tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17859065664466354012024-02-07T18:53:14.412-08:00Clemson University Biological Sciences Graduate StudentsKylie Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09217335518857432682noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785906566446635401.post-57297167680898474532015-04-09T09:29:00.000-07:002015-04-09T09:29:31.247-07:00Why molly fishes? <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Why mollies?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
is the question I most often hear regarding my master’s thesis research. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be honest, I find myself wondering that
same question when I’m submerged up to my shoulders in stinky fish water
scrubbing the walls of their 150-gallon tanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why do I do this?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, sailfin
mollies (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poecilia latipinna</i>) are an
excellent example of a species subject to strong sexual selection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just like the male peacock with his
outrageous tail feathers, male mollies have developed an enormous dorsal fin that
serves to attract females.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How do such traits
evolve?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One hypothesis – the handicap
principle – suggests that because these enlarged traits are a burden to have,
they must signal high mate quality to interested females.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the debate is over – bigger is better, at
least in the animal kingdom!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But wait –
what’s a small male to do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, smaller,
less preferred male mollies have adopted an alternative mating strategy in
which they try to sneak mating attempts on unsuspecting females.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While not so nice, these strategies are
equally successful as the courtship strategy employed by large males (see
courtship video below), so both strategies, sneaking and courting, are maintained
in wild molly populations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty cool
if you ask me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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male courtship display</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">hey girl, do you like my tail feathers?</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">large male (50mm)</span></div>
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Looking forward to the Portland meeting next year, so I can feel like a star-struck teenager all over again... only I actually get to learn things instead of just permanently damaging my hearing!</div>
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Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829139000313525552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785906566446635401.post-24173678205256012162014-08-14T10:19:00.000-07:002014-08-14T10:24:11.957-07:00Sceloporus!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="text-align: center;">marks </span><span style="text-align: center;">my field site.</span></div>
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This is the first picture I took of my field site. <span style="text-align: center;">Not too far</span><br />
<span style="text-align: center;">from </span><span style="text-align: center;">this spot is where I caught that first lizard.</span></div>
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After a month of off-trail hiking a few days a week in spots
all throughout the forest, I finally found my site in the first week of May.
And it’s been a great site! On my first
visit to check out the site, I found half a dozen lizards in about 30 minutes,
including one gravid female. In fact, the first fence lizard I ever caught
was also the first gravid female I caught for this project. I returned with my
advisor, Mike Sears, and easily caught two more gravid females. We sent those
three off to Arizona for a collaborative project to sequence the <i>S undulatus</i> genome (which is awesome!).
Then I spent the rest of May, June, and July exploring my site and tracking
lizards 6 to 8 hours a day, several days a week.<br />
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working hard to find lizards. If off-trail hiking in the back woods of a primarily
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is that first female I caught.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the first males I found.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: black;">As I write this, I am
on a break from measuring heart rates of the embryos I’ve been incubating all
summer. Some time over the next few days, they will start to hatch and the next
stage of my project will begin. Then I can post again and update you all on the growth rate, metabolic rate, and sprint speed measurements I'll be taking (I can’t wait to
build and try out our sprint track and camera setup). Plus, I can share some
baby lizard pictures!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span><br />
<span style="color: black;"></span>
Here are just a few of the many, many pictures I have taken so far:</div>
<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib5ldfXp0rUO644PreJqkmg_rO_xhPFNNhsWYMQMrd0opN2hrzGrglIL112tCEdAoteAc2k4T97BRfH6NIIqDlzAjeJz2ed1B8PAyANSuTHQXYbyhCTBamgFY7aaJwavYEG3t26EAfZAao/s1600/20140721_150811.jpg" height="180" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="320" /></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Feeding time!</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN9Qcxl2bmsmTpJicqlPq4vC0vFfn-aRVCVpHq0Lf-oKv-93dEw46gXmqlzeMbFiznMvN6gYFg6R0PdhSUDGr5wtzVoh9BpenD7Wcatt__NXDKV2GX4KlTqA5BYeWs2vMAKqptrAjHrSBw/s1600/20140724_130706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN9Qcxl2bmsmTpJicqlPq4vC0vFfn-aRVCVpHq0Lf-oKv-93dEw46gXmqlzeMbFiznMvN6gYFg6R0PdhSUDGr5wtzVoh9BpenD7Wcatt__NXDKV2GX4KlTqA5BYeWs2vMAKqptrAjHrSBw/s1600/20140724_130706.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Um...you have a little something<br />
