2017-2018
Spring 2018
This spring we are meeting in Benton 406. Because of the construction, the best way to find the room is to enter Benton through the 4th floor hallway that connects the Research Building with the new Science Learning Building.
26 January: Pruitt & Aviles, in press, Social spiders: mildly successful social animals with much untapped research potential. Animal Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.08.015 (Aimee leading)
2 February: Vinauger et al. 2018. Modulation of host learning in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Current Biology 28, 1-12.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31617-2 (Lilli leading)
9 February: Perrot-Minnot M-J, Banchetry L,Cézilly F. 2017. Anxiety-like behavior increases safety from fish predation in an amphipod crustacea. R. Soc. Open sci. 4:171558. http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royopensci/4/12/171558.full.pdf (Andreia leading)
16 February Ashton, BJ, Ridley, AR, Edwards, EK, Thornton, A. 2018. Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature25503 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25503 (Michael leading)
23 February Shaffer, Z., Sasaki, T., Haney, B., Janssen, M., Pratt, S.C., Fewell, J.H. 2016. The foundress’s dilemma: group selection for cooperation among queens of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex californicus. Scientific Reports 6:29828 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29828.pdf (Shane leading)
2 March Hobaiter, C & Byrne, RW. 2014. The meaning of chimpanzee gestures. Current Biology 24:1596-1600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.066
AND Scott-Phillips, TC. 2015. Meaning in animal and human communication. Animal Cognition 18:801-805.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-015-0845-5 (Zuleyma leading)
9 March Geffre, AC, Liu, R, Manfredini, F, Beani, L, Kathirithamby, J., Grozinger, CM, Toth, AL. 2017. Transcriptomics of an extended phenotype: parasite manipulation of wasp social behavior shifts expression of caste-related genes. Proc Roy Soc B 284:20170029 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0029
(Amanda leading)
16 March Keiser CN, Wright CM, Pruitt CN. 2016. Increased bacterial load can reduce or negate the effects of keystone individuals on group collective behavior. Animal Behavior 114:211-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.02.010 (Sage leading)
23 March: no meeting
30 March: SPRING BREAK
6 April Paul, ES & Mendl, MT. (in press). Animal emotion: description and prescriptive definitions and their implications for a comparative perspective. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2018.01.008 (Jill leading)
13 April Tello-Ramos, MC, Branch, CL, Kozlovsky, DY, Pitera, AM, Pravosudov, VV. (2018). Spatial memory and cognitive flexibility trade-offs: to be or not to be flexible, that is the question. Animal Behaviour in press https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.02.019 (Rachel leading)
20 April UMSL Neuroscience Research Day. Jeffrey Sacks from Washington University will be talking about “Event comprehension and memory in the predictive brain,” in Benton 303 from 12:00-1:00pm. There will be a poster session in the optometry building on south campus from 1:30-2:30pm. That evening is the Harris Center's World Ecology Award Gala with awardee E.O. Wilson at the St. Louis Zoo. Public talk at 8:30pm. Tickets are sold out, but the talk will be streaming on Facebook.
27 April Bush, JM, Jung, H, Connell, JP, Freeberg, TM. 2018. Duty now for the future: a call for public outreach by animal behaviour researchers. Animal Behaviour 139:161-169 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.03.013 (Aimee leading)
4 May Youn, H, Sutton, L, Smith, E, Moore, C, Wilkens, JF, Maddieson, I, Croft, W, Bhattacharya, T. 2016. On the universal structure of human lexical semantics. PNAS 113(7):1766-1771. http://www.pnas.org/content/113/7/1766 (Dan leading)
Fall 2017
1 September: Cuthill, IC, Allen, WL, Arbuckle, K, Caspers, B, Chaplin, G, Hauber, ME, Hill, GE, Jablonski, NG, Jiggins, CD, Kelber, A, Mappes, J, Marshall, J, Merrill, R, Osorio, D, Prum, R, Roberts, NW, Roulin, A, Rowland, HM, Sherrat, TN, Skelhorn, J, Speed, MP, Stevens, M, Caswell Stoddard, M, Stuart-Fox, D, Talas, L, Tibbetts, E, Caro, T. 2017. The biology of color. Science 357(6350):eaan0221. DOI: 10.1126/science.aan0221 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6350/eaan0221.full
8 September: Duarte RC, Flores AAV, Stevens M. 2017 Camouflage through colour change: mechanisms, adaptive value and ecological significance. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 372: 20160342. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0342
15 September: Liscovitch-Brauer, N., et al. "Trade-off between Transcriptome Plasticity and Genome Evolution in Cephalopods." Cell 169(2): 191-202.e111.
