Accelerated Diversification Explains the Exceptional Species Richness of Tropical Characoid Fishes

Evolutionary time best explains the latitudinal diversity gradient of living freshwater fish diversity

(2021) Elizabeth Christina Miller et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Developmental plasticity reveals hidden fish phenotypes and enables morphospace diversification

(2021) Leandro Lofeu et al.   EVOLUTION

A Target Enrichment Bait Set for Studying Relationships among Ostariophysan Fishes

(2020) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   COPEIA

Phylogenomic analysis of trichomycterid catfishes (Teleostei: Siluriformes) inferred from ultraconserved elements

(2020) Luz E. Ochoa et al.   Scientific Reports

Diversification of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes

(2020) James S. Albert et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Molecular delimitation and taxonomic revision of the wimple piranha Catoprion (Characiformes: Serrasalmidae) with the description of a new species

(2020) Nadayca T. Bonani Mateussi et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

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

(2020) M A Kolmann et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics of the Neotropical fish family Serrasalmidae with a novel intrafamilial classification (Teleostei: Characiformes)

(2020) Nadayca T.B. Mateussi et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Drivers and dynamics of a massive adaptive radiation in cichlid fishes

(2020) Fabrizia Ronco et al.   NATURE

Tip rates, phylogenies, and diversification: what are we estimating, and how good are the estimates?

(2019) Pascal O. Title et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The Ecology of Nonecological Speciation and Nonadaptive Radiations

(2019) Jesse E. Czekanski-Moir et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Fishes of the Amazon: Distribution and Biogeographical Patterns, with a Comprehensive List of Species

(2019) Fernando C.P. Dagosta et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Phylogenomic reappraisal of the Neotropical catfish family Loricariidae (Teleostei: Siluriformes) using ultraconserved elements

(2019) Fábio F. Roxo et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

Estimating Diversification Rates on Incompletely Sampled Phylogenies: Theoretical Concerns and Practical Solutions

(2019) Jonathan Chang et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Morphology, molecules and the phylogeny of Characidae (Teleostei, Characiformes)

(2018) Juan Marcos Mirande   CLADISTICS

Bayesian analyses detect a history of both vicariance and geodispersal in Neotropical freshwater fishes

(2018) Carolina Barros Machado et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Estimating Improved Partitioning Schemes for Ultraconserved Elements

(2018) Victor A Tagliacollo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogenetics of Neotropical detritivorous fishes of the family Curimatidae (Teleostei: Characiformes)

(2018) Bruno F. Melo et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Comprehensive phylogeny of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) based on transcriptomic and genomic data

(2018) Lily C. Hughes et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogenomic Perspective on the Relationships and Evolutionary History of the Major Otocephalan Lineages

(2018) Wei Dai 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

An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

(2018) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   NATURE

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

Phylogenetic relationships of the family Tarumaniidae (Characiformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial data

(2018) Dahiana Arcila et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Preface: How far has Neotropical Ichthyology progressed in twenty years?

(2018) José L. O. Birindelli et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

The changing course of the Amazon River in the Neogene: center stage for Neotropical diversification

(2018) James S. Albert et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Resolving Deep Nodes in an Ancient Radiation of Neotropical Fishes in the Presence of Conflicting Signals from Incomplete Lineage Sorting

(2018) Fernando Alda et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A new genus of Anostomidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes): Diversity, phylogeny and biogeography based on cytogenetic, molecular and morphological data

(2017) Jorge L. Ramirez et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Multilocus analysis of the catfish family Trichomycteridae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Siluriformes) supporting a monophyletic Trichomycterinae

(2017) Luz E. Ochoa et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2017) Prosanta Chakrabarty et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

A new family of neotropical freshwater fishes from deep fossorial Amazonian habitat, with a reappraisal of morphological characiform phylogeny (Teleostei: Ostariophysi)

(2017) Mário de Pinna et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A tail of two voltages: Proteomic comparison of the three electric organs of the electric eel

(2017) Lindsay L. Traeger et al.   Science Advances

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

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

Combined phylogeny of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) and the use of morphological characters in large-scale analyses

(2016) Juan Marcos Mirande   CLADISTICS

Fish biodiversity and conservation in South America

(2016) R. E. Reis et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Transcontinental dispersal, ecological opportunity and origins of an adaptive radiation in the Neotropical catfish genus Hypostomus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae)

(2016) Gabriel S. C. Silva et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogeny and biogeography of Triportheidae (Teleostei: Characiformes) based on molecular data

(2016) T.C. Mariguela et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogeny of the Neotropical fish genus Tetragonopterus (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae)

(2016) Bruno F. Melo et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogenetics of the Neotropical fish family Prochilodontidae (Teleostei: Characiformes)

(2016) Bruno F. Melo et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Continental cichlid radiations: functional diversity reveals the role of changing ecological opportunity in the Neotropics

(2016) Jessica Hilary Arbour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The consequences of genomic architecture on ecological speciation in postglacial fishes

(2016) Sean M. Rogers et al.   Current Zoology

TESS: an R package for efficiently simulating phylogenetic trees and performing Bayesian inference of lineage diversification rates

(2015) Sebastian Höhna et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

ASTRAL-II: coalescent-based species tree estimation with many hundreds of taxa and thousands of genes

(2015) Siavash Mirarab et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

PHYLUCE is a software package for the analysis of conserved genomic loci

(2015) Brant C. Faircloth   BIOINFORMATICS

Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Reveals Biggest Data on Biodiversity

