Peer-Reviewed Publications

28. Miller EC, Martinez CM, Friedman ST, Wainwright PC, Price SA, Tornabene L. 2022. Alternating regimes of shallow and deep-sea diversification explain a species richness paradox in marine fishes. PNAS. 119 (43) e2123544119. PDF

27. Corn KA, Friedman ST, Burress ED, Martinez CM, Larouche O, Price SA & Wainwright PC. 2022. The Rise of Biting During the Cenozoic Fueled Reef Fish Body Shape Diversification. PNAS. 119 (31) e2119828119. PDF

26. Martinez CM, Tovar AJ & Wainwright PC. 2022. A novel intramandibular joint facilitates feeding versatility in the sixbar Distichodus. Journal of Experimental Biology 225(2) jeb243621. PDF

25. Dunton KJ, Sparta K, Martinez CM, Frisk MG & Shipley ON. 2021. First observation of movement rates and repeated migration in a Western Atlantic torpedo ray (Tetronarce occidentalis, Storer, 1843) in the northwest Atlantic Ocean. Northeast Naturalist 28(2) N7-N14. PDF

24. Martinez CM, Friedman ST, Corn KA, Larouche O, Price SA & Wainwright PC. 2021. The Deep Sea is a Hot Spot of Fish Body Shape Evolution. Ecology Letters. 24(9) 1788-1799. Featured in: **New Scientist**, **UC Davis Egghead**. PDF

23. Corn KA, Martinez CM, Burress ED & Wainwright PC. 2021. A multifunction trade-off has contrasting effects on the evolution of form and function. Systematic Biology. 70(4) 681-693. PDFCenote Chenha de Sacalum

22. Arroyave J, Martinez CM, Martínez-Oriol FH, Sosa E & Alter SE. 2021. Regional-scale aquifer hydrogeology as a driver of phylogeographic structure in the Neotropical catfish Rhamdia guatemalensis (Siluriformes: Heptapteridae) from cenotes of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Freshwater Biology. 66, 332-348. PDF

21. Larouche O, Benton B, Corn KA, Friedman ST, Gross D, Iwan M, Kessler B, Martinez CM, Rodriguez S, Whelpley H, Wainwright PC & Price SA. 2020. Reef-associated fishes have more maneuverable body shapes at a macroevolutionary scale. Coral Reefs. 1-13. PDF

20. Friedman ST, Price SA, Corn KA, Larouche O, Martinez CM & Wainwright PC. 2020. Body shape diversification along the benthic-pelagic axis in marine fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 287, 20201053. PDF

19. Burress ED, Martinez CM & Wainwright PC. 2020. Decoupled Jaws Promote Trophic Diversity in Cichlid Fishes. Evolution. 74(5), 950-961. PDF

18. Price SA, Larouche O, Friedman ST, Corn KA, Wainwright PC & Martinez CM. 2020. A CURE for a major challenge in phenomics: a practical guide to implementing a quantitative specimen-based undergraduate research experience. Integrative Organismal Biology. 2(1), obaa004, 1-10. PDF

17. Barley AJ, Diesmos AC, Siler CD, Martinez CM & Brown RM. 2020. Taxonomic Revision of Philippine Sun Skinks (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae: Eutropis), and Descriptions of Eight New Species. Herpetological Monographs. 34, 39-70. PDF

16. Martinez CM & Wainwright PC. 2019. Extending the Geometric Approach for Studying Biomechanical Motions. Integrative & Comparative Biology. 59(3), 684-695. PDF

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15. Price SA, Friedman ST, Corn KA, Martinez CM, Larouche O & Wainwright PC. 2019. Building a body shape morphospace of teleostean fishes. Integrative & Comparative Biology. 59(3), 716-730. PDF

14. Martinez CM, Kao B, Sparks JS & Wainwright PC. 2019. Pectoral dimorphism is a pervasive feature of skate diversity and offers insight into their evolution. Integrative Organismal Biology. 1(1), 1-14. Featured in: **IOB Blog**. PDF

13. Friedman ST, Martinez CM, Price SA & Wainwright PC. 2019. The influence of size on body shape diversification across Indo-Pacific reef fishes. Evolution. 73(4), 1873-1884. PDF

12. Arroyave J, Martinez CM & Stiassny MLJ. 2019. DNA barcoding uncovers remarkable cryptic diversity in the African long-finned tetra Bryconalestes longipinnis (Günther 1864) (Alestidae: Characiformes). Journal of Fish Biology. 95, 379-392. PDF

11. Frisk MG, Shipley ON, Martinez CM, McKown KA, Zacharias JP & Dunton KJ. 2019. First observations of long-distance migration in a large skate species, the winter skate: implications for population connectivity, ecosystem dynamics, and management. Marine and Coastal Fisheries. 11(2), 202-212. PDF

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10. Martinez CM, McGee MD, Borstein SR & Wainwright PC. 2018. Feeding ecology underlies the evolution of cichlid jaw mobility. Evolution. 72 (8), 1645-1655. PDF

9. Martinez CM & Sparks JS. 2017. Malagasy cichlid subfamilies differentially limit impacts of body shape evolution on oral jaw form and function. Evolution. 71(9), 2219-2229. **Journal Cover**; Featured in: **Evolution Digest**. PDF

8. Martinez CM & Stiassny MLJ. 2017. Can and eel be a flatfish? Observations on enigmatic asymmetrical heterenchelyid eels from the Guinea Coast of West Africa. Journal of Fish Biology. 91, 673-678.  Featured in: **New Scientist**& **Hakai Magazine** . PDF

7. Martinez CM, Duplisea DE, Cerrato RM & Frisk MG. 2017. Exploration of trends in interspecific abundance-occupancy relationships using empirically derived simulated communities. PLoS ONE. 12(1), e0170816. PDF

6. Martinez CM, Rohlf FJ & Frisk MG. 2016. Re-Evaluation of batoid pectoral morphology reveals novel patterns of diversity among major lineages. Journal of Morphology. 277(4), 482-493. PDF

5. Martinez CM, Rohlf FJ & Frisk MG. 2016. Sexual dimorphism in sister species of Leucoraja skate and its relationship to reproductive strategy and life history. Evolution & Development. 18(2), 105-115. PDF

4. Dunton K, Jordaan A, Secor D, Martinez CM, Kehler T, Hattala K, van Eenennam J, Fisher M, McKown K, Conover DO & Frisk M. 2016. Age and growth of Atlantic sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus, in the New York Bight. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 36, 62-73. PDF

3. O’Leary SJ, Martinez CM, Bauman H, Abercrombie D, Conover DO, Poulakis GR, Murray CH, Feldheim KA & Chapman DD. 2016. Population genetics and geometric morphometrics of Key silversides, Menidia conchorum, a marine fish in a highly fragmented inland habitat. Bulletin of Marine Science. 92(1), 33-50. PDF

2. Martinez CM, Arroyave J & Sparks JS. 2015. A new species of Ptychochromis from southeastern Madagascar (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Zootaxa. 4044, 79-92. PDF

1. Bergsma GS & Martinez CM. 2011. Mutualist induced morphological changes enhance growth and survival of corals. Marine Biology. 158, 2267-2277. PDF

Book Chapters

Vaz DFB, Martinez CM, Friedman ST & PP Rizzato. 2022. Morphological Descriptions and Taxonomy. In S Midway, C Hasler, and P Chakrabarty, editors. Methods for Fish Biology, 2nd edition. American Fisheries Society. Bethesda, Maryland. p. 153-206. LINK TO PUBLISHER