Lesley T. Lancaster
lancaster@nceas.ucsb.edu (805) 892-2512
Post-doctoral Fellow,
National Center for ecological analysis and Synthesis
Santa barbara, ca
I am currently investigating the
role of ecology in shaping current
patterns of flowering plant
evolutionary diversity.
doctoral thesis title: maternal effects as adaptations for
organizing alternative social and antipredator strategies.
(c)2008, Available from proquest.com
University of California
santa cruz
advisor: Barry Sinervo
Publications:
Lancaster, L.T., Mcadam, A.G, & Sinervo, B. (in review) Maternal effects and body shape variation integrate alternative reproductive and antipredator strategies: stocky is sneaky and lean is mean.
Lancaster, L.T., Hipsley, C.A., & Sinervo, B. (in review) female choice for optimal combinations of multiple male display traits improves offspring survival.
sinervo, b., clobert, j., miles, d.b., mcadam, a., & lancaster, l. (2008) The role of pleiotropy versus signaller-receiver gene epistasis in life history trade-offs: dissecting the genomic architecture of organismal design in social systems. heredity 101:197-211.
Lancaster, l.t., hazard, L.c., clobert, j., & sinervo, B.r. (2008) corticosterone manipulation reveals differences in heirarchical organization of multi-dimensional reproductive trade-offs in r-strategist and k-strategist females. journal of evolutionary biology 21:556-565.
mills, s.c., hazard, l., lancaster, l., mappes, t., miles, d., oksanen, t.a., & sinervo, B. (2008) gonadotropin hormone modulation of testosterone, immune function, performance and behavioral treadeoffs among male morphs of the lizard, uta stansburiana. american naturalist 171:339-357.
lancaster, l.t., mcadam, a.g., wingfield, j.c., & sinervo, b.R. (2007) adaptive social and maternal induction of antipredator dorsal patterns in a lizard with alternative social strategies. ecology letters 10:798-808 (cover article).
featured in scientific american online, science illustrated
magazine, msnbc, and other news journals.
sinervo, b., chaine, a., clobert, j., calsbeek, r., mcadam, a., hazard, l., lancaster, l., alonzo, s., corrigan, g., & hochberg, m. (2006) self-recognition, color signals and cycles of greenbeard mutualism and transient altruism. proceedings of the national academy of sciences (u.s.a.) 102:7372-7377.
nunes, s., muecke, e.m., lancaster, l.t., miller, n.a., mueller, m.a., mulehaus, j., & castro, l. (2004) functions and consequences of play behavior in juvenile belding’s ground squirrels. animal behaviour 68:27-37.
nunes, s., muecke, e.m., sanchez, z., hoffmeier, r.r., & Lancaster, l.t. (2004) play behavior and motor development in juvenile belding’s ground squirrels (spermophilus beldingi). behavioral ecology and sociobiology 56:97-105.
