Graduate student Eva Fischer is the lead author on a paper demonstrating evolution of the cortisol system and developmental plasticity in cortisol release in guppies.
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Our primary goal is to understand the processes that shape evolutionary trajectories. We focus on the mechanisms of convergent evolution of behavioral and morphological traits. We link molecular, neural, and developmental mechanisms to their consequences for organismal phenotypes, and we investigate the neural and hormonal mechanisms of context- or experience-dependent changes in behavior.
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