http://taraduffy.wordpress.com Mon, 02 May 2011 01:39:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://0.gravatar.com/blavatar/edbbf182af7d736044562dbd8dc9e8f5?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://taraduffy.wordpress.com http://taraduffy.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/under-construction/ http://taraduffy.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/under-construction/#comments Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:23:45 +0000 taraduffy http://taraduffy.wordpress.com/?p=30 ]]> I am a recent Ph.D. recipient from Stony Brook University where I worked with David Conover and Anne McElroy.  I am very interested in endocrine control of life history traits in fishes.  My thesis research addressed differences in life-history traits in populations of an estuarine fish, the Atlantic silverside.  I was interested in 1) which genes/gene products control differences in traits like growth, sex determination and development among populations and 2) how these traits respond to anthropogenic influences like size-selective harvest and contaminants.

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