Jason Keagy, Ph.D.
- Assistant Research Professor of Wildlife Behavioral Ecology
University Park, PA 16802
- Email keagy@psu.edu
- Pronouns He/Him
Areas of Expertise
- Animal behavior/ behavioral ecology
- Animal cognition
- Evolution
- Neurogenomics
- Computer Programming
Websites
Education
- B.S. Biology, College of William and Mary, 2003
- Ph.D. Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, University of Maryland - College Park, 2010
Publications
Mate choice in the brain: Species differ in how male traits 'turn on' gene expression in female brains
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Keagy, Jason, Hofmann, Hans A., Boughman, Janette W., 2024
Predator-induced transgenerational plasticity of parental care behaviour in male three-spined stickleback fish across two generations
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Hellmann, Jennifer K., Keagy, Jason, Carlson, Erika R., Kempfer, Shayne, Bell, Alison M., 2024
Movement beyond the mean: decoupling sources of individual variation in brook trout movement across seasons
Environmental Biology of Fishes, White, Shannon L., Keagy, Jason, Batchelor, Sarah, Langlois, Julia, Thomas, Natalie, Wagner, Tyler, 2023
Repeated parallel differentiation of social learning differences in benthic and limnetic threespine stickleback fish
Biology Letters, Keagy, Jason, Lehto, Whitley, Minter, Ross, MacHniak, Sarah, Baird, Oynx, Boughman, Janette W., 2023
Landscape transcriptomics as a tool for addressing global change effects across diverse species
Molecular Ecology Notes, Keagy, Jason, Drummond, Chloe P., Gilbert, Kadeem J., Grozinger, Christina M., Hamilton, Jill, Hines, Heather M., Lasky, Jesse, Logan, Cheryl A., Sawers, Ruairidh, Wagner, Tyler, 2023
Sensory environment affects Icelandic threespine stickleback’s anti-predator escape behaviour
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Ålund, Murielle, Harper, Brooke, Kjærnested, Sigurlaug, Ohl, Julian E., Phillips, John G., Sattler, Jessica, Thompson, Jared, Varg, Javier E., Wargenau, Sven, Boughman, Janette W., Keagy, Jason, 2022
Bowerbird Innovation and Problem Solving, Keagy, Jason, 2021
Behavior-related gene regulatory networks: A new level of organization in the brain
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Sinha, Saurabh, Jones, Beryl M., Traniello, Ian M., Bukhari, Syed A., Halfon, Marc S., Hofmann, Hans A., Huang, Sui, Katz, Paul S., Keagy, Jason, Lynch, Vincent J., Sokolowski, Marla B., Stubbs, Lisa J., Tabe-Bordbar, Shayan, Wolfner, Mariana F., Robinson, Gene E., 2020
Correction to: Parenting behaviour is highly heritable in male stickleback (Royal Society Open Science (2018)) 5 (171029) DOI: 10.1098/rsos.171029)
Royal Society Open Science, Bell, Alison M., Trapp, Rebecca, Keagy, Jason, 2019
Sex differences in cognition and their relationship to male mate choice
Current Zoology, Keagy, Jason, Minter, Ross, Tinghitella, Robin, 2019
A major player need not be the only player in speciation: A response to comments on Tinghitella et al.
Behavioral Ecology, Tinghitella, Robin M., Lackey, Alycia C.R., Martin, Michael D., Dijkstra, Peter D., Drury, Jonathan P., Heathcote, Robert J.P., Keagy, Jason, Scordato, Elizabeth S.C., Tyers, Alexandra M., 2018
On the role of male competition in speciation: A review and research agenda
Behavioral Ecology, Tinghitella, Robin M., Lackey, Alycia C.R., Martin, Michael, Dijkstra, Peter D., Drury, Jonathan P., Heathcote, Robert, Keagy, Jason, Scordato, Elizabeth S.C., Tyers, Alexandra M., 2018
Why does the magnitude of genotype-by-environment interaction vary?
Ecology and Evolution, Saltz, Julia B., Bell, Alison M., Flint, Jonathan, Gomulkiewicz, Richard, Hughes, Kimberly A., Keagy, Jason, 2018
Brain differences in ecologically differentiated sticklebacks
Acta Zoologica Sinica, Keagy, Jason, Braithwaite, Victoria A., Boughman, Janette W., 2018
Parenting behaviour is highly heritable in male stickleback
Royal Society Open Science, Bell, Alison M., Trapp, Rebecca, Keagy, Jason, 2018
Sexual selection promotes ecological speciation in digital organisms, Canino-Koning, Rosangela, Keagy, Jason, Ofria, Charles, 2017
The relationship between male sexual signals, cognitive performance, and mating success in stickleback fish
Ecology and Evolution, Minter, Ross, Keagy, Jason, Tinghitella, Robin M., 2017
Sexual Selection and Speciation, Boughman, Janette, Keagy, Jason, Weigel, Emily, 2017
Sexual Selection Promotes Ecological Speciation in Digital Organisms, Canino-Koning, Rosangela, Keagy, Jason, Ofria, Charles, 2017
The relative roles of genes and rearing environment on the spatial cognitive ability of two sympatric species of threespine stickleback
Evolutionary Ecology Research, Martinez, Jonatan, Keagy, Jason, Wurst, Benjamin, Fetzner, William, Boughman, Janette W., 2016
Female active sampling of male paint on bowers predicts female uncertainty in mate choice
Animal Behaviour, Keagy, Jason, Hosler, Linda Cendes, Borgia, Gerald, 2016
Male competition fitness landscapes predict both forward and reverse speciation
Ecology Letters, Keagy, Jason, Lettieri, Liliana, Boughman, Janette W., 2016
Cognitively Driven Co-Option and the Evolution of Complex Sexual Displays in Bowerbirds, Borgia, Gerald, Keagy, Jason, 2015