Ecological opportunity and adaptive radiation

JT Stroud, JB Losos - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
The process of adaptive radiation—the proliferation of species from a single ancestor and
diversification into many ecologically different forms—has been of great interest to …

The emerging phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of actinopterygian fishes

A Dornburg, TJ Near - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
The emergence of a new phylogeny of ray-finned fishes at the turn of the twenty-first century
marked a paradigm shift in understanding the evolutionary history of half of living …

Comprehensive phylogeny of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) based on transcriptomic and genomic data

LC Hughes, G Ortí, Y Huang, Y Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - pnas.org
Our understanding of phylogenetic relationships among bony fishes has been transformed
by analysis of a small number of genes, but uncertainty remains around critical nodes …

On impact and volcanism across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary

PM Hull, A Bornemann, DE Penman, MJ Henehan… - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
The cause of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction is vigorously debated, owing to the
occurrence of a very large bolide impact and flood basalt volcanism near the boundary …

[HTML][HTML] The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes

R Betancur-R, RE Broughton, EO Wiley… - PLoS …, 2013‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The tree of life of fishes is in a state of flux because we still lack a comprehensive phylogeny
that includes all major groups. The situation is most critical for a large clade of spiny-finned …

Phylogeny and tempo of diversification in the superradiation of spiny-rayed fishes

TJ Near, A Dornburg, RI Eytan, BP Keck… - Proceedings of the …, 2013‏ - pnas.org
Spiny-rayed fishes, or acanthomorphs, comprise nearly one-third of all living vertebrates.
Despite their dominant role in aquatic ecosystems, the evolutionary history and tempo of …

Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous

A Ghezelayagh, RC Harrington, ED Burress… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Spiny-rayed fishes (Acanthomorpha) dominate modern marine habitats and account for
more than a quarter of all living vertebrate species. Previous time-calibrated phylogenies …

Evolutionary covariation in geometric morphometric data: analyzing integration, modularity, and allometry in a phylogenetic context

CP Klingenberg, J Marugán-Lobón - Systematic biology, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
Quantifying integration and modularity of evolutionary changes in morphometric traits is
crucial for understanding how organismal shapes evolve. For this purpose, comparative …

Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)

TJ Near, CE Thacker - Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2024‏ - BioOne
Classification of the tremendous diversity of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) began with the
designation of taxonomic groups on the basis of morphological similarity. Starting in the late …

Intestinal microbiota in fishes: what's known and what's not

KD Clements, ER Angert, WL Montgomery, JH Choat - 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput sequencing approaches have enabled characterizations of the community
composition of numerous gut microbial communities, which in turn has enhanced interest in …