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Scott P. Egan

Research Interests

1. Ecological speciation
2. Evolution of ecological specialization
3. Ecology of multi-trophic interactions

Contact Information

Department of Biological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B Box #351634
2301 Vanderbilt Place Nashville, TN 37235-1634

e-mail: scott.p.egan@vanderbilt.edu
alt. e-mail: scott.p.egan@gmail.edu

phone: 615-618-6601 (cell)
fax: 615-343-6707 (office)

Education

Ph.D. candidate (2004-present)
Vanderbilt University
Thesis: Ecological speciation in Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles

M.S. Biology, 2004
Texas State Univeristy - San Marcos
Thesis: Local adaptation and spatial variation in host plant quality as determinants of the distribution of a gall-forming herbivore.

B.S. Biology, 1999
University of Texas at Austin
Specialization: Evolution, Ecology, & Conservation

Grants and Awards

- Hickory Stick Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Dept. Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt Univesity, 2007.
- Travel Grant; American Genetics Association, Vancouver, B.C., 2006.
- Graduate Student of the Year; College of Natural Sciences, Texas State University - San Marcos, 2004.
- Best Talk; Southwest Association of Naturalists Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2004.
- W.E. Norris, Jr. Scholarship Award, 2003.
- Sigma-Xi Society Grants-In-Aid of Research, 2002.
- Howard Schulze Academic Scholarship, 2002.

Publications


Egan, S.P. & D.J. Funk. 2006. Individual advantages to ecological specialization: insights on cognitive constraints from three conspecific taxa. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B 273:843-848. [PDF]

Egan, S.P. & J.R. Ott. 2007. Host plant quality and local adaptation determine the distribution of a gall-forming herbivore. ECOLOGY 88: 2869-2879. [PDF]  [Appendix]

Nosil, P., S.P. Egan, & D.J. Funk. 2008. Heterogeneous genomic differentiation between walking-stick ecotypes: 'Isolation by adaptation' and multiple roles for divergent selection. EVOLUTION 62:316-336. [PDF]  [Supplemental]

Egan, S.P., P. Nosil, & D.J. Funk. 2008. Genomic differentiation and ecological speciation: Isolating the contributions of host-associated selection via a compariative genome scan of Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles. EVOLUTION 62:1162-1181. [PDF]

 Egan, S.P. & D.J. Funk. 2009. Ecologically dependent postmating isolation between sympatric 'host forms' of Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 106: 19426-19431.

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Funk, D.J., S.P. Egan, & P. Nosil. 200?. "Isolation by adaptation" in Neochlamisus leaf beetles: Host-related selection promotes neutral genomic divergence, in revision.

Egan, S.P., E.M. Janson, C.G. Brown, & D.J. Funk. 200?. The role of postmating isolation and the genetic basis of habitat isolation among host-associated populations of Neochlamisus bebbianae leaf beetles, in prep.

Nosil, P., D.J. Funk, & S.P. Egan. 200?. Population genomic evidence that increased selection strength promotes speciation, in prep.

Egan, S.P., G.R. Hood, & J.R. Ott. 200?. Natural selection on gall size: Variable contributions of individual host plants to landscape wide patterns, in prep.

Egan, S.P. & J.R. Ott. 200?. Locally adapted gall former populations escape upper limits of stabilizing selection, in prep.

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