Happy to share our new paper in Nat. Comm. on the evolution of planktivory in surgeonfishes and relatives 🐠🧬 Combining fossils and genomics, we find multiple independent origins of planktivory, plus convergent positive selection in key genes linked to planktivory. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Parallel shifts in differential gene expression reveal convergent miniaturization in fishes | PNAS

Body size variation in vertebrates is a complex polygenic trait, tightly correlated with numerous aspects of a species’ biology, ecology, and physi...

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Evolution of endothermy in marine fishes is related to competition with cetaceans. This incredible paper is a masterpiece of phylogenetic comparative methods and a future classic for marine biologists www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ecological interactions and genomic innovation fueled the evolution of ray-finned fish endothermy

Cetacean interactions, body size, and genomic innovations shaped endothermy evolution in ray-finned fishes in the Eocene-Miocene.

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Former and current members of the Fish Evolution Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, at #Evol2025 ❤️🐡🐟

Thrilled to share that my grad student Zach Heiple won the 2025 Ernst Mayr Award at #Evol2025 for his PhD work on how deep-sea fishes evolved their extreme tubular snouts! 🐡🎉 SSB’s top honor for the most creative student research in systematics @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social

Co-authored with @sternarchella.bsky.social, Luke Tornabene, Dahiana Arcila, Ricardo Betancur-R, Pam Hart, @asantaquiteria.bsky.social, and an outstanding @riceuniversity.bsky.social undergraduate co-leader Rose Faucher #TeamFish #deepsea #marinebiology #evolution @burkemuseum.bsky.social

Dr. Elizabeth Santos@lizmillermacroevo.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our big collaboration on anglerfish diversity is out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social. THREAD PART 1 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our new paper, led by @asantaquiteria.bsky.social ! Awesome fish diversity and #evolution, phylogenomics and evolutionary patterns of seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards (Syngnatharia) across oceans. 🐟🧪🦑🌎 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

a seahorse is swimming in a monterey bay aquarium

ALT: a seahorse is swimming in a monterey bay aquarium

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