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on your chin.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0_VoU3XnJ2IGFXsJxlz-wu5nd0BRV3WZHC4EYYsl7tlI__7nHkPfmXV3fOOua5kdU8UJBHqmtUCWdNtFuXoZK5oHMP5PYeveThf8PYdb7tukSLcoi2eurxL3_rPK4nyxsCtm9iqWv2GfL/s1600/20140724_111807.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0_VoU3XnJ2IGFXsJxlz-wu5nd0BRV3WZHC4EYYsl7tlI__7nHkPfmXV3fOOua5kdU8UJBHqmtUCWdNtFuXoZK5oHMP5PYeveThf8PYdb7tukSLcoi2eurxL3_rPK4nyxsCtm9iqWv2GfL/s1600/20140724_111807.jpg" height="320" width="180" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Learning a lesson about keeping the<br />
terrarium closed. She jumped on me<br />
and climbed up my arm onto my shoulder during<br />
feeding time. So I snapped a picture<br />
before putting her back.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_94gTtigDVG33JtO-A2peSPVb4kPP4b05kcUqUaXa0-7FXtzHYJqziaIEAvKH-CBUFugM1bCpM7PYzm7w9ATtU0508JuNK26eT4fh14jO1yHqKOAAS_0n7Oj3-7EpDe6JWADrkFJgl9Oq/s1600/20140604_121240.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_94gTtigDVG33JtO-A2peSPVb4kPP4b05kcUqUaXa0-7FXtzHYJqziaIEAvKH-CBUFugM1bCpM7PYzm7w9ATtU0508JuNK26eT4fh14jO1yHqKOAAS_0n7Oj3-7EpDe6JWADrkFJgl9Oq/s1600/20140604_121240.jpg" height="180" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here you go, Chris. The only turtle I saw out there.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This guy was so well camouflaged,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rick Blob trying to scare some pretty <br />innocent fish</td></tr>
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I spent the last 3 weeks of March in Hawaii trying to scare the snot out of these little fish using a flow tank and what one could describe as a home made squirt gun (a couple of bbq skewers, a syringe and a piece of plastic tubing)... And with much assistance we got to be<br />
pretty darn good at scarring these little buggers!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Super awesome fish that climb waterfalls... <br />yes these little guys are the climbers!</td></tr>
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When not filming the goby version of predator... We spent time snorkeling (aka me chasing sea turtles around for hours with my camera... never has anyone from Orlando felt more like the annoying tourist that invade my home town every summer), and eating the most amazing food I have ever tasted! (When I got back Corbin asked if I did anything besides eat, because the food was really all I talked about for a week)<br />
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Overall it was a pretty successful field season and a trip I will remember forever!<br />
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o.k. guys now it's your turn... don't forget to post all of your progress/ summer adventures on here when you get a chance!Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829139000313525552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785906566446635401.post-48820822310989507252014-04-21T17:47:00.001-07:002014-04-21T17:48:13.486-07:00Relay for Life 2014As many of you are aware, several BSGSA members came together this spring to form a Relay for Life team. Beginning in February, we started fundraising individually, as well as planning group fundraising events. We set an initial fundraising goal of $1,000, which seemed rather ambitious at the time. As the semester and our fundraising plans progressed, we started to build momentum and really raise some money. All 3 of our fundraisers, a chili cook off, dye-it for cancer, and a bake sale, were incredibly successful. With unflagging support from the department and the Clemson community, Team BSGSA managed to not only meet its $1,000 goal, but to exceed it, raising a grand total of $2,650.52! With this total, Team BSGSA ranked as the 3rd highest fundraising team participating in Clemson's Relay for Life (out of 43). Our efforts would not have been such a great success without the enthusiastic support of the faculty, staff, and students of the Biological Sciences Department. Thank you all for helping us make a difference in the lives of those fighting cancer! I sincerely hope that BSGSA can continue to participate in Relay for Life and I look forward to the opportunity to be involved in future years. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17197253362916154579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785906566446635401.post-40904446605477702842014-03-24T16:51:00.000-07:002014-03-24T16:51:20.295-07:00CBASS 2014 a Great Success!<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Clemson Biological Annual Student Symposium is an
annual event hosted by the Biological Sciences Graduate Student Association
showcasing the research that the Biological Science, Environmental Toxicology
and Microbiology graduate students are involved in. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over the course of the day, a poster session and a talk
session were viewed and evaluated by faculty and peers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The morning talk sessions were very
well received, following a change in format from normal 15 minute sessions to 5
minute quick talk sessions, designed to concisely present one’s research to a
lay audience, delivering the main points and goal of the research without
getting mucked up in methodology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">All the talks (21 in all) were very well done, with
awards going to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christie Sampson</b> (Habitat
Use and Critical Threats to Asian Elephant Conservation), <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christopher Mayerl</b> (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
functional significance of the fused pelvis to the plastron in Pleurodire Turtles)
and <b>Caitlin Rinz</b> (Congenital Myasthenic Syndrome in a Labrador Retriever
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The poster session was also very well done,
with excellent posters from both the graduate and undergraduate entrants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of the 35 posters presented, 3 graduate
and 3 undergrad posters were voted on, by their peers, as the best on
show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Graduate awards went to <b>Tyler
