BA, Biology, Amherst College, 2008
Select Publications
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Amanda K. Gibson, Michael E. Hood, and Tatiana Giraud. 2011 Selfing and the sibling competition arena as barriers to gene flow in sympatry. Evolution 66: 1917-1930.
Gibson AK, Raverty S, Lambourn DM, Huggins J, Magargal SL, and Grigg ME. 2011 Polyparasitism is associated with increased disease severity in Toxoplasma gondii-infected marine sentinel species. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 5(5): e1142. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0001142
Amanda K. Gibson, Jorge Mena-Ali, and Michael E. Hood. 2010 Loss of pathogens in threatened plant species. Oikos 119: 1919-1928.
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Amanda K. Gibson (Mandy)
PhD student
amakgibs at indiana.edu
Research
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I am a 3rd-year PhD cadidate in the Lively lab. I study the evolutionary pressures that drive populations to diverge in their reproductive strategies. . Specifically, I examine the role of host-parasite coevolution in the evolution of sexual reproduction and the maintenance of genetic diversity. I use four different approaches: phylogenetic comparative analyses of mating system and parasitism in the phylum Nematoda, experimental evolution in the laboratory using nematodes and their parasites, theoretical simulation, and field-based experimentation in natural populations of freshwater snails and their parasites in New Zealand.
Study system
Potamopyrgus
antipodarum and its trematode Microphallus
Caenorhabditis elegans and its bacterial pathogen Serratiamarcescens
and the rest of the Nematoda!
Silene and the anther-smut fungus Microbotryum
