Susan Gershman

Dr. Susan Gershman

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Susan N. Gershman
Program of Excellence in Neuroscience and Behavior Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Biological Sciences
Illinois State University
Campus Box 4120
Normal, IL 61790-4120

Phone: (309) 438-5438
Office: Felmley Annex 143
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Publications:

Leman, J.C., Weddle, C.B., Gershman, S.N., Kerr, A.M., Ower, G.D. St. John, J.M., Vogel, L.A. and Sakaluk, S.K. 2008. Lovesick: immunological costs of mating to male sagebrush crickets. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (in press)

Gershman, S. N. 2008. Post-copulatory female choice increases the fertilization success of novel males in the field cricket, Gryllus vocalis. Evolution (in press). (abstract)

Gershman, S. N. 2008. Sex-specific differences in immunological costs of multiple mating in Gryllus vocalis field crickets. Behavioral Ecology 19:810-815. (link) (abstract)

Gershman, S. N. 2008. Diet quality mediates the effect of multiple mating on female Gryllus vocalis vocal field cricket lifetime reproductive success. Evolutionary Ecology Research 10:269-280. (link) (abstract)

Gershman, S. N. 2007. Female Gryllus vocalis field crickets gain diminishing returns from increasing numbers of matings. Ethology 113:1099-1106. (link) (abstract)

Gershman, S. N. and P. A. Verrell. 2002. To persuade or be persuaded: which sex controls mating in a plethodontid salamander?  Behaviour 139:447-462. (pdf)