Fernando Meléndez-Vazquez

The paper shows that extreme snout elongation in deep-sea fishes evolved independently but along constrained trajectories due to phenotypic integration and functional innovation.

The paper identifies a regulatory signature common to independent origins of endothermy in fish, showing convergent noncoding element acceleration near developmental genes.

This study investigates the evolutionary history of North American cavefishes, finding three independent cave colonisations linked to ancient climate changes and relaxed selection.