Meghan F. Maciejewski

This study shows that dysregulated parental care in hybrid stickleback fish leads to reduced offspring survival, suggesting it acts as a postzygotic reproductive isolating mechanism.

The paper examines gene regulation changes in threespine stickleback populations with varying resistance to a freshwater cestode, showing population-specific transcriptomic responses and the role of fibrosis in parasite defense.

The paper identifies 11 brain areas important for social behavior in three-spined sticklebacks using comparative neuroanatomical landmarks and TH expression analysis.

The paper quantifies steroid hormone levels in two threespine stickleback ecotypes to show how androgen levels differ in relation to mating and parental care behaviors.

This study shows rapid genome-wide adaptive introgression in threespine stickleback following immigration, with beneficial alleles driving evolutionary change.