Welcome to the Dijkstra lab at Central Michigan University! We study how social competition and oxidative stress shape brain function, stress resilience, and evolutionary processes. Using African cichlid fish (our primary model for studying social behavior), we combine behavioral, physiological,

Investigadores de la Universidad de León descubren casi 150 vocalizaciones que participan en el proceso de socialización de estas aves en el norte de España

As animals age, they generally look less good and their telomeres, small structures that protect chromosomes from becoming frayed or tangled, become shorter. In our article we investigated if the effects of age at conception of mothers to the telomeres of their offspring would persist over a subsequent generation (grandoffspring generation), having previously found out that they persisted into the offspring generation.

Subject description The goal of the project is to uncover the mechanisms explaining why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild and domesticated war