CURRICULUM VITAE - J. R. BAYLIS

January 1 1994

DEGREES:
B.A., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1968
M.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1972
Ph. D., University of California at Berkeley, 1975
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller University, 1974-1976

EMPLOYMENT:
Zoology Department, U. C. Berkeley
    Teaching Assistant, 1969 to 1974
Rockefeller University, Marler Laboratory
    Postdoctoral Fellow, 1974 to 1976
Dept. of Zoology, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
    Assistant Professor 1976-1981
    Associate Professor of Zoology with Tenure; 1981 to present
Teaching responsibilities:
    Laboratory and Field Ethology, Zoology 531
    Sociobiology and Social Ethology, Zoology 532
    Field Course in Subtropical Biology and
    Conservation (Botany/Zoology 639-640)
    Graduate Seminars in Ethology

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIP AWARDS:

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rockefeller Univ. (Sponsored by Prof. Peter Marler) 1974 - 1976
• NSF grant #BNS-8513519 from psychobiology section, funded 1985 through Feb. 1988.
• Univ. of Wisconsin Sabbatical Award: 1988 - 1989
• Graduate School Research Award 900534 135-3040 A 34 4897, July '89 - June '90
• Grad School Travel Award 910828 28135-30 A 34 6248, 1990
• CBE Grant 133-P594 A 07 1000 to teach field course Spring 1990
• CBE Grant 133-R619 A48 9700 to teach field course Spring 1991
• Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Research Award, in Conjunction with Steve Carpenter; renewable for 3 years minimum. "Effects of Herbicide Application on Bass Reproduction", NRJ 96337, 1990- 1993
• SFI/EPRI award #91-02 for "Mating Patterns of Male and Female Smallmouth Bass: Opportunities for Selection in a Monogamous Population" funded through spring 1993.

HONORS AND INVITED LECTURES:

Awards to graduate students of J. R. Baylis:

• Steve Kolmes - Dean's Assigned Fellow, 1983
• Katherine Noonan - Dean's Assigned Fellow, 1984
• Steve Vives - Guyer Graduate Fellow 1987-88

- Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Council Grant-in-Aid 1987-88
• Sylvia Halkin - NSF Predoctoral Fellowship

- Allee Award Best Student Paper, 1987 North American Animal Behavior Society Meeting
• Patricia McConnell - NSF Predoctoral Fellowship 1983-86

- Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid of Research 1985
- NSF Dissertation Improvement Award 1985-87
- Allee Award Best Student Paper, 1988 North American Animal Behavior Society Meeting
• Emilia Martins - NSF Predoctoral Fellowship 1987-1990

- Sigma Xi Grant-in-aid of Res. 1989
- Univ. of Wisconsin AOF Fellowship 1991-1992

COMMUNITY/STATE/REGIONAL SERVICE

• Collaborative Advisor to the Management Research Team, W.D.N.R. Northern Highlands Lakes Research Project- 1982 to present
• Co-host and Co-organizer (one of four), International Ethological Conference XX, held at UW-Madison, Aug. 1987
• Nationally Televised interview with CNN news on the effects of drought on fish populations.
• Collaborative Advisor to Oak Ridge National Laboratories and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources on an IBM of bass reproduction and recruitment
• Organizer and host of the EPRI - COMEC Workshop on Smallmouth Bass, Sept. 28-29 1991, UW-M. Participants from Oak Ridge Natural Laboratory and Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources on an IBM of bass reproduction and recruitment.

