Aintzane Santaquiteria
@asantaquiteria.bsky.social
Postdoc at George Washington University 🐠🧬
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Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Parallel shifts in differential gene expression reveal convergent miniaturization in fishes | PNAS
Body size variation in vertebrates is a complex polygenic trait, tightly correlated
with numerous aspects of a species’ biology, ecology, and physi...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Why are some species smaller than a paperclip while others grow longer than a school bus? How is body size evolution governed in animals? Out now in @pnas.org we tackle these longstanding questions through a genetic lens using my favorite group of fishes as our model!! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Evolution of endothermy in marine fishes is related to competition with cetaceans. This incredible paper is a masterpiece of phylogenetic comparative methods and a future classic for marine biologists
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ecological interactions and genomic innovation fueled the evolution of ray-finned fish endothermy
Cetacean interactions, body size, and genomic innovations shaped endothermy evolution in ray-finned fishes in the Eocene-Miocene.
www.science.org
June 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Evolution of endothermy in marine fishes is related to competition with cetaceans. This incredible paper is a masterpiece of phylogenetic comparative methods and a future classic for marine biologists
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Thrilled to share that my grad student Zach Heiple won the 2025 Ernst Mayr Award at #Evol2025 for his PhD work on how deep-sea fishes evolved their extreme tubular snouts! 🐡🎉 SSB’s top honor for the most creative student research in systematics @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Thrilled to share that my grad student Zach Heiple won the 2025 Ernst Mayr Award at #Evol2025 for his PhD work on how deep-sea fishes evolved their extreme tubular snouts! 🐡🎉 SSB’s top honor for the most creative student research in systematics @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social
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Co-authored with @sternarchella.bsky.social, Luke Tornabene, Dahiana Arcila, Ricardo Betancur-R, Pam Hart, @asantaquiteria.bsky.social, and an outstanding @riceuniversity.bsky.social undergraduate co-leader Rose Faucher
#TeamFish #deepsea #marinebiology #evolution
@burkemuseum.bsky.social
#TeamFish #deepsea #marinebiology #evolution
@burkemuseum.bsky.social
Our big collaboration on anglerfish diversity is out today in @natureecoevo.bsky.social. THREAD PART 1
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reduced evolutionary constraint accompanies ongoing radiation in deep-sea anglerfishes - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Based on phylogenomic and geometric morphometric analyses of 132 anglerfish species, the authors infer a Cretaceous origin of the clade and show that bathypelagic anglerfish are undergoing rapid pheno...
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November 27, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Co-authored with @sternarchella.bsky.social, Luke Tornabene, Dahiana Arcila, Ricardo Betancur-R, Pam Hart, @asantaquiteria.bsky.social, and an outstanding @riceuniversity.bsky.social undergraduate co-leader Rose Faucher
#TeamFish #deepsea #marinebiology #evolution
@burkemuseum.bsky.social
#TeamFish #deepsea #marinebiology #evolution
@burkemuseum.bsky.social
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Check out our new paper, led by @asantaquiteria.bsky.social ! Awesome fish diversity and #evolution, phylogenomics and evolutionary patterns of seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards (Syngnatharia) across oceans.
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www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
a seahorse is swimming in a monterey bay aquarium
ALT: a seahorse is swimming in a monterey bay aquarium
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November 20, 2024 at 11:52 PM
Check out our new paper, led by @asantaquiteria.bsky.social ! Awesome fish diversity and #evolution, phylogenomics and evolutionary patterns of seahorses, goatfishes, dragonets, flying gurnards (Syngnatharia) across oceans.
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www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...