Much work in the lab has focused on using Tigriopus as a model for understanding mechanisms underlying environmental stress tolerance. This includes research documenting levels of local adaptation (Sun et al. 2015, Leong et al. 2017), distinguishing between acclimation and adaptation (Sun et al. 2014), evaluating impacts of laboratory culture (Sun et al. 2018), assessing sex differences in tolerance (Foley et al. 2019, Flanagan et al. 2022), and measuring transcriptomic responses to oxidative stress (Li et al. 2019, 2020). Currently, Alice Coleman is leveraging local adaptation in allopatric populations to understand mechanisms of cross tolerance to copper and temperature. In addition, a growing team of researchers (Scott Applebaum, Jake Denova, Angie Liu, Zoe Goldstein) are integrating lab studies of stress tolerance with field studies of environmental conditions.
For Angie Liu’s time series records of physical conditions in T. californicus tidepools go to: Angie’s website
