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...
New paper: phylogenomics of the Parana River pike cichlids (Crenicichla)
Phylogenomics of pike cichlids (Cichlidae: Crenicicha) of the C. mandelburgeri species complex: rapid ecological speciation in the Iguazu...
New paper: Island- and lake-like parallel adaptive radiations replicated in rivers
Check out our newest paper about the parallel evolution of trophic-associaed ecomorphs among pike cichlids in the Uruguay and Parana...
New paper: Phylogenomics of pike cichlids (Cichlidae: Crenicichla) and the rapid ecological speciati
In this new paper, we assess the pike cichlid phylogeny using Ultraconserved eletments (UCEs) as well as test the relationships and...
