Movement Mondays
Join us for invited seminar talks by world-leading scientists and informal research and technique-oriented talks by CAM members where we discuss our latest and greatest ideas!
Our next speaker:
Eva Fischer: Mar 23rd
Who cares? Lessons on parenting from poison frogs
University of California Davis
Summary: A fundamental question at the intersection of evolution, behavior, and neurobiology is how novel behaviors arise and are incorporated into existing neural systems. The emergence of traits initially exhibited only in one sex in the opposite sex has been proposed as a major, though underappreciated, force in the evolution of novel behavior. Yet the mechanisms that facilitate the integration of new behavior into opposite sex physiological, neural, and molecular systems are largely unknown. We leverage naturally occurring variation in parental behavior in Neotropical poison frogs to understand how interactions across levels of biological organization drive similarities, differences, and occasional reversals in parental behavior between sexes.