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(17)30344-6
29 September: Junghanns, A, Holm, C, Fristrup Schou, M, Boje Sorensen, A, Uhl, G, & Bilde, T. 2017. Extreme allomaternal care and unequal task participation by unmated females in a cooperatively breeding spider. Animal Behaviour 132:101-107 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.08.006
6 October: Goutte, S, Mason, MJ, Christensen-Dalsgaard, J, et al. 2017. Evidence of auditory insensitivity to vocalization frequencies in two frogs. Scientific Reports 7:12121. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12145-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12145-5
13 October: Brooks, K. C., Maia, R., Duffy, J. E., Hultgren, K. M. and Rubenstein, D. R. (2017), Ecological generalism facilitates the evolution of sociality in snapping shrimps. Ecol Lett. doi:10.1111/ele.12857 (attached) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12857/full
20 October: Fox, KCR, Muthukrishna, M, Schultz, S. 2017. The social and cultural roots of whale and dolphin brains. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0336-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0336-y
27 October: Kawase H, Okata Y, & Ito K. 2013. Role of huge geometric circular structures in the reproduction of a marine pufferfish. Scientific Reports 3:2106 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep02106
Kawase H, et al. 2017. Discovery of an earliest-stage “mystery circle” and development of the structure constructed by pufferfish, Torquigener albomaculosus (Pisces: Tetraodontidae). Fishes 2(3):14. http://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/2/3/14/html
3 November: Kamath, A. & Losos, J. 2017. The erratic and contingent progression on research on territoritality: a case study. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 71:80
17 November: Franziska Knolle, Rita P. Goncalves, A. Jennifer Morton. Sheep recognize familiar and unfamiliar human faces from two-dimensional images. Royal Society Open Science, 2017; 4 (11): 171228 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171228 http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/11/171228
1 December: Prat, Y., Taub, M., Yovel, Y. 2016. Everyday bat vocalizations contain information about emitter, addressee, context, and behavior. Scientific Reports 6: 39419. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39419
8 December: emerging topics in animal behavior- general discussion
This spring we are meeting in Benton 406. Because of the construction, the best way to find the room is to enter Benton through the 4th floor hallway that connects the Research Building with the new Science Learning Building.
26 January: Pruitt & Aviles, in press, Social spiders: mildly successful social animals with much untapped research potential. Animal Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.08.015 (Aimee leading)
2 February: Vinauger et al. 2018. Modulation of host learning in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. Current Biology 28, 1-12.
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)31617-2 (Lilli leading)
9 February: Perrot-Minnot M-J, Banchetry L,Cézilly F. 2017. Anxiety-like behavior increases safety from fish predation in an amphipod crustacea. R. Soc. Open sci. 4:171558. http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royopensci/4/12/171558.full.pdf (Andreia leading)
16 February Ashton, BJ, Ridley, AR, Edwards, EK, Thornton, A. 2018. Cognitive performance is linked to group size and affects fitness in Australian magpies. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature25503 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25503 (Michael leading)
23 February Shaffer, Z., Sasaki, T., Haney, B., Janssen, M., Pratt, S.C., Fewell, J.H. 2016. The foundress’s dilemma: group selection for cooperation among queens of the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex californicus. Scientific Reports 6:29828 https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29828.pdf (Shane leading)
2 March Hobaiter, C & Byrne, RW. 2014. The meaning of chimpanzee gestures. Current Biology 24:1596-1600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2014.05.066
AND Scott-Phillips, TC. 2015. Meaning in animal and human communication. Animal Cognition 18:801-805.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-015-0845-5 (Zuleyma leading)
9 March Geffre, AC, Liu, R, Manfredini, F, Beani, L, Kathirithamby, J., Grozinger, CM, Toth, AL. 2017. Transcriptomics of an extended phenotype: parasite manipulation of wasp social behavior shifts expression of caste-related genes. Proc Roy Soc B 284:20170029 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0029
(Amanda leading)
16 March Keiser CN, Wright CM, Pruitt CN. 2016. Increased bacterial load can reduce or negate the effects of keystone individuals on group collective behavior. Animal Behavior 114:211-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.02.010 (Sage leading)
23 March: no meeting
30 March: SPRING BREAK
6 April Paul, ES & Mendl, MT. (in press). Animal emotion: description and prescriptive definitions and their implications for a comparative perspective. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2018.01.008 (Jill leading)
13 April Tello-Ramos, MC, Branch, CL, Kozlovsky, DY, Pitera, AM, Pravosudov, VV. (2018). Spatial memory and cognitive flexibility trade-offs: to be or not to be flexible, that is the question. Animal Behaviour in press https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.02.019 (Rachel leading)
20 April UMSL Neuroscience Research Day. Jeffrey Sacks from Washington University will be talking about “Event comprehension and memory in the predictive brain,” in Benton 303 from 12:00-1:00pm. There will be a poster session in the optometry building on south campus from 1:30-2:30pm. That evening is the Harris Center's World Ecology Award Gala with awardee E.O. Wilson at the St. Louis Zoo. Public talk at 8:30pm. Tickets are sold out, but the talk will be streaming on Facebook.
