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Check out our recent paper in Oecologia on predator-induced TGP! This project was a massive collaborative effect by a great team of international colleagues, originally brought together at a Gordon Conference on predator-prey interactions. We marshaled together an extensive dataset and applied rigorous methods and found very strong evidence for predator-induced TGP. However, we ultimately …

Meta-analysis on predator-induced transgenerational plasticity in animals Read More »

Miles Bensky took advantage of a series of replicated populations of sticklebacks in Alaska that vary in time since establishment to show evidence that boldness is important for getting into new habitats, and behavioral flexibility is favored when adapting to them. The paper was just published in the American Naturalist – check it out! This …

Evidence that behavioral flexibility and boldness go hand in hand when animals disperse into and adapt to new environments Read More »

It was an incredible meeting in a beautiful setting!

Cassie Afseth, Jenn Hellmann and other lab members recently published a paper in Proc B showing that not only do stickleback attend to cues from their father, but fathers also attend to cues from their neighbors, resulting in vertical transmission of horizontally acquired cues of predation risk. The potential for simultaneous vertical and horizontal transmission …

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Usan presented some of the lab’s latest work on developing viral mediated gene transfer methods for sticklebacks at a workshop on functional tools for non-traditional organisms AND presented a poster about shoaling methods and transgenesis of arginine vasopressin.

Kaith is an undergraduate participating in the PRECs program, which provides opportunities for community college students to get experience with research. We need to figure out how to measure mate preference in whites and commons! Kaith and other members of the lab are working on it.

Congratulations to Colby for winning a Rosemary Grant Advanced Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution! The grant will support allele specific expression analyses in hybrid white x common sticklebacks.

Congratulations, Alex!