Ryan Calsbeek
Professor
Appointments
Professor of Biological Sciences
Area of Expertise
Sexual Conflict,
Natural Selection,
Reptiles and Amphibians
Biography
Males and females share the majority of their genetic material but are often subject to very different forms of selection. This poses special challenges for understanding evolutionary change. Our work on sexual conflict is aimed at understanding the implications for local adaptation and how conflict is resolved. Broadening our work on sexual conflict from the previous decade, we are now also investigating the ways in which selection operates differentially on alternative life history stages. Using wood frogs as a study system, we're investigating the special challenges that arise when selection has to build two very different body plans in the same individual (e.g., tadpoles and frogs). We combine this work with a study of the unique challenges faced by frogs that have to breed in human altered habitats.
Education
B.S. Indiana University
Ph.D. University of California at Santa Cruz
Publications
Goedert, D., Calsbeek, R. (2019) Experimental Evidence That Metamorphosis Alleviates Genomic Conflict. The American Naturalist. Sep;194(3):356-366.
Calsbeek, R. and Careau, V. (2019) Survival of the fastest: tradeoffs structure the multivariate optimization of performance phenotypes. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Brady, S.P., Zamora-Camacho, F.J., Eriksson, F.A.A., Goedert, D., Comas, M., Calsbeek, R. (2019) Fitter frogs from polluted ponds: The complex impacts of human-altered environments. Evolutionary Applications. Jan 18;12(7):1360-1370
Erritouni, Y.R., Reinke, B.A., Calsbeek, R. (2018) A novel body coloration phenotype in Anolis sagrei: Implications for physiology, fitness, and predation. PLoS One. Dec 31;13(12):e0209261
Reinke, B.A., Erritouni, Y., Calsbeek, R. (2018) Maternal allocation of carotenoids to eggs in an Anolis lizard. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular Integrative Physiology. Apr;218:56-62.
Logan, M.L., Duryea, M.C., Molnar, O.R., Kessler, B., and Calsbeek, R. (2016) Spatial variation in climate mediates gene flow across an island archipelago. Evolution 10: 2395-2403
Calsbeek, R., McPeek, M.A. (2016) On the utility of meta-analyses in the study of natural selection. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. Oct;29(10):1907-1908.
Calsbeek, R., Duryea, M.C., Goedert, D., Bergeron, P., and Cox, R.M. (2015) Intralocus sexual conflict, adaptive sex allocation, and the heritability of fitness. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 28: 1975-1985.
Calsbeek, R., and Kuchta S.R. (2011) Predator mediated selection and impact of developmental stage on viability in wood frog tadpoles (Rana sylvatica). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 353-364.
Calsbeek, R., and Cox, R.M. (2010) Experimentally assessing the relative importance of predation and competition as agents of natural selection. Nature 465: 613-616.
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