Megan Freiler

Experimentally induced sexual behavior in male gray treefrogs activates the HPG but not the HPI axis While many studies have established how hormones modulate behavior, experiments that manipulate a behavior and quantify its hormonal consequences are …

The first paper of my postdoc work is out in Hormones and Behavior! We show that mating behavior ⬆️ gonadal steroid hormones in male treefrogs, providing a good example of how behavior can modulate endocrine activity.

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Sociality does not predict signal complexity in response to playback in apteronotid weakly electric fishes - Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Evolution of signal structure should be influenced by the social environment in which signals are sent and received. The “social complexity hypothesis” for communicative complexity postulates that ind...

Excited this is finally out! Happy to have a home for some negative data from my dissertation. Here, we explore why sociality does not seem to predict signal complexity in electric knifefishes (at least in the lab).

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Excited to share that I’ll be sticking around at UMN to start a new postdoc position with Dr. Karen Mesce investigating the neural and molecular mechanisms regulating crawling recovery in medicinal leeches. Excited to try something new!