Behavioral & Sexual Plasticity Teams
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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!)
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!)
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.
Exploring 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
Exploring the effects of early-life environmental complexity on learning and problem-solving abilities
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
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
Investigating whether salinity drives the development of divergent trajectories for aggressive behavior and arginine vasotocin signaling
Localizing AVT in the Brain Team:
Quantifying Aggressive Behavior Team:

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