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SUMMARY:Sex, death, acrobatics and combat: Capitalizing on the weird biolog
 y of an amphibious fish
LOCATION:Biology Auditorium 136
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20182201T000000
UID:2026-04-22-19-07-37@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260422T190737
Description:Deep in the mangroves of Florida\, the Caribbean and Central Am
 erica\, there’s a fish that defies all odds and exhibits some truly rema
 rkable characteristics. Mangrove rivulus fish live in some of the nastiest
  conditions on Earth and can tolerate dramatic fluctuations in oxygen leve
 ls\, salinity\, temperature\, and water availability\, as well as infiltra
 tion of pollutants into their natural environment. They are highly plastic
  and exist predominantly as self-fertilizing hermaphrodites\, which allows
  (effectively) for the production of clones. They can also change sex from
  hermaphrodite to male\, live on land for 2 months\, navigate terrestrial 
 environments using Olympic jumps\, and engage in intense combat. We have c
 ombined field and laboratory-based studies to examine a host of questions 
 related to phenotypic plasticity\, physiology\, morphology\, behavior and 
 performance in this species. I will discuss a number of recent advances th
 at have emerged from studying this odd organism\; a potpourri of cool scie
 nce driven largely by the graduate and undergraduate students in my lab! 4
 :00 pm
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