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Christopher H. Martin
editChristopher H. Martin is an American evolutionary biologist serving as an Associate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. He leads the Martin Fish Speciation Lab, focusing on the evolution and ecology of adaptive radiation in fishes.[1]
Education and Early Career
editMartin earned his B.S. in Biology from Duke University in 2005. He then spent a year living in Malawi on a Fulbright scholarship studying cichlid diversity. He completed his Ph.D. in Population Biology at the University of California, Davis in 2013 with advisor Peter Wainwright. He received a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship[2] at UC Berkeley and worked with postdoctoral mentors Craig Miller and Erica Bree Rosenblum for two years. He then began his first academic position in the Biology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015.
Academic Position
editJoining the UC Berkeley faculty in 2019 as part of the Department of Integrative Biology and Curator of Ichthyology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology[3].
Research Focus
editMartin's lab investigates the mechanisms behind rapid speciation and the origins of biodiversity, particularly in tropical fish systems. The lab uses field experiments, natural history observations, population genomics, behavioral ecology, functional morphology, quantitative and functional genetics, and phylogenetic methods to understand evolution within rapid radiations of three or more species.The lab's goal is to map the complex interactions among genotype, phenotype, performance, fitness, and environment to understand adaptive diversification.
Notably, the Martin lab published the genome assembly for the Devils Hole pupfish, discovered three novel craniofacial development genes, and popularized pupfishes as an evolutionary model system.
Key Model Systems
editThe lab’s research spans three prominent case studies:
- Caribbean pupfishes, notable for microendemic adaptive radiations of trophic specialists in the Bahamas and Yucatán.
- Cameroon crater lake cichlids, classic examples of sympatric speciation.
- Death Valley pupfishes, critically endangered desert fishes with extremely limited ranges.
Selected Publications
editMost cited publications include:
- Evolution (2011): Trophic novelty is linked to exceptional rates of morphological diversification in two adaptive radiations of Cyprinodon pupfishes.[4]
- Science (2013): Multiple fitness peaks on the adaptive landscape drive adaptive radiation in the wild. Science.[5]
- PLOS Genetics (2017): Adaptive introgression from distant Caribbean islands contributed to the diversification of a microendemic radiation of trophic specialist pupfishes.[6]
- Richards EJ, McGirr JA, Jeremy Wang J, St John ME, Poelstra JW, Solano MJ, O'Connell DC, Turner BJ, Martin CH. 2021. A vertebrate adaptive radiation is assembled from an ancient and disjunct spatiotemporal landscape. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[7]
Taxon described by him
editReferences
edit- ^ "Martin Lab". ib.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-19.
- ^ "Miller Fellowship Awards". miller.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2025-08-19.
- ^ "Christopher Martin". Integrative Biology. 2018-09-25. Retrieved 2025-08-19.
- ^ Martin, Christopher H.; Wainwright, Peter C. (2011-08-01). "Trophic Novelty is Linked to Exceptional Rates of Morphological Diversification in Two Adaptive Radiations of Cyprinodon Pupfish". Evolution. 65 (8): 2197–2212. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01294.x. ISSN 0014-3820. PMID 21790569.
- ^ Martin, Christopher H.; Wainwright, Peter C. (2013-01-11). "Multiple Fitness Peaks on the Adaptive Landscape Drive Adaptive Radiation in the Wild". Science. 339 (6116): 208–211. Bibcode:2013Sci...339..208M. doi:10.1126/science.1227710. PMID 23307743.
- ^ Richards, Emilie J.; Martin, Christopher H. (2017-08-10). "Adaptive introgression from distant Caribbean islands contributed to the diversification of a microendemic adaptive radiation of trophic specialist pupfishes". PLOS Genetics. 13 (8): e1006919. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006919. ISSN 1553-7404. PMC 5552031. PMID 28796803.
- ^ Richards, Emilie J.; McGirr, Joseph A.; Wang, Jeremy R.; St. John, Michelle E.; Poelstra, Jelmer W.; Solano, Maria J.; O’Connell, Delaney C.; Turner, Bruce J.; Martin, Christopher H. (2021-05-18). "A vertebrate adaptive radiation is assembled from an ancient and disjunct spatiotemporal landscape". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (20): e2011811118. Bibcode:2021PNAS..11811811R. doi:10.1073/pnas.2011811118. PMC 8157919. PMID 33990463.
- ^ a b Martin, Christopher H.; Wainwright, Peter C. (October 2013). "A Remarkable Species Flock of Cyprinodon Pupfishes Endemic to San Salvador Island, Bahamas". Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History. 54 (2): 231–241. Bibcode:2013BPMNH..54..231M. doi:10.3374/014.054.0201. ISSN 0079-032X.
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