27 April Bush, JM, Jung, H, Connell, JP, Freeberg, TM. 2018. Duty now for the future: a call for public outreach by animal behaviour researchers. Animal Behaviour 139:161-169 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2018.03.013 (Aimee leading)
4 May Youn, H, Sutton, L, Smith, E, Moore, C, Wilkens, JF, Maddieson, I, Croft, W, Bhattacharya, T. 2016. On the universal structure of human lexical semantics. PNAS 113(7):1766-1771. http://www.pnas.org/content/113/7/1766 (Dan leading)
Fall 2017
1 September: Cuthill, IC, Allen, WL, Arbuckle, K, Caspers, B, Chaplin, G, Hauber, ME, Hill, GE, Jablonski, NG, Jiggins, CD, Kelber, A, Mappes, J, Marshall, J, Merrill, R, Osorio, D, Prum, R, Roberts, NW, Roulin, A, Rowland, HM, Sherrat, TN, Skelhorn, J, Speed, MP, Stevens, M, Caswell Stoddard, M, Stuart-Fox, D, Talas, L, Tibbetts, E, Caro, T. 2017. The biology of color. Science 357(6350):eaan0221. DOI: 10.1126/science.aan0221 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6350/eaan0221.full
8 September: Duarte RC, Flores AAV, Stevens M. 2017 Camouflage through colour change: mechanisms, adaptive value and ecological significance. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 372: 20160342. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0342
15 September: Liscovitch-Brauer, N., et al. "Trade-off between Transcriptome Plasticity and Genome Evolution in Cephalopods." Cell 169(2): 191-202.e111.
http://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(17)30344-6
29 September: Junghanns, A, Holm, C, Fristrup Schou, M, Boje Sorensen, A, Uhl, G, & Bilde, T. 2017. Extreme allomaternal care and unequal task participation by unmated females in a cooperatively breeding spider. Animal Behaviour 132:101-107 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2017.08.006
6 October: Goutte, S, Mason, MJ, Christensen-Dalsgaard, J, et al. 2017. Evidence of auditory insensitivity to vocalization frequencies in two frogs. Scientific Reports 7:12121. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12145-5 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-12145-5
13 October: Brooks, K. C., Maia, R., Duffy, J. E., Hultgren, K. M. and Rubenstein, D. R. (2017), Ecological generalism facilitates the evolution of sociality in snapping shrimps. Ecol Lett. doi:10.1111/ele.12857 (attached) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12857/full
20 October: Fox, KCR, Muthukrishna, M, Schultz, S. 2017. The social and cultural roots of whale and dolphin brains. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-017-0336-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0336-y
27 October: Kawase H, Okata Y, & Ito K. 2013. Role of huge geometric circular structures in the reproduction of a marine pufferfish. Scientific Reports 3:2106 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep02106
Kawase H, et al. 2017. Discovery of an earliest-stage “mystery circle” and development of the structure constructed by pufferfish, Torquigener albomaculosus (Pisces: Tetraodontidae). Fishes 2(3):14. http://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/2/3/14/html
3 November: Kamath, A. & Losos, J. 2017. The erratic and contingent progression on research on territoritality: a case study. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 71:80
17 November: Franziska Knolle, Rita P. Goncalves, A. Jennifer Morton. Sheep recognize familiar and unfamiliar human faces from two-dimensional images. Royal Society Open Science, 2017; 4 (11): 171228 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171228 http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/11/171228
1 December: Prat, Y., Taub, M., Yovel, Y. 2016. Everyday bat vocalizations contain information about emitter, addressee, context, and behavior. Scientific Reports 6: 39419. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39419
8 December: emerging topics in animal behavior- general discussion