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BEACON Researchers at Work: Tropical crickets hitchhike their way to rapid...
This week we are introducing a new feature on the BEACON Blog: BEACON Researchers at Work! Please enjoy the first post from Michigan State University postdoc Robin Tinghitella. What would happen if all...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Portrait of a Damsel
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work post is by MSU postdoc Idelle Cooper. If damselflies were painters, they would surely be watercolorists, and probably impressionists, too. As soon as the morning...
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Big horns trump smooth pickup lines every time
From our latest press release: Elk and rhinoceros beetles aren’t diabetic, but to grow big horns and attract mates it appears that the males are insulin-dependent. Ian Dworkin, Michigan State...
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Evolution 101: Beauty is in the Genes of the Beholder
This Evolution 101 post is by MSU graduate student Anselmo Pontes. Peacock by Jebulon /Wikimedia Creative Commons License. What do you think when you see a woman painfully balancing on sky-high heels?...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Female vision-related genes are more plastic in...
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by University of California at Irvine graduate student Aide Macias-Muñoz. My interest in biology began when I was very young with my fascination in...
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BEACON Researchers at Work: Are Electric Fish Magic?
This week’s BEACON Researchers at Work blog post is by postdoc Will Pitchers from the Gallant Lab at MSU. The fishes in our lab — African freshwater fish called Mormyrids — seem pretty magical when one...
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Male battles split species apart
Picture of me: Behind me are some of the hundreds of fish tanks in the basement of Giltner containing all the baby sticklebacks we generated for this experiment. This post is by MSU postdoc Jason Keagy...
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Evolution of Reliable Signals
This Evolution 101 post is by MSU grad student Thassyo Pinto The ownership of goods such as luxury cars, expensive boats and conspicuous consumption, and showing it off to others, transmits a signal...
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Can birdsong signal immune gene quality?
This post is by MSU postdoc Joel Slade. Joel recording bird song in 2014. “BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!” – I wake up to the dreaded sound of my alarm clock at 3:45 am in my cabin. Even though it’s mid-April at...
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