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I am broadly interested in understanding the patterns and processes of diversification in marine and freshwater fishes by integrating molecular phylogenetics, morphology and ecology. Some of my previous projects focused on utilizing molecular phylogenies to examine biogeographic patterns and community assemblage process of neotropical rheophilic fishes. Additionally, I applied DNA Barcoding to elucidate molecular species limits on the highly diverse Amazon fish fauna. At the Fish Phylogeny Lab, I intend to investigate the evolutionary mechanisms that drove parallel radiations in marine percomorph clades using phylogenetic comparative approaches.
