Thomas J Near

Affiliations

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, Division of Vertebrate Zoology. New Haven, CT 06520, USA.

ORCID: 0000-0002-7398-6670

Publications (25)

Widespread sympatry in a species-rich clade of marine fishes (Carangoidei).

Proceedings. Biological sciences

Avec: Jessica R Glass , Richard C Harrington , Peter F Cowman , Brant C Faircloth , Thomas J Near

Initial data release and announcement of the 10,000 Fish Genomes Project (Fish10K).

GigaScience

Avec: Guangyi Fan , Yue Song , Liandong Yang , Xiaoyun Huang , Suyu Zhang , Mengqi Zhang , Xianwei Yang , Yue Chang , He Zhang , Yongxin Li , Shanshan Liu , Lili Yu , Jeffery Chu , Inge Seim , Chenguang Feng , Thomas J Near , Rod A Wing , Wen Wang , Kun Wang , Jing Wang , Xun Xu , Huanming Yang , Xin Liu , Nansheng Chen , Shunping He

The genomic signatures of evolutionary stasis.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution

Avec: Chase D Brownstein , Daniel J MacGuigan , Daemin Kim , Oliver Orr , Liandong Yang , Solomon R David , Brian Kreiser , Thomas J Near

Hidden species diversity in an iconic living fossil vertebrate.

Biology letters

Avec: Chase D Brownstein , Daemin Kim , Oliver D Orr , Gabriela M Hogue , Bryn H Tracy , M Worth Pugh , Randal Singer , Chelsea Myles-McBurney , Jon Michael Mollish , Jeffrey W Simmons , Solomon R David , Gregory Watkins-Colwell , Eva A Hoffman , Thomas J Near

Diversification of the sleepers (Gobiiformes: Gobioidei: Eleotridae) and evolution of the root gobioid families.

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

Avec: Christine E Thacker , W Tyler McCraney , Richard C Harrington , Thomas J Near , James J Shelley , Mark Adams , Michael P Hammer , Peter J Unmack

Comparative Genomics Reveals Accelerated Evolution of Fright Reaction Genes in Ostariophysan Fishes.

Frontiers in genetics

Avec: Liandong Yang , Haifeng Jiang , Juan Chen , Yi Lei , Ning Sun , Wenqi Lv , Thomas J Near , Shunping He

Expansion of vomeronasal receptor genes (

Communications biology

Avec: Liandong Yang , Haifeng Jiang , Ying Wang , Yi Lei , Juan Chen , Ning Sun , Wenqi Lv , Cheng Wang , Thomas J Near , Shunping He

Historical contingency shapes adaptive radiation in Antarctic fishes.

Nature ecology & evolution

Avec: Jacob M Daane , Alex Dornburg , Patrick Smits , Daniel J MacGuigan , M Brent Hawkins , Thomas J Near , H William Detrich Iii , Matthew P Harris

Lacustrine speciation associated with chromosomal inversion in a lineage of riverine fishes.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution

Avec: Daniel J MacGuigan , Trevor J Krabbenhoft , Richard C Harrington , Dylan K Wainwright , Nathan J C Backenstose , Thomas J Near

Synergistic innovations enabled the radiation of anglerfishes in the deep open ocean.

Current biology : CB

Avec: Chase D Brownstein , Katerina L Zapfe , Spencer Lott , Richard Harrington , Ava Ghezelayagh , Alex Dornburg , Thomas J Near

The Palaeozoic assembly of the holocephalan body plan far preceded post-Cretaceous radiations into the ocean depths.

Proceedings. Biological sciences

Avec: Chase D Brownstein , Thomas J Near , Richard P Dearden

A phylogenomic framework for pelagiarian fishes (Acanthomorpha: Percomorpha) highlights mosaic radiation in the open ocean.

Proceedings. Biological sciences

Avec: Matt Friedman , Kara L Feilich , Hermione T Beckett , Michael E Alfaro , Brant C Faircloth , David Černý , Masaki Miya , Thomas J Near , Richard C Harrington

Phylogenomic Species Delimitation Dramatically Reduces Species Diversity in an Antarctic Adaptive Radiation.

