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Current Group
Michael Jennions
Jennie Mallela (Post-doc)
Martin Edvardsson (Visit Fellow)
Crystal Vincent (Visit Fellow)
Richard Milner (PhD Student)
Isobel Booksmythe (PhD student)
Sophie Callander (PhD Student)
Andrew Kahn (PhD Student)
Dominique Roche (PhD Student)
Jonathan Henshaw (Hons student)
James Davies (Research Officer)

 

Recent Members
Megan Higgie (Post-doc)
Clint Kelly (Post-doc)
 Fleur de Crespigny (Visit. Fellow)
Jean Drayton(PhD student)
Brian Mautz (PhD Student)
 Bob Wong (PhD Student)
J.E. (Kobus) Boeke (Msc)
Michelle Shackleton (Msc)

 Jules Livingston (Hons Student)
Fredrick Hayes (Hons Student)
Jessica Bolton (HonsStudent)
 Leah Bala (Hons Student)
Katie Humphrey (Hons Student)

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Evolution, Ecology & Genetics Research School of Biology
Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200,
Australia
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Sophie Callander

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Background

I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Western Australia, with a Honours degree in Neuroscience. In late March 2009 I started my PhD at the ANU with my co-supervisors as  Michael Jennions and Patricia Backwell.  My first project was on sexual selection in crickets looking at how male-male interactions affect calling effort. I then did a short field season in Darwin in 2009 with Pat looking at female choice in fiddler crabs doing robotic playback experiments. In 201o I conducted a study looking at male mate choice in mosquitofish Gambusia with Michael. In mid 2010 I went to Zanzibar and then back to Darwin to continue fieldwork on fiddler crabs with Pat.  Summer 2011 is my final field season in Darwin.

Aside from the 4 papers below, I have also started writing up (5) my cricket data and (6) I have a paper in draft form of the differences in burrow acquisition by male Uca annulipes during the mating and non-mating periods (from Zanzibar). In my free time.... what am I saying, what free time.

Publications

4. Callander S, Backwell PRY, Jennions MD. 2012.  Context-dependent male mate choice: the effects of competitor presence and competitor size. Behavioural Ecology (in press)

3.  Callander S, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2012. The effect of claw size and wave rate on female choice in a fiddler crab. Journal of Ethology (in press)

2. Bolton J, Callender S, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2011. Even weak males help their neighbours: defence coalitions in a fiddler crab. Ethology 117:1027-1030 [PDF]

1. Callander S, Jennions MD, Backwell PRY. 2011. Female choice over short and long distances: neighbour effects. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65: 2071-2078 [PDF]

 

 

 

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