Nathan R. Lovejoy
Professor
Campus
UTSC
CSB Appointment
Full
Research Areas
Animal Biology, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics / Genomics
Education
Ph.D. Cornell University 1999
M.Sc. University of Toronto 1993
B.Sc. University of Toronto 1991
Primary Undergraduate Department
Biological Sciences, UTSC
Graduate Programs
Cell & Systems Biology
Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Environmental Science
Academic or Administrative Appointments
Associate Chair, Undergraduate, Department of Biological Sciences, UTSC
Research Associate, ROM
Research Description
I am interested in the relationship between naturally occurring genomic variation and animal function. Current research focuses on the evolution of genes involved in electric signal production in Amazonian fishes.
Contact Information
Office Phone: 416-208-4823
Office: SW433
Lab: S331A
Lab Phone: 416-208-7372
Email
Mailing Address
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Toronto Scarborough
1265 Military Trail
Toronto, ON M1C 1A4
Canada
Recent News
Publications
2021
Recreated Ancestral Opsin Associated with Marine to Freshwater Croaker Invasion Reveals Kinetic and Spectral Adaptation
Van Nynatten A, Castiglione GM, de A. Gutierrez E, Lovejoy NR, Chang BSW
2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution, 10.1093/molbev/msab008
2014
Molecular evolution of GPCRs: CRH/CRH receptors
Lovejoy DA, Chang BS, Lovejoy NR, del Castillo J
2014, Journal of molecular endocrinology, 52, T43-60, 24711645
The evolutionary origins of diadromy inferred from a time-calibrated phylogeny for Clupeiformes (herring and allies)
Bloom DD, Lovejoy NR
2014, Proceedings. Biological sciences / The Royal Society, 281, 20132081, 24430843
2013
Proximate and ultimate causes of signal diversity in the electric fish Gymnotus
Crampton WG, Rodríguez-Cattáneo A, Lovejoy NR, Caputi AA
2013, The Journal of experimental biology, 216, 2523-41, 23761477
Do freshwater fishes diversify faster than marine fishes? A test using state-dependent diversification analyses and molecular phylogenetics of new world silversides (atherinopsidae)
Bloom DD, Weir JT, Piller KR, Lovejoy NR
2013, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 67, 2040-57, 23815658
Paleo-drainage basin connectivity predicts evolutionary relationships across three Southeast Asian biodiversity hotspots
de Bruyn M, Rüber L, Nylinder S, Stelbrink B, Lovejoy NR, Lavoué S, Tan HH, Nugroho E, Wowor D, Ng PK, Siti Azizah MN, Von Rintelen T, Hall R, Carvalho GR
2013, Systematic biology, 62, 398-410, 23391942
2012
Molecular phylogenetics reveals a pattern of biome conservatism in New World anchovies (family Engraulidae)
Bloom DD, Lovejoy NR
2012, Journal of evolutionary biology, 25, 701-15, 22300535
2011
It’s a family matter: molecular phylogenetics of Atheriniformes and the polyphyly of the surf silversides (family: Notocheiridae)
Bloom DD, Unmack PJ, Gosztonyi AE, Piller KR, Lovejoy NR
2012, Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 62, 1025-30, 22178919
Reproductive character displacement and signal ontogeny in a sympatric assemblage of electric fish
Crampton WG, Lovejoy NR, Waddell JC
2011, Evolution; international journal of organic evolution, 65, 1650-66, 21644955
2010
The Casiquiare river acts as a corridor between the Amazonas and Orinoco river basins: biogeographic analysis of the genus Cichla
Willis SC, Nunes M, Montaña CG, Farias IP, Ortí G, Lovejoy NR
2010, Molecular ecology, 19, 1014-30, 20149086
2009
Phylogeny, biogeography, and electric signal evolution of Neotropical knifefishes of the genus Gymnotus (Osteichthyes: Gymnotidae)
Lovejoy NR, Lester K, Crampton WG, Marques FP, Albert JS
2010, Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 54, 278-90, 19761855
Parasites of the deepwater sculpin (Myoxocephalus thompsonii) across its Canadian range
Carney JP, Sheldon TA, Lovejoy NR
2009, The Journal of parasitology, 95, 1209-12, 19382824
2008
Multivariate classification of animal communication signals: a simulation-based comparison of alternative signal processing procedures using electric fishes
Crampton WG, Davis JK, Lovejoy NR, Pensky M
2008, Journal of physiology, Paris, 102, 304-21, 18984042
2006
Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of the Neotropical peacock basses Cichla (Perciformes: Cichlidae)
Willis SC, Nunes MS, Montaña CG, Farias IP, Lovejoy NR
2007, Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 44, 291-307, 17275345