Nature versus
nurture in coping with environmental change: the importance of early life
experience and parental influence on fish behaviour and physiology
This studentship will investigate the extent to which adverse environmental
conditions experienced by either the parents or progeny determine phenotype in
fish, and the mechanisms by which this occurs. Particular emphasis will be
given to the role played by the neuroendocrine stress axis in this context and
how key behavioural traits such as foraging, predator avoidance and
reproductive behaviour might be altered by early exposure to environmental
stressors in sticklebacks.
This studentship is part of a new NERC Doctoral Training Partnership in
"Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment" (ACCE).
Supervisors: Dr Tom Pottinger (CEH Lancaster); Dr Lynne Sneddon (University of
Liverpool)
For more information see:
DEADLINE 20th
January 2014