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

Laboratory Personnel:
Lab Tech/Coordinator:
Giselle Almeida
Graduate Students:
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:

• Karen Arbuckle's courtship song website
• Drosophila stocks available
• Key to Arkansas drosophilids (by Frances E. Clayton)
• Key to southern Arizona drosophilids (by William B. Heed)

Etges, W. J. and A. D. Tripodi. 2008. Premating isolation is determined by larval rearing substrates in cactophilic Drosophila mojavensis. VIII. Mating success mediated by epicuticular hydrocarbons within and between isolated populations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, in press.
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 10:475-492.	(journal cover - W. B. Heed)
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.
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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