Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal Publications

Stiassny M.L.J., Chakrabarty, P., Loiselle. P. (2001) Relationships of the Madagascan cichlid genus Paretroplus, with a description of a new species from the Betsiboka River drainage of northwestern Madagascar. Ichthyological Explorations of Freshwaters 12 (1): 29- 40.

Chakrabarty, P. (2004) Cichlid biogeography: comment and review. Fish and Fisheries 5(2):97-119.

2005

Chakrabarty, P. (2005) Testing conjectures about morphological diversity in cichlids of Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika. Copeia 2005 (2): 359-373.

Pikitch, E.K., Doukakis, P., Lauck, L., Chakrabarty, P. , Erickson, D.L. (2005) Sturgeon and paddlefish fisheries of the world: conservation strategies for the future. Fish and Fisheries 6 (3), 233-265.

Chakrabarty, P., Ng, H.H. (2005) The identity of the catfishes identified as Mystus cavasius (Hamilton, 1822) (Teleostei: Bagridae), with a description of a new species from Myanmar. Zootaxa 1093, 1-24.

2006

Chakrabarty, P. (2006) Taxonomic status of the Hispaniolan Cichlidae Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 737, 1-16.

Chakrabarty, P. (2006) Systematics and Historical Biogeography of Greater Antillean Cichlidae. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 39, 619-627.

Chakrabarty, P., Oldfield, R.G., Ng, H.H. (2006) Nandus prolixus, a new species of leaf fish from northeastern Borneo (Teleostei:Perciformes:Nandidae). Zootaxa 1328, 51-61.

2007

Chakrabarty, P. (2007) A morphological phylogenetic analysis of Middle American cichlids with special emphasis on the section "Nandopsis" sensu Regan. Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan 198: 1 - 31.

Chakrabarty, P., Sparks, J.S. (2007) Relationships of the New World cichlid genus Hypsophrys Agassiz 1859 (Teleostei: Cichlidae), with diagnoses for the genus and its species. Zootaxa, 1523, 59-64.

Sparks, J.S., Chakrabarty, P. (2007) A new species of ponyfish (Teleostei:Leiognathidae: Photoplagios) from the Philippines. Copeia 2007 (3): 622-629.

Chakrabarty, P., Sparks, J.S. (2007) Phylogeny and taxonomic revision of Nuchequula Whitley 1932 (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), with the description of a new species. American Museum Novitates 3588:1-28.

2008

Chakrabarty, P., Sparks, J.S. (2008) Diagnoses for Leiognathus Lacepede 1802, Equula Cuvier 1815, Equulites Fowler 1904, Eubleekeria Fowler 1904, and a new ponyfish genus (Teleostei: Leiognathidae)American Museum Novitates 3623, 1-11.

Smith, W.L., Chakrabarty, P., Sparks, J.S. (2008) Phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of Neotropical cichlids (Teleostei:Cichlidae:Cichlinae)Cladistics 24, 1-17.

2009

Chakrabarty, P., Amarasinghe, T., Sparks, J.S. (2009) Redescription of ponyfishes (Teleostei:Leiognathidae) of Sri Lanka and the status of Aurigequula Fowler 1918Ceylon Journal of Science (Biological Science) 37 (2): 143-161.

2010

Chakrabarty, P., Chu, J., Luthfun, N., and Sparks, J.S. (2010) Geometric morphometrics uncovers an undescribed ponyfish (Teleostei: Leiognathidae: Equulites) with a note on the taxonomic status of Equula berbis Valenciennes. Zootaxa 2427:15-24.

Chakrabarty, P., Hans, H.C., Sparks, J.S. (2010) Review of the ponyfishes (Perciformes: Leiognathidae) of Taiwan. Marine Biodiversity 40:1-15.

Chakrabarty, P. (2010) The transitioning state of systematic ichthyology. Copeia 2010(3):513-514

Chakrabarty, P., (2010) Status and phylogeny of Milyeringidae, with the description of a new blind cave fish from Australia, Milyeringa brooksi, n. sp. Zootaxa 2557:19-28.

Ho, H.C., Chakrabarty, P., Sparks, J.S.(2010) Review of the Halieutichthys aculeatus species complex (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of two new species. Journal of Fish Biology 77:841-869.

Chakrabarty, P. (2010) Genetypes: a concept to help integrate molecular phylogenetics and taxonomy Zootaxa 2632: 67-68.

2011

Chakrabarty, P. Albert, J. (2011) Not so Fast: A New Take on the Great American Biotic Interchange. In: Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes (J. S. Albert and R.E. Reis, eds.)[INVITED PAPER, FINAL CHAPTER] pp. 293-305.

Davis, M.P., Chakrabarty, P. (2011) Video Observation of a Tripodfish (Aulopiformes: Bathypterois) from Bathypelagic Depths in the Campos Basin of Brazil. Marine Biology Research. 7, 297-303.

Schaefer, S.A, Chakrabarty, P., Geneva, A., Sabaj-Perez, M.H. (2011) Nucleotide sequence data confirm monophyly and local endemism of variable morphospecies of Andean astroblepid catfishes (Siluriformes: Astroblepidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 162, 90-102.

Harrison, I.J., Chakrabarty, P., Freyhoff, J., Craig, J.F. (2011) Current nomenclature and recommendations for preserving and cataloging voucher material and genetic sequences. Journal of Fish Biology. 78, 1283-1290.

Chakrabarty, P., Davis, M.P., Berquist, R., Gledhill, K., Sparks, J., and Frank, L. (2011) Evolution of the light organ system in ponyfishes (Teleostei:Leiognathidae). Journal of Morphology. 272: 704-721.

Chakrabarty, P., Davis, M.P., Smith, W.L., Baldwin, Z.H., Sparks, J.S. (2011) Is sexual selection driving diversification of the bioluminescent ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae)? Molecular Ecology 20: 2818-2834.

Wiley, E.O., Chakrabarty, P., Craig, M.T., Davis, M.P., Holcroft, N.I., Mayden, R.L., Smith, W.L. (2011) Will the real phylogeneticists please stand up? In: Morphological and molecular approaches to the phylogeny of fishes: Integration or conflict? Zootaxa Special Issue: 2946: 7-16. [INVITED PAPER]

Wiley, E.O., Chakrabarty, P., Craig, M.T., Davis, M.P., Holcroft, N.I., Mayden, R.L., Smith, W.L. (2011) A response to Mooi, Williams and Gill In: Morphological and molecular approaches to the phylogeny of fishes: Integration or conflict? Zootaxa Special Issue: 2946: 33-37. [INVITED PAPER]

2012


Chakrabarty, P., Lam, C., Hardman, J., Aaronson, J., House, P.H., Janies, D.A. (2012) SpeciesMap: a web-based application for visualizing the overlap of distributions and pollution events, with a list of fishes put at risk by the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill Biodiversity and Conservation 21:1865-1876.

Matamoros, W.A., Schaefer, J.F., Chakrabarty, P., Hernandez, C.L. (2012) Profundulus kreiseri, a new species of Profundulidae (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) from northwestern Honduras. ZooKeys 227: 49-62.

Chakrabarty, P., Davis, M. P, Sparks, J.S. (2012) The First Record of a Trans-Oceanic Sister-Group Relationship between Obligate Vertebrate Troglobites PLoS One 7:e44083 (pg.1-8)

Sparks, J.S., Chakrabarty, P. (2012) Revision of the Endemic Malagasy Cavefish Genus Typhleotris (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Eleotridae), with a Discussion of its Phylogenetic Placement and the Description of a New Species. American Museum Novitates 3764:1-28.

2013

McMahan, C.D., Matamoros, W.A., Alvarez Calderon, F.S., Henríquez, W.Y., Recinos, H.M., Chakrabarty, P., Barraza, E. & Herrera, N. (2013) Checklist of the Inland Fishes of El Salvador. Zootaxa 3608: 440-446.

Matamoros, W.A., Chakrabarty, P., Angulo-Sibaja, A., Garita-Alvarado, C.A., McMahan, C.D., (2013) A new species of Roeboides (Teleostei:Characidae) from Costa Rica and Panama, with a key to the Middle American species of the genus. Neotropical Ichthyology 11: 285-290.

McMahan, C.D., Chakrabarty, P, Sparks, J.S., Smith, W.L., Davis, M.P., (2013) Temporal Patterns of Diversification across Global Cichlid Biodiversity (Acanthomorpha: Cichlidae). PLoS One 8(8): e71162 (pg. 1-9).

Chakrabarty, P., Warren, M., Page, L., Baldwin, C. (2013) GenSeq: An updated nomenclature for genetic sequences and a formal ranking of sequences from type and non-type sources. ZooKeys 346:29-41

2014

Chakrabarty, P., Niemiller, M.L., Prejean, J. (2014) The Hoosier cavefish, a new and endangered species (Amblyopsidae: Amblyopsis) from the caves of southern Indiana. ZooKeys 412: 41-57

McMahan, C.D. Matamoros, W.A., Barraza, E., Kutz, J., Chakrabarty, P. (2014) Taxonomic Status of the Lago Coatepeque Endemic Convict Cichlid Amatitlania coatepeque (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Copeia (4):633-638

Rocha et al. (with 115 others). 2014 Specimen collection: An essential tool Science 344:814-815.

2015

Derouen, V., Ludt, W.L., Ho, H.C., Chakrabarty, P., (2015) Examining Evolutionary Relationships and Shifts in Depth Preferences in the Enigmatic Batfishes (Lophiiformes: Ogcocephaloidei) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 27-33

Ludt, W.B., Rocha, L.A., Erdmann, M.V., Chakrabarty, P., (2015) Skipping across the tropics: the evolutionary history of sawtail surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae: Prionurus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 84: 166-172.

Oldfield, R.G., Mandrekar, K., Hendrickson, D.A., Chakrabarty, P., Hofmann, H.A. (2015) Parental care in the Cuatro Cienegas cichlid, Herichthys minckleyi (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Hydrobiologia 748, 233-257.

Matamoros, W.A., McMahan, C.D., Chakrabarty, P., Albert, J.S. (2015) Derivation of the Freshwater Fish Fauna of Central America Revisited: Myer's hypothesis in the twenty-first century. Cladistics 31: 177-188.

Sparks, J.S., Chakrabarty, P. (2015) Description of a new genus of ponyfishes (Teleostei: Leiognathidae), with a review of the current generic-level composition of the family. Zootaxa 3947: 181-190.

Bacon, C.D., Silvestro, D., Jaramillo, C.A., Smith, B.T., Chakrabarty, P., Antonelli, A. (2015) Biological evidence supports an early and complex emergence of the Isthmus of Panama. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: 6110-6115.

Chakrabarty, P., Sparks, J.S. (2015) Formalizing the names of subfamilies and tribes of ponyfishes (Leiognathidae Gill 1893). Zootaxa 3964: 298-299.

Ng, H.H., Tan, H.H., Lim, K.K.P., Ludt, W.B., Chakrabarty, P. (2015) Fishes of the Eastern Johor Strait Raffles Bulletin of Natural History 31: 303-337

McMahan, C.D., Matamoros, W.A., Piller, K.R., Chakrabarty, P. (2015) Taxonomy and systematics of the herichthyins (Cichlidae: Tribe Heroini),with the description of eight new Middle American Genera Zootaxa 3999: 211-234

Bacon, C.D., Silvestro, D., Jaramillo, C.A., Smith, B.T., Chakrabarty, P., Antonelli, A. (2015) Reply to Lessios and Marko et al.: An early and progressive biotic interchange across the Isthmus of Panama is robust to missing data and biological biases. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112: E5767-E5768.

2016

Walsh, S.J., Chakrabarty, P. (2016) A New Genus and Species of Blind Sleeper (Teleostei: Eleotridae) from Oaxaca, Mexico: First Obligate Cave Gobiiform in the Western Hemisphere. Copeia 104: 506-517.

Matamoros, W.A., McMahan, C.D., Mejia, C.R., House, P.H., Armbruster, J.W., Chakrabarty, P. (2016) First record of the non-native suckermouth armored catfish Hypostomus cf. niceforoi (Fowler 1943) (Siluriformes:Loricariidae) from Central America Occasional Papers Museum of Natural Science 87: 1-13.

