“Even small fish are fish. ”
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Our lab focuses on the systematics and evolution of bony fishes. This includes the discovery and formal description of new biodiversity, exploring the phylogenetic relationships between groups of fishes, and understanding how genotype, phenotype and ecology work in concert to produce the amazing diversity we observe in the aquatic world around us.
Below is a short list of current projects in our lab.
eCOLOGY, EVOLUTION AND DIVERSITY OF CRYPTOBENTHIC REEF FISHES
Photo by Barry Brown
phylogenomics and macroevolutionary trends in bony fishes
BIOGEOGRAPHY, TAXONOMY, PHYLOGENY AND LARVAL IDENTIFICATION OF NORTH PACIFIC GROUNDFISHES
Photo by Alison Deary
Systematics of gobioid fishes
Photo by Luke Tornabene
Evolution, biodiversity and conservation of deep-reef fish communities
systematics of indo-pacific dwarfgobies
Photo by Mark V. Erdmann
