Thomas Near

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Yale University

United States

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Thomas Near is a Professor at Yale University in the United States. His research areas include phylogeny, evolution, and biodiversity of fish species, with a focus on the impacts of whole-genome duplication and the historical assemblage of marine vertebrate life. His recent publications explore topics such as convergent evolution in cavefishes and the survival of species through mass extinction events.

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Julia Day

University College London

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Brant Faircloth

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Louisiana State University

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Convergent Evolution in Amblyopsid Cavefishes and the Age of Eastern North American Subterranean Ecosystems

Night lizards survived the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction near the asteroid impact

Phylogeny, biology, and evolution of acanthopterygian fish clades

Phylogenomics establishes an Early Miocene reconstruction of reef vertebrate diversity

The many origins of extremophile fishes

Undescribed and imperiled vertebrate biodiversity near an American urban center

Investigating the Impact of Whole-Genome Duplication on Transposable Element Evolution in Teleost Fishes

Dispersal sweepstakes: Biotic interchange propelled air‐breathing fishes across the globe

The Palaeozoic assembly of the holocephalan body plan far preceded post-Cretaceous radiations into the ocean depths

Identification of non-native populations and reconstruction of invasion routes in the Redbreast Sunfish Lepomis auritus

Erosion of heterogeneous rock drives diversification of Appalachian fishes

Lacustrine speciation associated with chromosomal inversion in a lineage of riverine fishes

Phylogenomics of the Ancient and Species-Depauperate Gars Tracks 150 Million Years of Continental Fragmentation in the Northern Hemisphere

Phylogeography, hybridization, and species discovery in the Etheostoma nigrum complex (Percidae: Etheostoma: Boleosoma)

Introgression and Species Delimitation in the Longear Sunfish Lepomis megalotis (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Centrarchidae)

Introgression and Species Delimitation in the Longear Sunfish Lepomis megalotis (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Centrarchidae)

Genomic Data Clarify Aquarana Systematics and Reveal Isolation-by-Distance Dominates Phylogeography of the Wide-Ranging Frog Rana clamitans

Hidden species diversity in an iconic living fossil vertebrate

Periodic Environmental Disturbance Drives Repeated Ecomorphological Diversification in an Adaptive Radiation of Antarctic Fishes

Phylogenomics and species delimitation of the economically important Black Basses (Micropterus)

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Julia Day

Brant Faircloth

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