Hybrid Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, November 15, 2024
Jonathan Losos, Ph.D.
Director, Living Earth Collaborative, William H. Danforth Distinguished University Professor, Department of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis
Using Experiments in Nature to Study Evolution in Real Time: Research on Lizard Adaptation in the Bahamas
Recommended Readings:
HHMI biointeractive. “Anole lizards and speciation.” YouTube (2024)
Lapiedra, Oriol, et al. “Predator‐driven behavioural shifts in a common lizard shape resource‐flow from marine to terrestrial ecosystems.” Ecology Letters 27.1 (2024): e14335.
Stroud, James T., et al. “Signal size allometry in Anolis lizard dewlaps.” Biology Letters 19.7 (2023): 20230160.
Kolbe, Jason J., et al. “Experimentally simulating the evolution-to-ecology connection: Divergent predator morphologies alter natural food webs.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 120.24 (2023): e2221691120.
Pita‐Aquino, Jessica N., et al. “Stronger evidence for genetic ancestry than environmental conditions in shaping the evolution of a complex signalling trait during biological invasion.” Molecular Ecology 32.20 (2023): 5558-5574.
Thurman, Timothy J., et al. “The difficulty of predicting evolutionary change in response to novel ecological interactions: a field experiment with Anolis lizards.” The American Naturalist 201.4 (2023): 537-556.
