Publications

Mihalič, F., Arcila, D., Pettersson, M. E., Farkhondehkish, P., Andersson, E., Andersson, L., Betancur-R, R., & Jemth, P. (2024). Conservation of affinity rather than sequence underlies a dynamic evolution of the motif-mediated p53/MDM2 interaction in ray-finned fishes. Molecular Biology and Evolution, msae018. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msae018
Heiple, Z., Huie, J. M., Medeiros, A. P. M., Hart, P. B., Goatley, C. H. R., Arcila, D., & Miller, E. C. (2023). Many ways to build an angler: diversity of feeding morphologies in a deep-sea evolutionary radiation. Biology Letters, 19(6). https://doi.org/ARTN 20230049 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0049
Arcila, D., Rincon-Sandoval, M., Hanson, W., Hart, P. B., González, V. L., Betancur-R, R., & Bichuette, M. E. (2023). Transcriptomic analysis of the Brazilian blind characid, Stygichthys typhlops, reveals convergent selection with Astyanax mexicanus and other cavefishes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1076756. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1076756
Baldwin, C. C., Arcila, D., Robertson, D. R., & Tornabene, L. (2023). Description of the First Species of Polylepion (Teleostei: Labridae) from the Atlantic Ocean with Analysis of Evolutionary Relationships of the New Species. Ichthyology & Herpetology, 111(2). https://doi.org/10.1643/i2022075
Collins, Q. P., Grunsted, M. J., Arcila, D., Xiong, Y., & Barmchi, M. P. (2023). Transcriptomic analysis provides insight into the mechanism of IKKβ-mediated suppression of HPV18E6-induced cellular abnormalities. G3-Genes Genomes Genetics, 13(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/g3journal/jkad020
Peterson, R. D., Sullivan, J. P., Hopkins, C. D., Santaquiteria, A., Dillman, C. B., Pirro, S., Betancur-R, R., Arcila, D., Hughes, L. C., & Ortí, G. (2022). Phylogenomics of Bony-Tongue Fishes (Osteoglossomorpha) Shed Light on the Craniofacial Evolution and Biogeography of the Weakly Electric Clade (Mormyridae). Systematic Biology, 71(5), 1032–1044. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syac001
Troyer, E. M., Betancur-R, R., Hughes, L. C., Westneat, M., Carnevale, G., White, W. T., Pogonoski, J. J., Tyler, J. C., Baldwin, C. C., Ortí, G., Brinkworth, A., Clavel, J., & Arcila, D. (2022). The impact of paleoclimatic changes on body size evolution in marine fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(29). https://doi.org/ARTN e2122486119 10.1073/pnas.2122486119
Briñoccoli, Y. F., Bogan, S., Arcila, D., Rosso, J. J., Mabragaña, E., Delpiani, S. M., de Astarloa, J. M. D., & Cardoso, Y. P. (2022). Molecular and morphological evidence revalidates (Characiformes, Characidae) and shows hidden diversity. Zookeys, 1091, 99–117. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1091.73446
Arcila, D., & Orti, G. (2022). Phylogenetic Systematics of Fishes. In S. Midway, C. Hasler, & P. Chakrabarty (Eds.), Methods for Fish Biology, 2nd edition (2nd ed.). American Fisheries Society.
Santaquiteria, A., Siqueira, A. C., Duarte-Ribeiro, E., Carnevale, G., White, W. T., Pogonoski, J. J., Baldwin, C. C., Ortí, G., Arcila, D., & Betancur-R, R. (2021). Phylogenomics and Historical Biogeography of Seahorses, Dragonets, Goatfishes, and Allies (Teleostei: Syngnatharia): Assessing Factors Driving Uncertainty in Biogeographic Inferences. Systematic Biology, 70(6), 1145–1162. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syab028
Arcila, D., Hughes, L. C., Meléndez-Vazquez, B., Baldwin, C. C., White, W. T., Carpenter, K. E., Williams, J. T., Santos, M. D., Pogonoski, J. J., Miya, M., Ortí, G., & Betancur-R, R. (2021). Testing the Utility of Alternative Metrics of Branch Support to Address the Ancient Evolutionary Radiation of Tunas, Stromateoids, and Allies (Teleostei: Pelagiaria). Systematic Biology, 70(6), 1123–1144. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syab018
Atta, C. J., Yuan, H., Li, C. H., Arcila, D., Betancur-R, R., Hughes, L. C., Ortí, G., & Tornabene, L. (2021). Exon-capture data and locus screening provide new insights into the phylogeny of flatfishes (Pleuronectoidei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 166. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107315
Rincon-Sandoval, M., Duarte-Ribeiro, E., Davis, A. M., Santaquiteria, A., Hughes, L. C., Baldwin, C. C., Soto-Torres, L., Acero, A., Walker, H. J., Carpenter, K. E., Sheaves, M., Orti, G., Arcila, D., & Betancur-R, R. (2020). Evolutionary determinism and convergence associated with water-column transitions in marine fishes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(52), 33396–33403. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2006511117
Hughes, L. C., Ortí, G., Saad, H., Li, C. H., White, W. T., Baldwin, C. C., Crandall, K. A., Arcila, D., & Betancur, R. (2020). Exon probe sets and bioinformatics pipelines for all levels of fish phylogenomics. Mol Ecol Resour, 21(3), 816–833. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13287
Kolmann, M. A., Hughes, L. C., Hernandez, L. P., Arcila, D., Betancur-R, R., Sabaj, M. H., López-Fernández, H., & Ortí, G. (2020). Phylogenomics of Piranhas and Pacus (Serrasalmidae) Uncovers How Dietary Convergence and Parallelism Obfuscate Traditional Morphological Taxonomy. Systematic Biology, 70(3), 576–592. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa065
