“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. New and emerging projects in our lab will look to take advantage of the UW Fish Collection's world-class archive of otoliths, eggs, and larvae of fishes of the North Pacific to address relevant questions in systematics, conservation, and fisheries management.
Below is a short list of current projects in our lab.
BIOGEOGRAPHY, TAXONOMY, PHYLOGENY AND LARVAL IDENTIFICATION OF NORTH PACIFIC GROUNDFISHES
Photo by Alison Deary
phylogenomics 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
Ecology and conservation of reef fish communities in the Central Pacific
genome-wide molecular evolution and adaptation of fishes from extreme environments
Photo by Barry Brown