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Differences in behavior and physiology can arise and change because of variation in life history strategies or differences in discrete polymorphisms. These differences can result from the indirect effects of predation, or responses to...
Monitoring Movement Patterns of Juvenile Smalltooth Sawfish (Pristis Pectinata) Using Acoustic Monitoring and Tracking in a Nursery Habitat in Southwest Florida
Habitat use studies can be used to both investigate ecological and behavioral patterns of animals as well as provide a useful management tool for conservation planners. However, essential habitat can be difficult to determine for highly...
Ecosystem engineers can have complex effects on communities through a variety of direct and indirect pathways. Describing these effects is a necessary step in understanding and predicting the effects of engineer species. Red Grouper ...
Understanding how environmental forces, genetic variation, and developmental process combine to mold adaptations remains a core challenge in evolutionary biology. Our research is answering this challenge. More specifically we focused on...
Chemical signals are important for social communication in many rodent species. Detection and processing of these chemosignals is necessary for the production of reproductive and defensive behaviors that are important for species...
When the two sexes maximize their fitness in different ways, a sexual conflict emerges, in which traits favored in one sex are not favored in the other (Parker 1979, Arnqvist and Rowe 2005). Under interlocus sexual conflict, a type of...
Parrotfishes are nominal herbivores whose grazing is considered an important top-down control on benthic coral reef communities, maintaining cropped reef substrates that are conducive to the settlement and recruitment of coral larvae. As...
Visual communication plays an important role in the evolution of organisms, as selection processes often rely on the organism's physical appearance. For example, mate choice—often by females selecting the most attractive males—can lead...
Understanding the maintenance of phenotypic variation within populations has long been a puzzle in evolutionary biology. Many models ignore that fact that animals are not living alone; instead social factors have the potential to alter...
Our knowledge of the reproductive dynamics of many economically important marine fish species is remarkably poor. This limits our ability to assess and manage the effects of exploitation on their reproductive potential. The Gulf Black...
Molecular Processing of the Visceral Neuraxis and Conditioned Taste Aversion: The Role of the Protein 14-3-3 and Transducer of Regulated Creb Activity (TORC) Pathway
Conditioned taste aversion learning (CTA) is a form of associative learning in which an animal learns to reject a previously palatable tastant (conditioned stimulus; CS) after conditioning with a toxic unconditioned stimulus (US) such as...
A thorough understanding of the physiology of elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays) is important from an applied aspect as most species are captured either directly or indirectly in commercial and recreational fisheries, or affected...
Indirect genetic effects (IGEs) on traits are present if variation in the social environment provided by others is at least partially due to genetic variation among those individuals. IGEs can result from a variety of interactions...
Eusocial insect societies are analogous to organisms in that the demography, development and regulation of workers within are shaped by selection acting on whole colony characteristics. Just as relative investment varies across the...
A long-standing paradox in evolutionary biology is the maintenance of genetic variation in traits that are strongly tied to fitness. How is it that variation can be maintained in ecologically important traits when directional selection...
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