Aintzane Santaquiteria
@asantaquiteria.bsky.social
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Emily Troyer
about 1 month ago
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/...
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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...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2512299122
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Dr. Elizabeth Santos
5 months ago
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/...
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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.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads8488
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Dahiana Arcila
5 months ago
Former and current members of the Fish Evolution Lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, at
#Evol2025
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Dahiana Arcila
5 months ago
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! ๐ก๐ SSBโs top honor for the most creative student research in systematics
@scrippsocean.bsky.social
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Dr. Elizabeth Santos
about 1 year ago
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
add a skeleton here at some point
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Mark Westneat ๐
about 1 year ago
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. ๐๐งช๐ฆ๐
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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