Collins</b> (</span><u><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Assessing the Role of Melanocortin 4 Receptors in Diversification of
Poeciliid Fishes)<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">,</span></span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">
<b>Evan Apanovitch</b> (</span><u><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Rising Stress: Investigating Plethodon Stressors Across Elevation
Changes</span></u><span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">)<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, and <b>Snehal Mahtre</b> (</span><u><span style="color: black;">Water for Electricity in the Upper Savannah Basin: Impacts
on Freshwater Bivalves)</span></u><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. Undergraduate
winners were <b>Sarah Hoffman</b> (</span><u>It’s Not Easy Being a Reef: The
Impacts of Corralivory and Competition on Live Coral Cover</u>)<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, <b>Grant Davidson </b>(</span><u>The Effect
of Social Environment on the Development of Sailfin Mollies (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">P.latipinna</i></u>)<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, and <b>Rachael Weber </b>(Fecal Source Tracking in Little Eastatoe
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all the faculty that judged, the sponsors of the raffle prizes: Brioso’s Fresh
Pasta, Moe’s Southwestern Grill, Firehouse Subs, BGR: The Burger Joint, Judge
Keller’s Store, Jimmie John’s, and Christie Sampson.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-indent: 0.5in;">Great job to all the participants, we look forward to seeing
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Sorry for the long hiatus from the BSGSA blog!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been a busy couple of months for
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The holiday community outreach begins!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kristine
Moody</b> organized a department-wide food drive to benefit Clemson Community
Care (CCC), a local non-profit organization that helps support low-income families in
the Clemson Area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end,
BSGSA and the Biological Sciences department raised enough money to donate 27
Thanksgiving turkeys and collected nearly 500 lbs of food!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a great success!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cheers to Kristine for putting this
event together, as well as to all those to contributed by donating
non-perishable goods, turkey money, and time to help deliver everything to CCC.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loading up at Clemson.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Almost 500 pounds of food donated!</td></tr>
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December is always a busy time around the department as the
fall semester winds down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amidst
the chaos of finalizing grades, wrapping up research projects, graduations, and
preparing for mid-winter conferences, BSGSA carried out its annual Salvation
Army Stocking Stuffing Project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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local children in need so they could have a merry Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher is excited about his stocking!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stocking Delivery Day!</td></tr>
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In addition, December saw the graduation of a handful of BioSci
Grad Students, including BSGSA members <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christie
Sampson</b> and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Gautam Ginjupalli</b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Congratulations to all and we wish you
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Happy New Year, Everyone!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are just a couple of weeks into 2014 and already so much
has happened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, several BSGSA
members kicked off the new year by attending the Society for Integrative and
Comparative Biology (SICB) annual conference, held this year in Austin,
TX.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition to attending the
conference, all participated by presenting talks and posters throughout the
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Christopher Mayerl: </b>Thermal ecology of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Podarcis tiliguerta</i> (Lacertidae) across an altitudinal gradient</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kelly Diamond: </b>Individual
variation in locomotor performance and behavior on northern curly-tailed
lizards (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Leiocephalus</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">carinatus</i>)</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Vanessa Young: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In vivo</i> femoral strains in swimming
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Congrats to all on jobs well done!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an added bonus, two of our members were recognized at the
SICB business meeting:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sandy Kawano</b> received a SICB Travel
Fellowship to help fund her remaining research trips to the Chicago Field
Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and the Smithsonian; and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Eric Riddell</b> received one of SICB's Grants-In-Aid-Of-Research Awards to fund his ongoing field work in which
he collects Appalachian salamanders for experiments to determine their capacity
to acclimate to climate change.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">As if the SICB excitement wasn’t enough, the BioSci
department welcomed the arrival of its new rhino on January 9</span><sup><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">th</span></sup><span style="color: #1a1a1a; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">!
