B.S., University of Texas-Austin, 2003
Ph.D., Iowa State University, 2009
I am a postdoctoral researcher at Duke in the Biology Department. I am studying fruit fly recombination rates and how they relate to intra-species diversity and inter-species divergence.
I am broadly interested in how opportunities for evolution are different in different environments. While my PhD research focused on statistical quantification of the genetic variation underlying a phenotype in different environments, my postdoc is focusing on quantifying variation from actual genomic data. I hope to understand, on a genome-wide level, if there is plasticity in recombination. This sort of information will greatly inform our inferences regarding links between recombination, diversity, and divergence.
McGaugh, S.E., L.E. Schwanz, R.M. Bowden, J.E. Gonzalez, F. J. Janzen. 2010. Inheritance and plasticity of nest-site choice in the field in a turtle with temperature-dependent sex determination. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, in press.
McGaugh, S.E., and M. A. F. Noor. 2009. Drosophila lowei collections from Mount Lemmon, Arizona, in 2009. Drosophila Information Service, 92: in press.
Howeth, J.G., S.E. McGaugh, and D.A. Hendrickson. 2008. Contrasting demographic and genetic estimates of dispersal in the endangered Coahuilan box turtle: A contemporary approach to conservation. Molecular Ecology 17: 4209-4221.
McGaugh, S.E. 2008. Color variation among habitat types in the spiny softshell turtles (Trionychidae: Apalone) of Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, Mexico. Journal of Herpetology 42: 347-353.
McGaugh, S.E., C.M. Eckerman, and F.J. Janzen. 2008. Molecular phylogeography of Apalone spinifera (Testudines: Trionychidae). Zoologica Scripta 37: 289-304.
McGaugh, S.E. and F. J. Janzen. 2008. The status of Apalone atra populations in Cuatro Cienegas, Coahuila, Mexico, preliminary data. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 7: 88-95.
McGaugh, S.E., E. A. Alacs, S. V. Edwards, C. R. Feldman, A. Georges, J. W. Sites Jr., and N. Valenzuela. 2007. Molecules to organisms: research applications of modern genetic tools for turtle biology and conservation. In: Shaffer, H. B., FitzSimmons, N.N., Georges, A., and Rhodin, A.G.J. (Eds). Defining Turtle Diversity: Proceedings of a Workshop on Genetics, Ethics, and Taxonomy of Freshwater Turtles and Tortoises. Chelonian Research Monographs 4: 47-72.
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