Rachel Fogelman
Position: Masters (MPhil) graduate (completed 2006)
Education:
Research Interests: Fish parasitology, host-parasite interactions, and evolution of parasite trophic strategies.
Awards & Grants:
Research Project: Rachel completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Aquatic Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara before coming to Australia to do her Research Masters Degree. She examined the association between a cardinal fish and its parasitic isopod. The supervisors for her Masters degree are Dr Lexa Grutter, Dr Armand Kuris and Dr Anne Goldizen.
Masters Project: "Effect of the parasitic isopod Anilocra apogonae (Cymothoidae) on the growth, condition, reproduction and survival of cardinal fish (Apogonidae)"
This study examined the effect of the ectoparasitic cymothoid isopod, Anilocra apogonae , on the growth, condition, reproduction and survival of its host, the five-lined cardinal fish, Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus. The effects of juvenile isopods (mancae) on the growth and survival of two other species of late-stage larval apogonids (Apogon trimaculatus and Apogon nigrofasciatus) were also examined. The first aim of this study was to investigate whether A. apogonae parasitically castrates its host. Parasitic castration represents a distinctive trophic strategy as characterized in the trophic adaptive syndrome paradigm, in which host reproduction is blocked or reduced by the presence of an intensity-independent, or single, parasite. The second aim of this study was to describe the life-history of A. apogonae and examine the affect of mancae on late-stage larval and juvenile fish by identifying whether mancae showed host preference when presented with two late-stage larval apogonids ( Apogon trimaculatus and Apogon nigrofasciatus ) which were not the definitive host, and one late-stage larval apogonid ( A. trimaculatus ) and a late-stage larval non-apogonid ( Pomacentrus amboinensis ), neither of which were the definitive host.
Publications:
Fogelman, R.M., Grutter, A.S. (2008) Mancae of the parasitic cymothoid isopod Anilocra apogonae: early life history, host specificity and effect on growth and survival of preferred young cardinal fishes. Coral Reefs 27(3): 685-693.
Fogelman, R.M., Kuris, A.M., Grutter, A.S. (2009) Parasitic castration of a vertebrate: Effect of the cymothoid isopod, Anilocra apogonae, on the cardinalfish, Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus. International Journal for Parasitiology, 39(5): 577-583.
Contact Details: Fogelman@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Education:
- 1998-2002 Bachelor of Science in Aquatic Biology,
- University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (UCSB)
- 2001-2002 1 year Education Abroad Program to Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide towards Bachelor of Science in Aquatic Biology
- 2003-2005 Research Masters Degree (MPhil) in School of Life Sciences, University of Queensland
- 2007-present Ph.D at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA
Research Interests: Fish parasitology, host-parasite interactions, and evolution of parasite trophic strategies.
Awards & Grants:
- Dean's Honours for outstanding academic achievement at UCSB
- Honorary award recognition and biography published by the 25 th Annual Edition of The National Dean's List, 2001-2002 for outstanding academic achievement at UCSB
- 2004 Australian Geographic Society Grant
- 2004 UQ Graduate Student Research Travel award (to conduct fish otolith research with Bob Warner at UCSB)
- 2004 Lerner-Gray Fund for Marine Research, American Museum of Natural History
- 2004 UQ School of Life Sciences Graduate Student Conference Support (to
- attend the 7th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference in Taipei, Taiwan)
- 2005 ACRS Conference Travel Support (to attend the Australian Coral Reef
- Society 81st Annual Conference on Heron Island, Australia)
- 2006 Marc Dresden Student Travel Grant- The American Society of
- Parasitologists (to attend the International Congress of Parasitology XI
- Conference and the ASP annual meeting in Glasgow, Scotland)
- 2008 EEMB Student Travel and Research Grant
- 2009 UCSB Graduate Student Fee Fellowship (Winter and Spring quarters)
Research Project: Rachel completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Aquatic Biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara before coming to Australia to do her Research Masters Degree. She examined the association between a cardinal fish and its parasitic isopod. The supervisors for her Masters degree are Dr Lexa Grutter, Dr Armand Kuris and Dr Anne Goldizen.
Masters Project: "Effect of the parasitic isopod Anilocra apogonae (Cymothoidae) on the growth, condition, reproduction and survival of cardinal fish (Apogonidae)"
This study examined the effect of the ectoparasitic cymothoid isopod, Anilocra apogonae , on the growth, condition, reproduction and survival of its host, the five-lined cardinal fish, Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus. The effects of juvenile isopods (mancae) on the growth and survival of two other species of late-stage larval apogonids (Apogon trimaculatus and Apogon nigrofasciatus) were also examined. The first aim of this study was to investigate whether A. apogonae parasitically castrates its host. Parasitic castration represents a distinctive trophic strategy as characterized in the trophic adaptive syndrome paradigm, in which host reproduction is blocked or reduced by the presence of an intensity-independent, or single, parasite. The second aim of this study was to describe the life-history of A. apogonae and examine the affect of mancae on late-stage larval and juvenile fish by identifying whether mancae showed host preference when presented with two late-stage larval apogonids ( Apogon trimaculatus and Apogon nigrofasciatus ) which were not the definitive host, and one late-stage larval apogonid ( A. trimaculatus ) and a late-stage larval non-apogonid ( Pomacentrus amboinensis ), neither of which were the definitive host.
Publications:
Fogelman, R.M., Grutter, A.S. (2008) Mancae of the parasitic cymothoid isopod Anilocra apogonae: early life history, host specificity and effect on growth and survival of preferred young cardinal fishes. Coral Reefs 27(3): 685-693.
Fogelman, R.M., Kuris, A.M., Grutter, A.S. (2009) Parasitic castration of a vertebrate: Effect of the cymothoid isopod, Anilocra apogonae, on the cardinalfish, Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus. International Journal for Parasitiology, 39(5): 577-583.
Contact Details: Fogelman@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus with isopods attached
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Rachel catching fish
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Transporting fish from the boat
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