Area of research
Nature and Landscape Conservation · Aquatic Science
Research interest
Research interests include Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, and Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy.
Competition among freshwater clades explains cave colonization in blind cavefishes
Ancient climate changes and relaxed selection shape cave colonization in North American cavefishes
The complete genome sequences of 12 species of Percopsiformes
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes
Pelagic zone is an evolutionary catalyst, but an ecological dead end, for North American minnows
Ancient climate changes and relaxed selection shape cave colonisation in North American cavefishes
Population genomics and mitochondrial DNA reveal cryptic diversity in North American Spring Cavefishes (Amblyopsidae, Forbesichthys)
Many ways to build an angler: diversity of feeding morphologies in a deep-sea evolutionary radiation
Phylogenomics of trans-Andean tetras of the genus Hyphessobrycon Durbin 1908 (Stethaprioninae: Characidae) and colonization patterns of Middle America
Conservation implications for the world’s most widely distributed cavefish species complex based on population genomics (Typhlichthys, Percopsiformes)
Transcriptomic analysis of the Brazilian blind characid, Stygichthys typhlops, reveals convergent selection with Astyanax mexicanus and other cavefishes
Phylogenomics reveals the deep ocean as an accelerator for evolutionary diversification in anglerfishes
Cave‐adapted evolution in the North American amblyopsid fishes inferred using phylogenomics and geometric morphometrics
Morphological Evolution of the Cave-, Spring-, and Swampfishes of the Amblyopsidae (Percopsiformes)
First definitive record of a stygobiotic fish (Percopsiformes, Amblyopsidae, Typhlichthys) from the Appalachians karst region in the eastern United States