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Mark Garcia
My research uses the green anole lizard (Anolis carolinesis) as a model organism for studying how animals respond to social experiences through both behavior and neuroendocrine changes. The targeted social experience of this study is aggressive behavior and fighting experience. I will investigate the role of fighting experience in altering future contest performance and outcome as well as the neuroendocrine changes that accompany the acquisition and retention of winning and losing experiences. Future work will include studying the effects of social eavesdropping and audience effects on future contest performance and outcomes. Contact: Email Mark
Publications
- Garcia MJ, Sivaraman B, Paiva L, Lennox M, Wong SC & Earley RL. Effects of fighting experience on future competition success in the green anole (Anolis carolinesis). In preparation for Animal Behaviour
- Garcia MJ & Earley RL. Watching fights changes association patterns in green swordtail fish (Xiphophorus helleri). In preparation for Behaviour.
- Earley RL, Wong SC, Medichetti S, Campbell J, Copeland D, Sivaraman B, Garcia MJ, Bender N & Scott AP. Steroid Release Rates into the Water: Testing the Impact of Body Size, Gill Surface Area, and Sex in Convict Cichlid Fish (Amatitlania nigrofasciata). In preparation for Journal of Experimental Biology.