Category: News

A science blog picked up on our recent Evolution paper on adaptation in sulfide spring fish. The author makes an interesting point highlighting the toxicity of hydrogen sulfide: this toxic...

We received a State Wildlife Grant from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. The three year grant will allow us to reevaluate the status and distribution of over a dozen...

Courtney Passow will be joining our lab to pursue a Ph. D. degree at OSU. Courtney received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Texas A&M University in College Station. She...

Isabelle Gemmer from the University of Landau (Germany) will be joining the lab for three months during summer 2011. Isabelle is studying Environmental Sciences and has a particular interest in...

Our recent Biology Letter on the effects of a religious ceremony on toxin resistance in cave mollies was picked up by Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science with this...

We received a Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award from Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) that will allow us to study metabolic rates and transcriptomes in poeciliids inhabiting sulfide springs....

Thanks to the effort of various collaborators working on field collections and experiment, morphological and phylogenetic analyses, we finally published a comprehensive study on the convergent evolution of sulfide spring...

Our recent paper on the effects of a Zoque ceremony on cave fish has been published online in Biology Letters. Check out the coverage the study got by Livescience.com, Fox...

Along with most other species appearing on the IUCN list of endangered species, southern Mexico’s two endemic sulfur spring fish are featured on ARKive.org. Check out the the profiles with...

After reading about our recent paper on mustache-like structures on the upper lip of Poecilia sphenops, the world press celebrated mustaches à la Burt Reynolds. My favorite homage came from...