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Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, Conservation

Tobler Lab at the University of Missouri—St. Louis

  • UMSL Biology
  • Research
    • Overview
    • Data & databases
    • Fish care resources
  • Personnel
    • Current members
    • Alumnidae
    • Collaborators
    • Commitment to diversity
    • Student resources
  • Publications
    • Peer-reviewed
    • Press coverage
    • A Primer of Evolution
  • Teaching
    • A Primer of Evolution
  • SciComm
    • SciComm Resources
    • Poeciliid Fishes Virtual Forum
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Extremophile Fishes: Ecology, Evolution, Conservation
  • Research
    • Overview
    • Data & databases
    • Fish care resources
  • Personnel
    • Current members
    • Alumnidae
    • Collaborators
    • Commitment to diversity
    • Student resources
  • Publications
    • Peer-reviewed
    • Press coverage
    • A Primer of Evolution
  • Teaching
    • A Primer of Evolution
  • SciComm
    • SciComm Resources
    • Poeciliid Fishes Virtual Forum
  • Wall of fame
  • News
  • UMSL Biology

Student resources

Funding Resources for Graduate Students

Major Fellowship Programs

  • NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
  • Ford Foundation Fellowships
  • AAUW Fellowships

Smaller Research Grants

  • Animal Behavior Society (ABS)
  • American Livebearer Association (ALA)
  • American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
  • American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH)
  • American Society of Naturalists (ASN)
  • Ecological Society of America (ESA)
  • Lewis & Clark Fund (APS)
  • Sigma Xi
  • Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB)
  • Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE)
  • Southwestern Association of Naturalists (SWAN)

Internal Grants

  • K-State College of Arts and Sciences, Student Research Travel ($800 if applied >2 months before trip)
  • K-State Graduate School, Graduate Student Council Travel Awards ($500)

Funding Resources for Postdocs

  • Johns Hopkins Database

Recent papers

  • Sulfide spring fish microbiomes. Mol Ecol
  • Shape coevolution in asexual fish and their host. Proc B
  • New genome assemblies for Poeciliidae. GBE
  • Cold-water pollution and razorback suckers. Mol Ecol
  • Genital evolution in the dark. Biol J Linn Soc

Contact information

  • Department of Biology
    University of Missouri—St. Louis
    1 University Blvd. 223 Research Building
    St. Louis, MO 63121
  • michi.tobler@gmail.com

Current research projects

  • Adaptation to hydrogen sulfide
  • Cave biology
  • Ecological speciation
  • Evolutionary and physiological ecology
  • Genital evolution
  • Maintenance of color polymorphisms
  • Phenotypic evolution & ecological dynamics
  • Tropical gar conservation genetics

Opportunities for students

  • Funding opportunities
  • Prospective graduate students
  • Undergraduate research experiences

Publication links

  • Book chapters
  • Commentaries & book reviews
  • Edited books
  • Journal papers
  • Popular media
  • Press coverage

Impressions from the field

  • Costa Rica 2015
  • Dominican Republic 2011
  • Guyana 2009
  • La Huasteca 2015
  • Mexico 2004
  • Mexico 2008
  • Mexico 2009
  • Mexico 2010
  • Mexico 2012
  • Mexico 2015
  • Mexico 2016
  • Tennessee 2009
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