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Gavin J. P. Naylor is affiliated with the Florida Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on various subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, and Paleontology.

The main topics of Gavin J. P. Naylor's research include Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Identification and Quantification in Food, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, and Marine Ecology and Invasive Species.

Listed below are some of the frequent venues where they have published their research:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Diversity
  • Journal of Fish Biology
  • Zootaxa
  • Biology

Recent notable papers by Gavin J. P. Naylor include:

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species, 2021, Nature
  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Integrative taxonomy identifies a new stingray species of the genus Hypanus Rafinesque, 1818 (Dasyatidae, Myliobatiformes), from the Tropical Southwestern Atlantic, 2020, Journal of Fish Biology
  • Deciphering reticulate evolution of the largest group of polyploid vertebrates, the subfamily cyprininae (Teleostei: Cypriniformes), 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • The Phylogeny of Rays and Skates (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii) Based on Morphological Characters Revisited, 2022, Diversity

Among frequent coauthors collaborating with Gavin J. P. Naylor are:

  • Lei Yang
  • Jürgen Kriwet
  • William T. White
  • Shannon Corrigan
  • Olivier Fédrigo

Best Publications

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

    Arang Rhie;Shane A. McCarthy;Shane A. McCarthy;Olivier Fedrigo;Joana Damas

  • Rates of mitochondrial DNA evolution in sharks are slow compared with mammals

    Andrew P. Martin;Andrew P. Martin;Gavin J. P. Naylor;Stephen R. Palumbi

  • Rays of the World

    William White;Marcelo de Carvalho;Bernard Séret

  • A DNA Sequence–Based Approach To the Identification of Shark and Ray Species and Its Implications for Global Elasmobranch Diversity and Parasitology

    G. J. P. Naylor;J. N. Caira;K. Jensen;K. A. M. Rosana

  • Evidence for an ancient adaptive episode of convergent molecular evolution.

    Todd A. Castoe;A. P Jason De Koning;Hyun Min Kim;Wanjun Gu;Wanjun Gu

  • Elasmobranch Phylogeny: A Mitochondrial Estimate Based on 595 Species

    Gavin J.P. Naylor;Janine N. Caira;Kirsten Jensen;Kerri A.M. Rosana

  • Amphioxus mitochondrial DNA, chordate phylogeny, and the limits of inference based on comparisons of sequences.

    Gavin J. P. Naylor;Wesley M. Brown

  • The interface of protein structure, protein biophysics, and molecular evolution.

    David A Liberles;Sarah A Teichmann;Ivet Bahar;Ugo Bastolla

  • A revised classification of the family Dasyatidae (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes) based on new morphological and molecular insights.

    Gavin J.P. Naylor;B. Mabel Manjaji-Matsumoto

  • Body plan convergence in the evolution of skates and rays (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea)

    Neil C. Aschliman;Mutsumi Nishida;Masaki Miya;Jun G. Inoue

  • Capturing protein-coding genes across highly divergent species

    Chenhong Li;Michael Hofreiter;Nicolas Straube;Shannon Corrigan

  • Elasmobranch Phylogeny

    Unknown

  • Phylogeny of the manta and devilrays (Chondrichthyes: mobulidae), with an updated taxonomic arrangement for the family

    William T White;Shannon Corrigan;Lei Yang;Aaron C Henderson

  • Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of turtles.

    James G. Krenz;Gavin J.P. Naylor;H. Bradley Shaffer;Fredric J. Janzen

  • COMPOSITIONAL BIAS, CHARACTER-STATE BIAS, AND CHARACTER-STATE RECONSTRUCTION USING PARSIMONY

    Timothy M. Collins;Peter H. Wimberger;Gavin J. P. Naylor

  • The Effect of Taxon Sampling on Estimating Rate Heterogeneity Parameters of Maximum-Likelihood Models

    J. Sullivan;D. L. Swofford;G. J. P. Naylor

  • Hydrophobicity And Phylogeny

    Gavin J. P. Naylor;Timothy M. Collins;Wesley M. Brown

  • Conservation genomics of natural and managed populations: building a conceptual and practical framework.

    Laura Marilyn Benestan;Anne Laure Ferchaud;Paul A. Hohenlohe;Brittany A. Garner

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

    Arang Rhie;Shane A. McCarthy;Olivier Fedrigo;Joana Damas

  • Structural biology and phylogenetic estimation

    Gavin J. P. Naylor;Wesley M. Brown

  • Species delineation and global population structure of Critically Endangered sawfishes (Pristidae)

    Vicente V. Faria;Vicente V. Faria;Matthew T. McDavitt;Patricia Charvet;Tonya R. Wiley

  • Phylogeny of sharks of the family Triakidae (Carcharhiniformes) and its implications for the evolution of carcharhiniform placental viviparity.

    J. Andrés López;Julie A. Ryburn;Olivier Fedrigo;Gavin J.P. Naylor

  • Can We Identify Genes with Increased Phylogenetic Reliability

    Vinson P. Doyle;Randee E. Young;Gavin J. P. Naylor;Jeremy M. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

William T. White
William T. White Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
David A. Ebert
David A. Ebert South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity
Dean C. Adams
Dean C. Adams Iowa State University
Wesley M. Brown
Wesley M. Brown University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Janine N. Caira
Janine N. Caira University of Connecticut
Byrappa Venkatesh
Byrappa Venkatesh Agency for Science, Technology and Research
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis Rockefeller University
Oliver A. Ryder
Oliver A. Ryder University of California, San Diego
Michael Hofreiter
Michael Hofreiter University of Potsdam
Richard Durbin
Richard Durbin University of Cambridge

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