Madre con bebes closeupNational Geographic recently posted an article on their website featuring Bad Moms in nature, which summarized how bad the Leopard Tree Iguana (Liolaemus leopardinus) mothers are. Of course, they are bad only by crude human standards. They are wonderfully adapted to their environment according to research by Stanley Fox and past student Enrique Santoyo-Brito. 

Jodie2Jodie Wiggins, a doctoral student in the Fox Lab coadvised by Fox and Lovern, graduated in July, 2018, with a PhD. Jodie worked on the research of precocial sexual selection in the Collared Lizard, and produced an outstanding dissertation documenting that male hatdchlings with brighter Hatchling Orange Bars (HOB) postumously produced more offspring, those with greater HOB area had a greater posthumous chance of producing offspring at all, hatchling females significantly preferred to associate with male hatchlings with brighter HOB, and hatchling males with greater HOB area were more aggressive than their counterparts with less ornamentation. In short, all the elements of sexual selection, but in hatchlings, what we call Precocial Sexual Selection. Congratulations, Jodie!

Improbable Destinies grad seminar 2018In April 2018 Fox et al. finished up a very successful graduate seminar reading and discussing the book "Improbable Destinies" by Jonathan Losos.  Great group!

Enrique graduation 2017Enrique Santoyo-Brito of the Fox lab graduates in December 2017. Felicidades Enrique! The title of his dissertation is "Group living, parental care, age structure, and genetic relatedness in Liolaemus leopardinus, a high-elevation lizard from the Andes of Chile"

Dr. Stanley Fox was presented with the Donald W. Tinkle Research Excellence Award at the annual meeting of The Southwestern Association of Naturalists (SWAN) held at Oklahoma State University, April 17-20, 2014.  This distinguished award is presented to a member who, in the past 10 years, has made a significant contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the biota of the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Central America through scientific articles and books.  Stanley was also the Co-Chair of the Local Committee hosting the meeting.