Eytan, Ron Assistant Professor

academic article

• Hastings, P. A., Eytan, R. I., & Summers, A. P (2020). Acanthemblemaria aceroi, a new species of tube blenny from the Caribbean coast of South America with notes on Acanthemblemaria johnsoni (Teleostei: Chaenopsidae). ZOOTAXA.  4816(2), zootaxa.4816.2.5-216.
  
• Elledge, N. C., Eytan, R. I., Pinnell, L. J., Pray, R., Joyner, J. L., Wares, J. P., ... Turner, J. W. (2019). Draft Genome Sequences of 38 Serratia marcescens Isolates Associated with Acroporid Serratiosis. Microbiology Resource Announcements.  8(14), e00194-e00119.
  
• Milligan, R. J., Bernard, A. M., Boswell, K. M., Bracken-Grissom, H. D., D'Elia, M. A., deRada, S., ... Sutton, T. T. (2018). The Application of Novel Research Technologies by the Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics of the Gulf of Mexico (DEEPEND) Consortium. Marine Technology Society Journal.  52(6), 81-86.
  
• Dornburg, A., Townsend, J. P., Brooks, W., Spriggs, E., Eytan, R. I., Moore, J. A., ... Near, T. J. (2017). New insights on the sister lineage of percomorph fishes with an anchored hybrid enrichment dataset. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.  110, 27-38.
  
• Harrington, R. C., Faircloth, B. C., Eytan, R. I., Smith, W. L., Near, T. J., Alfaro, M. E., & Friedman, M. (2016). Phylogenomic analysis of carangimorph fishes reveals flatfish asymmetry arose in a blink of the evolutionary eye. BMC Evolutionary Biology.  16(1), 224.
  
• O'Dea, A., Lessios, H. A., Coates, A. G., Eytan, R. I., Restrepo-Moreno, S. A., Cione, A. L., ... Jackson, J. (2016). Formation of the Isthmus of Panama. Science Advances.  2(8), e1600883.
  
• Dornburg, A., Eytan, R. I., Federman, S., Pennington, J. N., Stewart, A. L., Jones, C. D., & Near, T. J. (2016). Molecular data support the existence of two species of the Antarctic fish genus Cryodraco (Channichthyidae). 39(8), 1369-1379.
  
• Dornburg, A., Federman, S., Eytan, R. I., & Near, T. J. (2016). Cryptic species diversity in sub-Antarctic islands: A case study of Lepidonotothen. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.  104, 32-43.
  
• Marko, P. B., Eytan, R. I., & Knowlton, N (2015). Do large molecular sequence divergences imply an early closure of the Isthmus of Panama?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  112(43), E5766-e5766.
  
• Eytan, R. I., Evans, B. R., Dornburg, A., Lemmon, A. R., Lemmon, E. M., Wainwright, P. C., & Near, T. J. (2015). Are 100 enough? Inferring acanthomorph teleost phylogeny using Anchored Hybrid Enrichment. BMC Evolutionary Biology.  15(1), 113.
  
• Thacker, C. E., Satoh, T. P., Katayama, E., Harrington, R. C., Eytan, R. I., & Near, T. J. (2015). Molecular phylogeny of Percomorpha resolves Trichonotus as the sister lineage to Gobioidei (Teleostei: Gobiiformes) and confirms the polyphyly of Trachinoidei. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.  93, 172-179.
  
• Dornburg, A., Moore, J., Beaulieu, J. M., Eytan, R. I., & Near, T. J (2015). The impact of shifts in marine biodiversity hotspots on patterns of range evolution: Evidence from the Holocentridae (squirrelfishes and soldierfishes). Evolution.  69(1), 146-161.
  
• Price, S. A., Schmitz, L., Oufiero, C. E., Eytan, R. I., Dornburg, A., Smith, W. L., ... Wainwright, P. C (2014). Two waves of colonization straddling the K-Pg boundary formed the modern reef fish fauna. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences.  281(1783), 20140321-20140321.
  
• Friedman, M., Keck, B. P., Dornburg, A., Eytan, R. I., Martin, C. H., Hulsey, C. D., Wainwright, P. C., & Near, T. J (2013). Molecular and fossil evidence place the origin of cichlid fishes long after Gondwanan rifting. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences.  280(1770), 20131733-20131733.
  
• Near, T. J., Dornburg, A., Eytan, R. I., Keck, B. P., Smith, W. L., Kuhn, K. L., ... Wainwright, P. C (2013). Phylogeny and tempo of diversification in the superradiation of spiny-rayed fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  110(31), 12738-12743.
  
• Ilves, K. L., Quattrini, A. M., Westneat, M. W., Eytan, R. I., Chaplin, G. W., Hertler, H., & Lundberg, J. G. (2013). Detection of shifts in coral reef fish assemblage structure over 50 years at reefs of New Providence Island, The Bahamas highlight the value of the Academy of Natural Sciences' collections in a changing world. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: : original research in systematics, evolution and ecology.  162(1), 61-87.
  
• Wainwright, P. C., Smith, W. L., Price, S. A., Tang, K. L., Sparks, J. S., Ferry, L. A., ... Near, T. J (2012). The evolution of pharyngognathy: a phylogenetic and functional appraisal of the pharyngeal jaw key innovation in labroid fishes and beyond. Systematic Biology.  61(6), 1001-1027.
  
• Small, S. T., Eytan, R., Bockrath, K., & Wares, J. P. (2012). Evaluation of genetic structure across freshwater mussel community (genus Elliptio) in the Altamaha River basin. Conservation Genetics.  13(4), 965-975.
  
• Near, T. J., Eytan, R. I., Dornburg, A., Kuhn, K. L., Moore, J. A., Davis, M. P., ... Smith, W. L (2012). Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.  109(34), 13698-13703.
  
• Eytan, R. I., Hastings, P. A., Holland, B. R., & Hellberg, M. E. (2012). Reconciling molecules and morphology: molecular systematics and biogeography of Neotropical blennies (Acanthemblemaria). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.  62(1), 159-173.
  
• Eytan, R. I., & Hellberg, M. E (2010). Nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data reveal and conceal different demographic histories and population genetic processes in Caribbean reef fishes. Evolution.  64(12), 3380-3397.
  
• Xue, Q., Hellberg, M. E., Schey, K. L., Itoh, N., Eytan, R. I., Cooper, R. K., & La Peyre, J. F. (2010). A new lysozyme from the eastern oyster, Crassostrea virginica, and a possible evolutionary pathway for i-type lysozymes in bivalves from host defense to digestion. BMC Evolutionary Biology.  10(1), 213-213.
  
• Hayes, M. L., Eytan, R. I., & Hellberg, M. E. (2010). High amino acid diversity and positive selection at a putative coral immunity gene (tachylectin-2). BMC Evolutionary Biology.  10(1), 150.
  
• Eytan, R. I., Hayes, M., Arbour-Reily, P., Miller, M., & Hellberg, M. E. (2009). Nuclear sequences reveal mid-range isolation of an imperilled deep-water coral population. Molecular Ecology.  18(11), 2375-2389.