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Lucas Eckert, Jessica Miller, John Fitzpatrick, Sigal Balshine, Ben Bolker. (in press). Parental care drives the evolution of male reproductive accessory glands across ray-finned fishes. Evolution.
Reproductive accessory glands are organs involved in reproduction that do not directly produce or release gametes but can play crucial roles in securing reproductive success. In fishes, the two leading hypotheses about why accessory glands evolved are 1) in response to sperm competition, or 2) to facilitate parental care activities. Here, we investigate the evolutionary history of accessory glands and test these hypotheses by estimating quantitative differences in evolutionary rates... read more
Eckert et al. 2025 - EvolutionCaitlyn Synyshyn, Lucas Eckert, Adrienne McLean, Megan Cyr, Sigal Balshine. 2023. Subtle fisheries gear model differences substantially influence catch rate of an invasive fish. Fisheries Research.
When sampling wild animals, the collection methods used can impact the number, sex, size, and behaviour of individuals captured and it is important to understand these impacts when making inferences about populations. While biases between different types of sampling gear are well recognized, biases that arise from using different models of the same gear type are often not considered... read more
Synyshyn et al. 2023 - Fisheries ResearchCurrently in review:
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Lucas Eckert, Isaac Eckert, Olivia Rahn, Cameron So, Rowan Barrett. (in review). Genetic insights from herbarium specimens and implications for global change research.
Alexis Heckley, Rowan Barrett, Alison Bell, Daniel Bolnick, Francis Dinh, Lucas Eckert, Grant Haines, Catherine Peichel, Andrew Hendry, Kiyoko Gotanda. (in review). Testing the determinants of stickleback dispersal in introductions: insights from a whole-lake conservation translocation.
David Ensing, Tyler Nelson, Chandra Moffat, Lauryn Joslin, Lucas Eckert, Marlene Kraml, Christopher Eckert. (in review). Together again: the invasive mustard Hesperis matronalis suffers devastating seed predation by a recently adventive specialist weevil.
Kaitlyn Dawson, Katherine Maunder, Lucas Eckert, Marlene Kraml, Chloe Dean-Moore, Christopher Eckert. (in review). Viral-induced colour change reveals that Turnip Mosaic Virus infection prevalence increases with urbanization in the invasive mustart Hersperis matronalis.
Isaac Eckert, Lucas Eckert, Cameron So, Olivia Rahn, Laura Pollock. (in review). Harnessing herbarium collections to monitor genetic change in Earth's vascular plants.
Daniel Bolnick, Rowan Barrett, Emma Choi, Lucas Eckert, Andrew Hendry, Emily Kerns, Åsa Lind, Kathryn Milligan-McClellan, Catherine Peichel, Kristofer Sasser, Alice Thornton, Cole Wolf, Natalie Steinel, Jesse Weber. (in review). Destabilized host-parasite dynamics in newly founded populations. Preprint
Katherine Maunder, Kaitlyn Dawson, Lauryn Joslin, Lucas Eckert, Marlene Kraml, Chloe Dean-Moore, Christopher Eckert. (in review). Random and non-random variation in flower colour along an urban-rural gradient in the introduced mustard Hesperis matronalis.
Kevin Neumann, Lucas Eckert, Damaris Miranda, Andrew Kemp, Alison Bell. (in review). Collective behaviour evolves independently of benthic-limnetic divergence in stickleback.
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