Publications

Bloom, D.D. and N.R. Lovejoy. In press. The biogeography of marine incursions in South America. In: Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes. Albert, J.A. and R.E. Reis (Eds.). University of California Press.

Crampton, W.G.R., N.R. Lovejoy, and J. C. Waddell. Accepted. Reproductive character displacement and signal ontogeny in a sympatric assemblage of electric fishes. Evolution.

Lewallen, E., R. Pitman, S. Kjartanson, S., and N.R. Lovejoy. 2011. Phylogenetic systematics of flyingfishes (Teleostei: Exocoetidae): Evolution in the epipelagic zone. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 102: 161-174.

Lovejoy, N.R., S.C. Willis, and J.S. Albert. 2010. Molecular signatures of Neogene biogeographic events in the Amazon fish fauna. In: Amazonia:, Landscape and Species Evolution. Hoorn, C. and F.P. Wesselingh (Eds.). Blackwell Publishing. Pp. 405-417.

Lovejoy, N.R., K. Lester, W.G.R. Crampton, F.P.L. Marques, and J.S. Albert. 2010. Phylogeny, biogeography, and electric signal evolution of Neotropical knifefishes of the genus Gymnotus (Osteichthyes: Gymnotidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 54: 278-290.

Willis, S.C., M. Nunes, C.G. Montaña, I.P. Farias, G. Ortí, and N.R. Lovejoy. 2010. The Casiquiare river acts as a corridor between the Amazonas and Orinoco river basins: Biogeographic analysis of the genus Cichla. Molecular Ecology. 19: 1014-1030.

Carney, J.P., T.A. Sheldon, and N.R. Lovejoy. 2009. Parasites of the deepwater sculpin (Myoxocephalus thompsonii) across its Canadian range. Journal of Parasitology. 95: 1209-1212.

Crampton, W.G.R., J.K. Davis, N.R. Lovejoy, and M. Pensky, M. 2008. Multivariate classification of animal communication signals: A simulation-based comparison of alternative signal processing procedures using electric fishes. Journal of Physiology, Paris. 102: 304-321.

Sheldon, T.A., N.E. Mandrak, and N.R. Lovejoy, 2008. Biogeography of the deepwater sculpin (Myoxocephalus thomsonil), a Nearctic glacial relict. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 86:108-115.

Willis, S.C., M.S. Nunes, C.G. Montana, I.P. Farias, and N.R. Lovejoy. 2007. Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of the Neotropical peacock basses Cichla (Perciformes: Cichlidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 44:291-307.

Lovejoy, N.R., J.S. Albert, and W.G.R. Crampton. 2006. Miocene marine incursions and marine/freshwater transitions: Evidence from Neotropical Fishes. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 21: 5-13.

Albert, J.S., N.R. Lovejoy, and W.G.R. Crampton. 2006. Miocene tectonism and the separation of cis- and trans-Andean river basins: Evidence from Neotropical fishes. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 21: 14-27.

Hoorn, C., R. Aalto, R.J.G. Kaandorp, and N.R. Lovejoy. 2006. Miocene semidiurnal tidal rhythmites in Madre de Dios, Peru: Comment. Geology. (published online: doi 10.1130/G22115.1).

Lovejoy, N.R., S.P. Mullen, G.A. Sword, R.F. Chapman, and R.G. Harrison. 2006. Ancient trans-Atlantic flight explains locust biogeography: molecular phylogenetics of Schistocerca . Proceedings of the Royal Society B . 273: 767-774.

Lovejoy, N.R., M. Iranpour, and B.B. Collette. 2004. Phylogeny and jaw ontogeny of beloniform fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 44: 366-377.

Albert, J.S., W.G.R. Crampton, D.H. Thorsen, and N.R. Lovejoy. 2004. Phylogenetic systematics and historical biogeography of the electric fish Gymnotus (Gymnotidae: Teleostei). Systematics and Biodiversity. 2: 375-417.

Lovejoy, N.R. and B.B. Collette. 2003. Belonidae. In Reis, R.R., S.O. Kullander, and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. EDIPUCRS Press, Brazil, Pp. 586-588.

de Carvalho, M.R., N.R. Lovejoy, N.R., and R.S. Rosa. 2003. Potamotrygonidae. In Reis, R.R., S.O. Kullander, and C.J. Ferraris, Jr. Check List of the Freshwater Fishes of South and Central America. EDIPUCRS Press, Brazil, Pp. 22-28.

Crampton, W.G.R., N.R. Lovejoy, and J.S. Albert. 2003. Gymnotus ucamara: a new species of Neotropical electric fish from the Peruvian Amazon (Ostariophysi: Gymnotidae). Zootaxa 277: 1-18.

Lovejoy, N.R. and B.B. Collette. Phylogenetic relationships of New World needlefishes (Teleostei: Belonidae) and the biogeography of transitions between marine and freshwater habitats. Copeia 2001: 324-338.

Lovejoy, N.R. 2000. Reinterpreting recapitulation: Systematics of needlefishes and their allies (Teleostei: Beloniformes). Evolution 54: 1349-1362.

Lovejoy, N.R. and M.L.G. de Araújo. 2000. Molecular systematics, biogeography, and population structure of neotropical freshwater needlefishes of the genus Potamorrhaphis. Molecular Ecology 9: 259-268.

Lovejoy, N.R., E. Bermingham, and A.P. Martin. 1998. Marine incursions into South America. Nature 396: 421-422.

McCune, A.R. and N.R. Lovejoy. 1998 The relative rate of sympatric and allopatric speciation in fishes: tests using DNA sequence divergence between sister species and among clades. In: Howard, D. and S. Berlocher. Endless forms: species and speciation. Oxford Univ. Press. Pp. 172-185.

Murphy, R.W. and N.R. Lovejoy. 1998. Punctuated equilibrium or gradualism in the lizard genus Sceloporus? -- Lost in plesiograms and a forest of trees. Cladistics 14: 95-103.

Lovejoy, N.R. 1997. Stingrays, parasites, and historical biogeography: A closer look at Brooks et al’s hypotheses for the origins of neotropical freshwater rays: Potamotrygonidae. Systematic Biology 46: 218-230.

Lovejoy, N.R. 1996. Systematics of Myliobatoid elasmobranchs: with emphasis on the phylogeny and historical biogeography of neotropical freshwater stingrays (Potamotrygonidae: Rajiformes). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 117: 207-257.