Throughout the fall, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. Richard Blob</b>
and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Stanlee Miller</b>, the Clemson
University Natural History Museum curator, have received several specimens of
African mammals from the Museum of York County (near Rock Hill, SC), which is
deaccessioning portions of its collection that are not on display. One of
these specimens is a 15 foot long white rhinoceros, which has historic ties to
Clemson. This specimen was mounted and on display at a former Burger King
in Clemson for several years, before entering the collections at the Museum of
York County roughly 20 years ago. Now it has returned to Clemson, and
plans are in place for it to be displayed on the first floor of Long Hall in
the near future as part of our biodiversity exhibits. In the mean time, a
big thank you goes out to <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Dr. Steve
Klaine</b> for housing the rhino in his lab until the display case is
built! And another big thank you to Rick and Stanlee for bringing these
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As we look ahead, BSGSA has an exciting spring planned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Officers will be meeting later this
week to discuss plans for Graduate Student Recruitment Weekend, CBASS, and a
spring retreat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll also be
planning spring service opportunities, such as Darwin Week activities, BioBowl,
Relay for Life, and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stay
tuned for more information!</div>
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Hi Everyone! It’s my first year here at Clemson University,
and while teaching and applying for grants and all that other stuff has been
fun, what I’ve always been really excited for is research. Luckily, I get to
start that really soon! I’m going to be doing some work on the functional
morphology and ecology of pleurodiran turtles. These turtles are interesting
for a number of reasons, one of which is because almost nothing is known about
them, another of which is that they’re just gorgeous and fantastic animals!</div>
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There are two main types of turtles in the world,
cryptodirans, and pleurodirans. Cryptodirans are more of your standard turtle,
and the common name form them is “hidden neck” which refers to how they pull
their head back into their shell. Pleurodirans, on the other hand, are known as
“twist neck turtles” because they pull their head into their shell sideways, so
that one side of the head is somewhat exposed! Unlike cryptodires, pleurodires
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I just got my first group of turtles for my PhD: 4
individuals of <i>Emydura subglobosa</i>, a
beautiful species from Papua New Guinea and Australia. They have brilliant red
carapaces (the belly part of the shell), with streaks of color across the rest of the body. Once they get used to living in Clemson, I’ll be
putting them through their paces, videotaping their locomotion in both the
water and on land, so they’ll be getting plenty of exercise! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08717528387361344901noreply@blogger.com0Clemson, SC, USA34.6834382 -82.8373654000000134.6312097 -82.918046400000009 34.735666699999996 -82.756684400000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785906566446635401.post-51233894086597566542013-10-30T13:26:00.000-07:002013-10-30T13:32:47.415-07:00<b>Bottoms up in the Florida Keys!</b><br />
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As some of you may know, BSGSA member Kylie Smith has been supervising the Conservation of Marine Resources Creative Inquiry Team as they conduct their research in the Florida Keys. Kylie and her team have been investigating the effects of parrotfish grazing on coral reefs in the Keys, as well as how competition with macroalgae affects coral cover. Check out this great <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHTvhI55ddc">video</a> to take a dive with the team and learn more about the project! Cheers, Kylie, and keep up the good work!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17197253362916154579noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785906566446635401.post-11651337839683657582013-09-19T12:27:00.001-07:002013-09-19T12:27:16.455-07:00Happy Thursday!<br />
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So... I am not that great at remembering to point the camera at people, but here is a link to some of the photos taken on our hike last Saturday morning so Eric and Vanessa could school the rest of us on how to find/ catch some salamanders. Considering the only salamanders I have ever seen outside of captivity were juvenile <i>Eurycea quadridigitata</i> (dwarf salamanders) that my herp class back in Florida spent 5 hours dip netting through sludge to find 2 individuals, I was pretty excited! We also found some <i>Anaxyrus americanus </i>(american toads) as well on the way back. Oh and the waterfalls were pretty sweet too! Overall the weekend was nice and relaxing and I enjoyed getting to know some of you a little better. Now back to reading about fish and writing my proposal for the NSF GRFP.<br />
