Richard C. Harrington

The paper shows that saltwater tolerance enabled transcontinental freshwater fish radiations to disperse across marine barriers and diversify in freshwater ecosystems.

This paper shows how swim bladder loss in ray-finned fishes influenced diversification by enabling adaptation to deep sea and Southern Ocean environments, but also acted as a selective filter during past global warming events.

This study shows how sexual parasitism and immune gene degeneration in anglerfishes enabled their evolutionary radiation into deep-sea pelagic habitats during a global warming event.