from left: Rocio Ng, Erin Hill-Burns, John True, Joe Lachance


D. elegans videos

male courtship

male-male aggression


Selected Recent Publications from the True Lab


Yukilevich R, True J.R. 2008 African morphology, behavior, and pheromones underlie incipient sexual isolation between U.S. and Caribbean Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 62:2807-2828.

Yukilevich R, Lachance J, Aoki F, True J.R. 2008 Long-term evolution of epistatic genetic networks. Evolution 62:2215-2235.

Yukilevich R, True J.R. 2008 Incipient sexual isolation among cosmopolitan Drosophila melanogaster populations. Evolution 62:2112-21.

Jeong, S., Rebeiz. M., Andolfatto, P., Werner, T., True, J.R., and Carroll, S.B. 2008 The evolution of gene regulation underlies the morphological divergence of two closely related Drosophila species.  Cell 132: 783-703.

Yukilevich, R., and True, J.R. 2006. Divergent outcomes of reinforcement speciation: the relative importance of assortative mating and migration modification. Am Nat 167: 638-654.

Yeh, S.-D., Liou, S.-R. and True, J.R. 2006 Genetics of divergence in male wing pigmentation and courtship behavior between Drosophila elegans and D. gunungcola. Heredity 96: 383-395.

True, J.R., Yeh, S.-D., Hovemann, B.T., Kemme, T., Meinertzhagen, I.A., Edwards, T.N., Liou, S.-R., Han, Q. and Li, J. 2005 Drosophila tan encodes a novel hydrolase required in pigmentation and vision. PLoS Genetics 1: 551-562.

True, J.R. 2003 Insect melanism: the molecules matter.  Trends Ecol Evol 18: 640-647.

 

Our laboratory studies developmental and evolutionary genetics using Drosophila pigmentation patterns and behavior and other traits as models.

Dept. of Ecology and Evolution

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY 11794

  1. -JT office 631-632-8506

  2. -Lab 631-632-8588

  3. -Fax 631-632-7626


People

John True

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[research]

Erin Hill-Burns

(post-doc)

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[research]

Joe Lachance

(graduate student)

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[research]

Rocio Ng

(graduate student)

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[research]


Alumni

Roman Yukilevich

(Univ. Chicago)

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Shu-Dan Yeh

(Univ. Cal. Irvine)

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