Ecological axes of skull diversification in a massive 1 vertebrate radiation
Elizabeth Christina Santos, Rose Faucher, Aintzane Santaquiteria, JoJo West, Jonathan W. Armbruster, Carole Baldwin, Thaddaeus J. Buser, Kent Carpenter, Juan Martin Díaz De Astarloa, Melissa Rincón-Sandoval, Samantha M. Gartner, Shih-Pin Huang, Jin-Koo Kim, Hernán López‐Fernández, Nathan K. Lujan, , Dahiana Arcila
The paper analyzes skull diversification in eupercarian fishes, showing habitat and trophic ecology independently shape skull shape, with rapid evolution in certain clades and convergence in freshwater lineages.
bioRxiv · Jun 20, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology