John Stephen Sparks
Affiliations: | 2002- | American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States |
Area:
systematics, evolution, and biogeography of freshwater and both nearshore and deep-sea marine fishesWebsite:
https://www.amnh.org/our-research/staff-directory/john-s.-sparksGoogle:
"John Stephen Sparks"Bio:
https://www.amnh.org/content/download/28353/352629/file/Sparks-CV-2-2014.pdf Advisors: Gerald R. Smith and William L. Fink
Parents
Sign in to add mentor| William Lee Fink | grad student | 2001 | University of Michigan (Anatomy Tree) | |
| (Ph.D.: Phylogeny and biogeography of the Malagasy and South Asian cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae), including a survey of the freshwater fishes of Madagascar) | ||||
| Gerald Ray Smith | grad student | 2001 | University of Michigan (Evolution Tree) | |
| (Phylogeny and biogeography of the Malagasy and South Asian cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae), including a survey of the freshwater fishes of Madagascar.) | ||||
Children
Sign in to add trainee| Emily M Carr | grad student | 2022- | American Museum of Natrual History |
| W. Leo Smith | post-doc | American Museum of Natural History (Evolution Tree) | |
| Rene P. Martin | post-doc | 2023- | (Evolution Tree) |
| Christopher M. Martinez | post-doc | 2014-2016 | American Museum of Natural History |
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| Martin RP, Carr EM, Sparks JS. (2025) Does biofluorescence enhance visual signals in birds-of-paradise? Royal Society Open Science. 12: 241905 |
| Martin RP, Carr EM, Sparks JS. (2024) Variation in lanternfish (Myctophidae) photophore structure: A comprehensive comparative analysis. Plos One. 19: e0310976 |
| Sparks JS, Smith WL. (2021) Phylogeny and biogeography of cichlid fishes (Teleostei: Perciformes: Cichlidae). Cladistics : the International Journal of the Willi Hennig Society. 20: 501-517 |
| Sparks JS, Chakrabarty P. (2019) Description of a New Species of Ponyfish (Teleostei: Leiognathidae: Equulitini: Photolateralis) from the Gulf of Oman American Museum Novitates. 2019: 1 |
| Martinez CM, Kao BH, Sparks JS, et al. (2019) Pectoral Dimorphism Is a Pervasive Feature of Skate Diversity and Offers Insight into their Evolution Integrative Organismal Biology. 1 |
| Kuang T, Tornabene L, Li J, et al. (2018) Phylogenomic analysis on the exceptionally diverse fish clade Gobioidei (Actinopterygii: Gobiiformes) and data-filtering based on molecular clocklikeness. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution |
| Gruber DF, Phillips BT, Marsh L, et al. (2018) In situ Observations of the Meso-Bathypelagic Scyphozoan,Deepstaria enigmatica(Semaeostomeae: Ulmaridae) American Museum Novitates. 3900: 1-14 |
| Martinez CM, Sparks JS. (2017) Malagasy cichlids differentially limit impacts of body shape evolution on oral jaw functional morphology. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution |
| Davis MP, Sparks JS, Smith WL. (2016) Repeated and Widespread Evolution of Bioluminescence in Marine Fishes. Plos One. 11: e0155154 |
| Gruber DF, Loew ER, Deheyn DD, et al. (2016) Biofluorescence in Catsharks (Scyliorhinidae): Fundamental Description and Relevance for Elasmobranch Visual Ecology. Scientific Reports. 6: 24751 |