Arianne Albert

NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow

Simon Fraser University and University of British Columbia

albert(at)zoology.ubc.ca

 

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Research Interests

My research focuses on questions surrounding the role of natural and sexual selection in the process of speciation and the evolution of mating preferences, and on the genetic basis of adaptation. I have used freshwater fish, zooplankton and theoretical approaches to address the following main areas:

   1. How do interactions between species, such as hybridization, influence the evolution of mating preferences and reproductive isolation?

   2. How does adaptation proceed at the genetic level, and what does this tell us about the speciation process?

   3. How do mating preferences evolve and diverge?


 

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Publications

Albert, A. Y. K., S. Sawaya, T. H. Vines, A. K. Knecht, C. T. Miller, B. R. Summers, S. Balabhadra, D. M. Kingsley, and D. Schluter. 2008. The genetics of adaptative shape shift in stickleback: pleiotropy and effect size. Evolution 62: 76-85. pdf

Albert, A. Y. K., N. P. Millar, and D. Schluter. 2007. Character displacement of male nuptial colour in threespine sticklebacks. Biol J Linn Soc 91: 37-48. pdf

Albert, A. Y. K. and S. P. Otto. 2005. Sexual selection can resolve sex-linked sexual antagonism. Science 310:119-121. paper, supplementary material

Voordouw, M. J, H. E. Robinson, G. Stebbins, A. Y. K. Albert, and B. R. Anholt. 2005. Larval density and the Charnov-Bull model of adaptive environmental sex determination in a copepod. Can J Zool 83:943-954. pdf

Albert, A. Y. K. 2005. Mate choice, sexual imprinting and speciation: a test of a one-allele isolating mechanism in sympatric sticklebacks. Evolution 59(4): 927-931. pdf

Albert, A. Y. K., and D. Schluter. 2005. Primer: Selection and the origin of species. Current Biology 15(8): 283-288. pdf

Albert, A. Y. K., and D. Schluter. 2004. Reproductive character displacement of male stickleback mate preference: reinforcement or direct selection? Evolution 58: 1099-1107. pdf

Albert, A. Y. K., C. J. Borkent, S. L. Duquette, M. J. Voordouw, and B. R. Anholt. 2001. Effects of an introduced mosquito on juvenile Tigriopus californicus (Copepoda: Harpacticoidea) in supratidal pools. Arch Hydrobiol 152 (2): 203-213.

 

 

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Links

 

Collaborators:

Sally Otto

Dolph Schluter

Tim Vines

Katie Peichel's lab group

Thomas Lenormand

 

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