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Education
PhD Evolutionary Biology, University of Hull, UK
BSc Biology, MSc Behavioral Ecology, University of Padova, Italy
Research Interests
I have a broad interest in evolutionary biology but I am particularly fascinated by the interplay between sexual selection, evolutionary conflict and speciation.
I am working in Jeff McKinnon's group on the origin and maintenance of color polymorphisms and, in collaboration with Jean-Luc Scemama’s group at ECU and Ellis Loew at Cornell University, on the genetics and physiology of vision ecology in the Telmatherina fish adaptive radiation in the Malili lakes, Indonesia.
Publications
Pierotti MER & Martín-Fernández JA. 2011. Compositional Analysis in Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology. In: Compositional Data Analysis at the beginning of the XXI century. [V Pawlowsky-Glahn & A Buccianti, eds]. Wiley & Sons.
McKinnon JS & Pierotti MER 2010. Colour polymorphism and correlated characters: genetic mechanisms and evolutionary consequences. Molecular Ecology 19(23): 5101–5125.
Dijkstra PD, van Dijk S, Groothuis TGG, Pierotti MER, Seehausen, O. 2009. Behavioral dominance between female color morphs of a Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Behavioral Ecology 20(3):593-600.
Pierotti MER, Martín-Fernández JA & Seehausen O. 2009. Mapping individual variation in male mating preference space: multiple choice in a colour polymorphic cichlid fish. Evolution 63(9): 2372–2388.
Stelkens RB, Pierotti MER, Joyce DA, Smith AM, van der Sluijs I & Seehausen O. 2008. Disruptive sexual selection on male nuptial coloration in an experimental hybrid population of cichlid fish. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363: 2861-2870.
Pierotti MER, Knight ME, Immler S, Barson N, Turner GF, Seehausen O. 2008. Individual variation in male mating preferences for female colouration in a polymorphic cichlid fish. Behavioral Ecology 19: 483-488.
Dijkstra PD, Seehausen O, Pierotti MER, Groothuis TGG. 2007. Male-male competition and speciation: aggression bias towards differently coloured rivals varies between stages of speciation in a Lake Victoria cichlid species complex. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 496-502.
Pierotti MER & Seehausen O. 2007 Male mating preferences predate the origin of a female trait in an incipient species complex of Lake Victoria cichlids. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 20: 240-248.
Evans JP, Pierotti M, Pilastro A. 2003. Male mating behavior and ejaculate expenditure under sperm competition risk in the eastern mosquitofish. Behavioral Ecology 14: 268-273.
Pierotti M & Rallo G. 2000. Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) strandings on the Italian coasts of the Adriatic Sea. (Proceedings of the First Italian Meeting on Marine Turtles, Policoro 2000).
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