My research as an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow focuses on the maintenance of colour polymorphisms within populations, using two species of live-bearing fishes: Poecilia reticulata, the guppy, and Poecilia parae. As alleles underlying male colouration are primarily linked to sex chromosomes in both species, my research also touches the evolution of sex chromosomes in poeciliid fishes.

 

My studies of Poecilia parae began at Simon Fraser University where I worked with Felix Breden as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow. Before that time I studied birds. My doctoral research at the University of Cambridge as a student of Nick Davies investigated evolutionary and ecological interactions between cuckoo brood parasites and their hosts. I spent my undergraduate days at the University of British Columbia.

 

 

 

 

 

Lindholm, AK, Brooks, R & F Breden. 2003. Extreme polymorphism of a Y-linked sexually selected trait. Heredity, in press.

 

Gamble, S, Lindholm, AK, Endler, JA & R Brooks. 2003. Environmental variation and the maintenance of polymorphism: The effect of ambient light spectrum on mating behaviour and sexual selection in guppies. Ecology Letters 6: 463-472.

 

Lindholm, A & F Breden. 2002. Sex chromosomes and sexual selection in poeciliid fishes. American Naturalist 160: S214-S224.

 

Lindholm, AK. 2000. Tests of phenotypic plasticity in reed warbler defences against cuckoo parasitism. Behaviour 137: 43-60.

 

Lindholm, AK & RJ Thomas. 2000. Differences between populations of reed warblers in defences against brood parasitism. Behaviour 137: 25-42.

 

Lindholm, AK. 1999. Brood parasitism by the cuckoo on patchy reed warbler populations in Britain. Journal of Animal Ecology, 68: 293-309.

 

Lindholm, AK. 1999. Phenotypic plasticity in reed warbler defence against brood parasitism. In: Adams, N.J. & Slotow, R.H. (eds) Proceedings of the 22nd International Ornithological Congress, Durban, pp. 3107-3124. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa.

 

Lindholm, AK, GJ Venter & EA Ueckermann. 1998. Persistence of passerine ectoparasites on the diederik cuckoo Chrysococcyx caprius. Journal of Zoology, London 244: 145-153.

 

Lindholm, AK. 1997. Evolution of host defences against avian brood parasitism. Doctoral dissertation, University of Cambridge.

 

Ward, D, Lindholm, AK & JNM Smith. 1996. Multiple parasitism of the red-winged blackbird: further experimental evidence of evolutionary lag in a common host of the brown-headed cowbird. Auk 113: 408-413.

 

Lindholm, A, G Gauthier and A Desrochers. 1994. Effects of hatch date and food supply on gosling growth in Arctic-nesting Greater Snow Geese. Condor 96: 898-908.

 

Benkman, CW and AK Lindholm. 1991. The advantages and evolution of a morphological novelty. Nature 349: 519-520.