How the darter got stripes: Expanding a sexual selection theory explains animal patterns
Friday, May 22, 2020 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
Samuel Hulse, a Ph.D. candidate at UMBC, spent a lot of time in waders over the last two years. He traipsed from stream to stream across the eastern U.S., carefully collecting live specimens of small, colorful freshwater fish known as darters and taking photos of their habitats. Then he brought them back to the lab to capture high-quality images of their coloration patterns.