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Zuk, Marlene
Personal Web Site
marlene.zuk@ucr.edu

2710 LIFE SCIENCES
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

(951) 827-5903 (Voice)

    Zuk, Marlene

    Adjunct Professor

    College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
    Biology

    Biography

     

    Former Institution

    University of New Mexico

    Degrees

    PhD Zoology 1986
    University of Michigan

    Awards

    2010 Uppsala University, Honorary Doctorate
    1998 Sigma Xi National Lectureship
    1992-1997 National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award
    1996 Quest Award Animal Behavior Society
    1988 Outstanding Young Investigator Prize, American Society of Naturalists
    Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Research Area

    Research Specialization - behavioral ecology, sexual selection.

    I am interested in behavioral ecology, the study of the evolution of behavior. My research centers on sexual selection and the effects of parasites on mate choice and the evolution of secondary sex characters. I am also interested more generally in the influence of parasites on host ecology and behavior. Currently, I have two major projects underway. First, I am examining the effects of conflicting selection pressures on song structure in a Pacific field cricket subject to an acoustically-orienting parasitoid fly. Second, I am beginning work on the evolution of disease resistance in the context of sexual selection using a variety of cricket species which differ in male mating effort.

    Publications

    Zuk, M., Rotenberry, J.T., and L.W. Simmons. 1998. Calling songs of field crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) with and without phonotactic parasitoid infection. Evolution 52:166-171.

    Zuk, M. and Kolluru, Gita R. 1998. Exploitation of sexual signals by predators and parasitoids. The Quarterly Review of Biology 73:415-438.

    Zuk, M. and Johnsen, T.S. 1998. Seasonal changes in the relationship between ornamentation and immune response in red jungle fowl. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B. 265:1631-1635.

    Zuk, M. and McKean, K.A. 2000. Signals, parasites and the immune system. Pp. 407-419 in: Espmark,Y., Amundsen,T. & Rosenqvist,G. (Eds.) Animal Signals: Signalling and Signal Design in Animal Communication. Tapir Academic Press, Trondheim, Norway.

    Zuk, M. and Johnsen, T.S. 2000. Social environment and immunity in male red jungle fowl. Behavioral Ecology. 11:146-153.

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