Phylogenomics of Piranhas and Pacus (Serrasalmidae) Uncovers How Dietary Convergence and Parallelism Obfuscate Traditional Morphological Taxonomy

A Target Enrichment Bait Set for Studying Relationships among Ostariophysan Fishes

(2020) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   COPEIA

Macroevolutionary analyses indicate that repeated adaptive shifts towards predatory diets affect functional diversity in Neotropical cichlids

(2020) Jessica H Arbour et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Functional diversity in biters: the evolutionary morphology of the oral jaw system in pacus, piranhas and relatives (Teleostei: Serrasalmidae)

(2019) Alessia Huby et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A new species of Piaractus (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) from the Orinoco Basin with a redescription of Piaractus brachypomus

(2019) Maria D. Escobar L. et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Pharyngeal Jaws Converge by Similar Means, Not to Similar Ends, When Minnows (Cypriniformes: Leuciscidae) Adapt to New Dietary Niches

(2019) Kelsie M Pos et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Body shape separates guilds of rheophilic herbivores (Myleinae: Serrasalmidae) better than feeding morphology

(2019) Jonathan M. Huie et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA

Tooth and consequences: Heterodonty and dental replacement in piranhas and pacus (Serrasalmidae)

(2019) Matthew A. Kolmann et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

(2019) Nathan S. Upham et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

ASTRAL-III: polynomial time species tree reconstruction from partially resolved gene trees

(2018) Chao Zhang et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

A new Myleus species (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) from the Rio Tapajós basin, Brazil

(2018) M. C. Andrade et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7

(2018) Andrew Rambaut et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

One thousand DNA barcodes of piranhas and pacus reveal geographic structure and unrecognised diversity in the Amazon

(2018) Valeria N. Machado et al.   Scientific Reports

Specialized specialists and the narrow niche fallacy: a tale of scale-feeding fishes

(2018) Matthew A. Kolmann et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Trophic niches through ontogeny in 12 species of Indo-Pacific marine Clupeoidei (herrings, sardines, and anchovies)

(2018) Joshua P. Egan et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Structure and Function of the Armored Keel in Piranhas, Pacus, and Their Allies

(2018) Matthew A. Kolmann et al.   Anatomical Record-Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology

Ancient and contingent body shape diversification in a hyperdiverse continental fish radiation

(2018) Michael D. Burns et al.   EVOLUTION

Phylogenomic incongruence, hypothesis testing, and taxonomic sampling: The monophyly of characiform fishes

(2018) Ricardo Betancur‐R. et al.   EVOLUTION

Trophic niche segregation among herbivorous serrasalmids from rapids of the lower Xingu River, Brazilian Amazon

(2018) Marcelo C. Andrade et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

Principal component and discriminant analyses as powerful tools to support taxonomic identification and their use for functional and phylogenetic signal detection of isolated fossil shark teeth

(2017) Giuseppe Marramà et al.   PLoS One

Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan Fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the Surprising Non-Monophyly of Characiformes

(2017) Prosanta Chakrabarty et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Genome-wide interrogation advances resolution of recalcitrant groups in the tree of life

(2017) Dahiana Arcila et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Dispersal largely explains the Gondwanan distribution of the ancient tropical clusioid plant clade

(2016) Brad R. Ruhfel et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Tometes kranponhah and Tometes ancylorhynchus (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae), two new phytophagous serrasalmids, and the first Tometes species described from the Brazilian Shield

(2016) M. C. Andrade et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Fast Coalescent-Based Computation of Local Branch Support from Quartet Frequencies

(2016) Erfan Sayyari et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A new Silver Dollar species of Metynnis Cope, 1878 (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) from Northwestern Brazil and Southern Venezuela

(2016) Rafaela Priscila Ota et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Stability and generalization in seed dispersal networks: a case study of frugivorous fish in Neotropical wetlands

(2016) Sandra Bibiana Correa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new large species of Myloplus (Characiformes, Serrasalmidae) from the Rio Madeira basin, Brazil

(2016) Marcelo C. Andrade et al.   ZooKeys

A new large Myloplus Gill 1896 from rio Negro basin, Brazilian Amazon (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae)

