We originally thought that daughters would listen to their moms, and sons would listen to their fathers. Turns out it’s a lot more complicated! See here for the press release.
It was so much fun to work with my PhD advisor Judy Stamps on this new paper just published in Oecologia! Inspired by Laura Stein’s study showing nonadditive effects of personal and paternal information, we wanted to know how the reliability of cues influences our expectations about how an individual should prioritize and integrate cues …
Under challenging circumstances, a committed team of safety-conscious and Covid-aware workers carried out several behavior projects this summer, primarily focused on studying divergence in parental care behavior between whites and commons. The summer 2020 experimental season was remarkably successful, thanks to Colby Behrens (bottom right) who led the team, assisted by capable Katie Julkowski (lab …
Miles’ newest paper was published in Animal Cognition this month. Miles found that individual differences in behavior were predictive of how well stickleback performed on a reversal learning task, and that these patterns of correlation suggest there are cognitive trade-off between how individuals cope with environmental change/stressors (i.e., coping styles). Proactive individuals that were more …
Chloé Monestier’s paper on personality trait development in female sticklebacks was just published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B. Early life experience is often thought to be the most important time for personality trait development. But in this paper, Chloé shows that personality traits can continue to change throughout the life …
Personality traits change after an opportunity to mate Read More »
Congratulations to Noelle James for successfully defending her PhD thesis in Neuroscience! Noelle’s thesis is titled, “A multi pronged approach to understanding how genes contribute to social behavior in threespine sticklebacks”.
Congratulations to Colby Behrens for winning Students’ Choice, Faculty Choice and Best Overall at the annual GEEB symposium. Colby showed that sticklebacks from a population that does not provide care produce larger clutch sizes, smaller eggs, embryos that develop faster and are more bold as fry relative to sticklebacks from a sympatric caring population. Turns …
Jenn Hellmann and Sarah Donelan took the lead on writing this new paper with a team of collaborators; the synthesis provides a framework for understanding the significance of transgenerational plasticity in human-altered environments .
Abbas’ paper on the neurogenomic dynamics of fatherhood was published in Nature Communications! For an associated blog post with musings about its implications for “anthropo-arrogance” and sexism click here.
