Mizuki Takahashi

Biology Department

Biology Building 307
mt027@bucknell.edu
577-1142

Educational Background

B.S., The University of Tsukuba, 1996
M.S., The University of Tokyo, 1998
M.S., Marshall University, 2002
Ph.D., The University of Memphis, 2008

Teaching Interests

I will be teaching Conservation Genetics (BIOL 320) spring 2009. As a part of the interdisciplinary study of Conservation Biology, Conservation Genetics has grown to establish its own ground in 1980s. We will learn how population genetics and molecular phylogenetic analyses can be applied to species conservation. The course will be offered as a seminar format. While student presentation and discussion will be an important part of the course, I will give lectures providing enough background information for student activities. There will be no lab section.

Research Interests

My interests broadly rest on evolutionary ecology, behavioral ecology and conservation biology. Despite rich species diversity on the earth, processes of species diversification have not been fully understood. I am especially interested in ecological speciation, in which reproductive isolation evolves through ecological processes (i.e., divergent selection). My research approach to conservation biology is to explore pesticide effects on non-target species such as amphibians, while I am also very interested in invasive species. I am tackling these issues using amphibians, insects and plants as study organisms. Here at Bucknell, I am collaborating with Dr. Abrahamson on host-race formation via insect-plant interaction.

Recent Publications

Takahashi, MK, YY Takahashi, and MJ Parris. Pending revision. Sexual selection and ecological divergence: a test of assortative mating in the eastern newt system. Behavioral Ecology

Takahashi, MK and PK Pauley. In press. Resource allocation and life history traits of Plethodon cinereus at different elevations. American Midland Naturalist

Takahashi, MK, and MJ Parris. 2009. When do the costs of spermatogenesis constrain sperm expenditure? Remarks on the pattern of spermatogenesis cycle. Ethology 115: 96-104

Takahashi, MK and MJ Parris. 2008. Life cycle polyphenisms as a factor affecting ecological divergence of Notophthalmus viridescens. Oecologia 158:23-34

Takahashi, M. 2007. Oviposition site selection: pesticide avoidance by gray tree frogs. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 26: 1476-1480