(2016) MARCELO C. ANDRADE et al.   ZOOTAXA

Feeding ecology of Serrasalmus gouldingi (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) in the lower Anapu River region, Eastern Amazon, Brazil

(2016) Bruno da S. PRUDENTE et al.   ACTA AMAZONICA

Neotropical fish-fruit interactions: eco-evolutionary dynamics and conservation

(2015) Sandra Bibiana Correa et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

What does convergent evolution mean? The interpretation of convergence and its implications in the search for limits to evolution

(2015) C. Tristan Stayton   Interface Focus

AliView: a fast and lightweight alignment viewer and editor for large datasets

(2014) Anders Larsson   BIOINFORMATICS

ASTRAL: genome-scale coalescent-based species tree estimation

(2014) S. Mirarab et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Trimmomatic: a flexible trimmer for Illumina sequence data

(2014) Anthony M. Bolger et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A time-calibrated, multi-locus phylogeny of piranhas and pacus (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) and a comparison of species tree methods

(2014) Andrew W. Thompson et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A new species of Utiaritichthys Miranda Ribeiro (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) from the Serra dos Parecis, Tapajós drainage

(2014) Thiago N. A. Pereira et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Biting disrupts integration to spur skull evolution in eels

(2014) David C. Collar et al.   Nature Communications

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Niche partitioning among frugivorous fishes in response to fluctuating resources in the Amazonian floodplain forest

(2013) Sandra Bibiana Correa et al.   ECOLOGY

Seasonal changes in the use of feeding resources by fish in stands of aquatic macrophytes in an Amazonian floodplain, Brazil

(2013) Cristhiana P. Röpke et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES

Ultrafast Approximation for Phylogenetic Bootstrap

(2013) B. Q. Minh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Tometes camunani (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae), a new species of phytophagous fish from the Guiana Shield, rio Trombetas basin, Brazil

(2013) Marcelo C. Andrade et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Cenozoic colonization and diversification patterns of tropical American palms: evidence fromAstrocaryum(Arecaceae)

(2012) Julissa Roncal et al.   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Arrhinolemur scalabrinii Ameghino, 1898, of the late Miocene : a taxonomic journey from the Mammalia to the Anostomidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes)

(2012) Sergio Bogan et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Mega-Bites: Extreme jaw forces of living and extinct piranhas (Serrasalmidae)

(2012) Justin R. Grubich et al.   Scientific Reports

Seed dispersal by fishes in tropical and temperate fresh waters: The growing evidence

(2011) Michael H. Horn et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A brief history of fruits and frugivores

(2011) Theodore H. Fleming et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Late Miocene sedimentary environments in south-western Amazonia (Solimões Formation; Brazil)

(2011) Martin Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF SOUTH AMERICAN EARTH SCIENCES

Vicariance or long-distance dispersal: historical biogeography of the pantropical subfamily Chrysophylloideae (Sapotaceae)

(2010) Igor V. Bartish et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

A morphometric approach for addressing tooth-based species delimitation in fossil mako sharks,Isurus(Elasmobranchii: Lamniformes)

(2010) Lisa B. Whitenack † et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Piranha attacks in dammed streams used for human recreation in the State of São Paulo, Brazil

(2010) Vidal Haddad Junior et al.   Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical

Amazonia Through Time: Andean Uplift, Climate Change, Landscape Evolution, and Biodiversity

(2010) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

PISCIVORY LIMITS DIVERSIFICATION OF FEEDING MORPHOLOGY IN CENTRARCHID FISHES

(2009) David C. Collar et al.   EVOLUTION

Megapiranha paranensis, a new genus and species of Serrasalmidae (Characiformes, Teleostei) from the upper Miocene of Argentina

(2009) Alberto Luis Cione et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Observations on the dental anatomy of piranhas (Characidae) with special reference to tooth structure

(2009) R. P. Shellis et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

High-quality seed dispersal by fruit-eating fishes in Amazonian floodplain habitats

(2009) Jill T. Anderson et al.   OECOLOGIA

Phylogeny of the Serrasalmidae (Characiformes) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

(2008) Guillermo Ortí et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Gourds afloat: a dated phylogeny reveals an Asian origin of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) and numerous oversea dispersal events

(2008) H. Schaefer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES