Joseph Heras Assistant Professor California State University, San Bernardino I’m an evolutionary geneticist and I’m interested in identifying complex patterns of evolutionary adaptations within fishes...

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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...

In the Heras Lab , we use genomes, transcriptomes, microbiomes, and microplastics to answer questions related to adaptations, digestive physiology, conservation, and exposure to pollution.  We are...