Clifton W. Ragsdale

University of Chicago — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

37h-index9.4kcitations73works1.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Cephalopods and Marine Biology(21), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research(15), Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation(14), Axon Guidance and Neuronal Signaling(8), Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research(7)

Publications73 total

Assessing Local Anesthesia in Octopus bimaculoides to Provide Analgesia.
PubMed·2026
Multiple longitudinal tracts in the cephalopod arm sensorimotor system
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Genome reorganisation and expansion shape 3D genome architecture and define a distinct regulatory landscape in coleoid cephalopods
2025Open Access
Author response for "Molecular and Morphological Circuitry of the Octopus Sucker Ganglion"
2025
Elevated ambient temperature reduces fat storage through the FoxO-mediated insulin signaling pathway
PLoS ONE·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Molecular and morphological circuitry of the octopus sucker ganglion
2025Open Access
Neuronal segmentation in cephalopod arms
Nature Communications·2025· 11 citedOpen Access
Neuronal segmentation in cephalopod arms
2024Open Access
Neuronal segmentation in cephalopod arms
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Signaling Ligand Heterogeneities in the Peduncle Complex of the Cephalopod Mollusc Octopus bimaculoides
Brain Behavior and Evolution·2024
Signaling ligand heterogeneities in the peduncle complex of the cephalopod mollusc <i>Octopus bimaculoides</i>
2023Open Access
Toward an Understanding of Octopus Arm Motor Control
Integrative and Comparative Biology·2023· 18 citedOpen Access
Steroid hormones of the octopus self-destruct system
Current Biology·2022· 22 cited
Genome and transcriptome mechanisms driving cephalopod evolution
Nature Communications·2022· 108 citedOpen Access
The emergence of the brain non-CpG methylation system in vertebrates
Nature Ecology & Evolution·2021· 118 citedOpen Access
Evolution of the Chordate Telencephalon
Current Biology·2019· 77 citedOpen Access
Homology, neocortex, and the evolution of developmental mechanisms
Science·2018· 100 citedOpen Access
Multiple optic gland signaling pathways implicated in octopus maternal behaviors and death
2018· 6 cited
Cephalopod Nervous System Organization
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience·2018· 19 cited
Molecular anatomy of the alligator dorsal telencephalon
The Journal of Comparative Neurology·2018· 37 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Ann M. Graybiel(11), Caroline B. Albertin(6), Z. Yan Wang(6), Elizabeth A. Grove(5), Jeremy P. Brockes(5), Joanna J. Rowell(4), Seema Agarwala(4), Steven D. Briscoe(4), Jennifer Dugas‐Ford(3), T. A. B. Sanders(3), Phillip B. Gates(3), Leonid L. Moroz(3), Shuichi Shigeno(3), Oleg Simakov(2), Therese Mitros(2), Judit R. Pungor(2), Eric Edsinger(2), Daniel S. Rokhsar(2), Shubha Tole(2), Stavroula Assimacopoulos(2)