Chakrabarty, P., O'Neil, G.A., Hardy, B., Ballengee, B. (2016) Five Years Later: An Update on the Status of Collections of Endemic Gulf of Mexico Fishes Put at Risk by the 2010 Oil Spill. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e8728: 1-27.

Bagley, J.C., Matamoros, W.A., McMahan, C.D., Tobler, M., Chakrabarty, P., Johnson, J.B. (2016) Phylogeography and species delimitation in convict cichlids (Cichlidae: Amatitlania): implications for taxonomy and Plio-Pleistocene evolutionary history in Central America. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 120: 155–170.

Chakrabarty, P., Shakya, S. (2016) Epistemological Concern for Estimating Extinction In: Crother, B.I., Parenti, L., (eds.) Assumptions Inhibiting Progress in Comparative Biology CRC Press; pp. 141-158.

2017

Tagliacollo, V.A., Duke-Sylvester, S., Matamoros, W.A., Chakrabarty, P. & Albert, J.S. (2017) Coordinated Dispersal and Pre-Isthmian Assembly of the Central American Ichthyofauna.Systematic Biology 66:183-196.

Chakrabarty, P., (2017) Teaching Louisiana Students About Evolution by Comparing the Anatomy of Fishes and Humans In: Lynn, C.D., Glaze, A.L., Evans, W.A., Reed, L.K. (eds.) Evolution Education in the American South CRC Press; pp. 177-187.

Evans,K.M., Waltz, B., Tagliacollo, V., Chakrabarty, P., Albert, J.S. (2017) Why the short face? Developmental disintegration of the neurocranium drives convergent evolution in neotropical electric fishes Ecology and Evolution 2017, 1-21.

McMahan, C.D., Kutz, J., Murray, C.M., Chakrabarty, P., Geheber, A.D., Elias, D. (2017) Objectively measuring subjectively described traits: geographic variation in body shape and caudal coloration pattern within Vieja melanura (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Biologia Tropical 65:623-631.

Ludt, W.B., Morgan, L., Bishop, J., Chakrabarty, P. (2017) A quantitative and statistical biological comparison of three semi-enclosed seas: the Red Sea, the Persian (Arabian) Gulf, and the Gulf of California. Marine Biodiversity 47: 1-6.

McMahan, C.D , Ginger, L., Cage, M., Chakrabarty, P., Johnston, M., Matamoros, W.A. (2017) Pleistocene to Holocene Expansion of the Black-belt Cichlid in Central America, Vieja maculicauda (Teleostei: Cichlidae). PLoS 12(5):e0178439.

Chakrabarty, P., Faircloth, B. (co-first), Ludt, W.B., McMahan, C.D., Near, T.J., Dornberg, A., Albert, J.S., Arroyave, J., Stiassny, M.L.J.S., Sorenson, L., Alfaro, M.E. (2017) Phylogenomic Systematics of Ostariophysan fishes: Ultraconserved Elements Support the surprising non-monophyly of Characiformes. Systematic Biology 66 (6): 881-895. [Cover Article]

Alda, F., Adams, A.J., McMillan, W.O., Chakrabarty, P. (2017) Complete mitochondrial genomes of three Neotropical sleeper gobies: Eleotris amblyopsis, Eleotris picta and Hemieleotris latifasciata (Gobiiformes: Eleotridae) Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources 2: 747-750.

Butler, J.M., Whitlow, S.M., Gwan, A.P., Chakrabarty, P., Maruska, K.P. 2017. Swim bladder morphology changes with female reproductive state in the mouth brooding African cichlid Astatotilapia burtoni. Journal of Experimental Biology 220: 4463-4470

2018

Alda, F., Adams, A.J., McMillan, W.O., Chakrabarty, P. 2018. Mitogenomic divergence between three pairs of putative geminate fishes from Panama. Mitochondrial DNA Part B 3: 1-5.

