Congratulations to Dan and Mike for their new paper: Baldassarre, D. T.and Webster, M. S. 2013. Experimental evidence that extra-pair mating drives asymmetrical introgression of a sexual trait. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280: 20132175. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2175.
Kate is spending the Fall semester at sea, first collecting fishes aboard NOAA Ship H.B. Bigelow off the east coast of the USA, then traveling to the east coast of Australia to collect Pacific Ocean fish samples.
Daniel Baldassarre’s paper on extra pair mating in the Australian red-backed fairy-wren is published and Dan and Mike are featured in the popular press! “Fooled by a sharpie! Cheating birds steered to fidelity with red marker” NBC News “Painted fairy wrens quite the casanova” ABC News Australia “Cheating Fairywrens” AAAS…