Alex Dornburg

The paper uses eDNA data to show urban aquatic habitats sort mixed regional fish species into distinct biodiversity and life-history assemblages based on habitat characteristics.

The paper investigates the evolutionary history of Toll-like receptors in Gobiiformes, showing that early paralog diversification of TLR22 predates ecological transitions and enables functional tuning without major architectural changes.

This study investigates how genomic evolution affects phylogenetic relationships and divergence times in jawed vertebrates, showing that rapid radiations and varying mutation rates obscure evolutionary timelines.

The paper analyzes how phylogenetic signal, noise, and bias affect tree resolution in phylogenomics and shows their divergent scaling properties with character sampling.

This study examines the relationship between pigmentation pattern diversity, species richness, and geography in coral reef fishes, finding a positive correlation and evidence of rapid phenotypic diversification.

The paper investigates PSMB8 evolution in holosteans, identifying unique S and K types that may impact MHC class I peptide antigen processing.

The study resolves the phylogenetic relationships of Percomorpha's closest relatives and shows their diversification occurred after the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, obscuring Mesozoic origins.

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.

This study examines how genome duplication affected transposable element evolution in ray-finned fishes and finds no significant shift in mobilome composition post-duplication.

This paper presents a high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the longnose gar, providing a reference for comparative genomic studies.