To understand this pathway, it is useful to examine each of the major causes of behavior: genes, physiology, and development. Genes, physiology, and development vary among individuals of a population.

Published in the Journal of Comparative Physiology B, the study offers new insight into the two species and follows up on research led by former university biologist Oscar "Bud" Owre, who also was ...

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While I have research experience ranging from sexual selection in birds to interference competition between carnivores, my primary research foci include migration ecology, fitness consequences of ...

Our main focus is the neural mechanisms underlying stress-related physiology and emotional behavior with a focus on the role of serotonergic systems. Current projects address four main topics: ...