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PUBLICATIONS

  1. Conith, AJ, Hope, SA†, and Albertson, RC. 2023. Covariation of brain and skull shapes as a model to understand the roles for crosstalk in development and evolution. Evolution & Development. 25(1): 85-102.

  2. Kozol, RA, Conith, AJ, Yuiska, A, Cree-Newman, A, Tolentino, B, Banesh, K, Paz, A, Lloyd, E, Kowalko, JE, Keene, AC, Albertson, RC, Duboue, ER. 2023. A brain-wide analysis maps structural evolution to distinct anatomical modules. eLife 12:e80777.

  3. Conith, MR, Ringo, D, Conith, AJ, Deleon, A, Wagner, M, McMenamin, S, Cason, C, and Cooper, WJ. 2022. The evolution of feeding mechanics in the Danioninae, or why giant danios don’t suck like zebrafish. Integrative Organismal Biology. 4(1): obac049

  4. Gilbert, MC, Lerose, CS, Conith, AJ, and Albertson, RC. 2022. Breaking constraints: The development and evolution of extreme fin morphology in the Bramidae. Evolution & Development. 24(3): 109-124.

  5. Conith, AJ, Meagher, MA†, and Dumont, ER. 2022. The influence of divergent reproductive strategies in shaping modularity and morphological evolution in mammalian jaws. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(1): 164-179.

  6. Conith, AJ, and Albertson, RC, 2021. The cichlid oral and pharyngeal jaws are evolutionarily and genetically coupled. Nature Communications. 12(1): 5477.

  7. Gilbert, MC, Conith, AJ, Lerose, CS†, Moyer, JK, Huskey, SH, Albertson RC. 2021. Extreme Morphology, Functional Trade-Offs, and Evolutionary Dynamics in a Clade of Open-Ocean Fishes (Perciformes: Bramidae). Integrative Organismal Biology. 3(1): obab003

  8. Lloyd, E, Chhouk, BH†, Conith, AJ, Keene, AC, Albertson, RC. 2021. Diversity in rest-activity patterns among Lake Malawi cichlid fishes suggests a novel axis of habitat partitioning. Journal of Experimental Biology. 224(7): jeb242186

  9. Conith, AJ, Hope, SA†, Chhouk, BH†, and Albertson, RC, 2021. Weak genetic signal for phenotypic integration implicates developmental processes as major regulators of trait covariation. Molecular Ecology. 30(2): 464-480

  10. Conith, AJ, Kidd, MR, Kocher, TC, and Albertson, RC, 2020. Ecomorphological divergence and habitat lability in the context of robust patterns of modularity in the cichlid feeding apparatus. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1): 1-20.

  11. Parsons, KJ, Rigg, A, Conith, AJ, Kitchener, AC, Harris, S, Zhu, H, 2020. Skull morphology diverges between urban and rural populations of red foxes mirroring patterns of domestication and macroevolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 287(1928): 20200763.

  12. Conith, MR*, Conith, AJ*, and Albertson, RC, 2019. Evolution of a soft-tissue foraging adaptation in African cichlids: Roles for novelty, convergence, and constraint. Evolution. 73(10): 2072-2084

  13. Hedrick, BP, Antalek-Schrag, P, Conith, AJ, Natanson, L, and Brennan, PLR, 2019. High variance and asymmetry in the shape of the Spiny Dogfish Shark vagina revealed by 2D and 3D geometric morphometrics. Journal of Zoology. 308(1): 16-27

  14. Conith, AJ, Lam, DT†, and Albertson, RC, 2019. Muscle-induced loading as an important source of variation in craniofacial skeletal shape. genesis. 57(1): e23263.

  15. Conith, MR, Hu, Y, Conith, AJ, Maginnis, MA†, Webb, JF, and Albertson, RC, 2018. Genetic and developmental origins of a unique foraging adaptation in a Lake Malawi cichlid genus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 115(27): 7063-7068.

  16. Conith, AJ, Meagher, MA†, and Dumont, ER, 2018. The influence of climatic variability on morphological integration, evolutionary rates, and disparity in the Carnivora. The American Naturalist. 191(6): 704-715.

  17. Cooper, WJ, Carter, CB, Conith, AJ, Rice, AN, and Westneat, MW, 2017. The evolution of jaw protrusion mechanics has been tightly coupled to bentho-pelagic divergence in damselfishes (Pomacentridae). Journal of Experimental Biology. 220(4): 652-666.

  18. Conith, AJ, Imburgia, MJ, Crosby, AJ, and Dumont, ER, 2016. The functional significance of morphological changes in the dentitions of early mammals. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 13(124): 20160713

  19. Smith, AJ, Nelson-Maney, N†, Parsons, KJ, Cooper, WJ, Albertson, RC, 2015. Body Shape Evolution in Sunfishes: Divergent Paths to Accelerated Rates of Speciation in the Centrarchidae. Evolutionary Biology. 42(3): 283-295.

  20. Smith, AJ*, Rosario, MV*, Eiting TP, Dumont ER, 2014. Joined at the hip: linked characters and the study of missing data in studies of disparity. Evolution. 68(8): 2386–2400

†, Undergraduate/High School author
*, Authors contributed equally to the work

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