ANIMAL COMMUNICATION, BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY & ICHTHYOLOGY

 
  
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heidiHeidi S. Fisher
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biology
Boston University Marine Biology Program
email: hfish@bu.edu


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Published Manuscripts

H. S. Fisher and G. G. Rosenthal 2007. Male swordtails court with an audience in mind. Biol. Lett. 3: 5-7. (pdf)

H. S. Fisher and G. G. Rosenthal 2006b. Hungry females show stronger mating preferences. Behav. Ecol. 17: 979-981. (pdf)

H.S. Fisher and G.G. Rosenthal 2006a. Female swordtail fish use chemical cues to select well-fed mates. Anim. Behav. 72: 721-725. (pdf)

H. S. Fisher, B. B. M. Wong, and G. G. Rosenthal 2006. Alteration of the chemical environment disrupts communication in a freshwater fish. Proc. Roy. Soc. B. 273: 1187-1193. (pdf)

B. B. M. Wong, H. S. Fisher, and G. G. Rosenthal 2005. Species recognition by male swordtails via chemical cues. Behav. Ecol. 16:818-822. (pdf)

Shady, S., MacLeod, D.I.A, and Fisher, H.S.  2004. Adaptation from invisible flicker.  P. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA,  101: 5170-5173. (pdf)

Fisher, H.S., R.R. Swaisgood, and H. Fitch-Snyder. 2003. Countermarking by male pygmy lorises (Nycticebus pygmaeus): do females use odor cues to select mates with high competitive ability?  Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.. 53: 123-130. (pdf)

Fisher, H.S., R.R. Swaisgood, and H. Fitch-Snyder. 2003. Odor familiarity and female preference for males in a threatened primate, the pygmy loris (Nycticebus
pygmaeus). Naturwissenschaften. 11: 509-512. (pdf)

Shady, S., MacLeod, D.I.A, Fisher, H.S., and Liang, J.Y. 2002. Adaptation from invisible luminance and chromatic flicker. J. Vision, 2: 68.

Media Coverage of Research:

Fox News Online, MSNBC, LiveScience.com, Nov. 14, 2006 “Fish balance courtship with threats” (pdf)

ScienceORF.at, Nov. 12, 2006. “Schwertträgerfishe balzen mächtig für die” (pdf)

The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2006. “Courtship with a Twist” (pdf)

The New York Times, Feb. 28, 2006. “Alluring swordtail scent is lost in pollution” (pdf)

 Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Mar. 8, 2006. “Abwasser stört die Wahrnehmung von Schwertträger-Weibchen” (pdf)

 The Conservation Behaviorist, May 1, 2005. “Heidi Fisher, student at Boston University, receives E.O. Wilson Conservation Award” (pdf)

 The Boston Globe, Apr. 18, 2005. “At some local nightspots, nerds rule” (pdf)