MAJOR FIELD:

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Reproduction and recruitment in fishes
• The evolution of reproductive behavior, especially courtship and parental care
• Communication within social systems
• The evolution of social behavior as an adaptive mechanism
• Evolution of social systems and behavior in general

• Barlow-Wake Central American Field Expedition, 1970
• Barlow-Baylis-McKaye Central American Field Expedition, 1972 (Organizer and Field Director)
• Rockefeller University Center for Field Research, 1974 - 1976
• Taught Field Ethology Course, Itasca Biological Station, 1979
• Taught Field Biology of the Subtropics, 1990, 1991
• Various field projects within and outside the United States each year

PH. D. STUDENTS (DEGREE AWARDED - UNIV. OF WISCONSIN):

• Janet Leonard - Assistant Professor of Zoology, Univ. of Oklahoma - Ph. D. 1980.
• Steve Kolmes - Chairman of Biology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Ph. D. 1984.
• Katherine Noonan - Scientific writer. Ph. D. 1985.
• Susan Skagen (=Susan Knight) - Research Biologist, Dept. of the Interior. Ph. D. 1986.
• Nancy Raffetto - Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Univ. of Wisconsin. Ph. D. 1987.
• Patricia McConnell - Lecturer, Univ. of Wisconsin and private consultant in applied ethology. Ph.D. 1988.
• Steve Vives - Assistant Professor of Zoology, University of Southern Georgia. Ph. D. l988.
• Sylvia Halkin - Asst. Prof., Central Conn. State Univ. - Ph.D., Zoology 1990
• Emilia Martins - Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Wash. - M.S. Biometry 1991; Ph. D. Zoology 1992
• Daniel D. Wiegmann - Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Indiana. Ph.D. Zoology 1993.

PROFESSIONAL TALKS: 1985 - 1991

• 1985:

Ethology and Ecology of Fishes Conference - Guelph, Ontario - "Adoption of young by non-parental cichlid fishes"
 
• 1986:

Invited Colloquium - University of Miami - "The Evolution of Parental Care in Fishes"

Invited Seminar - University of Miami - "An Experimental Study of Adoption"

Invited Colloquium - Darwin Research Station, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador - "The Evolution of Parental Behavior in Fishes"
 

• 1987:

Invited Colloquium - Psychology Department, University of California at Berkeley - "Darwin meets Dr. Doolittle: Communication between sheepherders and their dogs."

Invited Colloquium - Zoology Department, University of California at Berkeley - "Reproduction in a well characterized population: Results from a Nebish Lake in Wisconsin"

Two guest lecturers in two courses during same visit to Barlow lab at Berkeley.
 

• 1988:

"Selective habitat use by parental Tilapia mariae in south Florida" - Paper presented at the North American meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, Missoula, Montana

Invited Colloquium - Biology Department, York University, Toronto, Ontario - "Reproduction in a well- characterized population"

Invited Colloquium - Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario - "The Evolution of Parental Care"

Invited Colloquium - Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. - "The Rate-Limit hypothesis and sexual asymmetries in mating"

Invited Colloquium - Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N. Y. "Sex and the single parent - the evolution of parental care"

Invited Colloquium - Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ont. "Sex and the single parent - the evolution of parental care"
 

• 1989:

First Int. Smallmouth Bass Symposium, Nashville, Tenn. "Estimating reproductive success in a closed population of smallmouth bass" (Presented by D. Wiegmann)
 
• 1990:

Invited symposium paper - Presented at 5th International Congress of Ecology, August 1990, Yokohama, Japan - Symposium on Mating Systems and Evolution of Vertebrate Societies - "Female-Male asymmetries in mating, sexual selection, and the evolution of parental behavior"
 
• 1991:

Invited paper - Presented at the Satellite Meeting "Behavior and Ecology of Freshwater Fishes", Lake Biwa, Japan - "Alternating Life Histories in Smallmouth Bass: Theory and Data from a Closed Population"

Invited Plenary Address at the 22nd International Ethological Conf., 22 - 29 August, 1991 in Kyoto, Japan - "Intrasexual Competition and the Evolution of Parental Care in Fishes"

Invited Symposium Paper - Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, San Antonio, Texas Sept. 8-12, 1991 - Symposium on Individual-Based Approach to Fish Population Dynamics - "Alternating Life Histories in Smallmouth Bass: Theory and Data From a Closed Population"
 

• 1992:

"Alternating Life Histories in Smallmouth Bass: Theory and Data From a Closed Population" - presented at the COMPMECH Conference on Smallmouth Bass at Richmond, Va. Paid to attend by EPRI - Oak Ridge Nat. Lab.
 
