Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, Conservation
Tobler Lab at the University of Missouri—St. Louis
Rudy Riesch took the lead on a nice study of life history traits in sulfide spring fishes. Using a broad taxon sampling, the analyses indicate largely convergent patterns of evolution upon sulfide spring colonization. The paper is now online at…
A long time in the making, Reid Morehouse’s first dissertation chapter finally hit the printing press at Zootaxa (see here). The paper includes a general review of the crayfish fauna of Oklahoma along with a new, illustrated key and distributional...
On last year’s Mexico trip, we rediscovered a small fish species (Poecilia thermalis) that has not been collected since its first discovery in 1848. The species is a sulfide spring inhabitant, and its investigation has shed some new light onto the...
Garret Hopper, previously a reliable force in the lab as a technician, decided to stay at OSU to pursue a M.S. degree. Garrett received his Bachelor’s degree in OSU’s Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. He is interested in...
Together with the Oklahoma Aquarium Association, we are organizing an open house in our fish facilities in OSU’s Department of Zoology. We will offer tours through our fishrooms, short presentation about research projects in our lab, and general adivse on...
Brandon Bassett successfully finished his summer internship through the Center of Veterinary Health Sciences Summer Research Training Program. Brandon not only established a method to expose sulfidic and non-sulfidic populations of mollies to H2S, but simultaneously kick-started a collaboration with...
Danielle Alba has received the Southwestern Association of Naturalist’s Howard McCarley Student Research Award for 2013. The award is granted to support students in higher education researching biota of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America and is given...
Our undergraduates Cierra Keith and Ryan Greenway have received support for their research. Cierra Keith, currently a Freshman Research Scholar at OSU, has received a Virginia Richmond Scholarship and a Hunter Stone Endowed Scholarship through the College of Arts and Science as well...