Jason Keagy

Assistant Research Professor of Wildlife Behavioral Ecology

410 Forest Resources Building
University Park, PA
jxk6051@psu.edu

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Research Summary

Cognitive ecology (with studies at genome, individual, and species levels). I am particularly interested in applications for solving wildlife management problems

Huck Affiliations

Ecology

Center for Brain, Behavior, and Cognition

Ecology Institute

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Fish Gasterosteidae Gasterosteus Aculeatus Escape Behavior Genotype Brain Cognition Smegmamorpha Lakes Sexual Selection Rearing Gene Regulatory Networks Fishes Genes Predators Parenting Environment Plastic Property Predator Phenotype Cues Ecology Sympatry Reproductive Isolation Allopatry

Most Recent Publications

Sensory environment affects Icelandic threespine stickleback’s anti-predator escape behaviour

Murielle Ålund, Brooke Harper, Sigurlaug Kjærnested, Julian E. Ohl, John G. Phillips, Jessica Sattler, Jared Thompson, Javier E. Varg, Sven Wargenau, Janette W. Boughman, Jason Keagy, 2022, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Bowerbird innovation and problem solving

Jason Keagy, 2021,

Behavior-related gene regulatory networks: A new level of organization in the brain

Saurabh Sinha, Beryl M. Jones, Ian M. Traniello, Syed A. Bukhari, Marc S. Halfon, Hans A. Hofmann, Sui Huang, Paul S. Katz, Jason Keagy, Vincent J. Lynch, Marla B. Sokolowski, Lisa J. Stubbs, Shayan Tabe-Bordbar, Mariana F. Wolfner, Gene E. Robinson, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America on p. 23270-23279

Correction to: Parenting behaviour is highly heritable in male stickleback (Royal Society Open Science (2018)) 5 (171029) DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171029)

Alison M. Bell, Rebecca Trapp, Jason Keagy, 2019, Royal Society Open Science

Sex differences in cognition and their relationship to male mate choice

Jason Keagy, Ross Minter, Robin Tinghitella, 2019, Current Zoology on p. 285-293

A major player need not be the only player in speciation: A response to comments on Tinghitella et al.

Robin M. Tinghitella, Alycia C.R. Lackey, Michael D. Martin, Peter D. Dijkstra, Jonathan P. Drury, Robert J.P. Heathcote, Jason Keagy, Elizabeth S.C. Scordato, Alexandra M. Tyers, 2018, Behavioral Ecology on p. 802-803

On the role of male competition in speciation: A review and research agenda

Robin M. Tinghitella, Alycia C.R. Lackey, Michael Martin, Peter D. Dijkstra, Jonathan P. Drury, Robert Heathcote, Jason Keagy, Elizabeth S.C. Scordato, Alexandra M. Tyers, 2018, Behavioral Ecology on p. 783-797

Why does the magnitude of genotype-by-environment interaction vary?

Julia B. Saltz, Alison M. Bell, Jonathan Flint, Richard Gomulkiewicz, Kimberly A. Hughes, Jason Keagy, 2018, Ecology and Evolution on p. 6342-6353

Brain differences in ecologically differentiated sticklebacks

Jason Keagy, Victoria A. Braithwaite, Janette W. Boughman, 2018, Acta Zoologica Sinica on p. 243-250

Parenting behaviour is highly heritable in male stickleback

Alison M. Bell, Rebecca Trapp, Jason Keagy, 2018, Royal Society Open Science on p. 171029

Most-Cited Papers

On the role of male competition in speciation: A review and research agenda

Why does the magnitude of genotype-by-environment interaction vary?

Julia B. Saltz, Alison M. Bell, Jonathan Flint, Richard Gomulkiewicz, Kimberly A. Hughes, Jason Keagy, 2018, Ecology and Evolution on p. 6342-6353

Behavior-related gene regulatory networks: A new level of organization in the brain

Male competition fitness landscapes predict both forward and reverse speciation

Jason Keagy, Liliana Lettieri, Janette W. Boughman, 2016, Ecology Letters on p. 71-80

The relative roles of genes and rearing environment on the spatial cognitive ability of two sympatric species of threespine stickleback

Jonatan Martinez, Jason Keagy, Benjamin Wurst, William Fetzner, Janette W. Boughman, 2016, Evolutionary Ecology Research on p. 565-581

Cognitively Driven Co-Option and the Evolution of Complex Sexual Displays in Bowerbirds

Gerald Borgia, Jason Keagy, 2015, on p. 75-109