Zac Tobias

Zac Tobias

he/him

Investigating the molecular and physiological basis of evolutionary adaptation to novel stressors in aquatic organisms.

Host response to a body-snatching parasite

PhD-era research collaboration

A mud crab infected by a parasitic barnacle held between a person's fingers.

Using transcriptomics to test how invasion history shapes mud crab responses to infection by a parasitic barnacle.

Details coming soon!

Additional photographs are collected in the PhD research gallery. Cover photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program.

Related publications

  1. Zachary JC Tobias, Amy E Fowler, April MH Blakeslee, John A Darling, Mark E Torchin, A Whitman Miller, Gregory M Ruiz, Carolyn K Tepolt. (2021). Invasion history shapes host transcriptomic response to a body-snatching parasite. Molecular ecology, 30(17), 4321–4337. [PDF]
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