Professor, Department of Biology
Ph.D. University of Arizona 1984
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Curtis M. Lively Professor, Department of Biology Ph.D. University of Arizona 1984 |
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Dr. Lively studies population biology and host-parasite interactions. He is primarily interested in the ecology and evolution of
host-parasite interactions. His lab is involved in detailed studies of the interaction between a parasitic trematode and a freshwater
New Zealand snail in which both sexual and asexual females coexist. The goal of these studies is to (1) determine whether there is a
genetic basis to the host-parasite interactions, (2) establish whether parasites can prevent the elmination of sexual individuals by
one or more clones, (3) assess the effect of parasites on the maintenance of clonal diversity within populations, and (4) determine
whether the parasite alters host behaviors to enhance its own transmission. These studies have led to a general interest in the
importance of parasites, including the roles they may play in sexual selection and the maintenance of genetic diversity.
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Levri, E.P. & C.M. Lively. 1996. The effects of size, reproductive condition, and parasitism on foraging behaviour in a freshwater snail, Potamopyrgus antipodarium. Animal Behaviour 51:891-901. Lively, C.M. 1996. Host-parasite coevoution and sex. BioScience 46:197-114. B. Sinervo & C.M. Lively. 1998. The rock-paper-scissors game and the evolution of alternative male strategies. Nature 380:240-243. (Abstract) Dybdahl, M.F. & C.M. Lively. 1996. The geography of coevoution: comparative population structures for a snail and its trematode parasite. Evolution 50:2264-2275. R. Stephen Howard & Curtis M. Lively. 1998. The maintenance of sex by parasitism and mutation accumulation under epistatic fitness functions. Evolution 52:604-610. (Abstract) Mark F. Dybdahl & Curtis M. Lively. 1998. Host-parasite coevolution: Evidence for rare advantage and time-lagged selection in a natural population. Evolution 52:1057-1066. (Abstract) |
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