Elizabeth Tibbetts

Journal of Educational Psychology Closing the Social Class Achievement Gap for First-Generation Students in Undergraduate Biology

Robust long-term social memories in a paper wasp

Michael J. Sheehan and Elizabeth A. Tibbetts Supplemental Methods In early spring 2007, emerging P. fuscatus were collected in and around Ann Arbor, Michigan. After emerging from diapause, wasps do not immediately begin nest construction, but rather spend up to a few weeks assessing potential nest sites. During this time, they also engage in aggressive dominance contests with multiple other fou...

Early Career Scientist Symposium 2008 Poster Titles and Abstracts 1 Inferring Swimming Mode from Skeletal Proportions in Early Pinnipeds

Identifying broad-scale evolutionary processes that promote and maintain phenotypic and genetic polymorphisms in natural populations has been a major goal of modern evolutionary biology. Here, we present the first experimental evidence that social interactions impose frequency-dependent selection by favoring individuals with distinctive, easily recognizable phenotypes. We show that paper wasps ...

Specialized face learning is associated with individual recognition in paper wasps.

We demonstrate that the evolution of facial recognition in wasps is associated with specialized face-learning abilities. Polistes fuscatus can differentiate among normal wasp face images more rapidly and accurately than nonface images or manipulated faces. A close relative lacking facial recognition, Polistes metricus, however, lacks specialized face learning. Similar specializations for face l...

Can antibiotic De-escalation Be Measured Without Chart Review? A Proposed Electronic Definition

959. Communicating Microbiology Results. It’s Not Just What You Say, But How You Say It Mary Musgrove, PharmD; Rachel M Kenney, PharmD; Ronald Kendall, PharmD; Robert Tibbetts, PhD D(ABMM), F(CCM); Linoj Samuel, PhD., D(ABMM); Mike Peters, PharmD, BCPS; Susan Davis, PharmD; Pharmacy, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan; Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan; Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital, W...

Individual recognition: it is good to be different.

Individual recognition (IR) behavior has been widely studied, uncovering spectacular recognition abilities across a range of taxa and modalities. Most studies of IR focus on the recognizer (receiver). These studies typically explore whether a species is capable of IR, the cues that are used for recognition and the specializations that receivers use to facilitate recognition. However, relatively...