Upcoming Seminars
Past Seminars
2019
2018
10-10-2018
Priyanga Amarasekare
10-03-2018
Blaire Van Valkenburgh
05-23-2018
Julianne Passarelli
02-15-2018
EcoEvoPub Lightning Talks
02-13-2018
Alejandra Rodriguez Verdugo
2017
05-31-2017
Cancelled- To Be Rescheduled
04-20-2017
Shane Campbell-Staton
03-08-2017
Elizabeth Hadly: CANCELLED
2016
11-30-2016
G. Darrel Jenerette
11-02-2016
Carlos Ruiz R-Miranda
10-19-2016
Elizabeth Heath-Heckman
10-12-2016
Sriram Sankararaman
2015
05-13-2015
Christina (Tina) Swanson
02-25-2015
Emilia Huerta-Sanchez
2014
12-10-2014
Wayne Getz [CANCELED]
05-14-2014
17th Annual Biology
05-14-2014
CANCELLED David Ackerly
02-12-2014
Jeannine Cavender-Bares
2013
11-13-2013
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
10-02-2013
Priyanga Amarasekare
05-15-2013
Biology Research Symposium
02-14-2013
--CANCELLED--EcoEvoPub Series
2012
12-05-2012
Blaire Van Valkenburgh-CANCELLED
04-24-2012
Christofer Clemente
04-24-2012
William F. Laurance
04-11-2012
Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman
2011
12-07-2011
CANCELLED Jules Jaffe
05-11-2011
Biology Research Symposium: Michael A. Bell
04-19-2011
Ecolunch: Jochen Schenk
04-14-2011
Darwin Evolving Series: Amy Parish
04-12-2011
Ecolunch: John Sperry
03-08-2011
Ecolunch: Oscar Godoy Del Olmo
03-01-2011
Ecolunch: Brant Faircloth
02-15-2011
Ecolunch: Julien Martin
02-11-2011
Lawrence (Larry) W. Harding
02-03-2011
Margaret Jean McFall-Ngai
02-01-2011
Ecolunch: Francesco Santini
01-25-2011
Ecolunch: Tom Huggins
2010
11-23-2010
EcoLunch: J. Pablo Arroyo
11-16-2010
EcoLunch: Richard Norris
11-09-2010
Ecolunch: Soren Faurby
11-02-2010
Ecolunch: Brendan Choat
10-26-2010
Ecolunch: Raquel Monclus
10-12-2010
Ecolunch: Willem Frankenhuis
Karthik Panchanathan
09-28-2010
Ecolunch: Liza Comita
09-14-2010
Ecolunch: Adam Siegel
06-30-2010
Dr. Eva Ursprung and Dr. Max Ringler
06-01-2010
Ecolunch: Daniela Cusack
05-26-2010
Michael J. Sanderson
05-18-2010
Mel (Mary Ellen) Harte
03-30-2010
Ecolunch: Malin Ah-King
03-16-2010
Ecolunch: Adam Freedman
03-09-2010
Ecolunch: Kazutoshi Sasahara
03-02-2010
Ecolunch: Nathalie Seddon
02-16-2010
Ecolunch: Alvaro Sagasti
01-19-2010
EcoLunch: Maud Ferrari
2009
12-08-2009
Ecolunch: Michael Parsons
12-07-2009
Dr. Satoshi Mitarai
12-01-2009
Ecolunch: Ryan Harrigan
11-17-2009
Ecolunch: Graham Slater
10-20-2009
Ecolunch: Peter Narins
10-07-2009
Blaire Van Valkenburgh
10-06-2009
Ecolunch: Lauri Green
09-29-2009
Ecolunch: Catalina Estrada
Seminars
February 21 2019
12:00 Hershey Hall 158
This seminar is sponsored by Division of Life Sciences
Gil Rosenthal
Department of Biology, Texas A&M University
Mate Choice and Its Consequences
Summary
Mate choice is a key determinant of individual fitness, and influences whether species diverge or fuse together. My research group, at the interface of animal behavior and evolutionary genomics, focuses on the central role of mate choice in modulating genetic exchange between lineages. Our core model system is a naturally hybridizing complex of swordtail fish \(genus Xiphophorus\) in the Sierra Madre Oriental of central Mexico. We have developed novel genomic resources, analytical tools, and the CICHAZ field station to combine experimental analyses of behavior with large-scale, long-term evolutionary-genetic studies of both wild and artificial populations. This model encourages graduate students to develop their own, synergistic research programs and is integrated with a longitudinal approach to outreach and mentoring in the US and Mexico. Graduate and undergraduate students work with local stakeholders to sponsor STEM summer camps and science counselor training for middle- to high-school students, some of whom have now gone on to become university researchers and mentors themselves. Ongoing projects in the lab seek to understand the macroevolutionary drivers of persistent hybridization between lineages\; the role of mate choice in hybrid zone evolution\; and the mechanisms whereby social learning and personality shape mating decisions and therefore their evolutionary consequences.
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