R. L. Earley

Genetic integration of behavioural and endocrine components of the stress response

This study shows that acute stress response traits in Trinidadian guppies are heritable and genetically integrated, suggesting potential for artificial selection to improve health and welfare in captive populations.

Social experience alters different types of learning abilities controlled by distinct brain nuclei in Kryptolebias marmoratus

The paper shows that winning and losing social experiences in Kryptolebias marmoratus alter distinct learning abilities and protein expression in brain regions associated with spatial and risk-avoidance learning.

Outbreeding depression as a selective force on mixed mating in the mangrove rivulus fish, Kryptolebias marmoratus

This study investigates the effects of variable heterozygosity on survival, fecundity, and body condition in the mangrove rivulus fish under different salinity and water availability conditions, finding outbreeding depression.

Variation in self-compatibility among genotypes and across ontogeny in a self-fertilizing vertebrate

The paper examines variation in self-compatibility and fecundity among mangrove rivulus genotypes and across ontogeny, showing lineage differences in sex change influence these traits.

Male mate choice unresolved in the mangrove rivulus

The study investigates whether male mangrove rivulus fish choose mates based on age to find unfertilized eggs, finding no preference but high individual variance.

Habituation and individual variation in the endocrine stress response in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

This study shows Trinidadian guppies habituate quickly to repeated stress exposure and exhibit consistent individual differences in their endocrine stress response.