J. I. Montoya-Burgos

This study shows loricarioid catfish skin denticles share developmental and genetic features with teeth, indicating their re-emergence through gene regulatory network co-option rather than ancestral pathway resurrection.

This study uses phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis to show that Hypostomus species in La Plata Basin diversified through multiple colonization events and Miocene environmental changes.

This study investigates the evolutionary transitions between scale loss and trunk bony plate gains in ray-finned fishes, revealing multiple independent scale loss events and ecological shifts associated with scaleless phenotypes.