Sentences with phrase «of ecology and evolutionary biology»

Mark Hunter is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan, and he joined us today.

It was bigger than we anticipated,» said paper co-author Jed Sparks, Cornell professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Alan R. Townsend -LRB-[email protected]-RRB- is professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

«Our lack of effective policies can be attributed, in part, to a lack of good on - farm data about what's happening with nutrient input and loss over time,» said a co-author, Alan Townsend, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado - Boulder.

Dr. Marc Bekoff — professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and co-founder (with primatologist Jane Goodall) of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — argues that the same brain mechanisms that control moral behavior in humans also control such behavior in other mammals.

Atsushi Nakabachi, a postdoctoral research associate in UA's department of ecology and evolutionary biology and a visiting scientist at RIKEN in Wako, Japan, is the first author on the research report, «The 160 - kilobase genome of the bacterial endosymbiont Carsonella.»

If current trends continue, 20 percent of all lizard species could go extinct by 2080, according to Barry Sinervo, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

«Every day human beings make choices among multiple options in how to respond to various social situations,» says lead author of the current study Sergey Gavrilets, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in a statement.

The study's co-authors are William Platt, professor of biology at Louisiana State University, and Louis Gross, director of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee.

Separate research by Daniel Rubenstein, a Princeton University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a co-author of the Open Science paper, and Princeton undergraduate Damaris Iriondo strongly suggests that boldly striped zebras have external body temperatures about five degrees Fahrenheit cooler than other animals of the same size — like antelopes — that do not have stripes but live in the same areas.

The research was a collaboration among Lynch Alfaro; Michael Alfaro, a UCLA associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; and an international team of primatologists.

Larison, a researcher in UCLA's department of ecology and evolutionary biology and the study's lead author, and her colleagues examined the plains zebra, which is the most common of three zebra species and has a wide variety of stripe patterns.

«Biodiversity conservation has mostly focused on species, but some species may offer much more critical or unique functions or evolutionary heritage than others — something current conservation planning does not readily address,» said Walter Jetz, a Yale associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and director of the Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change.

«Our findings were quite surprising because females typically just select sperm from males of their own species during fertilization, an action that does not lead to long - term consequences because there is no gene flow between the species,» said Asher Cutter, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto.

A multitude of interacting factors are driving the increase in Lyme disease cases, but their relative importance remains unclear, according to Marm Kilpatrick, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

«Our results indicate that when animals respond to each other's vocalizations, they are in fact also working on maintaining their social bonds,» said Kulahci, who worked with her co-authors and doctoral advisers Asif Ghazanfar, a professor of psychology and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and Daniel Rubenstein, the Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

«Greg Zolnerowich, professor of entomology, and Doug Goodin, professor of geography, were extremely helpful in providing data for our models, and Townsend Peterson, university distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU, provided much valuable help by sharing his years of experience in using such models to realistically predict species distributions,» Raghavan said.

Only 39 of these viral populations were similar to previously known viruses, said Matthew Sullivan, a senior author on one of the Tara papers and an associated professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.

Our goal is to focus less on measuring things dying and more on finding solutions,» said senior author Drew Harvell, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

Data and analytical tools were provided by Adam Pellegrini, a Princeton graduate student of ecology and evolutionary biology; Lawren Sack and Megan Bartlett, a professor and graduate student, respectively, of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California - Los Angeles; Brendan Choat, a senior lecturer at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University in Australia and Steven Jansen, professor of botany at Ulm University in Germany.

«It's a real surprise,» says Jeff Powell, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University in Connecticut, US.

The species are important for both ecological and economic reasons, according to Eric Palkovacs, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and first author of the paper.

It's a really difficult problem to solve, and not just in biology,» said coauthor John Thompson, distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Earlier surveys incorrectly labelled ancient savannas as newly deforested regions, said A. Carla Staver, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior author of the study.

Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

Previous work by coauthor Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, had shown that the bison populations north and south of the ice sheets were genetically distinct by the time the corridor opened.

«This is a remarkable case of extreme degeneration of an animal body plan,» said Paulyn Cartwright, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU and principal investigator on the research project.

«More social marmots are less likely to survive over the winter, and they live shorter lives, on average,» said lead author Daniel Blumstein, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

«So many bacteria are now so resistant to antibiotics,» said Pamela Yeh, the study's senior author and a UCLA assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

«The evolutionary distance between the extinct stilt - legged horses and all living horses took us by surprise, but it presented us with an exciting opportunity to name a new genus of horse,» said senior author Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

The biologists are gaining a deep understanding of why certain groups of three antibiotics interact well together, and others don't, said Van Savage, a co-author of the paper and a UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of biomathematics.

The lead authors are Clare Marsden, a UCLA assistant project scientist in Lohmueller's research group, and Diego Ortega - Del Vecchyo, a UCLA graduate student in Lohmueller's research group; co-authors include Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College.

«Cholera is sort of a poster child for a climate variability - sensitive disease,» said Aaron King, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of mathematics at the University of Michigan.

According to said Pamela Yeh, the paper's senior author and a UCLA assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, the success rate might have been even greater if the researchers tested higher doses of the drugs.

«People tend to think that you don't need to understand interactions beyond pairs,» said Van Savage, a co-author of the paper and a UCLA associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of biomathematics.

«We were able to show clever lemurs — some of our earliest primate relatives — increasing their social centrality as the result of their problem - solving,» said Daniel Rubenstein, Princeton's Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and the lead author on the April 5 paper in the journal Current Biology.

I met a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology a few weeks ago who told me he Batmanned as the lead singer of a punk band, a career he's maintained alongside science for decades.

«It makes sense, because the coast is a much more complicated environment, whereas the open ocean is more homogeneous and the features are more spread out in space and time,» said coauthor Daniel Costa, a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Degree routes are determined by student interest, although the majority of students complete formal degrees through the department of ecology and evolutionary biology or the mathematics department.

«It's mostly a matter of not dying,» Stephen Ellner, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University, said with a wry smile.

Marc Bekoff is an emeritus professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

«As we move from the temperature we're at to warmer temperatures, it could be a smooth line or temperature change could be bouncing all around,» said Sax, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown.

«We found that instead of recent wolves being closest to domestic dogs, ancient European wolves were directly related to them,» said Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in UCLA's College of Letters and Science and senior author of the research.

Not exact matches

His work focuses on applying principles of evolutionary biology and ecology to the study of cancer.

Despite their diverse backgrounds, all our students are required to take a 2 - year course sequence of mathematical ecology, a one - semester course on mathematical evolutionary theory, and a mathematical biology seminar that meets each Fall and Spring semester.

Richard Prum is a professor of ornithology, ecology and evolutionary biology and head curator of vertebrate zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

I entered graduate school with a background in anthropology and biology, joining the world - renowned department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University to pursue a PhD in great ape behavioral ecology.

says Glen MacDonald, a professor of geography, ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA.