Faculty and Staff
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- Fish biology
- Comparative physiology of fishes
- Comparison of the morphological, physiological, and biochemical specializations of high-performance fishes
- Fish response to angling-induced stress
- Disruption to homeostasis in fish
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- Antibody production
- Antibody mediated protection
- Structure of the antibody
- Quality of the antibody for pathogen recognition
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- Speciation
- Genomics
- Evolutionary Biology
- Hybridization
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- Marine plankton
- Zooplankton feeding
- Plankton communities of Boston Harbor and adjacent waters
- Food web accumulation and transport of red tide toxins
- Interactions between copepod feeding and reproductive success
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- Developmental bias and plasticity in evolution
- Vertebrate skeletal development and evolution
- Evolution of larval-brooding damselfishes
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- Biology of fishes with an emphasis on the biology of American eels
- Life history strategies
- Age and growth of fishes
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- Cell migration
- Actin cytoskeleton
- Amoebae
- Microbial pathogenesis
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- Prey Responses to the Risk of Predation
- Organismal Responses to Environmental Stressors
- Transgenerational Plasticity/Maternal Stress Effects
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- Microbial Communities
- Bacterial Interactions
- Cocoa fermentation
- Bacterial Genomes
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- Marine microbiology
- Microbiomes
- Microbial community ecology
- Biofilms
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- Social evolution
- Evolution of cooperation and mutualism
- Dolphin behavioral ecology
- Evolution of alliances and coalitions
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- Genomic and quantitative genetic approaches to investigate adaptations in fish
- Fish domestication
- Physiological and genetic changes underlying domestication
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- Conservation of native pollination systems
- Neuroecology of plant-pollinator interactions
- Multi-modal sensory integration
- Floral evolution
- Bumblebee ecology
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- Transgenerational plasticity
- Carryover effects
- Marine ecology
- Climate change
- Predation risk
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- Root growth responses to competition
- Effects of species interactions on community structure
- Plant species distributions on coastal dunes