Undergraduate
Research with Professor Maria Abate
PAPERS
PRESENTED AT SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES
2009
Robert
Abdu,
Annual Meeting of the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology,
Boston, MA. A test for the influence of offspring
behavior on parental care in the convict cichlid (Archocentrus nigrofasciatum).
2008
Vankhanh
Laura Le,
International Ecological and Evolutionary Ethology of Fishes Conference, Boston
University. Do conspecific and
heterospecific alarm substances alter the behavior of group foraging convict
cichlids?
2007
Andrew
Eng, The 5th Annual Boston Behavior
Club Woods Hole Symposium, Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA. Patterns of brain structure
development in the Nicaraguan cichlid after the removal of olfactory alarm
cues.
Elise
Magarian, The 5th Annual Boston Behavior
Club Woods Hole Symposium, Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute, MA. Risk-Averse Strategies of
Nicaraguan Cichlids Exposed to Olfactory Alarm Cues.
Hung
Pham,
East Coast Nerve Net Meeting, March 2007.
The neuromorphological responses of Nicaraguan cichlids exposed to
familiar and novel olfactory alarm cues.
Andrew
Eng,
East Coast Nerve Net Meeting, March 2007.
Does variation in the brain morphology of the Nicaraguan cichlid persist
in the absence of olfactory alarm cues?
Nancy
Lee and Elise Magarian were the first members of
Team
Cichlid to obtain grants from the
Undergraduate
Research Opportunities Program.
Read
their research profile on the UROP
website
Undergraduate
Research Opportunities Grant Recipients
2008
Zachary
Gersten, The effect of
predation alarm cue on the dispersal of juvenile convict cichlid
fish.
Robert
Abdu,
A
test for the influence of offspring behavior on parental care in the convict
cichlid (Archocentrus
nigrofasciatum).
Vankhanh
Laura Le,
Do
conspecific and heterospecific alarm substances alter the behavior of group
foraging convict cichlids?
Magdalena
Buttlar,
Specificity
of brain growth responses of Nicaraguan cichlids with respect to anti-predator
odor signals from other fish species
2007
Robert
Abdu,
Cichlid parent-offspring conflict and cooperation: Can the young Influence the
dynamics of parental care?
Jessica
Giannetto,
Can
anti-predator odor signals from other fish species enhance the
brain development of young Nicaraguan cichlids?
Vankhanh
Laura Le, Do Neotropical cichlids, and the Nicaraguan cichlid (Hypsophrys nicaraguensis) and the
convict cichlid (Archocentrus
nigrofasciatum), use olfactory alarm cues from unrelated species to assess
predation risk during development?
Melanie
Lontoh, An examination of the indirect impact of
olfactory alarm cues on the body shape and swimming ability of Neotropical
cichlid fish
Samson,
Jessica , Millsaps College (SURF Award)
Do
juvenile Neotropical cichlids adjust predator detection and avoidance based on
the concentration of olfactory alarm cue?
Robert
Abdu,
Cichlid parent offspring conflict: Can the young influence the period of
parental care
Andrew
Eng,
The
relationships between external morphology, coloration, and brain development in
Nicaraguan cichlids (Hypsophrys
nicaraguensis) exposed to predation alarm cues
Hung
Pham, External
morphology and brain development in convict cichlids (Archocentrus
nigrofaciatum) after
exposure to predation alarm cues
2006
Andrew
Eng,
The
relationships between external morphology, coloration, and brain development in
Nicaraguan cichlids (Hypsophrys
nicaraguensis) exposed to predation alarm cues
Elise
Magarian, The effects of alarm olfactory cues on
brain morphology of the Nicaraguan cichlid
Nancy Lee,
The
effect of injury-released predation cue on the dispersal of juvenile convict
cichlids (Archocentrus
nigrofasciatum)
2005
Nancy
Lee,
Kin
recognition in juvenile convict cichlids (Archocentrus
nigrofasciatum)
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