# overview
My lab studies the origin and maintenance of marine biodiversity, primarily in coral reef fishes, using genomic and computational methods. My lab has broad interests in phylogenomics and phylogeography, population genetics/genomics, and the geography and genetics of speciation in reef fishes.

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2.2 Factors Relating To The Physical Environment

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Pisces, Chaenopsidae, Acanthemblemaria, Barnacle Blennies, Southern Caribbean, Upwelling Zone

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University of Miami - (Coral Gables, Florida, United States)

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Louisiana State University - (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States)

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Two waves of colonization straddling the K-Pg boundary formed the modern reef fish fauna.

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The evolution of pharyngognathy: a phylogenetic and functional appraisal of the pharyngeal jaw key innovation in labroid fishes and beyond.

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Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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The impact of shifts in marine biodiversity hotspots on patterns of range evolution: Evidence from the Holocentridae (squirrelfishes and soldierfishes).

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Are 100 enough? Inferring acanthomorph teleost phylogeny using Anchored Hybrid Enrichment.

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Molecular data support the existence of two species of the Antarctic fish genus Cryodraco (Channichthyidae)

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Molecular phylogeny of Percomorpha resolves Trichonotus as the sister lineage to Gobioidei (Teleostei: Gobiiformes) and confirms the polyphyly of Trachinoidei.

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Detection of shifts in coral reef fish assemblage structure over 50 years at reefs of New Providence Island, The Bahamas highlight the value of the Academy of Natural Sciences' collections in a changing world

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Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

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Do large molecular sequence divergences imply an early closure of the Isthmus of Panama?

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Evaluation of genetic structure across freshwater mussel community (genus Elliptio) in the Altamaha River basin

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New insights on the sister lineage of percomorph fishes with an anchored hybrid enrichment dataset.

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Cryptic species diversity in sub-Antarctic islands: A case study of Lepidonotothen.

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Nuclear sequences reveal mid-range isolation of an imperilled deep-water coral population.

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High amino acid diversity and positive selection at a putative coral immunity gene (tachylectin-2).

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Phylogenomic analysis of carangimorph fishes reveals flatfish asymmetry arose in a blink of the evolutionary eye.

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Nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data reveal and conceal different demographic histories and population genetic processes in Caribbean reef fishes.

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A new lysozyme from the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, and a possible evolutionary pathway for i-type lysozymes in bivalves from host defense to digestion.

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Draft Genome Sequences of 38 Serratia marcescens Isolates Associated with Acroporid Serratiosis.

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Phylogeny and tempo of diversification in the superradiation of spiny-rayed fishes.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Reconciling molecules and morphology: molecular systematics and biogeography of Neotropical blennies (Acanthemblemaria).

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Acanthemblemaria aceroi, a new species of tube blenny from the Caribbean coast of South America with notes on Acanthemblemaria johnsoni (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae).

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The Application of Novel Research Technologies by the Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico (DEEPEND) Consortium

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Molecular and fossil evidence place the origin of cichlid fishes long after Gondwanan rifting.

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Life History and Population Structure of Snowy and Warsaw Grouper in US Waters

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)