Marie Aline Mauffrey

Position: Honours (completed 2007)

Education:

• 2007 Honours in Coral Reef Ecology .

Research Interests: Cleaning behaviour, blood parasites, coral reef ecology

Honours Project:
Marie's project looked at the aposematic colouration of nudibranchs.  I compared the colours of aposematic and non aposemtic nudibranchs against different backgrounds using spectrometry. I also tested whether nudibranchs were distasteful or not for reef fishes by chemical extraction in lab and in the field. Finally I investigated whether
reef fish (Thalassoma lunare) used colour cues to avoid distastefulness. This project allows me to be in the lab and in the field and gain a lot of experience.

 

Contact Details: s4104073@student.uq.edu.au

Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus with parasitic isopod attached.	Haemogregarine blood parasite in red blood cell	Rhinecanthus aculeatus

 

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