Burress, E.D., Alda, F. Duarte, A., Loureiro, M., Armbruster, J.W., Chakrabarty, P. 2018. Phylogenomics of the pike cichlids (Cichlidae: Crenicichla) and the rapid evolution and trophic diversification in an incipient species flock. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31: 14-30 [Cover Article]

Elias , D.J., Mochel, S.F., Chakrabarty, P., McMahan, C., (2018) First record of the non-native Pacu, Piaractus brachypomus in Lago Peten-Itza, Guatemala, Central America. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 88, 1-6.

Kuang, T., Tornabene, L., Li, J., Jiang, J., Chakrabarty, P., Sparks, J.S., Naylor, G.J.P., Li, C. (2018) Phylogenomic analysis on the exceptionally diverse fish clade Gobioidei (Actinopterygii:Gobiiformes) and data-filtering based on molecular clocklikeness. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 128, 192-202.

2019

Alda, F., Tagliacollo, V.A., Bernt, M.J., Waltz, B.T., Ludt, W.B., Faircloth, B.C., Alfaro, M.E., Albert, J.S., Chakrabarty, P. (2019) Resolving Deep Nodes in an Ancient Radiation of Neotropical Fishes in the Presence of Conflicting Signals from Incomplete Lineage Sorting. Systematic Biology

Ludt, WB, Bernal MA, Kenworthy E, Salas E, Chakrabarty P. (2019) Genomic, ecological, and morphological approaches to investigating species limits: a case study in modern taxonomy from Tropical Eastern Pacific surgeonfishes Ecology & Evolution. 9:4001-4012.

Ludt WB, Burridge CP, Chakrabarty P. 2019. A taxonomic revision of Cheilodactylidae and Latridae (Suborder: Cirrhitoidei) using morphological and genomic characters. Zootaxa 4585:121-141.

Kenaley, C., State, A., Ludt, W.B., Chakrabarty, P. 2019. Comparative functional and phylogenomic analyses of host association in the remoras, a family of hitchhiking fishes. Integrative Organismal Biology 1:1-14.

Niemiller, M.L., Bichuette, M.E., Chakrabarty, P., Fenolio, D.B., Gluesenkamp, A.G., Soares, D., Zhao, Y. 2019. Chapter 26: Cavefishes. (2019) In: Encyclopedia of Caves 3rd edition (White, W., Culver, D., Pipan, T. eds.). pp.227-236.

Sparks, J.S., Chakrabarty, P. 2019. Description of a New Species of Ponyfish(Teleostei: Leiognathidae: Equulitini: Photolateralis) from the Gulf of Oman. American Museum Novitates. 3929:1-14.

Chakrabarty, P., Ludt, W.B., Parker, S. 2019. The Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science Fish Collections; An important modern collection of Neotropical fishes and DNA. Boletim Sociedade Brasileira de Ictiologia 129: 45-52. American Museum Novitates. 3929:1-14.

2020

Ludt, W.B., Rocha, L.A., Chakrabarty, P., (2020) The first complete mitochondrial genomes of sawtail surgeonfishes (Acanthuridae: Prionurus). Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5, 212-213.

Faircloth, B.C., Alda, F., Hoekzema, K., Burns, M.D., Oliveira, C., Albert, J.S., Melo, B.F., Ochoa, L.E., Roxo, F.F., Chakrabarty, P., Sidlauskas, B., Alfaro, M.E., 2020. A target enrichment bait set for studying relationships among ostariophysan fishes Copeia, 108(1):47-60.

Craig, J.M., Carvalho, T.P., Chakrabarty, P., Derouen, V., Ortega, H., Petry, P., Reis, R., Tagliacollo, V.A., Albert, J.S. 2020. Using community phylogenetics to access phylogenetic structure in the Fitzcarrald region of Western Amazonia. Neotropical Ichthyology 18 (2): 1-16 e20004

Ludt, W.B., Jabado, R., Al Hameli, S.M., Freeman, L., Teruyama, G., Chakrabarty, P., Al Dhaheri, S.S. 2020. Establishing a reference collection and barcoding the fish biodiversity along the coast of the United Arab Emirates. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 35 : 54-64

Hart, P.B., Niemiller, M.L., Burress, E.D., Armbruster, J.W., Ludt, W.B., Chakrabarty, P., 2020. Cave-Adapted Evolution in the North American Amblyopsid Fishes Inferred Using Ultraconserved Elements. Evolution 74:936-949.

