i) molecular ecology: mating systems and patterns of gene flow (right whales and gray whales)

ii) conservation biology: fluctuating asymmetry as a tool for assessing population health of endangered species (right whales, manatee, zebrafish)

iii) human mate choice: cues for gays and lesbians

• Trish Hall
• Mandy Maguire
  
  

• Candice Dorsey (manatees, fluctuating asymmetry) : Is fluctuating asymmetry a good bioindicator for manatees?

• Bonnie Coy (right whales, microsatellite analysis, genetic diversity) : Has California sea lion fitness declined over the past century?

• Dave Goerlitz (gray whales, mtDNA sequence data, winter habitat-use patterns). D Goerlitz, GM Belson, J Urban & CM Schaeff. In press. Impact of female-directed philopatry on gray whale winter habitat-use patterns. Canadian Journal of Zoology.

• Vikki Portway (right whales, mtDNA sequence data, gene flow): Portway VA, PB Best, VJ Rowntree, R Payne, MJ Moore, PK Hamilton and CM Schaeff. Genetic population structure of South Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena australis). Marine Ecology Progress Series. IN PREP.

• Tammy Steeves (gray whales, mtDNA sequence data, summer habitat-use patterns: Steeves T, J Darling, CM Schaeff & R Fleischer. 2001. Population structure of gray whales that summer in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia based on sighting and molecular data. Conservation Biology. Conservation Genetics 2:379-384.

  
  
• Mike Schwartz (penguins, DNA fingerprints, mating system): Schwartz. M, DJ Boness, CM Schaeff , P Majluf, EA Perry & RC Fleischer. 1999. Female solicited extra-pair matings in Humboldt penguins fail to produce extra-pair fertilizations. Behavioral Ecology 19(3): 242-250.