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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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January 2010 Welcome to Luciana Baruffaldi, a newly minted MSc from Fernando Costa and Andres Gonzalez’s labs in Uruguay. Luciana will be collaborating on various research projects for the next 3 months.
October 2009
Jeff Stoltz’s most recent paper, selected as a cover feature by Proceedings of the Royal Society, 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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M.M. Kasumovic, D.O. Eliasc, S. Sivalinghem, A.C. Masona & M.C.B. Andrade. 2010. Examination of prior contest experience and the retention of winner and loser effects. Behavioral Ecology. doi:10.1093/beheco/arp204.
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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