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List of works by Peter Cowman

An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

scientific article published in Nature

Ancestral biogeography and ecology of marine angelfishes (F: Pomacanthidae)

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Body size determines eyespot size and presence in coral reef fishes

scientific article published on 11 July 2020

Chemical alarm cues are conserved within the coral reef fish family Pomacentridae

scientific article

Colour pattern divergence in reef fish species is rapid and driven by both range overlap and symmetry

scientific article published on 22 November 2018

Coral reefs as drivers of cladogenesis: expanding coral reefs, cryptic extinction events, and the development of biodiversity hotspots

scientific article

Dating the evolutionary origins of wrasse lineages (Labridae) and the rise of trophic novelty on coral reefs

scientific article

Drivers of eyespot evolution in coral reef fishes

scientific article published on 18 February 2021

Evolutionary history of the butterflyfishes (f: Chaetodontidae) and the rise of coral feeding fishes.

scientific article

Exploring the Relationships between Mutation Rates, Life History, Genome Size, Environment, and Species Richness in Flowering Plants

scientific article published on 10 February 2015

Global marine protected areas do not secure the evolutionary history of tropical corals and fishes

scientific article

Historical and contemporary determinants of global phylogenetic structure in tropical reef fish faunas

scientific article published in 2015

Historical biogeography of herbivorous coral reef fishes: The formation of an Atlantic fauna

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Historical factors that have shaped the evolution of tropical reef fishes: a review of phylogenies, biogeography, and remaining questions

scientific article

Human-mediated loss of phylogenetic and functional diversity in coral reef fishes

scientific article

Ice ages and butterflyfishes: Phylogenomics elucidates the ecological and evolutionary history of reef fishes in an endemism hotspot

scientific article published on 23 October 2018

Longevity Is Linked to Mitochondrial Mutation Rates in Rockfish: A Test Using Poisson Regression

scientific article published on 5 June 2015

Morphological and molecular description of a new genus and species of black coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Hexacorallia: Antipatharia: Antipathidae: Blastopathes) from Papua New Guinea

scholarly article

Palaeoclimate ocean conditions shaped the evolution of corals and their skeletons through deep time

scientific article published on 31 August 2020

Parasitic plants have increased rates of molecular evolution across all three genomes

scientific article

Phylogenetic perspectives on reef fish functional traits

scientific article published on 2 May 2017

Planktivores as trophic drivers of global coral reef fish diversity patterns

scientific article published on 16 February 2021

Predation drives recurrent convergence of an interspecies mutualism

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous

scientific article published in 2022

Quantifying phylogenetic beta diversity: distinguishing between 'true' turnover of lineages and phylogenetic diversity gradients

scientific article

Quaternary coral reef refugia preserved fish diversity.

scientific article

The biogeography of tropical reef fishes: endemism and provinciality through time

scientific article

The evolution of traits and functions in herbivorous coral reef fishes through space and time

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

The molecular biogeography of the Indo‐Pacific: Testing hypotheses with multispecies genetic patterns

scientific article published in 2019

Trophic innovations fuel reef fish diversification

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

Variation in social systems within Chaetodon butterflyfishes, with special reference to pair bonding.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Vicariance across major marine biogeographic barriers: temporal concordance and the relative intensity of hard versus soft barriers

scientific article (publication date: 7 October 2013)

Widespread sympatry in a species-rich clade of marine fishes (Carangoidei)