Systematic biology

Avec: Elyse Parker , Alex Dornburg , Carl D Struthers , Christopher D Jones , Thomas J Near

Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous.

Nature ecology & evolution

Avec: Ava Ghezelayagh , Richard C Harrington , Edward D Burress , Matthew A Campbell , Janet C Buckner , Prosanta Chakrabarty , Jessica R Glass , W Tyler McCraney , Peter J Unmack , Christine E Thacker , Michael E Alfaro , Sarah T Friedman , William B Ludt , Peter F Cowman , Matt Friedman , Samantha A Price , Alex Dornburg , Brant C Faircloth , Peter C Wainwright , Thomas J Near

Erosional exhumation of carbonate rock facilitates dispersal-mediated allopatric speciation in freshwater fishes.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution

Avec: Daemin Kim , Maya F Stokes , Sandy Ebersole , Thomas J Near

Phylogenomics of the Ancient and Species-Depauperate Gars Tracks 150 Million Years of Continental Fragmentation in the Northern Hemisphere.

Systematic biology

Avec: Chase Doran Brownstein , Liandong Yang , Matt Friedman , Thomas J Near

Phylogenetics and the Cenozoic radiation of lampreys.

Current biology : CB

Avec: Chase Doran Brownstein , Thomas J Near

Introgression and Species Delimitation in the Longear Sunfish Lepomis megalotis (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Centrarchidae).

Systematic biology

Avec: Daemin Kim , Bruce H Bauer , Thomas J Near

Phylogeny and time scale of diversification in the fossil-rich sunfishes and black basses (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Centrarchidae).

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

Avec: Thomas J Near , Daemin Kim

Phylogenomic Signatures of Ancient Introgression in a Rogue Lineage of Darters (Teleostei: Percidae).

Systematic biology

Avec: Daniel J MacGuigan , Thomas J Near

Author Correction: Historical contingency shapes adaptive radiation in Antarctic fishes.

Nature ecology & evolution

Avec: Jacob M Daane , Alex Dornburg , Patrick Smits , Daniel J MacGuigan , M Brent Hawkins , Thomas J Near , H William Detrich , Matthew P Harris

Accelerated Diversification Explains the Exceptional Species Richness of Tropical Characoid Fishes.

Systematic biology

Avec: Bruno F Melo , Brian L Sidlauskas , Thomas J Near , Fabio F Roxo , Ava Ghezelayagh , Luz E Ochoa , Melanie L J Stiassny , Jairo Arroyave , Jonathan Chang , Brant C Faircloth , Daniel J MacGuigan , Richard C Harrington , Ricardo C Benine , Michael D Burns , Kendra Hoekzema , Natalia C Sanches , Javier A Maldonado-Ocampo , Ricardo M C Castro , Fausto Foresti , Michael E Alfaro , Claudio Oliveira

Genomic and phenotypic divergence informs translocation strategies for an endangered freshwater fish.

Molecular ecology

Avec: Liam U Taylor , Edgar Benavides , Jeffrey W Simmons , Thomas J Near

Phylogenomics and species delimitation of the economically important Black Basses (Micropterus).

Scientific reports

Avec: Daemin Kim , Andrew T Taylor , Thomas J Near

Phylogeography, hybridization, and species discovery in the Etheostoma nigrum complex (Percidae: Etheostoma: Boleosoma).

