Alycia Lackey
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Evolutionary & behavioral ecology. Speciation | Life history | Sexual selection | Rapid environmental change. #newPI @UofL she/her
Louisville, KY
Joined January 2010
RT @EndophyteDiva: I am recruiting a new PhD student to join my lab in 2024, to conduct USDA-funded research on the role of the microbiome….
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RT @demarco_rafa: So inspirational to be surrounded by amazing young researchers doing phenomenal science at the Undergraduate Research Sho….
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Needed some extra motivation this morning for the final push on grant revisions. I’ve seen the GIFs, but did you know there’s an extended version of this video?!?.
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RT @drnyc_awe: Postdoc wanted!! Please reach out if interested in advancing themes around protected areas, wildlife movement or human-carn….
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RT @SinlanPoo: Pre-sales of the #WomenInHerpetology book is up at #JMIH2023! ✨💫☄️.Read about 50 amazing women who work with #amphibians & #….
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New paper led by Mark Kirk using .32 years of data for .>1000 tiger salamanders .to identify fitness effects of environmental variation. Some conditions affect all salamanders, while others have morph-specific effects.@WhitemanLab .
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This manuscript presents both novel evidence and confirmatory evidence from prior studies on amphibian polyphenisms that has widespread relevance to life history theory, the maintenance of biodiver...
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Members of my lab are presenting multiple works in progress on . whether we can detect sexual selection in Rhagoletis flies .& .how larval salamanders respond to natural pond temperature variation . Posters tonight & Sat.@sophiaanner @shaynerdori Rowan Ward.#Evol2023
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RT @corlettwwood: Hey #Evol2023 - come hear about @GuyTheAppleFly’s work on the population genomics of a gall-forming plant parasite: is i….
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VERY proud of Rowan Ward for their first presentation at a national meeting!! #Evol2023. And ever impressed by the supportive mentoring from @sophiaanner . It’s the people that make the science fun and exciting. This is the photo you get when you say .“Say Rhagoletis!!”
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Great talk by @Rachel_L_Moran dissecting genetic mechanisms underlying repeated evolution with different primary mechanisms explaining repeated adaptations to surface vs. cave habitats in fish #Evol2023.
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Nature Communications - Repeated evolution provides valuable insight into adaptation. In this study, the authors found that repeated evolution of cave-adapted phenotypes of a fish (Astyanax...
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Members of my lab are presenting multiple works in progress on . whether we can detect sexual selection in Rhagoletis flies .& .how larval salamanders respond to natural pond temperature variation . Posters tonight & Sat.@sophiaanner @shaynerdori Rowan Ward.#Evol2023
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Thought-provoking talk by @miatwaters on how we design reciprocal transplant studies. Density of local competitors have dramatic consequences for fitness of plants locally & not locally adapted #Evol2023.
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This paper got picked up by Newsweek!.
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The delicate interactions between insects, their predators and prey, and the plants that they rely on, may be thrown off-kilter by climate change.
Hot off the presses! 📣. New paper on response to climate change in Rhagoletis flies and their wasp parasitoids. Three main takeaways 🧵.
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Hi #Evol2023 .I presented work on climate warming response in Rhagoletis flies & their wasp parasitoids at a previous conference. Here it is in paper form!.
Hot off the presses! 📣. New paper on response to climate change in Rhagoletis flies and their wasp parasitoids. Three main takeaways 🧵.
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Had a great time doing this research with Tom Powell, Pheobe Deneen, @GregoryRagland4, Jeff Feder, and Dan Hahn!.
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Takeaway 3) Shifts in fly lifecycle timing increased overlap in breeding time in our experiment. In the wild, climate warming could increase gene flow and limit divergence between apple-haw flies — a textbook example of rapid adaptation & speciation.
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Takeaway 2) While flies shift their lifecycles earlier under warmer temperatures, their parasitoid wasps seem insensitive to these temp changes. This may cause a mismatch in phenology for these co-evolved species.
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Takeaway 1) Very closely related fly populations adapted to different host plants (apple and hawthorn) show different extents and types of responses to climate warming. This highlights the complexity of predicting consequences of climate warming in natural systems.
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