Ricardo Betancur‐R

The paper challenges the hypothesis of multiple freshwater invasions in otophysan fish by showing that a single invasion is more likely, based on phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses.

The paper investigates marine-to-freshwater fish transitions in Sahul rivers, finding that diversification success depends on paleoenvironmental dynamics rather than just ecological opportunity.

The paper shows that extreme snout elongation in deep-sea fishes evolved independently but along constrained trajectories due to phenotypic integration and functional innovation.

The paper identifies a regulatory signature common to independent origins of endothermy in fish, showing convergent noncoding element acceleration near developmental genes.

The Vertebrate Genomes Project Phase I provides high-quality reference genomes for 816 species, enabling evolutionary and conservation insights across vertebrates.

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.

The paper uses whole-genome phylogenomic and synteny data to resolve the evolutionary origin of flatfish body asymmetry, finding strong support for a single origin.

The paper uses genomic data to determine whether flatfish asymmetry evolved once or multiple times, finding strong support for a single origin.

This study generates a phylogenomic dataset to resolve relationships and biogeographic history of Atheriniformes, revealing polyphyly in Atherinidae and proposing a new family classification.

This study investigates the evolutionary history of North American cavefishes, finding three independent cave colonisations linked to ancient climate changes and relaxed selection.

This study uses phylogenomic and phenotypic data to show that deep-sea anglerfishes have greater diversity and faster diversification rates than shallow-water relatives, challenging expectations about habitat constraints.

This paper introduces a non-linear phylogenetic regression method using regularized kernels, showing improved error reduction in both biological and simulated datasets.

The paper investigates the evolution of p53/MDM2 interaction in teleosts, finding that affinity is conserved through compensatory changes in both conserved and non-conserved regions.

This study uses machine learning to analyze phylogenetic datasets, finding that non-linear models outperform linear ones in capturing complex relationships affecting phylogenomic inference.