Thomas J. Near

This study investigates the adaptive radiation of butterflyfishes on coral reefs, finding a recent radiation in the Late Miocene linked to ecological opportunities from coral reef turnover and coral diversification.

The paper shows that saltwater tolerance enabled transcontinental freshwater fish radiations to disperse across marine barriers and diversify in freshwater ecosystems.

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.

This paper shows that the major freshwater fish clade Ostariophysi diversified rapidly after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, with two freshwater invasions and rapid origination of major clades within five million years.

This study investigates how genomic evolution affects phylogenetic relationships and divergence times in jawed vertebrates, showing that rapid radiations and varying mutation rates obscure evolutionary timelines.

The paper reports the geographic distribution of the Birmingham Darter Etheostoma birminghamense, extending its known range and linking its occurrence to specific geological features.

This study uses genome data from 48 chondrichthyan species to test shark monophyly, finding conflicting results across genomic markers.

The study resolves the phylogenetic relationships of Percomorpha's closest relatives and shows their diversification occurred after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, obscuring Mesozoic origins.

This study reconstructs the evolutionary history of holocephalians, finding that their diversification into deep-sea environments occurred after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, contrasting with earlier hypotheses.

This study examines how genome duplication affected transposable element evolution in ray-finned fishes and finds no significant shift in mobilome composition post-duplication.

The paper announces the Fish10K project to sequence 10,000 fish genomes and describes a workflow for biospecimen procurement, sequencing, and assembly.