Mind the gap: a systematic map of light variation in algal aquaculture allows us to identify research gaps
PhD student Belinda Comerford, under the supervision of Nick Paul and Dustin Marshall, has explored existing studies on how variation in light affects algal growth, highlighting crucial gaps in our knowledge to date.
Effects of light variation in algal cultures: a systematic map of temporal scales
Published in the Journal of Applied Phycology.
Mother-offspring conflicts: temperature can change selection on offspring size
Using the model organism Bugula neritina, more than four years of study and the deployment of over 6000 individuals, Dustin Marshall has found that mothers in higher temperatures tend to favour smaller offspring, while mothers in cooler temperatures favour larger offspring.
Temperature-mediated variation in selection on offspring size: A multi-cohort field study
Published in Functional Ecology
Challenging the karyoplasmic ratio: bigger cells, smaller nuclei
New work by Martino Malerba and Dustin Marshall debunks the long-held belief that the karyoplasmic ratio — the proportion of nucleus size to cell size — is approximately constant.
Larger cells have relatively smaller nuclei across the Tree of Life
Published in Evolution Letters.
Plastic responses to changes in environment are not necessarily adaptive
Lukas Schuster and his supervisors, Craig White and Dustin Marshall, investigate whether changes in metabolic rates in response to different field environments are an example of adaptive phenotypic plasticity.
Geographical bias in physiological data limits predictions of global change impacts
Published in Functional Ecology.
Plastic but not adaptive: habitat‐driven differences in metabolic rate despite no differences in selection between habitats
Published in Oikos.
Multilevel selection on offspring size and the maintenance of variation
Published in The American Naturalist.
