Fuller, Claire A
chair and professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Murray State University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Fuller is a broadly trained ecologist with specializations in animal behavior, population ecology and parasitologists. Her MS thesis (Zoology) was on kin recognition in Townsend's Chipmunk (Neotamias townsendii), under the guidance of Dr. Andrew Blaustein at Oregon State University. She continued at Oregon State, completing a PhD under Dr. Blaustein on the influence of parasites on population ecology, behavior and ecological immunology of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus). After the PhD, she moved to the US Virgin Islands where she began examining similar questions in the tropical degrader, Nasutitermes acajutlae, a termite. She has been a faculty member in the Department of Biological Sciences at MSU since the fall of 1997.
Research Interest
ecologist parasitologists.
Publications
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Fuller CA, POSTAVAâ€DAVIGNON MA, West A, Rosengaus RB. Environmental conditions and their impact on immunocompetence and pathogen susceptibility of the Caribbean termite Nasutitermes acajutlae. Ecological Entomology. 2011 Aug 1;36(4):459-70.
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Fuller CA, Nickol BB. A description of mature Oncicola venezuelensis (Acanthocephala: Oligacanthorhynchidae) from a feral house cat in the US Virgin Islands. Journal of Parasitology. 2011 Dec;97(6):1099-100.
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St. Clair CR, Fuller CA. Atrazine exposure increases time until cannibalistic response in the widow skimmer dragonfly (Libellula luctuosa). Canadian journal of zoology. 2014 Jan 7;92(2):113-7.
