{"id":3347,"date":"2014-01-20T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=3347"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:58","slug":"dr-maydianne-andrade","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/event\/dr-maydianne-andrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Maydianne Andrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p><b>Sexual selection and plasticity: lessons from an extreme mating system<\/b><b> <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Maydianne Andrade, Canada Research Chair, Integrative Behaviour &amp; Neuroscience Group, University of Toronto Scarborough<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, March 7<sup>th<\/sup> \u2013 3:30PM \u2013 CTTC 4440Q<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Faculty Hosts: <\/b><b>Sue Bertram and Jean-Guy Godin<\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Animal Behaviour \u2022 Evolution \u2022 Mating Systems \u2022 Redback Spider<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>I seek to understand how sexual and natural selection interact in the evolution of behavioural, life history and physiological traits related to mating success, and how selection imposed by mating systems and ecology affect plasticity in these traits.&nbsp; I am particularly interested in how variable demographic and ecological contexts can change the relationship between male phenotypic traits and reproductive success, and how this may favour developmental and behavioural plasticity. I outline laboratory and field studies examining links between plasticity and demographic context in the Australian redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti), a black widow in which short-lived males typically mate only once with cannibalistic females. In this \u2018extreme\u2019 mating system, predictions about favoured male phenotypes are simplified since males compete under a spatially and temporally limited set of conditions. I show that, consistent with predictions, male life history, adult size, physiology and behaviour are plastic and sensitive to cues of demographic context.&nbsp; Thus this type of extreme mating system may be a powerful one for exploring questions about the importance of plasticity in adaptation and divergence.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-3347","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2014-03-07T15:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2014-03-07T16:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"TT","cu_event_meeting_room":"4440Q","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Sue Bertram and Jean-Guy Godin","cu_event_email":"sue.bertram@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/3347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}