McMahan, C.D., Montejo, C.F., Ginger, L., Carrasco, J.C., Chakrabarty, P., W.A. 2020. Climate change models predict decreases in the range of a microendemic freshwater fish in Honduras. Scientific Reports 10: 1-10.

Crawford, C.H., Randall, Z.S., Hart, P.B., Page, L.M., Chakrabarty, P., Suvarnaraksha, A., Flammang, B.E., 2020. Skeletal and Muscular Pelvic Morphology of Hillstream Loaches (Cypriniformes: Balitoridae). Journal of Morphology 281: 1280-1295.

Elias, D.J., McMahan, C.D., Matamoros, W.A., Gomez-Gonzalez, A., Chakrabarty, P., Piller, K.R. 2020. Scale(s) Matter: Deconstructing an Area of Endemism for Middle American Freshwater Fishes. Journal of Biogeography 47: 2483-2501

2021

Roberts, A.S., Hodge, J.R., Chakrabarty, P. Wainwright, P.C., 2021. Anatomical basis of jaw protrusion directionality in ponyfishes (Family Leiognathidae). Journal of Morphology 282 (3): 427-437.

McMahan, C.D., Elias, D.J., Li, Y., Dominguez-Dominguez, O., Rodriguez-Machado, S., Morales-Cabrera, A., Velasquez-Ramirez, D., Piller, K.R., Chakrabarty, P., Matamoros, W.A., 2021. Molecular systematics of the Awaous banana complex (River Gobies; Teleostei: Oxudercidae). Journal of Fish Biology. DOI: 10.1111/jfb.14783

Buckner, J.C., Sanders, R.C., Faircloth, B.C., Chakrabarty, P., 2021. Science Forum: The critical importance of vouchers in genomics. eLife, 10, p.e68264. doi:10.7554/eLife.68264

Chakrabarty, P., Desai, U.R., Peck, C., Mah, C., Singer, R., Downey, R., Rodriguez, E., Bart, P.J., 2021. Preliminary Checklist of the Undersea Fauna of the Ross Sea Antarctic Continental Shelf. Miscellaneous Publication of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology 209: 1-11

Alda, F., Ludt, W.B., Elias, D.J., McMahan, C.D., Chakrabarty, P. 2021. Comparing ultra-conserved elements and exons for phylogenomic analysis of Middle American cichlids: when data agree to disagree. Genome Biology and Evolution 13 evab161, https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab161

Rodriguez-Machado, S., Rodriguez-Cabrera, T.M., Chakrabarty, P. 2021. Identity of fish fry from the "Teti" fishery in Eastern Cuba.Caribbean Journal of Science 51: 194-201.

2022


Desforges, J.E., Clarke, J., Harmsen, E.J., Jardine, A.M., Robichaud, J.A., Serre, S., Chakrabarty, P., Bennett, J.R., Hanna, D.E.L., Smol, J.P., Rytwinski, T., Taylor, J.J., Martel, A.L., Winegardner, A.K., Marty, J., Taylor, M.K., O'Connor, C.M., Robinson, S.A., Reid, A.J., Creed, I.F., Gregory-Eaves, I., Lapointe, N.W.R., Cooke, S.J. (2022) On the alarming state of freshwater biology in Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 79, 352-365.

Crawford, C.H., Webber-Schultz, A., Hart, P.B., Randall, Z.S., Kellogg, A.B., Amplo, H.E., Cerrato-Morales, C., Suvarnaraksha, A., Page, L.M., Chakrabarty, P., Flammang, B.E. (2022). They Like to Move it (Move it): Walking Kinematics of Balitorid Loaches of Western Thailand. Journal of Experimental Biology 225 (6):jeb242906

Hart, P.B., Arnold, R., Alda, F., Kenaley, C.P., Pietsch, T.W., Hutchinson, D., Chakrabarty, P. 2022. Evolutionary relationships of anglerfishes (Lophiiformes) reconstructed using ultraconserved elements. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 171: 107459.

