

New paper: assessing the macroevolutionary "lake effect" on cichlid phenotypic evolution
Burress, E.D. and M.M. Muñoz. 2023. Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes....


The Burress Lab has its first live fishes!
Last week, we received our first live fishes - Hemeraia chicha (formerly Crenicichla chicha) and Crenicichla semifasciata. They are...


New paper: Rapid parallel morphological and mechanical diversification of pike cichlids
Check out our most recent paper in Systematic Biology "Rapid Parallel Morphological and Mechanical Diversification of South American Pike...
New paper: Ecological opportunity from innovation, not islands, drove the anole adaptive radiation
Martha Muñoz and I recently published a new paper in Systematic Biology - Ecological opportunity from innovation, not islands, drove the...


New paper: constraints on pharyngeal jaw diversification
Our new paper is out now in The American Naturalist about how head shape constrains the diversification of lower pharyngeal jaw shape and...
New paper: Adaptive radiation in labrid fishes
Check out the first paper from my postdoctoral work in the Wainwright lab about adaptive radiation in labrid fishes (wrasses and...