Two Ph.D Studentships available at the University of Liverpool, UK
Ph.D
1: Causes and evolutionary consequences of variation in fish colouration
This
project will inform our understanding of how intrinsic factors or heritability
and extrinsic factors such as diet play a role in maintaining colour
polymorphisms and intraspecific variation in natural populations of the guppy
Supervisors:
Dr Mike Speed, Dr Lynne Sneddon, Dr Tom Pottinger, Dr Donna Snellgrove and Dr
Kath Sloman
Full details:
Ph.D 2: Coping with unpredictable environments: The
role of parental and developmental factors in adaptation to natural and
anthropogenic stressors in fish
Possible
mechanisms by which environmental factors may influence phenotype in
sticklebacks will be investigated in aquarium-scale and semi-natural
mesocosm-scale experiments. New information on how parental influences
(via hormone transfer to progeny), unpredictability of the early rearing
environment, and pre- and post-hatch exposure to stressors, including temperature
change and hypoxia shape phenotype will be used to inform how environmental
variability may result in altered phenotype.
Supervisors:
Dr Lynne Sneddon, Dr Tom Pottinger, Dr Jakob Bro Jorgensen
Full
details:
Apply by sending a cover letter and CV to biolres@liverpool.ac.uk by the deadline of 11th January 2015. Open to
UK students only.
Informal enquiries to Dr Lynne Sneddon (lsneddon@liverpool.ac.uk)
Dr
Lynne U. Sneddon
Director
of Bioveterinary Science,
University of Liverpool,
The BioScience Building,
Liverpool,
L69 7ZB,
UK
Tel.
+44 (0)151 795 4388 (Extn 54388)
E-mail:
lsneddon@liverpool.ac.uk