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Dr. Andrew Stoehr
| Affiliation: | Faculty |
| Title: | Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: | Evolutionary Ecology |
| Office: | 321 Talbot Hall |
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| Phone: |
740-587-6610
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| Fax: | 740-587-5634 |
Ph.D. in Biology from University of California - Riverside, 2006
M.S. in Zoology from Auburn University, 1999
B.S. in Biology from Indiana University, 1994
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Teaching
BIOL 202 - Ecology and Evolution. Fall 2010, Spring 2011
BIOL 340 - Animal Behavior. Fall 2010
BIOL 356 - Ornithology. Spring 2011
Academic Positions
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology at Denison University, 2010 - present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale Univeristy, 2006-2010
Research
I have a variety of interests, but all fall into the general of evolutionary ecology. My PhD and postdoctoral research investigated questions related to the ecology, function, development and genetics of wing color patterns in butterflies. I utilize field and lab-based studies of wild and captive butterflies, including behavior, to try to understand why butterflies have the wing color patterns they have, and why those patterns change seasonally. I also utilize molecular and immunohistochemistry techniques to identify the genes and genetic mechanisms involved in producing those wing color patterns.
I also have an interest in basic life-history questions and in particular, the relationship between life-history and sex differences in immune defenses.
While I am new at Denison, I have worked with undergraduate researchers in the past, and I look welcome inquiries from Denison students interested in doing research in evolutionary ecology.
Publications
Stoehr, A.M.. 2010. Responses of disparate phenotypically-plastic, melanin-based traits to common cues: limits to the benefits of adaptive plasticity?. Evolutionary Ecology . v. 24 p. 287-298
Zuk, M. and A.M. Stoehr. 2010. Sex Differences in Parasite Susceptibility: An Evolutionary Perspective. In Sex Hormones and Immunity to Infection . Springer, (S.L. Klein and C. Roberts, Eds).
Stoehr, A.M. and H. Goux. 2008. Seasonal phenotypic plasticity of wing melanisation in the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae L. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Ecological Entomology . v. 33 p. 137-143
Stoehr, A.M. . 2007. Inter- and intra-sexual variation in immune defence in the cabbage white butterfly, Pieris rapae L. (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Ecological Entomology. v. 32 p. 188-193
Stoehr, A.M. and H. Kokko. 2006. Sex differences in immunocompetence: what does life history theory predict?. Behavioral Ecology. v. 17 p. 751-756
Stoehr, A.M.. 2006. Costly melanin synthesis: the importance of taxon?. Functional Ecology. v. 20 p. 276-281
Zuk, M. and A.M. Stoehr. 2002. Immune defense and host life history.. American Naturalist. v. 160 p. S9-S22
