Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, Conservation
Tobler Lab at the University of Missouri—St. Louis
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 is interested in molecular genetics and evolutionary ecology, with an…
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 Applied Ecology and Ecotoxicology. For her visit, she received a...
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 humorous piece: Religious Fish: Jesus fish, Darwin fish, or both?!? 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. Among other things, this grant will provide research opportunities for...
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 fish in Southern Mexico. The study is available online in...
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 News, MSNBC, and other media outlets.
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 pictures from some of our recent field trips: Poecilia sulphuraria...
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 NPR’s “Wait wait… don’t tell me”, not only because they...