ICB co author @eric-arredondo.bsky.social 's has posted an answer on our one question many answers blog for the Invasive Species special issue headed by @noahwithfish.bsky.social scroll down to their section of integrativeandcomparativebiology.wordpress.com/one-question... #fish #stickleback
Eric Arredondo
@eric-arredondo.bsky.social
Current graduate student at the University of Oklahoma with interests in animal behavior, ecology, evolution, conservation, and wildlife management
Excited to share our study has been published in @sicbjournals.bsky.social ! Predator Communities With Invasive Pike Are Associated With Changes in Parental Care and Brain Gene Expression in Wild Alaskan Stickleback academic.oup.com/icb/article/...
Predator Communities With Invasive Pike Are Associated With Changes in Parental Care and Brain Gene Expression in Wild Alaskan Stickleback
Synopsis. Invasive predators can influence prey through direct predation but also via nonconsumptive effects that alter behavior and physiology. Parental c
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Parents have to deal with a lot. How do they balance the need to care for young with the need to avoid predation? @eric-arredondo.bsky.social shows that stickleback parenting behavior does not shift when invasive predators are around but their brains do!