A5024845112- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Dermatological diseases and infestations
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Primate Behavior and Ecology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Bartonella species infections research
- Animal Genetics and Reproduction
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Vector-borne infectious diseases
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
University of California, Los Angeles
2016-2019
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
2016-2019
University of California System
2015
UCLA Health
2009
Understanding how human activities influence immune response to environmental stressors can support biodiversity conservation across increasingly urbanizing landscapes. We studied a bobcat ( Lynx rufus ) population in urban southern California that experienced rapid decline from 2002–2005 due notoedric mange. Because anticoagulant rodenticide (AR) exposure was an underlying complication mange deaths, we aimed understand sublethal contributions of urbanization and ARs on 65 biochemical...
This study was conceived to detect skin mites in social mammals through real-time qPCR, and estimate taxonomic Demodex further Prostigmata mite relationships different host species by comparing sequences from two genes: mitochondrial 16S rRNA nuclear 18S rRNA. We determined the prevalence hair follicles of marmots (13%) bats (17%). The high found sampling only one site on body may indicate that are common inhabitants their skin. Since we three (Neuchelacheles sp, Myobia sp Penthaleus sp) bat...
Abstract The decision to hide from predators and the time allocated hiding are economic decisions that integrate benefits of escaping a predator costs reduced resource acquisition. Body size is factor influences many antipredator decisions. Giant clams, Tridacna maxima , depend on photosynthesis as their main source energy; thus, retracting mantle into shell inhibits energy acquisition ultimately growth. We experimentally encouraged 95 individual clams by touching them found after accounting...
Many animals escape predators by hiding. Hiding decisions are economic in that individuals trade off the physiological costs of hiding with benefits increased security. The number conspecifics may increase competition, security, or attract predators, influencing predation risk. We studied time Christmas tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus), sessile marine invertebrates, which lived 0–17 other within 20cm. Competition and risk reduction both predict a shorter latency to re-emerge given...
The causes and consequences of vertebrate natal dispersal have been studied extensively, yet little is known about the molecular mechanisms involved. We used RNA-seq to quantify transcriptomic gene expression in blood wild yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventer) prior dispersing from or remaining philopatric their colony. tested 3 predictions. First, we hypothesized dispersers residents will differentially express genes networks since physiologically demanding. Second, expected...