The Amazing Evolutionary Innovations of Pipefish, Seahorses and Seadragons

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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

http://pages.uoregon.edu/enhs

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