Katherine A. Shaw, Visiting Scholar

Kat ShawI am a graduate student in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at UConn. I share an interest with my advisor, Dr. Carl Schlichting, in the role phenotypic plasticity plays in evolution. I have specific interests in behavioral plasticity — particularly how flexible behaviors may affect population dynamics and produce population-level differences and geographic variation in behavior. I am exploring such mechanisms via investigations of geographic variation in sneaking propensity — a flexible and reversible (opportunistic) mating tactic in male threespine stickleback fish.

Katherine Shaw
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
75 North Eagleville Rd, U-43
Storrs, CT 06269
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Office: TLS 363
Voice: (860) 486-4638
Fax: (860) 486-6364
Email: katherine.shaw@uconn.edu
Advisor: Dr. Carl Schlichting