Poo, S., Whitfield, S., Shepack, A., Watkins-Colwell, G.J., Bogisich, A., Goodwin, J., Nelson, G., Chakrabarty, P. 2022 Bridging the gap between live collections in zoos and preserved collection in natural history museums. BioScience 72, 449-460. [COVER ARTICLE]

Girard, M.G., Davis, M.P., Hui, T.H., Wedd, D., Chakrabarty, P., Ludt, W.B., Summers, A.P., Smith, W.L., 2022. Phylogenetics of archerfishes (Toxotidae) and the evolution of toxotid shooting apparatus. Integrative and Organismal Biology 4: 1-29.

Chakrabarty, P., Midway, S.R., Hasler, C.T. 2022. Methods in Fish Biology: The Modern Toolbox In: Midway, S., Hassler, C., Chakrabarty, P. (Editors) Methods in Fish Biology 2nd Edition, American Fisheries Society.

Ghezelayagh, A., Harrington, R.C., Burress, E.D., Campbell, M.A., Buckner, J., Chakrabarty, P., Glass, J.R., McCraney, W.T., Thacker, C.E., Alfaro, M.E., Friedman, S.T., Ludt, W.B., Friedman, M., Price, S.A., Dornburg, A., Faircloth, B.C., Wainwright, P.C., Near, T.J. 2021. Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous. Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01801-3

2023

Elías, D.J., McMahan, C.D., Alda, F., García-Alzate, C., Hart, P.B., Chakrabarty, P. 2023. Phylogenomics of trans-Andean tetras of the genus Hyphessobrycon Durbin 1908 (Stethaprioninae: Characidae) and colonization patterns of Middle America. PLoS One 18(1): e0279924.

Ludt, W.B., Corbett, E.C., Kattawar III, J., Faircloth, B., Chakrabarty, P., Faircloth, B. 2023. Genome Report: A reference genome for Bluegill (Centrarchidae: Lepomis macrochirus). Genes, Genomes, Genetics: Genome Report format. (13) 3: jkad019.

Ford, K. Albert, J.S., Summers, A.P., Hedrick, B.P., Schachner, E.R., Jones, A.S., Evans, K., Chakrabarty, P. 2023. Scanning methods permit rigorous anatomical investigations not possible with traditional morphological approaches. Integrative Organismal Biology Volume 5, Issue 1, 2023, obad008.

Nachman, M.W., Beckman, E.J., Bowie, R.C., Cicero, C., Conroy, C.J., Dudley, R., Hayes, T.B., Koo, M.S., Lacey, E.A., Martin, C.H., McGuire, J.A. et al. 2023. Specimen collection is essential for modern science. PloS Biology, 21(11), p.e3002318.

2024

Hart, P.B., M.L. Niemiller, J.W. Armbruster, P. Chakrabarty. Conservation implications for the world’s most widely distributed cavefish, (Typhlichthys, Percopsiformes). Conservation Genetics https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-023-01562-x  

Rodríguez-Machado, S., Elías, D.J., McMahan, C.D., Gruszkiewicz-Tolli, A., Piller, K.R. and Chakrabarty, P., 2024. Disentangling Historical Relationships Within Poeciliidae (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes) Using Ultraconserved Elements. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, p.107965.

Chakrabarty, P., Sheehy, A.J., Clute, X., Cruz, S., Ballengée, B. 2024. Ten Years Later: An Update on the Status of Collections of Endemic Gulf of Mexico Fishes Put at Risk by the 2010 Oil Spill. Biodiversity Data Journal 12: e113399 doi: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e113399

Sinopoli, D., Near, T.J., David, S., Chakrabarty, P. Reassignment of a junior synonym of Lepisosteus oculatus Winchell 1864 to L. platostomus Rafinesque 1820 Zootaxa, 5432(1), pp.139-144.

Bishop, J.M., Manickam, N., Turner, A.J., and Chakrabarty, P. 2024. A seahorse new to the Arabian Gulf. Zoology in the Middle East  https://doi.org/10.1080/09397140.2024.2333077