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Christine Thacker's Research
Christine Thacker studies the evolution, systematics, biogeography, morphometrics, and genetics of acanthomorph fishes, specializing in gobies and cardinalfishes. Her work has explored the evolution and relationships of gobies from intraspecific to interfamilial scales, including a phylogenetic classification of families within the order Gobiiformes. Selected publications may be downloaded below:
Thacker, C. E. 2013. Phylogenetic placement of the European sand gobies in Gobionellidae and characterization of gobionellid lineages (Gobiiformes: Gobioidei). Zootaxa 3619 (3): 369-382. Please email thacker@nhm.org for reprint.
Thacker, C. E. and D. M. Roje. 2011. Phylogeny of Gobiidae and identification of gobiid lineages. Systematics and Biodiversity 9(4): 329-347. pdf
Thacker, C. E., A. R. Thompson and D. M. Roje. 2011. Phylogeny and Evolution of Indo-Pacific shrimp-associated gobies (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 168-176. pdf
Thacker, C. E. 2011. Systematics of Butidae and Eleotridae. In: Patzner, R. A., Van Tassell, J. L., Kovacic, M., and Kapoor, B. G. (eds.) Biology of Gobies, Science Publishers, Inc., pgs. 79-85. pdf
Thacker, C. E. 2011. Systematics of Gobiidae. In: Patzner, R. A., Van Tassell, J. L., Kovacic, M., and Kapoor, B. G. (eds.) Biology of Gobies, Science Publishers, Inc., pgs. 129-136. pdf
Thacker, C. E., A. R. Thompson, T. C. Adam and J.-P. Chen. 2010. Phylogeny and character evolution in the Indo-Pacific genus Ctenogobiops (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae). Ichthyological Research 57: 231-239. pdf
Thacker, C. E. and D. M. Roje. 2009. Phylogeny of cardinalfishes (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Apogonidae) and the evolution of visceral bioluminescence. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52: 735-745. pdf
Thacker, C. E. 2009. Phylogeny of Gobioidei and placement within Acanthomorpha, with a new classification and investigation of diversification and character evolution. Copeia 2009(1): 93-104. pdf
Thacker, C. E., R. F. Feeney, N. A. Camacho and J. A. Seigel. 2008. Fungus removal and rehousing of the Ichthyology and Herpetology skeletal collections at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Copeia 2008(4): 737-741. pdf
Thacker, C. E., A. R. Thompson, D. M. Roje and E. Y. Shaw. 2008. New expansions in old clades: population genetics and phylogeny of Gnatholepis species (Teleostei: Gobioidei) Marine Biology 153(3): 375-385. pdf
Thacker, C. E., P. J. Unmack, L. Matsui, P. Duong and E. Huang. 2008. Phylogeography of Philypnodon species (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gobioidei: Eleotridae) across southeastern Australia: testing patterns of connectivity across drainage divides and among coastal rivers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 95: 175-192. pdf
Thacker, C. E., P. J. Unmack, L. Matsui and N. Rifenbark. 2007. Patterns of molecular evolution and phylogeography within and among Hypseleotris species in southeastern Australian drainages. Journal of Biogeography 34(9): 1518-1533. pdf
Thacker, C. E., F. Pezold and R. Sutkuss. 2006. Redescription of the dwarf neotropical eleotrid genus Leptophilypnus (Teleostei: Gobioidei), including a new species and comments on Microphilypnus. Copeia 2006(3): 489-499. pdf
Thacker, C. E. and P. J. Unmack. 2005. Phylogeny and biogeography of the eleotrid genus Hypseleotris (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Eleotridae) with redescription of H. cyprinoides. Records of the Australian Museum 57(1): 1-13. pdf
Thacker, C. E. and M. A. Hardman. 2005. Molecular phylogenetics of basal gobioid fishes: Rhyacichthyidae, Odontobutidae, Xenisthmidae, Eleotridae (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gobioidei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37(3): 858-871. pdf
Thacker, C. E. and H. J. Grier. 2005. Unusual gonadal structure in the paedomorphic teleost Schindleria, with comparison to other gobioid fishes. Journal of Fish Biology 66(2): 378-391. pdf
Thompson, A. R., C. E. Thacker, and E. Y. Shaw. 2005. Phylogeography of marine mutualists: parallel patterns of genetic structure between obligate goby and shrimp partners. Molecular Ecology 14: 3557-3572. pdf
Thacker, C. E. 2004. Phylogeny and species boundaries in the gobiid genus Gnatholepis (Teleostei: Perciformes). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 142(4): 573-582. pdf
Thacker, C. E. 2004. Population structure in two species of the reef goby Gnatholepis (Teleostei: Perciformes) among four South Pacific Islands. Coral Reefs 23(3): 357-366. pdf
Thacker, C. E. 2003. Molecular phylogeny of the gobioid fishes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 26(3): 354-368. pdf
Thacker, C. E. and K. S. Cole. 2002. Phylogeny and evolution of the gobiid genus Coryphopterus. Bulletin of Marine Science 70(3): 837-850. pdf
Thacker, C. E. 2001. Evermannichthys bicolor, a new goby (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gobioidei) from Navassa Island. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, No. 490. pdf
Thacker, C. E. 2000. Phylogeny of the wormfishes (Teleostei: Gobioidei: Microdesmidae). Copeia 2000(4): 940-957. pdf