(2015) Lawrence M. Page et al.   BIOSCIENCE

The Cretaceous opening of the South Atlantic Ocean

(2015) Roi Granot et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Slow Cenozoic uplift of the western Andean Cordillera indicated by cosmogenic 3 He in alluvial boulders from the Pacific Planation Surface

(2015) Laura A. Evenstar et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Biogeographical signature of river capture events in Amazonian lowlands

(2015) Victor A. Tagliacollo et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Synthesis of phylogeny and taxonomy into a comprehensive tree of life

(2015) Cody E. Hinchliff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Speciation in Freshwater Fishes

(2014) Ole Seehausen et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

ASTRAL: genome-scale coalescent-based species tree estimation

(2014) S. Mirarab et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Addressing Grand Challenges In Organismal Biology: The Need For Synthesis

(2014) Dianna K. Padilla et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Systematic and historical biogeography of the Bryconidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes) suggesting a new rearrangement of its genera and an old origin of Mesoamerican ichthyofauna

(2014) Kelly T Abe et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Evolutionary diversification in freshwater sculpins (Cottoidea): a review of two major adaptive radiations

(2014) Akira Goto et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY OF FISHES

ExaBayes: Massively Parallel Bayesian Tree Inference for the Whole-Genome Era

(2014) Andre J. Aberer 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

Priocharax nanus, a new miniature characid from the rio Negro, Amazon basin (Ostariophysi: Characiformes), with an updated list of miniature Neotropical freshwater fishes

(2014) Mônica Toledo-Piza et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

BAMMtools: an R package for the analysis of evolutionary dynamics on phylogenetic trees

(2014) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

EVOLUTIONARY ORIGIN AND EARLY BIOGEOGRAPHY OF OTOPHYSAN FISHES (OSTARIOPHYSI: TELEOSTEI)

(2013) Wei-Jen Chen et al.   EVOLUTION

TESTING THE MUSEUM VERSUS CRADLE TROPICAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY HYPOTHESIS: PHYLOGENY, DIVERSIFICATION, AND ANCESTRAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGE EVOLUTION OF THE ANTS

(2013) Corrie S. Moreau et al.   EVOLUTION

Homage to Hutchinson, and the role of ecology in lineage divergence and speciation

(2013) Robert M. Zink   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Two new species ofLeporinus(Characiformes: Anostomidae) from the Brazilian Amazon, and redescription ofLeporinus striatusKner 1858

(2013) J. L. O. Birindelli et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Composition and interrelationships of a large Neotropical freshwater fish group, the subfamily Cheirodontinae (Characiformes: Characidae): A case study based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences

(2013) T.C. Mariguela et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The first molecular phylogeny of Chilodontidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) reveals cryptic biodiversity and taxonomic uncertainty

(2013) Bruno F. Melo et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Key ornamental innovations facilitate diversification in an avian radiation

(2013) R. Maia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Computational Tools for Evaluating Phylogenetic and Hierarchical Clustering Trees

(2012) John Chakerian et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND GRAPHICAL STATISTICS

Phylogenetic relationships ofPaleotetra, a new characiform fish (Ostariophysi) with two new species from the Eocene-Oligocene of south-eastern Brazil

(2012) Fernanda E. Weiss et al.   JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

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

Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification

(2012) T. J. Near et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anchored Hybrid Enrichment for Massively High-Throughput Phylogenomics

(2012) Alan R. Lemmon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ultraconserved Elements Anchor Thousands of Genetic Markers Spanning Multiple Evolutionary Timescales

(2012) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evolutionary history of Otophysi (Teleostei), a major clade of the modern freshwater fishes: Pangaean origin and Mesozoic radiation

(2011) Masanori Nakatani et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships within the speciose family Characidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) based on multilocus analysis and extensive ingroup sampling

(2011) Claudio Oliveira et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships and the temporal context for the diversification of African characins of the family Alestidae (Ostariophysi: Characiformes): Evidence from DNA sequence data

(2011) Jairo Arroyave et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny of the family Characidae (Teleostei: Characiformes): from characters to taxonomy

(2011) Juan Marcos Mirande   Neotropical Ichthyology

Testing for Temporal Variation in Diversification Rates When Sampling is Incomplete and Nonrandom

(2011) Chad D. Brock et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

BUCKy: Gene tree/species tree reconciliation with Bayesian concordance analysis

(2010) Bret R. Larget et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Sexual selection and speciation: the comparative evidence revisited

(2010) Ken Kraaijeveld et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

(2010) C. Hoorn et al.   SCIENCE

Higher and lower-level relationships of the deep-sea fish order Alepocephaliformes (Teleostei: Otocephala) inferred from whole mitogenome sequences

(2009) JAN Y. POULSEN et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

LINKING BIG: THE CONTINUING PROMISE OF EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS

(2009) Brian Sidlauskas et al.   EVOLUTION

A new genus and species of characid fish from the Amazon basin: the recognition of a relictual lineage of characid fishes (Ostariophysi: Cheirodontinae: Cheirodontini)

(2009) Cristina M. Bührnheim et al.   Neotropical Ichthyology

Optimal Data Partitioning and a Test Case for Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) Based on Ten Nuclear Loci

(2008) Chenhong Li et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships within the South American fish family Anostomidae (Teleostei, Ostariophysi, Characiformes)

(2008) BRIAN L. SIDLAUSKAS et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY