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Overview

Thomas J. Near is a researcher affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their work is primarily focused on the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these fields, they have contributed notably to subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology, Genetics, Ecology, and Aquatic Science.

Themes central to their research include Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, Genetic diversity and population structure, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Richard Harrington
  • Chase Doran Brownstein
  • Alex Dornburg
  • Daniel J. MacGuigan
  • Daemin Kim

Thomas J. Near has published extensively in several scientific venues. Among the most frequent are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
  • Systematic Biology
  • Evolution
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Some of their recent papers include:

  • Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii), 2024, Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
  • Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous, 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The Emerging Phylogenetic Perspective on the Evolution of Actinopterygian Fishes, 2021, Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics
  • Accelerated Diversification Explains the Exceptional Species Richness of Tropical Characoid Fishes, 2021, Systematic Biology
  • Initial data release and announcement of the 10,000 Fish Genomes Project (Fish10K), 2020, GigaScience

Best Publications

  • Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

    Gary G. Mittelbach;Douglas W. Schemske;Howard V. Cornell;Andrew P. Allen

  • Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification

    Thomas J. Near;Ron I. Eytan;Alex Dornburg;Kristen L. Kuhn

  • Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data.

    Luke J Harmon;Luke J Harmon;Jonathan B Losos;T Jonathan Davies;Rosemary G Gillespie

  • An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

    Daniel L. Rabosky;Jonathan Chang;Pascal O. Title;Peter F. Cowman;Peter F. Cowman

  • Phylogeny and tempo of diversification in the superradiation of spiny-rayed fishes

    Thomas J. Near;Alex Dornburg;Ron I. Eytan;Benjamin P. Keck

  • Ancient climate change, antifreeze, and the evolutionary diversification of Antarctic fishes

    Thomas J. Near;Alex Dornburg;Kristen L. Kuhn;Joseph T. Eastman

  • Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

    Michael J. Benton;Philip C.J. Donoghue;Robert J. Asher;Matt Friedman

  • Assessing concordance of fossil calibration points in molecular clock studies: an example using turtles.

    Thomas J. Near;Peter A. Meylan;H. Bradley Shaffer

  • The Evolution of Pharyngognathy: A Phylogenetic and Functional Appraisal of the Pharyngeal Jaw Key Innovation in Labroid Fishes and Beyond

    Peter C Wainwright;W Leo Smith;Samantha A Price;Kevin L Tang

  • Tempo of hybrid inviability in centrarchid fishes (Teleostei: Centrarchidae).

    Daniel I. Bolnick;Thomas J. Near

  • Phylogeny and temporal diversification of darters (Percidae: Etheostomatinae).

    Thomas J. Near;Christen M. Bossu;Gideon S. Bradburd;Rose L. Carlson

  • Phylogenetic relations among percid fishes as inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b DNA sequence data.

    Choon Bok Song;Thomas J. Near;Lawrence M. Page

  • Molecular and fossil evidence place the origin of cichlid fishes long after Gondwanan rifting

    Matt Friedman;Benjamin P. Keck;Alex Dornburg;Ron I. Eytan

  • Explosive diversification of marine fishes at the Cretaceous-Palaeogene boundary.

    Michael E. Alfaro;Brant C. Faircloth;Richard C. Harrington;Richard C. Harrington;Laurie Sorenson

  • Assessing the quality of molecular divergence time estimates by fossil calibrations and fossil-based model selection.

    Thomas J. Near;Michael J. Sanderson

  • Fossil calibrations and molecular divergence time estimates in centrarchid fishes (Teleostei: Centrarchidae).

    Thomas J. Near;Daniel I. Bolnick;Daniel I. Bolnick;Peter C. Wainwright

  • Piscivory limits diversification of feeding morphology in centrarchid fishes.

    David C. Collar;David C. Collar;Brian C. O'Meara;Peter C. Wainwright;Thomas J. Near;Thomas J. Near

  • Coral reefs promote the evolution of morphological diversity and ecological novelty in labrid fishes

    S. A. Price;R. Holzman;R. Holzman;T. J. Near;P. C. Wainwright

  • Molecular evidence for Acanthocephala as a subtaxon of Rotifera

    James R. Garey;Thomas J. Near;Michael R. Nonnemacher;Steven A. Nadler

  • Estimating divergence times of notothenioid fishes using a fossil-calibrated molecular clock

    Thomas J. Near

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter C. Wainwright
Peter C. Wainwright University of California, Davis
Michael E. Alfaro
Michael E. Alfaro University of California, Los Angeles
Brant C. Faircloth
Brant C. Faircloth Louisiana State University
Matthew C. Brandley
Matthew C. Brandley University of Sydney
Daniel I. Bolnick
Daniel I. Bolnick University of Connecticut
Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick
Benjamin M. Fitzpatrick University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Steven A. Nadler
Steven A. Nadler University of California, Davis
Masaki Miya
Masaki Miya Natural History Museum and Institute
Jeremy M. Beaulieu
Jeremy M. Beaulieu University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
H. Bradley Shaffer
H. Bradley Shaffer University of California, Los Angeles

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