• 1993:

"Alternating Life Histories: A Consequence of Intrasexual Competition Within and Between Overlapping Cohorts"- Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society, 24-30 July 1993 at U. C. Davis.
 
• 1994:

"The Population Level Consequences of Individual Reproductive Competition: Lessons From Observing a Closed Population." Presented by invitation at: The Conference on Evolution and The Aquatic Ecosystem, sponsored by the American Fisheries Society. Presented papers by invitation only. May 23-25 1994, Monterey, California. Printed version of talk is in press, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. All travel and meeting costs paid by Conference.

"Sins of the Fathers: Negative Relationships Between Parent and Progeny Life History Characteristics." Invited talk presented at the 18th Annual Larval Fish Conference, St. Andrews, New Brunswick. All costs paid by Conference.

PUBLICATIONS:

Sole author J. R. Baylis:

• - 1973. Informe de la Expedicion de Campo Barlow-Baylis- McKaye. Boletin Informativo de Pesca, Vol. 5, No. 1:16-22. Instituto de Fomento Nacional, Departamento Industrial, Division de Pesca, Gobierno de Nicaragua.
• - 1974. The behavior and ecology of Herotilapia multispinosa (Teleostei, Cichlidae). Z. Tierpsychol. 34:115-146. (Re-published in 1976 in: T. B. Thorson, Investigations of the Ichthyofauna of Nicaraguan Lakes. University of Nebraska Press.)
• - 1976. A quantitative study of long - term courtship: I. Ethological isolation between sympatric populations of the Midas cichlid, Cichlasoma citrinellum, and the arrow cichlid, C. zaliosum. Behaviour, LIX (1-2):59-69.
• - 1976. A quantitative study of long - term courtship: II. A comparative study of the dynamics of courtship in two New World cichlid fishes. Behaviour, LIX (3-4) :117-161.
• - 1978. Paternal behaviour in fishes: A question of investment, timing or rate? Nature, 276:738.
• - 1979. Optical signals and interspecific communication. In: The Behavioral Significance of Color, edited by E. H. Burtt, Garland Press. pp.359-378.
• - 1981. The evolution of parental care in fishes, with reference to Darwin's rule of male sexual selection. Environmental Biology of Fishes, vol. 6(2):223-251.
• - 1982. Avian vocal mimicry: Its function and evolution. In: Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds. D. E. Kroodsma and E. M. Miller, eds. Academic Press. pp.51-84.
• - 1982. Unusual escape response by two cyprinodontiform fishes, and a bluegill predator's counter-strategy. Copeia, 1982(2):455-457.
• - (1995 - In Press). The population level consequences of individual reproductive competition: Observations from a closed population. Accepted 11/94, Transaction of the American Fisheries Society. 20 ms pp.

Publications, Multiple Authored:

