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University of Oregon Stickleback Research Labs
- Kimmel Lab
- The Kimmel lab is interested in understanding the evolution of the different facial bone morphologies that are observed between ancestral and derived populations of stickleback. Members of the lab are asking how does development evolve to create new bone shapes and sizes? Like zebrafish, also studied in the Kimmel lab, sticklebacks have favorable attributes that facilitate developmental genetic study of cellular mechanisms underlying skeletal morphogenesis, and characterizing these mechanisms is a primary goal of the lab.
- Postlethwait Lab
- The Postlethwait lab is interested in the impact of duplicated gene evolution on development and organismal diversity. We investigate the ways in which duplicated genes have evolved in fresh water and anadromous lineages of stickleback and other ray-fin fish, especially zebrafish to test the hypothesis that gene duplication, especially in a whole genome duplication event, provides special opportunities for the evolution of novel morphologies and behaviors
- Cresko Lab
- The Cresko lab is very interested in understanding how evolutionary processes shape developmental systems in natural populations, and how, once evolved, these processes bias subsequent evolutionary change. Members of the lab study the evolution of armor structures, craniofacial morphology, and the genetic basis of locally adaptive photoperiodic response.
