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Betta Fish Reactions To Color: A Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis, Jessica Barrios, Jackie Arnott
Betta Fish Reactions To Color: A Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis, Jessica Barrios, Jackie Arnott
Student Symposium
We will be studying the connections between mating, aggression, and the coloration of male betta fish and how they react to the coloration of other betta fish. We chose this topic because coloration is genetically linked to aggression in male betta fish, and because aggressive behaviors are very similar to mating behaviors.
Flight And Wing Comparison Of Bats In A Cloud And A Dry Forest In Costa Rica, Makali Haines
Flight And Wing Comparison Of Bats In A Cloud And A Dry Forest In Costa Rica, Makali Haines
Student Symposium
The shape, and size of an object’s wings and body can tell you a lot about their aerodynamics and strategies for flight. Some wings are built to be fast and agile while others are slower but more powerful, and there are a lot of factors that go into deciding the best strategy for each situation or location. When you think of this in terms of animals' wings and different habitats one might predict that different habitats contain animals that have different flying strategies. I measured many aspects of Costa Rican bats caught in both the wet and dry forest, then …
Characterization Of The Yeast Gene Ydl218w: A Role In Cell Wall Biosynthesis And Maintenance?, Kaden Hubly
Characterization Of The Yeast Gene Ydl218w: A Role In Cell Wall Biosynthesis And Maintenance?, Kaden Hubly
Student Symposium
The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a common model organism used to study eukaryotic cell biology. S. cerevisiae is a fungus with a cell wall which makes it an excellent model for the study of antifungal agents. There are close to 1,000 genes of unknown function (GUFs) in S. cerevisiae. One of these is the gene YDL218W on which our research is focused. While little is known about this gene, evidence suggests that it may be involved in cell wall synthesis or maintenance. For example, YDL218W is induced by a transcription factor known to regulate genes involved in maintaining cell …
Advancing Natural History Research Using The Collections Of The Owu Brant Museum Of Zoology, Josh Pletcher, Kyle Davis
Advancing Natural History Research Using The Collections Of The Owu Brant Museum Of Zoology, Josh Pletcher, Kyle Davis
Student Symposium
Natural history collections are important repositories of biological and geological material. Biological collections provide raw data to interpret the ecology, anatomy, and evolution of living and fossil organisms. OWU’s zoological collections play an important role in undergraduate research and educating future preparators. Two projects are currently in progress: Kyle Davis’ work on size variation in house sparrows and Josh Pletcher’s work digitizing OWU’s collection of Ward’s fossil casts. We travelled to museums in New York and Connecticut to further pursue our research. Kyle Davis’ research focuses on Bergmann’s Rule, which states that as temperature decreases, body size increases, decreasing surface …
Studying The Social Behavior And Preferences Of Polar Bears At The Columbus Zoo And Aquarium, Molly Seeberger
Studying The Social Behavior And Preferences Of Polar Bears At The Columbus Zoo And Aquarium, Molly Seeberger
Student Symposium
Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are relatively solitary animals unless it is breeding season. At the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, the polar bears participate in the Species Survival Plan where breeding for conservation efforts is encouraged. Lee, an 19-year-old male, came to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in the Fall of 2018 in hopes of breeding with 12-year-old twin females Aurora and Anana. Because Lee’s previous experience was only living with one female, I wanted to observe whether he would prefer a particular female because he now had two females to choose from. Not only did I look for preference, but …
Human Music Genre Recognition In Goldfish, Makali Haines, Sophia Hallam
Human Music Genre Recognition In Goldfish, Makali Haines, Sophia Hallam
Student Symposium
Music plays a big role in our daily lives, but when it comes to the animal world many species don’t react to our music, but that’s not to say they can’t react. In a previous study by scientists at Israeli Technion Institute of Technology and lead by Kazutaka Shinozuka in 2013 goldfish didn’t show a preference towards an example of our music but rather they showed and discrimination and avoidance to one. From that we hypothesized that goldfish could be trained to discriminate human made music genres from certain sound cues. The goldfishes’ tests did not come out significant, but …
Laboratory Mice Burrowing Responses To Predator Calls, Katie Vonderembse, Brianna Graber, Molly Seeberger
Laboratory Mice Burrowing Responses To Predator Calls, Katie Vonderembse, Brianna Graber, Molly Seeberger
Student Symposium
The avoidance of predation is an essential trait in mice and depends on the ability of the mouse to recognize its predators. It is predicted that the calls of predators act as stimuli which signal the presence of potential danger. Laboratory mice have been shown to respond with defensive behaviors, such as burrowing, when exposed to the the calls of predators. To test how mice respond to different predator calls, we will play the sounds of three owls, Eastern Screech Owl,Tawny Owl, and American Barn Owl, and look at burrowing behaviors. Human voices reading a book will be used as …
Investigating Crayfish (Orconectes Rusticus) Aggression And How It Varies With Resource Availability, Allie Smith, Rebecca Lipster
Investigating Crayfish (Orconectes Rusticus) Aggression And How It Varies With Resource Availability, Allie Smith, Rebecca Lipster
Student Symposium
Animals that express agonistic behavior toward one another are prone to recognizing hierarchical status among individuals. Recognizing status has proven to be evolutionarily advantageous for crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) because it allows dominant individuals to maximize resources and permits subordinate individuals to steer clear of potentially costly battles. More specifically, two crayfish experiencing aggression can generally determine who the dominant and subordinate individuals are in a fight. A higher social status within a social hierarchy can allow for increased access to differing resources, such as food, mates, and shelter. In this experiment, we want to see if limiting resources will affect …
Size Increase With Altitude In The Rufous-Collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia Capensis), Kyle Davis
Size Increase With Altitude In The Rufous-Collared Sparrow (Zonotrichia Capensis), Kyle Davis
Student Symposium
Heat is generated by the body volume and lost across its surface. Therefore larger homeotherms with their proportionately larger volume and smaller surface area will withstand cold better than small homeotherms, which has been addressed in some basic ecological principles. Bergmann’s Rule indicates that organisms at higher latitudes (and therefore lower temperatures) will be larger than those at lower latitudes, and Allen’s Rule indicates that appendage size is generally smaller in cooler temperatures. Both Bergmann’s and Allen’s rules relate body size to latitude and/or temperature, but environmental temperature also changes with altitude. We tested the possible relationship between body size …
Unlocking The Mysteries Of Merrick's Museum, Josh Pletcher
Unlocking The Mysteries Of Merrick's Museum, Josh Pletcher
Student Symposium
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