• Barlow, G. W., J. R. Baylis and D. Roberts. 1976. Chemical analyses of Lake Nicaragua and some adjacent crater lakes. In: T. B. Thorson, Investigations of the Ichthyofauna of Nicaraguan Lakes. University of Nebraska Press. pp.17-20.
• Dooling, R. J., S. R. Zoloth and J. R. Baylis. 1978. Auditory sensitivity, equal loudness, temporal resolving power, and vocalizations in the house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus). Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 92(5):867-876.
• Immelmann, K., J. P. Hailman and J. R. Baylis. 1981. Reputed band attractiveness and sex manipulation in zebra finches. Science, 215:422.
• Baylis, J. R. and Z. T. Halpin. 1982. Behavioral antecedents of sociality. In: Essays in Evoluntionary Epistemology. H. C. Plotkin, Ed. Wiley and Sons, Ltd. pp. 255-272.
• Kroodsma, D. E. and J. R. Baylis. 1982. A world survey of evidence for vocal learning in birds. In: Ecology and Evolution of Acoustic Communication in Birds. D. E. Kroodsma and E. M. Miller, eds. Academic Press. pp. 311-338.
• McConnell, P. B. and J. R. Baylis 1985. Interspecific communication in cooperative herding: Acoustic and visual signals from human shepherds and herding dogs. Zeit. fur Tierpsychol.67:302-328.
• Noakes, D.L.G. and J. R. Baylis. 1990. Fish behavior. In: Shreck & Moyle, eds. Methods for Fish Biology. American Fisheries Society, pp 555-583.
• Raffetto, N. S., J. R. Baylis, & S. L. Serns. 1990. Complete estimates of reproductive success in a closed population of smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomieui). Ecology 71(4):1523-1535.
• Hailman, J. P. & J. R. Baylis. 1991. Post-flight tail-wagging in the mallard. J. Field Ornithol. 62(2):226-229.
• Wiegmann, D. D., J. R. Baylis, and M. H. Hoff. 1992. Sexual selection and fitness variation in a population of smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieui (Pisces: Centrarchidae). Evolution 46(6):1740-1753.
• Faber, D. and J. R. Baylis. 1993. Body size effects on agonistic encounters between male jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Animal Behaviour, 45(2):289-299.
• Baylis, J. R., Wiegmann, D. D., and M. H. Hoff. 1993. Alternating life histories in smallmouth bass. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc. 122:500-510.

MANUSCRIPTS:

• Baylis, J. R., N. S. Raffetto, D. D. Wiegmann, C. Annett, and M. H. Hoff. Submitted. Estimating reproductive success in a closed population of smallmouth bass. Trans. Amer. Fish. Soc., Proceedings of the First International Smallmouth Bass Symposium (Book). 21 ms pp.
• Baylis, J. R. (Program). KEYBORED: A flexible format data recording program for laptop microcomputers. This is a series of computer programs and documentation/manual for a laboratory data acquisition system available to other researchers in the behavioral sciences. It is now in use on several other campuses.
• Baylis, J. R. and D. D. Wiegmann. MS. Female-male asymmetries in mating and sexual selection. MS available, to be submitted to Evolution.

DISSERTATION PUBLICATIONS BY GRADUATE STUDENTS:

