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I am SO PROUD to say that the indomitable @Alexuss_Symone 's 3rd ch. is OUT NOW at Evolution Letters! With me, Christopher Martinez , & Peter Wainwright, we find that a famous key innovation in feeding apparatus LIMITS functional diversification! doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

🚨Incredibly excited to share my new pub in collab w/ Christopher Martinez, Katherine Corn, PhD, + Peter Wainwright in Evolution Letters! Opposite of long-held predictions, we find that a pharyngeal jaw novelty restricts diversification of feeding motions + morphology! doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

Hey folks, my PhD advisor, Dean Adams, EEB Dept at Iowa State, is recruiting a PhD student in morphometrics and macroevolution. Lab link: faculty.sites.iastate.edu/dcadams/ Email [email protected] for inquiries. I'm also happy to answer questions about the lab, department, and school!

Cetopsis candiru, is a smaller more specialized cousin to C. coecutians. This species has two sets of articulated spurs on its head used to burrow into its victims alive or dead. They can perforate flesh and propel themselves inwards to the softer innards of fish or unlucky

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Brand new open access paper alert! We are thrilled to introduce our findings on how "Complexity and weak integration promote the diversity of reef fish oral jaws" out now in Communications Biology led by Dr. Mike Burns nature.com/articles/s4200…

クロカサゴ シロカサゴ科のクロカサゴ 大きくなると赤くなるらしい 少し青くも見えました 沖縄 | 900m Ectreposebastes imus Midwater scorpionfish Okinawa | 900m

The final version of our paper is out: Phylogenomic and anatomical evidence for the Late Cretaceous diversification of African characiform fishes, including a new family, under the influence of the Trans-Saharan Seaway: doi.org/10.1093/evolin…

Super proud of my 2nd PhD paper exploring shifts in evo. integration among reef fish fins with expansions in locomotor modes, out now in Evolution. Within modes there is much diversity in fin shape and weak connections between form and function. doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

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The first complete 3D reconstruction and morphofunctional mapping of an insect eye. elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

𝐿𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑠 𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑠, a shell-dwelling cichlid takes intense care of their offspring, which they raise in empty snail shells. A team at the Max Planck Institute used 3D-printed snail shells to find out what happens inside. 🔓 cell.com/current-biolog…

Check out this Hemipsilichthys papillatus (MCP 39539), a member of the 'primitive' loricariid subfamily Delturinae from the Paraíba do Sul drainage in southeastern Brazil. It has large cheek odontodes like the more diverse Hypostominae subfamily, but it can't evert them.

3/10 Complex teeth (e.g. molars) are a key innovation for mammals and squamates. In fishes, they evolve many (>86) times but remain rare (~11% of species), evolving slowly across most of the tree. But in a few groups, the rate is significantly increased – evolutionary lability.

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Out today in PLOS Biology! We show that two major advances in fish feeding - highly protrusible jaws and large teeth - are functionally and evolutionarily incompatible with each other. Mike Mihalitsis and Peter Wainwright. Free to read: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

New fish paper! We found that Clinocottus globicpes eats anemones (weird!) using a novel wrestling behavior + strong jaws that likely started as adaptations for tearing algae. It also has thick skin that protects it from stinging cells. doi.org/10.1111/jzo.70…

1/8 Excited to share our new paper in Science Advances! We investigated the evolution of endothermy in ray-finned fishes by integrating phylogenomics, ecomorphology, fossil occurrence, and comparative genomics across 205 marine vertebrates. 👉 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…