Christine E. Thacker

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
56 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Christine E. Thacker is a scholar working on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Aquatic Science and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine E. Thacker has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation, 21 papers in Aquatic Science and 16 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Christine E. Thacker's work include Ichthyology and Marine Biology (25 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (21 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (20 papers). Christine E. Thacker is often cited by papers focused on Ichthyology and Marine Biology (25 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (21 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (20 papers). Christine E. Thacker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Christine E. Thacker's co-authors include Thomas J. Near, David P. Mindell, Peter J. Unmack, Michael Hardman, Michael E. Alfaro, Richard Harrington, Daniel L. Geiger, Andrew R. Thompson, Matt Friedman and Brant C. Faircloth and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The American Naturalist.

In The Last Decade

Christine E. Thacker

53 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

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

2022 75 citations Richard Harrington, Edward D. Burress et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →
Phylogenetic Classification of Living and Fossil Ray-Finned Fishes (Actinopterygii)

2024 49 citations Thomas J. Near, Christine E. Thacker profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christine E. Thacker United States	23	1.1k	523	506	496	419	56	1.7k
Jon A. Moore United States	15	1.0k 1.0×	446 0.9×	393 0.8×	531 1.1×	304 0.7×	43	1.8k
Ron I. Eytan United States	16	1.2k 1.1×	610 1.2×	506 1.0×	540 1.1×	484 1.2×	27	2.1k
Prosanta Chakrabarty United States	25	1.6k 1.5×	569 1.1×	953 1.9×	623 1.3×	566 1.4×	102	2.6k
Terry Grande United States	11	1.2k 1.1×	505 1.0×	707 1.4×	442 0.9×	222 0.5×	23	1.8k
Hernán López‐Fernández United States	25	1.6k 1.5×	333 0.6×	952 1.9×	405 0.8×	356 0.8×	66	2.1k
Sébastien Lavoué Malaysia	26	1.6k 1.5×	785 1.5×	1.1k 2.1×	458 0.9×	544 1.3×	96	2.4k
Ricardo Betancur‐R United States	26	1.5k 1.4×	833 1.6×	820 1.6×	626 1.3×	668 1.6×	78	2.7k
Agnès Dettaı̈ France	24	675 0.6×	750 1.4×	318 0.6×	451 0.9×	397 0.9×	61	1.5k
Hirohiko Takeshima Japan	15	924 0.9×	1.3k 2.4×	479 0.9×	512 1.0×	649 1.5×	61	2.0k
Omár Domínguez‐Domínguez Mexico	21	856 0.8×	319 0.6×	526 1.0×	490 1.0×	441 1.1×	110	1.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Thacker, Christine E.. (2025). Adaptation, diversification and ecological opportunity in the extremophile radiation of Zoarcoidea. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2053). 20251289–20251289.

Thacker, Christine E. & Thomas J. Near. (2025). Phylogeny, biology, and evolution of acanthopterygian fish clades. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. 35(2). 805–845. 1 indexed citations

Near, Thomas J. & Christine E. Thacker. (2023). Phylogenetic classification of living and fossil ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 7 indexed citations

Thacker, Christine E., Daniel L. Geiger, & Peter J. Unmack. (2022). Species delineation and systematics of a hemiclonal hybrid complex in Australian freshwaters (Gobiiformes: Gobioidei: Eleotridae: Hypseleotris ). Royal Society Open Science. 9(7). 220201–220201. 9 indexed citations

Harrington, Richard, Edward D. Burress, Matthew A. Campbell, et al.. (2022). Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(8). 1211–1220. 75 indexed citations breakdown →

Betancur‐R, Ricardo, Michael D. Burns, Thaddaeus John Buser, et al.. (2022). Patterns of Phenotypic Evolution Associated with Marine/Freshwater Transitions in Fishes. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 62(2). 406–423. 10 indexed citations

Thacker, Christine E., et al.. (2021). Two new cryptic species of the freshwater fish genus Gobiomorphus (Gobiiformes: Gobioidei: Eleotridae) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 57(1). 119–135. 1 indexed citations

Thacker, Christine E., et al.. (2019). Co‐evolution of cleaning and feeding morphology in western Atlantic and eastern Pacific gobies. Evolution. 74(2). 419–433. 17 indexed citations

Thacker, Christine E., et al.. (2019). Morphometric convergence among European sand gobies in freshwater (Gobiiformes: Gobionellidae). Ecology and Evolution. 9(14). 8087–8103. 10 indexed citations

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Hammer, Michael P., Mark Adams, Christine E. Thacker, Jerald B. Johnson, & Peter J. Unmack. (2019). Comparison of genetic structure in co-occurring freshwater eleotrids (Actinopterygii: Philypnodon) reveals cryptic species, likely translocation and regional conservation hotspots. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 139. 106556–106556. 12 indexed citations

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Alfaro, Michael E., Brant C. Faircloth, Richard Harrington, et al.. (2018). Explosive diversification of marine fishes at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(4). 688–696. 152 indexed citations

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Thacker, Christine E., et al.. (2018). Phylogeny, systematics and biogeography of the European sand gobies (Gobiiformes: Gobionellidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 185(1). 212–225. 19 indexed citations

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Thacker, Christine E.. (2017). Patterns of divergence in fish species separated by the Isthmus of Panama. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17(1). 111–111. 31 indexed citations

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Near, Thomas J., Alex Dornburg, Richard Harrington, et al.. (2015). Identification of the notothenioid sister lineage illuminates the biogeographic history of an Antarctic adaptive radiation. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 109–109. 49 indexed citations

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Thacker, Christine E., et al.. (2015). Molecular phylogeny of Percomorpha resolves Trichonotus as the sister lineage to Gobioidei (Teleostei: Gobiiformes) and confirms the polyphyly of Trachinoidei. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 93. 172–179. 44 indexed citations

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Thompson, Andrew R., et al.. (2006). Characterization of 16 microsatellite loci for a common coral reef fish, the fierce shrimpgoby Ctenogobiops feroculus. Molecular Ecology Notes. 6(3). 918–920. 1 indexed citations

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Thacker, Christine E. & Michael Hardman. (2005). Molecular phylogeny of basal gobioid fishes: Rhyacichthyidae, Odontobutidae, Xenisthmidae, Eleotridae (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gobioidei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 37(3). 858–871. 94 indexed citations

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Geiger, Daniel L. & Christine E. Thacker. (2005). Molecular phylogeny of Vetigastropoda reveals non-monophyletic Scissurellidae, Trochoidea, and Fissurelloidea. Molluscan Research. 25(1). 47–55. 49 indexed citations

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Thacker, Christine E.. (2003). Molecular phylogeny of the gobioid fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Gobioidei). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 26(3). 354–368. 144 indexed citations

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Geiger, Daniel L., Kirk Fitzhugh, & Christine E. Thacker. (2001). Timeless characters: a response to Vermeij (1999). Paleobiology. 27(1). 177–178. 10 indexed citations

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