Publications

Publications

Links to many of my publications are available on Google Scholar. If you are not able to access a PDF, please contact me via email and I would be happy to provide one.

*Signifies undergraduate student mentee, †signifies graduate student mentee

  1. Burns, M.D., S.T. Friedman, K.A. Corn, O. Larouche, S.A. Price, P.C. Wainwright, and E.D. Burress. (2024). High-latitude ocean habitats are a crucible of fish body shape diversification. Evolution Letters qrae020. doi:10.1093/evlett/qrae020

  2. Kolmann, M.A., E. Poulin, J. Rosen, D. Hemraj-Naraine, and M.D. Burns. (2024). Phenotypic convergence is more frequent and stronger in herbivorous freshwater fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology icae037. doi: 10.1093/icb/icae037

  3. Burns, M.D. and P.H.N. Bragança. (In Press). Body size evolution in Neotropical freshwater fishes: Patterns and processes of reduction and miniaturization. In: Historical Ecology of Neotropical Freshwater Fishes. Roberto Reis and James Albert, eds. Princeton University Press.

  4. Burns, M.D., J.H. Knouft, and C.B. Dillman. (2024). The role of abiotic and biotic factors in the unequal body shape diversification of a Gondwanan fish radiation (Otophysi: Characiformes). Evolution 78(2): 253-266. doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpad203

  5. †DeHaan, L.M., M.D. Burns, J.P. Egan, D.D. Bloom. (2023). Diadromy drives elevated rates of trait evolution and ecomorphological convergence in Clupeiformes (herring, shad, and anchovies). The American Naturalist doi: 10.1086/726894

  6. Burns, M.D., M.C. Collyer, B.L. Sidlauskas. (2023). Simultaneous integration and modularity underlie the exceptional body shape diversification among characiform fishes. Evolution 77(3): 746-762. doi: 10.1093/evolut/qpac070 | PDF

  7. †de Brito, V., R. Betancur-R, M.D. Burns, T.J. Buser, K.W. Conway, J.P. Fontenelle, M.A. Kolmann, W.T. McCraney, C.E. Thacker, D.D. Bloom. (2022). Patterns of phenotypic evolution associated with marine/freshwater transitions in fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology 62(2): 406-423. doi: 10.1093/icb/icac085

  8. Melo, B.F., B.L. Sidlauskas, T.J. Near, F.F. Roxo, A. Ghezelayagh, L.E. Ochoa, M.L.J. Stiassny, J. Arroyave, J. Chang, B.C. Faircloth, D.J. MacGuigan, R.C. Harrington, R.C. Benine, M.D. Burns, K. Hoekzema, N.C. Sanches, J.A. Maldonado-Ocampo, R.M.C. Castro, F. Foresti, M.E. Alfaro, C. Oliveira. 2021. Accelerated diversification explains the exceptional species richness in tropical Characoid fishes. Systematic Biology 71(1): 78-92. doi: doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syab040

  9. Egan, J.P., T.J. Buser, M.D. Burns, A.M. Simons, P.J. Hundt. 2021. Patterns of body shape diversity and evolution in intertidal and subtidal lineages of combtooth blennies (Blenniidae). Integrative Organismal Biology 3(1): obab004. doi: 10.1093/iob/obab004

  10. Sidlauskas, B.L., M.D. Burns, T.J. Buser, N. Harper, M. Kindred. 2021. Teaching Ichthyology online with a virtual specimen collection. Ichthyology and Herpetology 109(2): 407-423. doi:doi.org/10.1643/t2020031

  11. Burns, M.D. (2021). Adaptation to herbivory and detritivory drives the convergent evolution of large abdominal cavities in a diverse freshwater fish radiation (Otophysi: Characiformes). Evolution 75(3): 688-705. doi: 10.1111/evo.14178

  12. Kolmann, M.A., M.D. Burns, *J. Ng, N.R. Lovejoy, D.D. Bloom. 2020. Habitat transitions alter the adaptive landscape and drive phenotypic evolution in needlefishes. Ecology and Evolution 10(8): 3769-3783. doi: 10.1002/ece3.6172

  13. Faircloth, B.C., F. Alda, K. Hoekzema, M.D. Burns, C. Oliveira, J.S. Albert, B.F. Melo, L.E. Ochoa, F.F. Roxo, P. Chakrabarty, B.L. Sidlauskas, M.E. Alfaro. 2020. A target enrichment bait set for studying relationships among ostariophysan fishes. Copeia 108(1): 47-60. doi: 10.1643/CG-18-139

  14. Burns, M.D. and D.D. Bloom. 2020. Migratory lineages rapidly evolve larger body sizes than non-migratory relatives in ray-finned fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287(1918): 20192615. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2615

  15. Burns, M.D. and B.L. Sidlauskas. 2019. Ancient and contingent body shape diversification in a hyperdiverse continental freshwater fish radiation. Evolution 73(3): 569-587. doi: 10.1111/evo.13658

  16. Bloom, D.D., M.D. Burns, and T.A.Schriever. 2018. Evolution of body size and trophic position in migratory fishes: a phylogenetic comparative analysis of Clupeiformes (anchovies, herring, shad and allies). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125(2): 302-314. doi: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly106

  17. Burns, M.D. and K.S. Cole. 2017. Reproductive morphology and its application in testing molecular systematic hypotheses in the family Gobiidae (Teleostei: Gobiiformes). Journal of Fish Biology* 91(4): 1094-1108. doi: 10.1111/jfb.13403

  18. Burns, M.D. 2017. Family Gasteropelecidae- freshwater hatchetfish. In Field guide to the fishes of the Amazon - Fish genera of the Amazon, Orinoco, and Guianas. Peter Van der Sleen and James Albert, eds. Princeton University Press.

  19. Buser, T.J., M.D. Burns, J. Andres Lopez. 2017. Littorally adaptive? Testing the link between habitat, morphology, and reproduction in the intertidal sculpin subfamily Oligocottinae (Pisces: Cottoidea). PeerJ 5:e3634. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3634

  20. Burns, M.D., *M. Chatfield, J.L.O. Birindelli, B.L. Sidlauskas. 2017. Systematic assessment of the Leporinus desmotes species complex, with a description of two new species. Neotropical Ichthyology 15(2): e160166. doi: 10.1590/1982-0224-20160166

  21. *LaRochelle, C., *F.A.T. Pickens, M.D. Burns, B.L. Sidlauskas. 2016. Long-term Isopropanol storage does not alter fish morphometrics. Copeia 104(2):411-420. doi: 10.1643/CG-15-303

  22. Burns, M.D., Gilbert, C., M.L. Warren. 2014. Dasyatidae: Whiptail Stingrays. In: North American freshwater fishes: ecology, evolution, and behavior. Eds. B.M. Burr and M.L. Warren. John Hopkins University Press. Google Books

  23. Burns, M.D., B.W. Frable, and B.L. Sidlauskas. 2014. Leporinus arimaspi, a new species of Leporinus (Characiformes: Anostomidae) from the Orinoco Basin, Venezuela. Copeia 2014(2): 206-214. doi: 10.1643/CI-13-071

  24. Hopkins II, R.L., M.D. Burns, B.M. Burr, and L.J. Hopman. 2009. Building a centralized database for Kentucky fishes: Progress and future applications. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Sciences 69:73-78 doi: 10.3101/1098-7096-69.2.164

Book Reviews

  1. Burns, M.D. 2016. A pocket review of a pocket field guide. Environmental Biology of Fishes 99(11): 907-908. doi: 10.1007/s10641-016-0527-4