Summer 2023 field season in Alaska
Field crews unite! The Alaska Behaviour Axis convened with teams led by Matt Wund, Mike Bell and Ripan Malhi in Kenai, Alaska. There was cake.
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Damaris Miranda and Tara Pavithran present at the Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Damaris was supervised by Kevin Neumann and Tara by Meghan Maciejewski. They did a great job!
A very successful retreat for the Alaska project. We are thrilled to be a part of the “greatest eco-evo experiment ever” and had a great time!
The behaviour axis, including (from left) Alexis Heckley, Chad Brock, Rionach McCarthy, Alison Bell, Tina Barbasch, Kiyoko Gotanda, Kevin Neumann, Allison Roth, Eric Neumann and Brendan Byrd Kevin Neumann presenting findings from summer 2022 Tina Barbasch presenting at the retreat Eric Arredondo shows results from summer 2022 and plans for 2023
Meta-analysis on predator-induced transgenerational plasticity in animals
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 …
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Evidence that behavioral flexibility and boldness go hand in hand when animals disperse into and adapt to new environments
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 …
Alison presents a plenary at the stickleback conference in Iceland
It was an incredible meeting in a beautiful setting!
New paper on vertical transmission of horizontally acquired cues
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 Dan presents at the Animal Behavior Society Conference in Costa Rica
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.