Research interests also include:
- Endocrine and metabolic correlates of performance in aggressive contests.
- Neuroendocrine mechanisms of experience-dependent changes in behavior.
- Assessment strategies employed by animals during aggressive contests.
- Social eavesdropping, audience effects, and winner-loser effects.
- Adaptive value of carotenoid-based color and mechanisms underlying flexible expression.
- Developmental plasticity and adult phenotypic flexibility of life history, endocrine, and behavioral traits
- Gene x environment interactions and the evolution of integrated phenotypes.
- Social, endocrine, and genomic mechanisms of environmental sex determination and sex change.
- Seasonal and diurnal fluctuations in steroid hormone concentrations.
- Parasites as drivers of behavioral variation; evolutionary implications
- Non-invasive hormone sampling in fishes and amphibians.
Expertise:
- Computational and Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics
- Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Conservation Biology
- Integrative Organismal Biology
We investigate the neurobiological, hormonal, genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying the expression of diverse phenotypes, mostly those that arise through environment-genotype interactions.
