Rosalind Murray

Rosalind Murray

Assistant Professor
❌ Not accepting applicants at this time

Research

I am an evolutionary ecologist broadly interested in environmental impacts on sex differences and life history tradeoffs. Work in the lab focuses on insects with a combination of field and lab experiments. Current experimental systems include mosquitoes, dance flies (empids), notonectids, dragonflies, and salamanders.

Teaching

  • Research Opportunity Program (ROP)
  • BIO481Y5: Biology Research Course

Current Lab Members

  • Tolulope Babalola, PhD Candidate
  • Sherry Du, PhD Candidate
  • Dominik Jaworski, PhD Student
  • Hannah Bodmer, PhD Student
  • Dr. Meredith Swartwout, Postdoctoral Fellow

Publications

For a complete list of publications, please visit my Google Scholar page. 

  • Jaworski, D., Bussière, L.F., Gwynne, D.T., Herridge, E.J. & R.L. Murray (2024) Diversity in mating and parental sex roles. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, 2ndEdition. Academic Press. 453-458. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00154-2.
  • Marques, Piata; Illyes, Edina; McCauley, Shannon; Jackson, Donald.; Michalakos, Diana; Ferzoco, Ilia Maria; Timms, Laura; Murray, Rosalind; MacFarlane, Zira; Duval, Tim; Dolson, Rebecca; Din, Sajjad; Pebesma, Dale; Kirkwood, Andrea; Turner, Nicole; Clayton, Jon; Horton, Kaitlyn; Boston, Christine; Sapozhnikova, Ekaterina; Cadotte, Marc & Mandrak, Nick (2024) Ecosystem functions and services in urban stormwater ponds: co-producing knowledge for better management. Ecological Solutions and Evidence. 5, e12366; DOI: 10.1002/2688-8319.12366
  • Marcellino, B.J.L., Yee, P., McCauley, S.J.* & R.L. Murray* (2024) Too hot to handle: Male dragonflies decrease mating behaviour at higher temperatures. Animal Behaviour. 207, 109-118. *Authors contributed equally.
  • Batool, R.*, Jenan, J.*, Schuster, M. & R.L. Murray (2023) How do latitude and urban heat islands affect monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) larval melanisation? Canadian Journal of Zoology. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2023-0099 *Authors contributed equally.
  • Du, S. & R.L. Murray (2023) Road salt pollution alters sex ratios in emerging mosquito populations. Environmental Pollution 334, 122203.
  • Hasik, A.Z., Ilvonen, J.J., Siepielski, A.M. &  R.L. Murray (2022) Odonata immunity, pathogens, and parasites. In: Dragonflies & Damselflies: Model Organisms for Ecological and Evolutionary Research. 2nd Edition. 73–84.
  • Murray, R.L., Gwynne, D.T. & L.F. Bussière (2022) Mating and Sexual Selection in Empidine Dance Flies (Empididae). Insects. 13: 839.
  • Zhang, V., Martin, R.L. & R.L. Murray (2022) Chronic road salt exposure across life stages and the interactive effects of warming and salinity in a semi-aquatic insect. Environmental Entomology. 51: 313-321.
  • Murray, R.L., Herridge, E.J., Ness, R.W., Wiberg, R.A. & L.F. Bussière (2020) Competition for access to mates predicts female-specific ornamentation and male investment in relative testis size. Evolution. 74: 1741-1754.
  • Murray, R.L., Tah, S., Koprivnikar, J., Rowe, L. & S. McCauley (2020) Exposure to potentially cannibalistic conspecifics induces an increased immune response.  Ecological Entomology. 45: 355-363.