Andrew Hendry (AH - McGill University):

Andrew Hendry shares a similar background to MK in research and in contemporary evolution, as represented by their joint publications. He has field experience with salmon, three-spined sticklbacks, Galapagos finches, and guppies. He has also edited a volume on salmonid fishes that includes chapters on contemporary evolution. Finally, he senior authored a study (2000, Science 290: 516-518) that demonstrates the early evolution of reproductive isolation in an introduced salmon population that had subdivided into local populations with differences in breeding habitat. This diversity of study systems gives him an equally diverse background in ecology and population biology and special insights into the interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes. AH has developed methods for characterizing the stream environments of guppies and quantifying color patterns and shape in photographed field samples of guppies; these same methods will be applied in the current proposal. He also developed theory on the interaction between gene flow and adaptation. He will apply these skills and experience to our characterization of Rivulus and guppies in the introduction experiments, including mark-recapture analyses and will play a major role in the design and execution of complimentary studies of guppies and Rivulus.

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