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| Rebecca C FullerSummaryAffiliation: University of Illinois Country: USA Publications
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Speciation in killifish and the role of salt toleranceR C Fuller
Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
J Evol Biol 20:1962-75. 2007..However, we found no evidence for F1 hybrid inviability. We discuss the general lack of evidence for genic isolation in teleost fish and whether this is a real phenomenon or simply a reflection of experimental design...
Teasing apart the many effects of lighting environment on opsin expression and foraging preference in bluefin killifishRebecca C Fuller
Department of Animal Biology, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA
Am Nat 176:1-13. 2010..Genetic effects were detected in opsin expression, but there were no corresponding effects on pecking preference. Overall, only 3.36% of the variation in pecking preference was accounted for by opsin expression...- A test of the critical assumption of the sensory bias model for the evolution of female mating preference using neural networksRebecca C Fuller
School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, 104 Shelford Vivarium, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Evolution 63:1697-711. 2009..Selection on foraging preferences alone may affect initial levels of mating preferences, but these correlations did not constrain the joint evolution of foraging and mating preferences in these simulations... - Genetic incompatibilities in killifish and the role of environmentRebecca C Fuller
Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, 104 Shelford Vivarium, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Evolution 62:3056-68. 2008..Understanding the extent to which adaptation to salinity creates multiple forms of reproductive isolation is critical for understanding diversification in many fish taxa... - Sensory bias as an explanation for the evolution of mate preferencesRebecca C Fuller
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
Am Nat 166:437-46. 2005..We suggest that the importance of sensory bias as an explanation for the evolution of female preferences remains to be determined... - Genetics, lighting environment, and heritable responses to lighting environment affect male color morph expression in bluefin killifish, Lucania goodeiRebecca C Fuller
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 4340, USA
Evolution 58:1086-98. 2004..e. heritable plasticity). These results show that a relatively simple, environmentally dependent, epistatic interaction can produce a large amount of variation in male color patterns that presumably function in sexual selection... 
Lighting environment predicts the relative abundance of male colour morphs in bluefin killifish (Lucania goodei) populationsRebecca C Fuller
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32306 4340, USA
Proc Biol Sci 269:1457-65. 2002..These results indicate that natural selection for effective intraspecific communication drives the relative abundance of male colour morphs in different lighting habitats...- A test for environmental effects on behavioral isolation in two species of killifishEmma L Berdan
Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA
Evolution 66:3224-37. 2012..goodei females produce fully viable/fertile hybrids, but crosses between L. goodei males and L. parva females produce males with reduced fertility. Hence, behavioral isolation may have evolved in part due to reinforcement... - Rapid light-induced shifts in opsin expression: finding new opsins, discerning mechanisms of change, and implications for visual sensitivityRebecca C Fuller
Department of Animal Biology, School of Integrative Biology, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Mol Ecol 20:3321-35. 2011.... - Do density-driven mating system differences explain reproductive incompatibilities between populations of a placental fish?Matthew Schrader
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 1100, USA
Mol Ecol 20:4140-51. 2011..Alternatively, the asymmetric reproductive isolation seen in previous studies might reflect the disruption of maternal-foetal coadaptation... - Genetic and environmental variation in the visual properties of bluefin killifish, Lucania goodeiR C Fuller
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4340, USA
J Evol Biol 18:516-23. 2005..Lighting conditions affected expression of all opsins except SWS2A and mimicked the pattern found among populations. These results highlight the fact that sensory systems are both plastic and yet readily evolvable traits... - Population variation in opsin expression in the bluefin killifish, Lucania goodei: a real-time PCR studyR C Fuller
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4340, USA
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 190:147-54. 2004..Understanding this system requires quantitative genetic studies. Real-time PCR is an effective tool for studies requiring inferences of visual physiology in large numbers of individuals... - Intraspecific variation in retinal cone distribution in the bluefin killifish, Lucania goodeiR C Fuller
Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306 4340, USA
J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 189:609-16. 2003.... - A low genomic number of recessive lethals in natural populations of bluefin killifish and zebrafishAmy R McCune
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Science 296:2398-401. 2002..These results, together with data on several Drosophila species and on Xenopus laevis, show that phylogenetically distant animals with different genome sizes and numbers of genes carry similar numbers of lethal mutations...