Martha M. Muñoz

This paper shows how swim bladder loss in ray-finned fishes influenced diversification by enabling adaptation to deep sea and Southern Ocean environments, but also acted as a selective filter during past global warming events.

The paper combines climate and thermal trait data to assess how intraspecific heat tolerance and local warming rates affect species vulnerability to climate change, finding that existing variation is often insufficient to offset projected warming.

The paper uses simulations to show that body temperature evolution is constrained by protein thermal performance, leading to predictable patterns of rapid initial change followed by slow adaptation.

The paper uses macroevolutionary models to analyze how body temperature evolves in endothermic and ectothermic tetrapods, finding shared constraints on thermal physiology evolution despite ecological differences.