Students in my lab examine aspects of speciation from the perspective of geographic variation in behavior in vertebrate systems. Most of our research focuses on a unisexual-bisexual species complex of mollies consisting of the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), an all female gynogentic fish that arose from a mating event between a sailfin molly (Poecilia latipinna) and an Atlantic molly (Poecilia mexicana) ~ 100,000 years ago.

Additionally, my lab has been examining predator prey dynamics and the effects of introduced predators in federally threatened and endangered aquatic salamanders Eurycea nana and E. sosorum. We have also started working with the effects of turbidity on foraging and predator response in the federally endangered fountain darters, Etheostoma fonticola. 

 

Lab News 2012:

Congratulations to Maria Thaker on her job as an Assistant Professor at the Center for Ecological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science

Congratulations to Jenny Gumm on her job as an Assistant Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University

 

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Courses I teach: Organismal Biology (1331) , Behavioral Ecology (7367), and Evolutionary Ecology (7336).

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