors (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 67. 1362. 3 indexed citations

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Bernard, Gary D.. (1976). Noninvasive optical probe of the invertebrate eye (A). Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 66. 1120. 2 indexed citations

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Bernard, Gary D., et al.. (1966). HF EXTENDED GROUND SYSTEMS: RESULTS OF A NUMERICAL ANALYSIS.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations

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