Meeting Abstract
Understanding patterns and processes underlying diversity is one of the core motivations of evolutionary biology. The order Cypriniformes is the most diverse monophyletic order of vertebrates with over 4000 species, and presents a potential model clade to study evolution. However, studying the origins of this diversity in relation to its morphological evolution and biogeography depends on a robust phylogenetic hypothesis to provide a comparative framework. Many recent studies have collected sequence data to infer phylogenetic relationships among cypriniform taxa, including phylogenomic-scale data. This has resulted in approximately 2000 species with relatively few sequenced loci, as well as relatively few taxa with hundreds of sequenced loci. We integrate phylogenetic-scale and phylogenomic-scale data to infer a time-calibrated phylogeny for the order Cypriniformes. We demonstrate the utility of this tree for comparative phylogenetic analysis by applying this phylogeny to studying diversification and body size evolution across Cypriniformes.
