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Tony Wilson
Associate Professor
Biology
Location: 411 Ingersoll Hall Extension
Phone: 718.951.5000 x6953
Fax: 718.951.4659
Email:
Tony Wilson's Web site
The Wilson Lab's research focuses primarily on the study of the evolution of reproductive complexity in aquatic environments. Wilson studies a number of different freshwater and marine model systems using a combination of field, laboratory and experimental approaches to investigate how selective pressures contribute to the evolution of reproductive variation across space and time.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Konstanz (Germany) - 2002 (Biology)
M.Sc., University of Guelph (Canada) - 1998 (Zoology)
B.Sc. Honours, Acadia University (Canada) - 1996 (Biology)
Areas of Expertise:
evolutionary biology, functional genomics, marine biology, phylogeography and phylogenetics, reproductive ecology, sexual selection.
Books and Publications
Stacy R., Palma J., Correia M., Wilson A.B., Andrade J.P., Castilho R. "The paradox of retained genetic diversity of Hippocampus guttulatus in the face of demographic decline". Scientific Reports. 11, 10434. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Wilson A.B., Ashe J., Padron M., Hamilton H. "Comprehensive genus-wide screening of seahorse microsatellites Identifies priority species for conservation assessment". Conservation Genetics Resources. 13(2), 221-230. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Ashe J,L. and A.B. Wilson "Navigating the southern seas with small fins: Genetic connectivity of seahorses (Hippocampus abdominalis) across the Tasman Sea." Journal of Biogeography, 47, 207-219. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Moser F., Wilson A.B. "The mechanisms of reproductive isolation in Mediterranean pipefish (Syngnathus sp.)". Animal Behaviour. 161, 77-87. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Wilson A.B., Wegmann A., Ahnesjö I., J.M.S. Gonçalves "The evolution of ecological specialization in a broadly-distributed marine species". Evolution. 74, 629-643. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2020
Perelmuter J.T., Wilson A.B., Sisneros J.A., and P.M. Forlano "Forebrain dopamine system regulates inner ear auditory sensitivity to socially relevant acoustic signals." Current Biology, 29, 2190-2198. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Sutton F.B.. and A.B. Wilson "Where are all the moms? External fertilization predicts the rise of male parental care in bony fishes." Evolution, 73: 2451-2460. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2019
Sutton F.B. and A.B. Wilson "Parental behavior in fish". In Encyclopedia of Reproduction, 2nd ed. (MK Skinner, ed.), vol. 6: 106-114. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2018
Buerkli A., and A.B. Wilson "Explaining high-diversity death assemblages: Undersampling of the living community, out-of-habitat transport, time-averaging of rare taxa, and local extinction." Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 466: 174-183 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Wang S., C. Liu, A.B. Wilson, X. Li, W. Zhu X. Gao, X. Liu, and Y. Li "Pathogen richness and abundance predict patterns of adaptive MHC variation in insular amphibians." Molecular Ecology 26: 4671-4685. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Wilson A.B. "MHC and adaptive immunity in teleost fishes." Immunogenetics 69: 521-528. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Whittington C.M., O.W. Griffith, W. Qi, M.B. Thompson, and A.B. Wilson "Seahorse brood pouch transcriptome reveals common genes associated with vertebrate pregnancy." Molecular Biology and Evolution 32(12): 3114-3131. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
Ejsmond, M.J., J. Radwan and A.B. Wilson. "Sexual selection and the evolution of the major histocompatibility complex." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 281: 20141662. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Wilson, A.B., C.M. Whittington and A. Bahr. "High intralocus variability and interlocus recombination promote immunological diversity in a minimal major histocompatibility system." BMC Evolutionary Biology 14: 273. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Fehr, A., E. Walther, H. Schmidt-Posthaus, L. Nufer, A. Wilson, H. Segner, A. Pospischi and L. Vaughn. "Candidatus Syngnamydia venezia, a novel member of the phylum Chlamydiae and a potential model for host-pathogen coevolution." PLoS One 8.8: e70853. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Mwale, M., H. Kaiser, N. Barker, A.B. Wilson and P.W. Teske. "Identification of a uniquely southern African clade of coastal pipefishes (Syngnathus spp.). Journal of Fish Biology 82: 2045-62. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Whittington, C.M. and A.B. Wilson. "The role of prolactin in fish reproduction." General and Comparative Endocrinology 191: 123-36. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Whittington, C.M., K. Musolf, S. Sommer and A.B. Wilson. "Behavioral cues of reproductive status in seahorses (Hippocampus abdominalis). Journal of Fish Biology 83: 220-26. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Bahr, A. and A.B. Wilson. "The evolution of MHC diversity: Evidence of intralocus gene conversion and recombination in a single-locus system. Gene 497: 52-57. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Bahr, A., S. Sommer, B. Mattle and A.B. Wilson. "Mutual mate choice in the potbellied seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis). Behavioral Ecology 23.4: 869-78. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Sommer, S., C.M. Whittington and A.B. Wilson. "Standardized classification of pre-release development in male-pregnant pipefish, seahorses, and seadragons (Family Syngnathidae). BMC Developmental Biology 12: 39. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Winkler, J.D., K.N. Stolting and A.B. Wilson. "Sex-specific responses to fecundity selection in the Broad-nosed Pipefish. Evolutionary Ecology 26: 701-14. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Bahr, A. and A.B. Wilson. "The impact of sex-role reversal on the diversity of the major histocompatibility complex: Insights from the seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis). BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 121. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Hablützel, P. and A.B. Wilson. "Notes on the occurrence of Syngnathus rostellatus (Teleostei, Syngnathidae) in the Mediterranean." Marine Biodiversity Records 4: e57. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Stölting, K.N., H.M. Meudt, A.C. Clarke, W.U. Blanckenhorn and A.B. Wilson. "Cost-effective fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism analyses." Molecular Ecology Notes 11: 494-502. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Wilson, A.B. and J.W. Orr. "The evolutionary origins of syngnathid fishes." Journal of Fish Biology 78: 1603-23. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Wilson, A.B. and I. Eigenmann Veraguth. "The impact of Pleistocene glaciation across the range of a widespread European coastal species." Molecular Ecology 19: 4535-53. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2010
