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Current Group
Michael Jennions
Martin Edvardsson (Post-doc)
Megan Higgie (Post-doc)
Fleur de Crespigny (Visit. Fellow)
Jean Drayton(PhD student)
Brian Mautz (PhD Student)
Richard Milner (PhD Student)
Isobel Booksmythe (PhD student)
Jessica Bolton (Hons student)
Andrew Kahn (Hons Student)
James Davies (Research Officer)

Recent Members

Clint Kelly (Post-doc)
Bob Wong (PhD)
J.E. (Kobus) Boeke (Msc)
Leah Bala (Hons)
Michelle Shackleton (Msc)
Katie Humphrey (Hons)
Fredrick Hayes (Hons)


External Collaborators

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School of Botany & Zoology
Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200,
Australia
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Brian Mautz
                                                          
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Brief Background

BSc  University California, Riverside 2004 (Advisor: Marlene Zuk)
MSc (Biological Science) Illinois State University 2007 (Supervisor: Scott Sakaluk)

I started my PhD at the ANU in March 2008. More information about my projects will follow shortly. So far I have worked on polyandry and sexual harrassment in mosquitofish (project 1) , female and male  mate choice in mosquitofish (projects 2 & 3). I will shortly do a fiddler crab project in Darwin under the supervision of A/Prof Pat Backwell (project 4). I also have plans afoot to investigate mate choice in humans (project 5).

Publications

4. Kahn A, Mautz B, Jennions MD. In Press. Females prefer to associate with males with longer intromittent organs in mosquitofish. Biology Letters 4: 143-145 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0637 PDF at FirstCite Online (Sept 15)

3. Mautz BS,  Sakaluk SK. 2008. Heritable variation in the timing of spermatophore removal, a mechanism of post-copulatory female choice in crickets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1366-1370 [PDF]

2. Hamm D, Mautz BS, Wolfner MS, Aquadro CF, Swanson WJ. 2007. Evidence for positive selection in the evolution of the candidate primate   sperm receptor gene PKDREJ and the maintenance of human allelic diversity. American Journal of Human Genetics 81:44-52. [PDF]

1. Mautz BS, Sakaluk  SK. 2008. The effect of age and previous mating experience on pre- and post-copulatory mate choice in female house crickets (Acheta domesticus L). Journal of Insect Behavior  21:203-212 [PDF]


 

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