Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
Spring 2023
Abstract
Why Blackspotted Stickleback?
How Behaviors Evolve Comparing closely related species can give insights into how behavior evolves.
Well studied: Three-spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
- Model organism for natural variation in behavioral evolution 1.
- Divergence in parental care in two ecotypes1,2.
- White and common ecotypes recently diverged 2.
Lesser studied: Blackspotted Stickleback (Gasterosteus wheatlandi)
- Three-spined’s closest living relative.
- Possible behavioral intermediate of commons & whites.
- Blackspotted egg dispersal is similar to white three-spined 3.
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Recommended Citation
Constant, Cassidy; Tucker, Megan; Behrens, Colby; and Bell, Alison M., "Revisiting the Reproductive Behaviors of Blackspotted Stickleback" (2023). PRECS student projects. 108.
https://spark.parkland.edu/precs_student/108
Comments
Research featured in this poster has been conducted with the cooperation of the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior and the Carl R. Woese Intitute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.