• Leonard, J. L. 1982. Transient rhythms in the swimming activity of Sarsia tubulosa.
•  1982. An experimental test of the Jennings hypothesis of behavioral organization. Mar. Behav. Physiol. 8:219-230.
•  1983. The effect of environmental factors on swimming activity in Sarsia tubulosa. Mar. Behav. Physiol.9:99-110.
•  1984. A top-down approach to the analysis of behavioural organization. J. Theoret. Biol. 107:457-470.
• Kolmes, S. A. 1983. Precopulatory behavior of the whirligig beetle Dineutes discolor. J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 91(3):273-279. (Work done in Hailman's lab; re-written and submitted for publication while in Baylis' lab)
•  1983. Ecological and sensory aspects of predation by the whirligig beetle Dineutes discolor. J. N. Y. Ent. Soc.91(4):405-412. (See above)
•  1984. Biological backwaters? Science 223:238(letter)
•  1984. A quantitative comparison of observational methodologies for studying worker honey bees. J. Apicult. Res. 23(4):189-198.
•  1985. An ergonomic study of worker honey bees. J. Kan. Ent. Soc. 58(3):413-421.
•  1985. Surface vibrational cues in the precopulatory behavior of whirligig beetles. J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 93(3):1137-1140. (See first Kolmes paper above-all bee work done in Baylis lab)
•  1985. An information theory analysis of individual task specialization among worker honey bees performing hive duties. Anim. Behav. 33(1):181-187.
•  1985. A quantitative study of the division of labour among worker honey bees. Z. Tierpsychol. 68:287-302.
• Noonan, Katherine 1983. Female choice in the cichlid fish Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum. Anim. Behav. 31(4):1005-1010.
•  1986. Recognition of Queen larvae by worker honeybees (Apis mellifera). Ethology 73(4):295-306.
•  and S. A. Kolmes. In press. Kin recognition of worker brood by worker honeybees (Apis mellifera). Insect Behavior.
• Halkin, Sylvia 1983. Resting birds tuck bills toward outside of group. Auk 100 (4):997-998.
• Vives, Steve 1984. Keeping up. Science, 224:446(Letter)
•  1987. Aspects of the life history of the slender madtom Noturus exilis in northeastern Oklahoma. Amer. Midl. Nat. 117(1):167!176.
•  1987. The life history of Etheostoma punctulatum (Pisces: Percidae) in northeastern Oklahoma. Southwestern Naturalist 32(4):439-447.
•  1988. Parent choice by larval convict cichlids, Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum (Cichlidae, Pisces). Anim. Behav. 36(1):11-19.
•  1990. Nesting ecology and behavior of the hornyhead chub, Hybopsis biguttata: A keystone species in Allequash Creek. Amer. Mid. Nat. 124: 46-56.
• McConnell, P. B. and J. R. Baylis 1985. Interspecific communication in cooperative herding: acoustic and visual signals from human shepherds and herding dogs. Zeit. fur Tierpsychol.67:302-328.(Also listed above)
• Snowdon, C. T., A. Savage and P. B. McConnell. 1985. A breeding colony of cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). Lab. Anim. Sci. 35(5):477-480. (work done in Snowdon's lab)
• McConnell, P. B. and C. T. Snowdon. 1986. Vocal interactions between cotton-top Tamarins. Behaviour 97(3-4): 273-296. ( work done in Snowdon's lab)
• McConnell, P. B. 1990. Acoustic structure and receiver response in domestic dogs, Canis familiaris. Anim. Behav. 39: 987-904.
•  1990. Controlling the controls. Humane Innovation and Alternatives in Animal Experimentation. 4: 156-158.
• McConnell, P. B. 1991. Lessons from animal trainers: The effect of acoustic structure on an animals' response. In: Klopfer, ed.: Perspectives in Ethology, vol. 9, pp. 165-187.
• Knight, S. K. and R. L. Knight. 1983. Aspects of food finding of wintering bald eagles. Auk 100:477-483.
• Knight, R. L. and S. K. Knight. 1984. Responses of wintering bald eagles to boating activity. J. Wildl. Manage.48:999-1004.
• Knight, S. K. and R. L. Knight. 1986. Vigilance patterns of Bald Eagles feeding in groups. Auk 103:263-272.
• Knight, S. K. 1987. Hatching asynchrony in American Goldfinches: an experimental study. Ecology, 68(6):1747-1759.
• Skagen, S. K. ( = S. K. Knight) 1988. Asynchronous hatching and food limitation: A test of Lack's hypothesis. Auk 105(1):78-88.
• Yasukawa, K., R. L. Knight, and S. K. Knight. In press. Is courtship intensity a signal of male parental care in Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus)? Auk.
• Wiegmann, D. D. 1990. On assessing the potential for evolutionary change due to male-male competition and female choice in territorial species. J. Theor. Biol. 144:203-208.
• Wiegmann, D. D., J. R. Baylis, and M. H. Hoff. 1992. Sexual selection and fitness variation in a population of smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieui (Pisces: Centrarchidae). Evolution 46(6):1740-1753. (Also listed above).
• Martins, E. P. & T. Garland. 1991. Phylogenetic analysis of the correlated evolution of continuous characters: A simulation study. Evolution 45(3):534-557.
• Martins, E. P. 1991. Individual and sex differences in the use of the push-up display by the sagebrush lizard, Sceloporus graciosus. Anim. Behav. 41:403-416.
• Martins, E. P. 1993. Contextual use of the push-up display by the sagebrush lizard, Sceloporus graciosus. Anim. Behav. 45(1):25-36.