Mattle, B. and A.B. Wilson. "Body size preferences in the pot-bellied seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis: Choosy males and indiscriminate females. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63: 1403-20. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Stölting, K.N., G. Gort, C. Wüst and A.B. Wilson. "Eukaryotic transcriptomics in silico: Optimizing cDNA-AFLP efficiency." BMC Genomics 10: 565. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Wilson A.B. "Fecundity selection predicts Bergmann's Rule in syngnathid fishes." Molecular Ecology 18: 1263-72. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Wilson A.B. "Opening Pandora's Box: Comparative studies of genetic mating systems reveal reproductive complexity." Molecular Ecology 18: 1307-09. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2009
Rispoli, V.F. and A.B. Wilson. "Sexual size dimorphism predicts the frequency of multiple mating in the sex-role reversed pipefish Syngnathus typhle." Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 30-38. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
Wilson, A.B., G.G. Teugels and A. Meyer. "Marine Incursion: The freshwater herring of Lake Tanganyika are the product of a marine invasion into West Africa." PLoS One 3: e1979. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2008
Stölting, K.N. and A.B. Wilson. "Male pregnancy in seahorses and pipefish: Beyond the mammalian model." BioEssays 29: 884-96. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2007
Wilson, A.B. and K.M. Martin-Smith. "Genetic monogamy despite social promiscuity in the pot-bellied seahorse (Hippocampus abdominalis). Molecular Ecology 16: 2345-52. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2007
"Interspecies mating in sympatric species of Syngnathus pipefish." Molecular Ecology 15: 809-24. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2006
Millien, V., K.J. Lyons, L. Olsen, F.A. Smith, A.B. Wilson and Y. Yom-Tov. "Ecotypic variation in the context of global climate change: Revisiting the rules." Ecology Letters 9: 853-69. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2006
Wilson A.B. "Genetic signature of recent glaciation on populations of a nearshore marine fish species (Syngnathus leptorhynchus)." Molecular Ecology 15: 1857-71. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2006
Von Rintelen, T., A.B. Wilson, A. Meyer and M. Glaubrecht. "Escalation and trophic specialization drive adaptive radiation of freshwater gastropods in ancient lakes on Sulawesi, Indonesia." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 271: 2522-50. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2004
Wilson, A.B., M. Glaubrecht and A. Meyer. "Ancient lakes as evolutionary reservoirs: Evidence from the thalassoid gastropods of Lake Tanganyika." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 271: 529-36. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2004
Wilson, A.B., I. Ahnesjö, A. Vincent and A. Meyer. "The dynamics of male brooding, mating patterns and sex-roles in pipefishes and seahorses (Family Syngnathidae)." Evolution 57: 1374-86. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2003
Wilson, A.B., A. Vincent, I. Ahnesjö and A. Meyer. "Male pregnancy in seahorses and pipefishes (Family Syngnathidae): Rapid diversification of paternal brood pouch morphology inferred from a molecular phylogeny." Journal of Heredity 92: 159-66. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2001
Noack, K., A.B. Wilson and A. Meyer. "Broad taxonomic applicability of microsatellites developed for the highly polymorphic neotropical cichlid (Amphilophus citrinellum). Animal Genetics 31.2: 151-52. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2000
Wilson, A.B., K. Noack-Kunnmann and A. Meyer. "Incipient speciation in sympatric Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fishes: Sexual selection versus ecological diversification." Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 267: 2133-41. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2000
Wilson, A.B., E.G. Boulding and K.-A. Naish. "Characterization of tri- and tetra-nucleotide microsatellite markers in the invasive mollusc, Dreissena bugensis. Molecular Ecology 8: 692-93. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1999
Wilson, A.B., K.-A. Naish and E.G. Boulding." Multiple dispersal strategies of the invasive quagga mussel Dreissena bugensis as revealed by microsatellite analysis. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 56: 2248-61. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1999
Claxton, W.T., A.B. Wilson, G.L. Mackie and E.G. Boulding. "A genetic and morphological comparison of shallow and deep water populations of the introduced dreissenid bivalve, Dreissena bugensis. Canadian Journal of Zoology 76: 1269-76. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1998
Wilson, A.B., J.S. Boates and M. Snyder. "The genetic isolation of populations of the gammaridean amphipod, Corophium volutator, in the Bay of Fundy, Canada." Molecular Ecology 6: 917-23. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 1997
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
NSF DBI-2050828 grant. Co-Principal Investigator. (Grants and Fellowships) 2021
PSC-CUNY Research Award #64689-00 52 grant. Principal investigator. (Grants and Fellowships) 2021
NSF DBI-1659537 grant. Co-Principal Investigator. (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
NSF DEB-1701788 grant. Co-Principal Investigator. (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
PSC-CUNY Research Award #60804-00 48 grant. Principal investigator. (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
Waitt Foundation ROC-16142806 grant. Principal investigator. (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
PSC-CUNY Research Award #68684-0046 grant. Principal investigator. (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
