William J. Etges Ph.D., University of Rochester

• Research
• Instructional Activities (Courses, information, seminars, etc.)
• Bibliography
• Graduate/Undergraduate Student and Postdoctoral Research Opportunities
• Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arkansas

Lab Tech/Coordinator:

• Giselle Almeida

Graduate Students:

• Karen Arbuckle, Teaching Assistant, MS program
• Cássia Cardoso de Oliveira, Research Assistant, Ph.D. program
• Julie Havens, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. program
• Jackson Jennings, Teaching Assistant, MS program
• Valerie Feller, Summer Lab Tech

Undergraduate Students:

• Jim Sloan

Laboratory Resources:

• Drosophila stocks available
• Key to Arkansas drosophilids (by Frances E. Clayton)
• Key to southern Arizona drosophilids (by William B. Heed)

Etges, W. J. and M. Levitan. 2008. Variable evolutionary response to regional climate change in a polymorphic species. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society. in press.
Beckenbach, A. T., W. B. Heed, and W. J. Etges. 2008. A mitochondrial DNA analysis of vicariant speciation in two lineages in the Drosophila mulleri subgroup. Evolutionary Ecology Research, in press.
Oliveira, D. C. S. G., M. Leonidas, W. J. Etges, P. M. O’Grady, and R. DeSalle. 2008. Species delimitation in the Drosophila aldrichi subcluster (Diptera: Drosophilidae) using DNA sequences. Zootaxa 1725:37-47.
Etges, W. J. 2007. In Memoriam. William B. Heed, 1926-2007. Evolution 61:2739-2742.
Etges, W. J., C. C. de Oliveira, E. Gragg, D. Ortíz-Barrientos, M. A. F. Noor and M. G. Ritchie. 2007.  Genetics of incipient speciation in Drosophila mojavensis. I. Male courtship song, mating success and genotype x environment interactions. Evolution 61:1106-1119.
Jaureguy, L. M. and W. J. Etges.  2007.  Assessing patterns of senescence in Drosophila mojavensis reared on different host cacti. Evolutionary Ecology Research 9:91-107.
Etges, W. J., C. L. Veenstra, and L. L. Jackson.  2006.  Premating isolation is determined by larval rearing substrates in cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis. VII.  Effects of larval dietary fatty acids on adult epicuticular hydrocarbons.  J. Chemical Ecology 32:2629-2646.
Etges, W. J., K. F. Over, C. C. de Oliveira, and M. G. Ritchie.  2006.  Inheritance of courtship song variation among geographically isolated populations of Drosophila mojavensis. Animal Behaviour 71:1205-1214.
Funk, D. J., P. Nosil, and W. J. Etges. 2006.  Ecological divergence exhibits consistently positive associations with reproductive isolation across disparate taxa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 103:3209–3213.
Levitan, M. and W. J. Etges. 2005. Climate change and recent genetic flux in populations of Drosophila robusta. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2005, 5:4.

Contact Information: William J. Etges Department of Biological Sciences SCEN 632 1 University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR 72701-1201 USA http://comp.uark.edu/~wetges/wetges.html office: (479) 575-6358 lab:(479) 575-7437 FAX (479) 575-4010 email

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