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  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Martin E. Feder is a researcher affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their work spans several areas within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, emphasizing Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecological Modeling.

Their main research topics include Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Plant and Animal Studies, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Conservation Physiology
  • Biological Invasions
  • Journal of Great Lakes Research

Notable recent papers authored by Martin E. Feder include:

  • Building a natural repellent: effects of varying alarm cue exposure on swim activity and spatial avoidance in an invasive fish (2025, Conservation Physiology)
  • Speed kills? Migrating sea lamprey increase speed when exposed to an antipredator cue but make worse short-term decisions (2024, Journal of Great Lakes Research)
  • Olfactory sensitivity and threat-sensitive responses to alarm cue in an invasive fish (2023, Biological Invasions)
  • Attenuation and recovery of an avoidance response to a chemical antipredator cue in an invasive fish: implications for use as a repellent in conservation (2022, Conservation Physiology)

Martin E. Feder has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • C. Michael Wagner
  • Jason D. Bals
  • Anne M. Scott
  • Gregory Byford
  • Brian D. Wisenden

In 1999, Martin E. Feder was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Heat-shock proteins, molecular chaperones, and the stress response: evolutionary and ecological physiology

    Martin E. Feder;Gretchen E. Hofmann

  • Environmental physiology of the amphibians

    Richard Wassersug;M. E. Feder;W. W. Burggren

  • Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics.

    Martin E Feder;Thomas Mitchell-Olds

  • New Directions in Ecological Physiology

    Martin E. Feder

  • Deleterious consequences of Hsp70 overexpression in Drosophila melanogaster larvae

    Robert A. Krebs;Martin E. Feder

  • The biological limitations of transcriptomics in elucidating stress and stress responses

    M. E. Feder;J.-C. Walser

  • Cutaneous Gas Exchange in Vertebrates: Design, Patterns, Control and Implications

    Martin E. Feder;Warren W. Burggren

  • Effect of engineering Hsp70 copy number on Hsp70 expression and tolerance of ecologically relevant heat shock in larvae and pupae of Drosophila melanogaster.

    Martin E. Feder;Noemi V. Cartaño;Lukasz Milos;Robert A. Krebs

  • NATURAL VARIATION IN THE EXPRESSION OF THE HEAT-SHOCK PROTEIN HSP70 IN A POPULATION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER AND ITS CORRELATION WITH TOLERANCE OF ECOLOGICALLY RELEVANT THERMAL STRESS

    Robert A. Krebs;Martin E. Feder

  • The mid-developmental transition and the evolution of animal body plans

    Michal Levin;Leon Anavy;Alison G. Cole;Eitan Winter

  • Predator-Prey Relationships: Perspectives and Approaches from the Study of Lower Vertebrates

    Martin E. Feder;George V. Lauder

  • Hsp70 and larval thermotolerance in Drosophila melanogaster: how much is enough and when is more too much?

    Robert A. Krebs;Martin E. Feder

  • Tissue-specific variation in Hsp70 expression and thermal damage in Drosophila melanogaster larvae.

    R A Krebs;M E Feder

  • Spatiotemporal transcriptomics reveals the evolutionary history of the endoderm germ layer

    Tamar Hashimshony;Martin Feder;Michal Levin;Brian K. Hall

  • Natural thermal stress and heat‐shock protein expression in Drosophila larvae and pupae

    M. E. Feder;N. Blair;H. Figueras

  • Evolution of heat-shock protein expression underlying adaptive responses to environmental stress

    Bing Chen;Martin E. Feder;Le Kang

  • What accounts for the wide variation in life span of genetically identical organisms reared in a constant environment

    Thomas B.L. Kirkwood;Martin Feder;Caleb E. Finch;Claudio Franceschi

  • EXPERIMENTAL EVOLUTION OF HSP70 EXPRESSION AND THERMOTOLERANCE IN DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER.

    Brian R. Bettencourt;Martin E. Feder;Sandro Cavicchi

  • What evidence is there for the existence of individual genes with antagonistic pleiotropic effects

    Armand M. Leroi;Andrzej Bartke;Giovanna De Benedictis;Claudio Franceschi

  • RESPONSE TO NATURAL AND LABORATORY SELECTION AT THE DROSOPHILA HSP70 GENES

    Brian R. Bettencourt;InYoung Kim;Ary A. Hoffmann;Ary A. Hoffmann;Martin E. Feder

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert A. Krebs
Robert A. Krebs Cleveland State University
Warren W. Burggren
Warren W. Burggren University of North Texas
Bing Chen
Bing Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
Richard J. Wassersug
Richard J. Wassersug University of British Columbia
Itai Yanai
Itai Yanai New York University
Timothy L. Karr
Timothy L. Karr Arizona State University
Detlev Arendt
Detlev Arendt Heidelberg University
Mark Q. Martindale
Mark Q. Martindale University of Florida
Allen G. Gibbs
Allen G. Gibbs University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Bernard M. Degnan
Bernard M. Degnan University of Queensland

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