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Dr. Sam Borstein

  • Assistant Professor at Biology, College of Science & Engineering

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Borstein, S. R. (2025, January 23). dietr: Calculates trophic levels from volumetric diet and food item data. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/package=dietr
  • Borstein, S. R. (2025, January 12). dietr: Calculates trophic levels from volumetric diet and food item data. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/package=dietr

2024

  • Borstein, S. R., Hammer, M. P., O’Meara, B. C., & McGee, M. D. (2024). The macroevolutionary dynamics of pharyngognathy in fishes fail to support the key innovation hypothesis. Nature Communications, 15, 10325.
  • Borstein, S. R. (2024, September 16). dietr: Calculates trophic levels from volumetric diet and food item data. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/package=dietr
  • Martinez, C. M., Korn, C. A., Williamson, S., Satterfield, D., Roberts-Hugghis, A. S., Barley, A., … Wainwright, P. C. (2024). Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations. The American Naturalist, 204(3), 242–257. https://doi.org/10.1086/731477
  • Blackburn, D. C., Boyer, D. M., Gray, J. A., Winchester, J., Bates, J. M., Baumgart, S. L., … Stanley, E. L. (2024). Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D-imaging: the openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network. BioScience, 74(3), 169–186. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biad120

2023

  • Kolmann, M. A., Nagesan, R. S., Andrews, J. V., Borstein, S. R., Figueroa, R. T., Singer, R., … Lopez-Fernandez, H. (2023). DiceCT for Fishes: Recommendations for pairing iodine contrast agents with μCT to visualize soft tissues in fishes. Journal of Fish Biology, 102(4), 893–903. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15320

2022

  • Coronado‐Franco, K. V., Tedesco, P. A., Kolmann, M. A., Borstein, S. R., Evans, K. O., & Correa, S. B. (2022). Feeding habits influence species habitat associations at the landscape scale in a diverse clade of Neotropical fishes. Journal of Biogeography, 49(12), 2181–2192. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14490
  • Borstein, S. R., Lucanus, O., Gajapersad, K., Singer, R. A., Mol, J., & Lopez-Fernandez, H. (2022). Fish Diversity of the Upper Tapanahony River, Suriname. Misc Publ Mus Zool Univ Michigan, 211, 1–19.

2021

  • Borstein, S. R. (2021, December 14). dietr: Calculates trophic levels from volumetric diet and food item data. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/package=dietr
  • Borstein, S. R. (2021, March 12). dietr: Calculates trophic levels from volumetric diet and food item data. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/package=dietr

2020

  • Borstein, S. R. (2020). dietr: an R package for calculating fractional trophic levels from quantitative and qualitative diet data. Hydrobiologia, 847, 4285–4294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04417-5
  • McGee, M. D., Borstein, S. R., Meier, J. I., Marques, D. A., Mwaiko, S., Taabu, A., … Seehausen, O. (2020). The ecological and genomic basis of explosive adaptive radiation. Nature, 586, 75–79. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2652-7
  • Mueller, L. O., Borstein, S. R., Tague, E. D., Dearth, S. P., Castro, H. F., Campagna, S. R., … Schweitzer, J. A. (2020). Populations of Populus angustifolia have evolved distinct metabolic profiles that influence their surrounding soil. Plant and Soil, 448, 399–411. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-04405-2
  • Borstein, S. R., & O’Meara, B. C. (2020, September 24). AnnotationBustR: Extract Subsequences from GenBank Annotations. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/AnnotationBustR/index.html
  • Borstein, S. R. (2020, July 18). dietr: Calculates trophic levels from volumetric diet and food item data. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/package=dietr

2019

  • Borstein, S. R., Fordyce, J. A., O’Meara, B. C., Wainwright, P. C., & McGee, M. D. (2019). Reef fish functional traits evolve fastest at trophic extremes. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 3(2), 191–199. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0725-x
  • Borstein, S. R. (2019, November 13). dietr: Calculates trophic levels from volumetric diet and food item data. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/package=dietr

2018

  • Borstein, S. R., & O’Meara, B. C. (2018). AnnotationBustR: an R package to extract subsequences from GenBank annotations. PeerJ, 6, e5179. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5179
  • Martinez, C. M., McGee, M. D., Borstein, S. R., & Wainwright, P. C. (2018). Feeding ecology underlies the evolution of cichlid jaw mobility. Evolution, 72(8), 1645–1655. https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.13518
  • Borstein, S. R., & O’Meara, B. C. (2018, April 10). AnnotationBustR: Extract Subsequences from GenBank Annotations. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/AnnotationBustR/index.html

2017

  • Borstein, S. R., & O’Meara, B. C. (2017, September 1). AnnotationBustR: Extract Subsequences from GenBank Annotations. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/AnnotationBustR/index.html
  • Borstein, S. R., & O’Meara, B. C. (2017, March 2). AnnotationBustR: Extract Subsequences from GenBank Annotations. Retrieved from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/AnnotationBustR/index.html

2016

  • McGee, M. D., Faircloth, B. C., Borstein, S. R., Zheng, J., Hulsey, C. D., Wainwright, P. C., & Alfaro, M. E. (2016). Replicated divergence in cichlid radiations mirrors a major vertebrate innovation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283(1822), 20151413. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1413

2015

  • McGee, M. D., Borstein, S. R., Neches, R. Y., Buescher, H. H., Seehausen, O., & Wainwright, P. C. (2015). A pharyngeal jaw evolutionary innovation facilitated extinction in Lake Victoria cichlids. Science, 350(6264), 1077–1079. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aab0800