Molecular phylogenetics and evolution

Avec: Daniel J MacGuigan , Oliver D Orr , Thomas J Near

Réseau de co-auteurs

Daniel J MacGuigan 7 collaborations

Richard C Harrington 6 collaborations

Daemin Kim 6 collaborations

Liandong Yang 5 collaborations

Alex Dornburg 5 collaborations

Brant C Faircloth 4 collaborations

Chase D Brownstein 4 collaborations

Shunping He 3 collaborations

Ava Ghezelayagh 3 collaborations

Matt Friedman 3 collaborations

Michael E Alfaro 3 collaborations

Jessica R Glass 2 collaborations

Peter F Cowman 2 collaborations

Solomon R David 2 collaborations

Oliver D Orr 2 collaborations

Jeffrey W Simmons 2 collaborations

Christine E Thacker 2 collaborations

W Tyler McCraney 2 collaborations

Peter J Unmack 2 collaborations

Haifeng Jiang 2 collaborations

Juan Chen 2 collaborations

Yi Lei 2 collaborations

Ning Sun 2 collaborations

Wenqi Lv 2 collaborations

Jacob M Daane 2 collaborations

Patrick Smits 2 collaborations

M Brent Hawkins 2 collaborations

Matthew P Harris 2 collaborations

Chase Doran Brownstein 2 collaborations

Guangyi Fan 1 collaboration

Yue Song 1 collaboration

Xiaoyun Huang 1 collaboration

Suyu Zhang 1 collaboration

Mengqi Zhang 1 collaboration

Xianwei Yang 1 collaboration

Yue Chang 1 collaboration

He Zhang 1 collaboration

Yongxin Li 1 collaboration

Shanshan Liu 1 collaboration

Lili Yu 1 collaboration

Jeffery Chu 1 collaboration

Inge Seim 1 collaboration

Chenguang Feng 1 collaboration

Rod A Wing 1 collaboration

Wen Wang 1 collaboration

Kun Wang 1 collaboration

Jing Wang 1 collaboration

Xun Xu 1 collaboration

Huanming Yang 1 collaboration

Xin Liu 1 collaboration

Nansheng Chen 1 collaboration

Oliver Orr 1 collaboration

Brian Kreiser 1 collaboration

Gabriela M Hogue 1 collaboration

Bryn H Tracy 1 collaboration

M Worth Pugh 1 collaboration

Randal Singer 1 collaboration

Chelsea Myles-McBurney 1 collaboration

Jon Michael Mollish 1 collaboration

Gregory Watkins-Colwell 1 collaboration

Eva A Hoffman 1 collaboration

James J Shelley 1 collaboration

Mark Adams 1 collaboration

Michael P Hammer 1 collaboration

Ying Wang 1 collaboration

Cheng Wang 1 collaboration

H William Detrich Iii 1 collaboration

Trevor J Krabbenhoft 1 collaboration

Dylan K Wainwright 1 collaboration

Nathan J C Backenstose 1 collaboration

Katerina L Zapfe 1 collaboration

Spencer Lott 1 collaboration

Richard Harrington 1 collaboration

Richard P Dearden 1 collaboration

Kara L Feilich 1 collaboration

Hermione T Beckett 1 collaboration

David Černý 1 collaboration

Masaki Miya 1 collaboration

Elyse Parker 1 collaboration

Carl D Struthers 1 collaboration

Christopher D Jones 1 collaboration

Edward D Burress 1 collaboration

Matthew A Campbell 1 collaboration

Janet C Buckner 1 collaboration

Prosanta Chakrabarty 1 collaboration

Sarah T Friedman 1 collaboration

William B Ludt 1 collaboration

Samantha A Price 1 collaboration

Peter C Wainwright 1 collaboration

Maya F Stokes 1 collaboration

Sandy Ebersole 1 collaboration

Bruce H Bauer 1 collaboration

H William Detrich 1 collaboration

Bruno F Melo 1 collaboration

Brian L Sidlauskas 1 collaboration

Fabio F Roxo 1 collaboration

Luz E Ochoa 1 collaboration

Melanie L J Stiassny 1 collaboration

Jairo Arroyave 1 collaboration

Jonathan Chang 1 collaboration

Ricardo C Benine 1 collaboration

Michael D Burns 1 collaboration

Kendra Hoekzema 1 collaboration

Natalia C Sanches 1 collaboration

Javier A Maldonado-Ocampo 1 collaboration

Ricardo M C Castro 1 collaboration

Fausto Foresti 1 collaboration

Claudio Oliveira 1 collaboration

Liam U Taylor 1 collaboration

Edgar Benavides 1 collaboration

Andrew T Taylor 1 collaboration