The Amazing Evolutionary Innovations of Pipefish, Seahorses and Seadragons
The Eugene Natural History Society
presents a free program:
The Amazing Evolutionary Innovations
of Pipefish, Seahorses and Seadragons
Bill Cresko, Professor of Biology and
Associate Vice-President for Research, University of Oregon
Dr. Cresko will talk about pipefish, seahorses, and seadragons, a subfamily of closely related small fish with unusual and dramatically different body forms. His photographs are fabulous. First he will focus on the reproductive biology of these fishes. It’s the males that get pregnant! The males of some species have brood pouches where the embryos are stored as they develop. In other species the embryos adhere to the surface of the male’s body. In the last part of his talk Cresko will get at how gene activity during early development leads to radically different shapes later on.
Friday, March 17, 2017
7:30 p.m., Room 100 Willamette Hall, UO Campus
Co-sponsored by the UO Science Library
Contact: Tom Titus 541-510-2500