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Overview

Guillermo Ortí is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields within Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Molecular Biology, and Genetics. Their work also touches on Aquatic Science and Hematology.

The main topics reflected in their publications include:

  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Identification and Quantification in Food
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research

Ortí's frequent co-authors are Ricardo Betancur-R, Lily C. Hughes, Dahiana Arcila, Carole C. Baldwin, and William T. White. These collaborations have contributed to a breadth of research outputs in the fields they study.

Their work has been published primarily in:

  • Systematic Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Blood

Key recent papers by Ortí include:

  • "Evolutionary determinism and convergence associated with water-column transitions in marine fishes" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Phylogenomics and Historical Biogeography of Seahorses, Dragonets, Goatfishes, and Allies (Teleostei: Syngnatharia): Assessing Factors Driving Uncertainty in Biogeographic Inferences" (2021, Systematic Biology)
  • "Phylogenomics of Piranhas and Pacus (Serrasalmidae) Uncovers How Dietary Convergence and Parallelism Obfuscate Traditional Morphological Taxonomy" (2020, Systematic Biology)
  • "Biogeography, habitat transitions and hybridization in a radiation of South American silverside fishes revealed by mitochondrial and genomic RAD data" (2020, Molecular Ecology)
  • "The impact of paleoclimatic changes on body size evolution in marine fishes" (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes.

    Ricardo Betancur-R;Ricardo Betancur-R;Edward O. Wiley;Edward O. Wiley;Gloria Arratia;Arturo Acero

  • The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes.

    Ricardo Betancur-R.;Richard E. Broughton;Edward O. Wiley;Kent Carpenter

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • Comprehensive phylogeny of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) based on transcriptomic and genomic data.

    Lily C. Hughes;Guillermo Ortí;Guillermo Ortí;Yu Huang;Ying Sun

  • Phylogenetic relationships within the speciose family Characidae (Teleostei: Ostariophysi: Characiformes) based on multilocus analysis and extensive ingroup sampling

    Claudio Oliveira;Gleisy Semencio Avelino;Kelly T. Abe;Tatiane C. Mariguela

  • A practical approach to phylogenomics: the phylogeny of ray-finned fish (Actinopterygii) as a case study.

    Chenhong Li;Guillermo Ortí;Gong Zhang;Guoqing Lu

  • Population structure and biogeography of migratory freshwater fishes (Prochilodus: Characiformes) in major South American rivers.

    Arjun Sivasundar;Eldredge Bermingham;Guillermo Ortí

  • The cytochrome b gene as a phylogenetic marker: the limits of resolution for analyzing relationships among cichlid fishes.

    Izeni P. Farias;Guillermo Ortí;Iracilda Sampaio;Horacio Schneider

  • Phylogenetic Assessment of Length Variation at a Microsatellite Locus

    Guillermo Ortí;Devon E. Pearse;John C. Avise

  • GLOBAL SURVEY OF MITOCHONDRIAL DNA SEQUENCES IN THE THREESPINE STICKLEBACK: EVIDENCE FOR RECENT MIGRATIONS

    Guillermo Ortí;Michael A. Bell;Thomas E. Reimchen;Axel Meyer

  • Revised phylogeny of whales suggested by mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences

    Michel C. Milinkovitch;Michel C. Milinkovitch;Guillermo Orti;Axel Meyer

  • The radiation of characiform fishes and the limits of resolution of mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequences.

    Guillermo Ortí;Axel Meyer

  • The genome and transcriptome of Japanese flounder provide insights into flatfish asymmetry.

    Changwei Shao;Baolong Bao;Zhiyuan Xie;Xinye Chen

  • Evolution of pelvic reduction in threespine stickleback fish : a test of competing hypotheses

    Michael A. Bell;Guillermo Ortí;Jeffrey A. Walker;Jeffrey P. Koenings

  • Genome-wide interrogation advances resolution of recalcitrant groups in the tree of life.

    Dahiana Arcila;Dahiana Arcila;Guillermo Ortí;Richard Vari;Jonathan W. Armbruster

  • Patterns of Nucleotide Change in Mitochondrial Ribosomal RNA Genes and the Phylogeny of Piranhas

    Guillermo Orti;Paulo Petry;Jorge Ivan Rebelo Porto;Michel Jegú

  • Optimal Data Partitioning and a Test Case for Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii) Based on Ten Nuclear Loci

    Chenhong Li;Guoqing Lu;Guillermo Ortí

  • Reconstructing the lionfish invasion: insights into Greater Caribbean biogeography

    Ricardo Betancur-R.;Ricardo Betancur-R.;Andrew Hines;P Arturo Acero;Guillermo Ortí

  • Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of the family cichlidae : monophyly and fast molecular evolution of the neotropical assemblage

    Izeni P. Farias;Guillermo Ortí;Iracilda Sampaio;Horacio Schneider

  • Phylogenetic analysis of the South American electric fishes (order Gymnotiformes) and the evolution of their electrogenic system: a synthesis based on morphology, electrophysiology, and mitochondrial sequence data.

    José A. Alves-Gomes;Guillermo Ortí;Margo Haygood;Walter Heiligenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Izeni Pires Farias
Izeni Pires Farias Federal University of Amazonas
Byrappa Venkatesh
Byrappa Venkatesh Agency for Science, Technology and Research
William T. White
William T. White Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Giacomo Bernardi
Giacomo Bernardi University of California, Santa Cruz
Miguel A. Sanz
Miguel A. Sanz University of Valencia
Michael A. Bell
Michael A. Bell University of California, Berkeley
Claudio Oliveira
Claudio Oliveira Sao Paulo State University
Iracilda Sampaio
Iracilda Sampaio Federal University of Para
Charles Wood
Charles Wood University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Chipepo Kankasa
Chipepo Kankasa University of Zambia

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