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Thomas J. Near

Yale University
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Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography

…, AR McCune, LA McDade, MA McPeek, TJ Near… - Ecology …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A latitudinal gradient in biodiversity has existed since before the time of the dinosaurs, yet
how and why this gradient arose remains unresolved. Here we review two major hypotheses …

Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification

TJ Near, RI Eytan, A Dornburg… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Ray-finned fishes make up half of all living vertebrate species. Nearly all ray-finned fishes
are teleosts, which include most commercially important fish species, several model …

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

…, KH Kozak, MA McPeek, F Moreno-Roark, TJ Near… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
George Gaylord Simpson famously postulated that much of life's diversity originated as
adaptive radiations—more or less simultaneous divergences of numerous lines from a single …

An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

…, L Sallan, M Friedman, K Kaschner, C Garilao, TJ Near… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Far more species of organisms are found in the tropics than in temperate and polar regions,
but the evolutionary and ecological causes of this pattern remain controversial 1 , 2 . …

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

TJ Near, A Dornburg, RI Eytan… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Spiny-rayed fishes, or acanthomorphs, comprise nearly one-third of all living vertebrates.
Despite their dominant role in aquatic ecosystems, the evolutionary history and tempo of …

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

TJ Near, A Dornburg, KL Kuhn… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
… of the unique environmental and physical conditions of near-shore marine habitats in the …
This ice activity resulted in periodic extinction of the near-shore benthic fauna (29), allowing …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

…, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman, TJ Near… - 2015 - palaeo-electronica.org
… Hence, when we use records of near-relatives of clade X to argue that clade X does not …
based on the existence of facies preserving their near relatives, among which are at least some …

The evolution of pharyngognathy: a phylogenetic and functional appraisal of the pharyngeal jaw key innovation in labroid fishes and beyond

…, LA Ferry, KL Kuhn, RI Eytan, TJ Near - Systematic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The perciform group Labroidei includes approximately 2600 species and comprises some
of the most diverse and successful lineages of teleost fishes. Composed of four major clades, …

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

TJ Near, PA Meylan, HB Shaffer - The American Naturalist, 2005 - journals.uchicago.edu
Although still controversial, estimation of divergence times using molecular data has emerged
as a powerful tool to examine the tempo and mode of evolutionary change. Two primary …

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

DI Bolnick, TJ Near - Evolution, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… By taking advantage of robust divergence time estimates based on multiple fossil calibration
points and relaxed-clock methods that account for heterogeneity in substitution rates (Near