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Dr. Thomas J DeWittAssociate Professor, Ecological Quantitative Genetics
LF Peterson
979-458-1684
tdewitt@tamu.edu
Education
Ph.D. (Ecology, Evolution & Behavior) Binghamton University (SUNY), 1995
M.A. (Ecology, Evolution & Behavior) Boston University, 1991
Naturalist Ecologist Training Program, University of Michigan, 1990
B.Sc. (Biology) Grand Valley State University, 1987
Research Emphasis:
Ecological Quantitative Genetics; Functional Ecology; Phenotypic Plasticity; Natural Selection;
Conservation Biology; Environmental Stochasticity; Biomathematical Models; Development; Freshwater Ecology.
Recent Publications
Tobler M, DeWitt TJ, Schlupp I, García de León FJ, Herrmann R, Feulner PGD, Tiedemann R, Plath M (2008)
Toxic hydrogen sulfid and dark caves: Phenotypic and genetic divergence across two abiotic environmental gradients in Poecilia mexicana.
Evolution 62:2643-2658.
Johnson JB, Burt DB, DeWitt TJ (2008)
Form, function, fitness—pathways to survival.
Evolution 62:1243-1251.
McEachran JD, DeWitt TJ (2008)
A new livebearing fish, Heterandria tuxtlaensis, from Lake Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico (Cyprinodontiformes: Poeciliidae).
Zootaxa 1824:45-54.
Ruehl CB, DeWitt TJ (2007)
Trophic plastcity and foraging performance in red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus (Linnaeus).
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology & Ecology 349 284–294.
Langerhans RB, Chapman LJ, DeWitt TJ (2007)
Multiple phenotypes, multiple environmental gradients: complex phenotype-environment associations in an East African cyprinid.
Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1171–1181.