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<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17829139000313525552noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785906566446635401.post-63050271586741108702013-08-15T16:46:00.000-07:002013-08-15T16:46:06.761-07:00My newts shoot their ribs out of their skin?!<br />
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The fact that these guys shoot their ribs out of their skin as a defense mechanism is AWESOME, but that's actually not why I'm interested in them. I'm studying Iberian ribbed newts (<i>Pleurodeles waltl</i>) because they are one of the largest newts (reaching almost 12 in in the wild), and are primarily aquatic. While they can move on land quite a bit during migrations, they prefer to stay in the water. <br />
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My research involves evaluating how body morphology influenced the evolutionary invasion of land by vertebrates almost 400 million years ago, and involves using extant taxa to model the biology of fossil taxa. Salamanders and mudskipper fishes are often used to model the earliest tetrapods and tetrapod-like fishes since they share numerous morphological, physiological and ecological similarities. Previously, I studied how African mudskipper fishes (<i>Periophthalmus barbarus</i>) and tiger salamanders (<i>Ambystoma tigrinum</i>) moved on land, but these guys are normally pretty terrestrial (these mudskippers spend about 90% of their time out of water! Pretty cool fish, huh?).<br />
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The fossil record suggests that tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) evolved underwater, so our earliest ancestors were aquatic. We have a better understanding of how more terrestrial amphibians move on land, but what about ones that are primarily aquatic? These Iberian newts will provide us with important biological information about how primarily aquatic organisms move on land, and how their morphology helps them to accommodate the different physical demands placed by the terrestrial environment. The data that we collect from these newts will be important in modeling the movements of some of the most important fossils during the water-to-land transition in tetrapod evolution!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1785906566446635401.post-16641848196002118102013-08-12T14:19:00.002-07:002013-08-12T14:19:33.613-07:00Kristine Moody creates a hominid evolution exhibit for Long Hall! One of our BSGSA members, Kristine Moody, has been diligently working with the Department of Biological Sciences, including Stanlee Miller (Curator at the Campbell Natural History Museum), for the past several months to create an exhibit on hominid evolution, and this exhibit received its official unveiling today! Come check it out! Just come in through the front entrance of Long Hall, and it'll be straight ahead.<br />
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They all did a great job showcasing the sequence of events leading to the evolution of humans, and the major milestones that were associated with some of the major taxa that are on display. <br />
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Great job to Kristine for leading this initiative, and to all that helped make this happen! Thank you for providing a really great public resource for evolutionary education!<br />
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Over the past three months, I have been living in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina conducting research on terrestrial salamanders. It has been an incredible experience to work in this system, and I have no doubt that I work and live in one of the most beautiful places in our country. But being my first field season on this project, I had my fair share of issues. Learning how to use my flow through system to measure evaporative water loss was insanely tricky. The relationship between temperature and vapor pressure is a tricky to manipulate, sometimes with experiment-ending consequences. Miscommunications and unexpected surprises from the salamander digestive system (that's poo) also produced significant hurdles.<br />
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As of right now, it appears I will actually finish my project - at least before the first day of school. I will be honest, I have never worked this hard in my life. I sleep during the day, and at night, I hike up mountains to catch salamanders and conduct my experiments. The learning curve has been steep, as well as the mountains. I'm pretty sure I have permanent nerve damage in my big toes; I haven't felt them in a few weeks. I also had a fun trip to the emergency room at 4 in the morning to remove a moth that lodged itself next to my eardrum.<br />
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In the end, I love my project, and I am thrilled to see my first data plots and analyze my data. But I have poured almost everything I have into this project. I can't wait to return to campus and....start working again (haha).<br />
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For those of you that are close or already have finished your graduate degree, I am just beginning to understand what it takes: everything.<br />
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Thanks for letting me vent; this blog is great for that.<br />
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Time for more experiments!<br />
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