Title

Revisiting the Reproductive Behaviors of Blackspotted Stickleback

Authors

Cassidy Constant, Lincoln Land Community College
Megan Tucker, Parkland College
Colby Behrens, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alison M. Bell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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.

Rights

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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.

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