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Anthony J. Zera

Associate Professor
School of Biological Sciences
University of Nebraska


Physiology of Life History Tradeoffs: Genetics, Energetics & Endocrinology  video
Guest Lecture for Spring 1999 Graduate Seminar:  
Evolution of Behavior as Part of the Total Phenotype


RELATED READING:
 Zera, A.J., J. Sall, and K. Grudzinski. 1997. Flight-muscle polymorphism in the cricket Gryllus firmus: Muscle characteristics and their influence on the evolution of flightlessness. Physiological Zoology 70:519-529.

Zera, A.J. and R.F. Denno. 1997. Physiology and ecology of dispersal polymorphism in insects. Annual Review of Entomology 42:207-230.

Zera, A.J., J. Sall, and R. Schwartz. 1996. Artificial selection on JHE activity in Gryllus assimilis: Nature of activity differences between lines and effect on JH binding and metabolism. Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 32:421-428.

Zera, A.J. and C. Zhang. 1995. Evolutionary endocrinology of juvenile hormone esterase in Gryllus assimilis: Direct and correlated responses to selection. Genetics 141:1125-1134.

Mole, S. and A.J. Zera. 1993. Differential allocation of resources underlies the dispersal-reproduction trade-off in the wing-dimorphic cricket, Gryllus rubens. Oecologia 93:121-127.

Zera, A.J. and K.C. Tiebel. 1989. Differences in juvenile hormone esterase activity between presumptive macropterous and brachypterous Gryllus rubens. Implications for the hormonal control of winglength polymorphism. J. Insect Physiol. 35:7-17.

 
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