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Susan M Bertram
Summary
My research addresses how genetic and environmental variation is maintained in sexually selected traits. My students and I use an animal behavior approach that incorporates tools from nutritional ecology, ecological physiology, and quantitative genetics. Our laboratory-based empirical research quantifies the phenotypic and genetically based variation in condition, life-history traits, and sexually selected traits and determines how this variation is influenced by diet and physiology.
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Articles published in PeerJ
How age influences phonotaxis in virgin female Jamaican field crickets (Gryllus assimilis)
Preprints
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Bagworm bags as portable armour against invertebrate predators
Are attractive male crickets better able to pay the costs of an immune challenge?
Grunt variation in the oyster toadfish Opsanus tau: effect of size and sex
Prior mating success can affect allocation towards future sexual signaling in crickets