School of Natural Resources Seminar: Emily Moore

The cichlid fishes of East Africa are an astounding “natural experiment” in adaptive evolution. The group rapidly diversified, with striking variation in functional traits such as jaw and body morphology, cryptic pigmentation, and exploratory behavior. My work examines the genetic basis of adaptive traits in the group, combining phenotyping, comparative genomics, and classical genetics to link genotype to phenotype to fitness. This talk will present work on the role of complex sex chromosome systems in shaping trait variation, as well as the functional genomic basis of variation in niche partitioning exploratory behaviors.

Speakers Bio:
Dr. Moore has a BS and a BA from the University of Colorado, Denver; MS from Colorado State University, and a PhD with Reade Roberts at North Carolina State. Postdoc at the University of Montana with Jeff Good and University of Denver with Erica Larson.

https://biosci.unl.edu/person/emily-moore/