Behavioral & Sexual Plasticity Teams
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Embryonic Social Environment Team:
Exploring genotypic, environmental, and GxE effects on the development of the multivariate phenotype (behavior, morphology, life history traits) in response to embryonic social environment.
How Persistent is Plasticity?
Exploring the persistence of genotypic, environmental, and GxE effects on the development of the multivariate phenotype (behavior, morphology, life history traits) in response to embryonic social environment.
Plasticity of Learning & Problem-Solving:
Exploring the effects of early-life environmental complexity on learning and problem-solving abilities
Stress & Psychopathic Behavior Team:
Testing the Adaptive Calibration Model & whether early-life stress irreversibly alters brain/behavior.
* Collaboration with Dr. Andrea Glenn (UA, Department of Psychology) & Dr. Patrick Ronan (University of South Dakota)
Early Life Stress & Feeding Behavior Team:
Investigating whether exposure to stress early in life alters feeding behavior; exploring rivulus as a model for eating disorders 
Salinity-Induced Behavioral and Neurobiological Plasticity Team:
Investigating whether salinity drives the development of divergent trajectories for aggressive behavior and arginine vasotocin signaling 
Sex Ratio & Life History Team:
Exploring whether sex ratio (hermaphrodites : males) correlates with life history variation in wild Belizean populations of mangrove rivulus
* Collaboration with Kristy Marson (former graduate student and professional animal breeder!)
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