In a paper recently published in the American Economic Review, “Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?” P. Azoulay and coauthors examine the effects of scientific luminaries on the publication rates of their peers and junior colleagues. It is, perhaps, a reminder of the importance of open-mindedness to scientific advancement. Azoulay, P., Fons-Rosen, C., Read More …
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Behaviour before beauty: Signal weighting during mate selection in the butterfly Papilio polytes. Male Papilio polytes, an Asian swallowtail butterfly with female-limited polymorphism and Batesian mimicry, have context dependent mate preferences. In collaboration with Augustana University, SD, the University of Chicago, IL, and Butterfly House and Aquarium, SD, we show that males prefer to court Read More …
Many congratulations to PhD student Sushant Potdar for his excellent talk on the effects of elevation and time of day on the behavior of montane butterflies in the Western Himalayas.
We had a wonderful time at the Arkansas Entomological Society Annual Meeting at the Janet Huckabee River Valley Nature Center, Feb 16, 2019th! Congratulations graduate students Grace Hirzel, Matt Murphy, and Sushant Potdar on their talks, and undergraduates Brandon Allen and Colman Betler on their poster!
A new paper identifying loci for assortative mating in Heliconius melpomene and Heliconius cydno, Genetic dissection of assortative mating, was published in PLoS Biology by Merrill et al. today. Check it out here , as well as my primer for their paper, Searching for the genes driving assortative mating. Many thanks to graduate student Matt Murphy Read More …
Senior Brandon Allen received a SURF grant for his research on butterfly brain development. Senior Jacob Siebenmorgen received a Honors College Research grant for his research on male reproductive resource allocation plasticity; and junior Gabby Agcaoili received a Honors College Research grant for her research on sexual dimorphism in learning. Congratulations to all three for Read More …
Check out Research: United States National Postdoc Survey results and the interaction of gender, career choice, and mentor impact, published here.
Postdoc Dr. Dave Ernst comes to the Integrative Animal Behavior Lab from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he used transcriptomics and behavioral ecology to study magnetoreception in spiny lobsters. He is looking forward to honing his genomics techniques while studying behavioral genetics and developmental plasticity in tropical butterflies at UARK.
Sushant Potdar comes to the Integrative Animal Behavior Lab from Bangalore India, after completing a MSc at TERI School of Advanced Studies in New Dehli, and working as a project assistant at the National Centre for Biological Sciences in Bangalore. He has lots of experience conducting field work with butterflies in the Himalayas, and is Read More …
