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Integrative Behavioural Ecology of Mating |
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We seek to understand reciprocal effects of ecological and social factors on reproductive tactics, life history decisions, physiological performance, and sexual selection. One recent focus is exploring how these processes shape divergence in phenotypic traits related to mating in geographically separated populations. Our work includes laboratory and field studies of invertebrates, and our primary study organisms are the black widow spiders (genus Latrodectus). |
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October 2009 Jeff Stoltz’s most recent paper is featured at NatureNews, as a ’Research Highlight’ in Nature.2009. 461: 1177 (pdf) and an interview on CBC radio’s Quirks & Quarks (mp3). See Abstract: Proceedings of the Royal Society
Congratulations to new PhD student Janice Ting who has been awarded a L’oreal-UNESCO national fellowship
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Stoltz, J. A. & Andrade, M. C. B. 2009. Female‘s courtship threshold allows intruding males to mate with reduced effort. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B advance online publication doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.1554.
Kasumovic, MM, Bruce, MJ, Herberstein, ME & Andrade, MCB. 2009. Evidence for developmental plasticity in response to demographic variation in nature. Ecology. 90: 2287-2296.
Kasumovic, MM & Andrade, MCB. 2009. A change in competitive context reverses sexual selection on male size. J. Evolutionary Biology. 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2008.01648.x (related popular press coverage)
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