Red poultry mites.........
17/11/15 23:40
Stew gave an invited seminar on mite population dynamics to a European COREMI workshop on “Improving current understanding and research for sustainable control of the poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae” in Montpelier, France.
Welcome MRes student - Megan Hasoon
17/11/15 23:34
Megan is going to be attempting to develop a high-throughput Daphnia development assay that she will then use to try and correlate developmental phenotypes with life-history variation. See an early attempt at assaying Daphnia development here
Welcome 2015/16 Hons students Cheong Ho Lee, Lee Meehan and Thomas Cole
17/11/15 23:30
Tom is extending our Lansing work and investigating whether non-genetic maternal age effects influence population growth rates.
Cheong Ho is investigating within population variation in the temperature tolerance of Daphnia pulex
Lee is rearing eggs in and out of mum’s to investigate whether the brood pouch environment is an important source of non-genetic phenotypic variation.
Good luck all!
New papers from the lab
17/11/15 23:29
Van Dooren, T.J.M., Hoyle, R.B., and Plaistow, S.J. (in press) Maternal effects, in Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Quantitative genetics section, ed.Jason Wolf, Elsevier Ltd, Oxford.
Plaistow, S.J., Shirley, C. Collin, H., Cornell, S.J. and Harney, E,D. (2015) Offspring provisioning explains clone specific maternal age effects on life history and lifespan in the water flea, Daphnia pulex. The American Naturalist, 186 (3), 376-389.