Meléndez-Vazquez, F., Olmeda-Saldaña, M., Cruz, J., Arcila, D., & Betancur, R. (2019). Effects of Hurricane Maria in hamlet communities (Serranidae: spp.) in Puerto Rico. Ecological Indicators, 107. https://doi.org/ARTN 105591 10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105591
Bemis, K. E., Tyler, J. C., & Arcila, D. (2019). Life history, distribution and molecular phylogenetics of the Upward-Mouth Spikefish Atrophacanthus japonicus (Teleostei: Tetraodontiformes: Triacanthodidae). Journal of Fish Biology, 94(4), 578–584. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.13923
Betancur-R, R., Arcila, D., Vari, R. P., Hughes, L. C., Oliveira, C., Sabaj, M. H., & Ortí, G. (2019). Phylogenomic incongruence, hypothesis testing, and taxonomic sampling: The monophyly of characiform fishes. Evolution, 73(2), 329–345. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13649
Hughes, L. C., Ortí, G., Huang, Y., Sun, Y., Baldwin, C. C., Thompson, A. W., Arcila, D., Betancur, R. R., Li, C., Becker, L., Bellora, N., Zhao, X., Li, X., Wang, M., Fang, C., Xie, B., Zhou, Z., Huang, H., Chen, S., … Shi, Q. (2018). Comprehensive phylogeny of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) based on transcriptomic and genomic data. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 115(24), 6249–6254. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719358115
Arcila, D., Petry, P., & Ortí, G. (2018). Phylogenetic relationships of the family Tarumaniidae (Characiformes) based on nuclear and mitochondrial data. Neotropical Ichthyology, 16(3). https://doi.org/Artn 180016 10.1590/1982-0224-20180016
Arcila, D., & Tyler, J. C. (2017). Mass extinction in tetraodontiform fishes linked to the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 284(1866). https://doi.org/ARTN 20171771 10.1098/rspb.2017.1771
Lavoué, S., Arnegard, M. E., Rabosky, D. L., McIntyre, P. B., Arcila, D., Vari, R. P., & Nishida, M. (2017). Trophic evolution in African citharinoid fishes (Teleostei: Characiformes) and the origin of intraordinal pterygophagy. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 113, 23–32. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2017.05.001
Arcila, D., Orti, G., Vari, R., Armbruster, J. W., Stiassny, M. L. J., Ko, K. D., Sabaj, M. H., Lundberg, J., Revell, L. J., & Betancur, R. (2017). Genome-wide interrogation advances resolution of recalcitrant groups in the tree of life. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1(2). https://doi.org/ARTN 0020 10.1038/s41559-016-0020
Bannikov, A. F., Tyler, J. C., Arcila, D., & Carnevale, G. (2017). A new family of gymnodont fish (Tetraodontiformes) from the earliest Eocene of the Peri-Tethys (Kabardino-Balkaria, northern Caucasus, Russia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 15(2), 129–146. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2016.1149115
Thomaz, A. T., Arcila, D., Ortí, G., & Malabarba, L. R. (2015). Molecular phylogeny of the subfamily Stevardiinae Gill, 1858 (Characiformes: Characidae): classification and the evolution of reproductive traits. Bmc Evolutionary Biology, 15. https://doi.org/ARTN 146 10.1186/s12862-015-0403-4
Arcila, D., Pyron, R. A., Tyler, J. C., Ortí, G., & Betancur-R, R. (2015). An evaluation of fossil tip-dating versus node-age calibrations in tetraodontiform fishes (Teleostei: Percomorphaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 82, 131–145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.011
Arcila, D., Vari, R. P., & Menezes, N. A. (2013). Revision of the Neotropical Genus (Ostariophysi: Characiformes: Characidae) with Description of Two New Species. Copeia, 4, 604–611. https://doi.org/10.1643/Ci-13-009
Betancur-R, R., Broughton, R. E., Wiley, E. O., Carpenter, K., López, J. A., Li, C. H., Holcroft, N. I., Arcila, D., Sanciangco, M., Cureton, J. C., Zhang, F. F., Buser, T., Campbell, M. A., Ballesteros, J. A., Roa-Varon, A., Willis, S., Borden, W. C., Rowley, T., Reneau, P. C., … Ortí, G. (2013). The Tree of Life and a New Classification of Bony Fishes. Plos Currents-Tree of Life. https://doi.org/10.1371/currents.tol.53ba26640df0ccaee75bb165c8c26288
Rom√°n-Valencia, C., & Arcila-Mesa, D. K. (2010). Five new species of Hemibrycon (Characiformes: Characidae) from the Rio Magdalena basin, Colombia. Revista de BiologÌa Tropical, 58, 339+.
Román- Valencia, C., & Arcila, D. (2009). Two new species of Hemibrycon (Characiformes, Characidae) from the Magdalena River, Colombia. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 32. https://doi.org/10.32800/abc.2009.32.0077
Román-Valencia, C., Arcila-Mesa, D. K., & Hurtado T, H. (2009). Variación morfológica de los peces Hemibrycon boquiae y Hemibrycon rafaelense (Characiformes: Characidae) en el Río Cauca, Colombia. Revista de BiologÌa Tropical, 57(3), 541–556.
Román- Valencia, C., & Arcila, D. (2008). Hemibrycon rafaelense n. sp. (Characiformes, Characidae), a new species from the upper Cauca River, with keys to Colombian species. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 31. https://doi.org/10.32800/abc.2008.31.0067