April 28, 2015: 'Contemporary Evolution in Threespine Stickleback from Uplifted Islands in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska'
by Michelle Saport |
Tuesday, April 28, 12-1 p.m. Fine Arts Building, Room 117
Please join the Department of Biological Sciences for the dissertation defense of UAF School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences student Emily Lescak. Emily has said of her research, "The Great Alaskan 1964 Earthquake uplifted islands in Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska, creating new freshwater habitat that was colonized by oceanic threespine stickleback. Over the last few decades, populations have evolved stereotypical freshwater phenotypes, such as reductions in body size and lateral plate number. We are using RAD genotyping and high throughput sequencing to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships among populations from this region and describe the genomic architecture that allows for rapid phenotypic differentiation in this species." To learn more about Emily, please visit her student profile on the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences website.
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