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ResearchThis video was done as part of the #SciFund Challenge. I’m interested in brains, behaviour, evolution. I work mostly with decapod crustaceans, particularly sand crabs and the marbled crayfish Marmorkrebs. PublicationsArticles in journals and books
2019
Faulkes Z. 2019. #GRExit’s unintended consequences. Science 363(6425): 356. http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw1012
2018
2017Faulkes Z. 2017. Case study - The “me brand”: tips for successful personal branding. In: Evans TM, Lundsteen N, Vanderford NL, ReSearch: A Career Guide for Scientists, pp. 134-135. Academic Press: London. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804297-7.00011-2
Faulkes Z. 2017. Slipping past the barricades: the illegal trade of pet crayfish in Ireland. Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 117(1): 15-23. https://doi.org/10.3318/BIOE.2017.02
2016Faulkes Z. 2016. Indie blogging: On being a “ronin”. In: Wilcox C, Brookshire B, Goldman J (eds.), Science Blogging: The Essential Guide, pp. 70-78. Yale University Press: New Haven. ISBN: 9780300197556. http://yalebooks.com/book/9780300197556/science-blogging Faulkes Z. 2016. Marble crayfish as a new model organism and a new threat to native crayfish conservation. In: T Kawai, Z Faulkes, G Scholtz, eds. Freshwater Crayfish: A Global Overview, pp. 31-53. Boca Raton: CRC Press. https://www.crcpress.com/Freshwater-Crayfish-A-Global-Overview/Kawai-Faulkes-Scholtz/9781466586390 Feria TP, Faulkes Z. 2016. Predicting the distribution of crayfish species: a case study using marble crayfish. In: T Kawai, Z Faulkes, G Scholtz, eds. Freshwater Crayfish: A Global Overview, pp. 13-30. Boca Raton: CRC Press. https://www.crcpress.com/Freshwater-Crayfish-A-Global-Overview/Kawai-Faulkes-Scholtz/9781466586390 2015
Harzsch S, Krieger J, Faulkes Z. 2015. “Crustacea”: Decapoda – Astacida. In: A Wanninger (ed.), Evolutionary Developmental Biology of Invertebrates 4: Ecdysozoa II: Crustacea, pp. 101-151. Springer Veinna: Wien. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1853-5_4
2014
Faulkes Z. 2014. A new southern record for a sand crab, Lepidopa websteri Benedict, 1903 (Decapoda, Albuneidae). Crustaceana 87(7): 881-885. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003326 Faulkes Z. 2014. The vacuum shouts back: post-publication peer-review on social media. Neuron 82(2): 258-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2014.03.032
Weinersmith KL, Faulkes Z. 2014. Parasitic manipulation of host phenotype, or how to make a zombie - an introduction to the symposium. Integrative and Comparative Biology 54(2): 93-100. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu028 2013Faulkes Z. 2013. How much is that crayfish in the window? Online monitoring of Marmorkrebs, Procambarus fallax f. virginalis (Hagen, 1870) in the North American pet trade. Freshwater Crayfish 19(1): 39-44. https://doi.org/10.5869/fc.2013.v19.039 Murph JH, Faulkes Z. 2013. Abundance and size of sand crabs, Lepidopa benedicti (Decapoda: Albuneidae), in South Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist 58(4): 431-434. https://doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909-58.4.431 2012Faulkes Z. 2012. Morphological adaptations for digging and burrowing. In: Watling L, Thiel M (eds.), The Natural History of Crustacea, Volume 1: Functional Morphology and Diversity, pp. 276-295. Oxford University Press: Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195398038.003.0010 Faulkes Z. 2012. Presentation Tips (ebook). Kindle Direct Publishing. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008DKI1ZU
2011Carreon N, Faulkes Z, Fredensborg BL. 2011. Polypocephalus sp. infects the nervous system and increases activity of commercially harvested white shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus). Journal of Parasitology 97(5): 755-759. https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-2749.1 Espinoza SY, Faulkes Z. 2011. Escaping while defenseless or blind: effects of sensory input on tailflipping in crayfish, Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852). Freshwater Crayfish 18(1): 13-17. https://doi.org/10.5869/fc.2011.v18.13
Faulkes Z. 2011. The decade the clones came. In: Goldman J (ed.), Zivkovic B (series ed.), The Open Laboratory: The Best of Science Writing on the Web 2010, pp. 151-156. Coturnix: Chapel Hill.
Jimenez SA, Faulkes Z. 2011. Can the parthenogenetic marbled crayfish Marmorkrebs compete with other crayfish species in fights? Journal of Ethology 29(1): 115-120. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10164-010-0232-2 Nasir U, Faulkes Z. 2011. Color polymorphism of sand crabs, Lepidopa benedicti (Decapoda, Albuneidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 31(2): 240-245. https://doi.org/10.1651/10-3356.1 2010Faulkes Z. 2010. The decade the clones came: Beware the mighty Marmorkrebs! In: Zivcovic B (ed.), Scientific American Guest Blog. 29 November 2010.
Faulkes Z. 2010. Taking a cue from the silver screen. Science 327: 523. [Letter responding to: Alberts B. 2010. Promoting scientific standards. Science 327: 12. 10.1126/science.1185983] https://doi.org/10.1126/science.327.5965.523-a Faulkes Z. 2010. I want to be Carl Sagan, but can’t. In: Scicurious (ed.), Zivkovic B (series ed.), The Open Laboratory: The Best in Science Writing On Blogs 2009, pp. 45-46. Coturnix: Chapel Hill.
2009Faulkes Z. 2009. How Marmorkrebs can make the world a better place. In: Rohn J (ed.), Grant RP (deputy ed.), Zivkovic B (series ed.), The Open Laboratory: The Best In Science Writing On Blogs 2008, pp. 86-87. Coturnix: Chapel Hill. 2008Faulkes Z. 2008. Turning loss into opportunity: The key deletion of an escape circuit in decapod crustaceans. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 72(4): 251-261. https://doi.org/10.1159/000171488 Flores AR, Faulkes Z. 2008. Texture preferences of ascidian tadpole larvae during settlement. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 41(3): 155-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/10236240802360914 2007Faulkes Z, Davelos Baines A. 2007. Evolutionary string theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30(4): 369-370. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X07002270 2006Espinoza SY, Breen L, Varghese N, Faulkes Z. 2006. Loss of escape-related giant neurons in a spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. The Biological Bulletin 211(3): 223-231. https://doi.org/10.2307/4134545 Faulkes Z. 2006. The locomotor toolbox of spanner crabs, Ranina ranina (brachyura, Raninidae). Crustaceana 79(2): 143-155. https://doi.org/10.1163/156854006776952874 Faulkes Z. 2006. Digging mechanisms and substrate preferences of shovel nosed lobsters, Ibacus peronii (Decapoda: Scyllaridae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(1): 69-72. https://doi.org/10.1651/C-2628.1 2005Lambert G, Faulkes Z, Lambert CC, Scofield VL. 2005. Ascidians of South Padre Island, Texas, with a key to species. The Texas Journal of Science 57(3): 251-262. 2004Faulkes Z. 2004. Mechanisms of behavioral switching. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 191(3): 197-199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-004-0560-1 Faulkes Z. 2004. Loss of escape responses and giant neurons in the tailflipping circuits of slipper lobsters, Ibacus spp. (Decapoda, Palinura, Scyllaridae). Arthropod Structure & Development 33(2): 113-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2003.12.003 2002Faulkes Z, Macmillan DL. 2002. Effects of removal of muscle receptor organ input on the temporal structure of non-giant swimming cycles in the crayfish, Cherax destructor. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology: 35(3): 149-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/1023624021000014734 Paul DH, Faulkes Z, Antonsen BL. 2002. Synergies between disparate motor systems: loci for behavioral evolution. In: Crustacean Experimental Systems in Neurobiology (K Wiese, ed.), pp. 263-282. Springer Verlag: Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56092-7_15 2001Faulkes Z, Pollack GS. 2001. Mechanisms of frequency-specific responses of omega neuron 1 in crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus): a polysynaptic pathway for song? The Journal of Experimental Biology 204(7): 1295-1305. http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/204/7/1295 Patullo BP, Faulkes Z, Macmillan DL. 2001. Muscle receptor organs do not mediate load compensation during body roll and defense response extensions in the crayfish Cherax destructor. The Journal of Experimental Zoology 290(7): 783-790. https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.1129 2000Faulkes Z, Pollack GS. 2000. The effects of inhibitory timing on contrast enhancement in auditory circuits in crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus). Journal of Neurophysiology 84(3): 1247-1255. http://jn.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/3/1247 1998Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1998. Digging in sand crabs: coordination of joints in individual legs. The Journal of Experimental Biology 201(14): 2139-2149. Pollack G, Faulkes Z. 1998. Representation of behaviorally relevant sound frequencies by auditory receptors in the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus. The Journal of Experimental Biology 201(1): 155-163. http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/201/1/155 1997Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1997. A map of the distal leg motor neurons in the thoracic ganglia of four decapod crustacean species. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 49(3): 162-178. https://doi.org/10.1159/000112990 Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1997. Coordination between the legs and tail during digging and swimming in sand crabs. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 180(2): 161-169. https://doi.org/10.1007/s003590050037 Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1997. Digging in sand crabs (Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea): interleg coordination. The Journal of Experimental Biology 200(4): 793-805. Faulkes Z. 1997. Is intelligence inevitable? In: The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Cover-Ups (eds. K. Frazier, B. Karr, J. Nickell), pp. 303-312. Prometheus Books (US website | UK website): Amherst. 1994Faulkes Z. 1994. Who watches the watchmen? [Review of The Inevitable Bond by H Davis, AD Balfour, eds.] International Journal of Comparative Psychology 7(2): 90-94. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4c3439c6 1992Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1992. Connecting invertebrate behavior, physiology and evolution with Eshkol-Wachman movement notation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15(2): 276-277. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00068631 1991Faulkes Z. 1991. Getting smart about getting smarts. The Skeptical Inquirer 15(3): 263-268.
BooksKawai T, Faulkes Z, Scholz G (eds.). 2016. Freshwater Crayfish: A Global Overview. CRC Press: Boca Raton. http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466586390
MiscellanyFaulkes Z. 2018. Arbitration is needed to resolve scientific authorship disputes. PeerJ Preprints 6: e26987v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26987v1 Faulkes Z. 2017. Tail flip. In: Vander Weele CM (ed.), Interstellate: A Stream of Consciousness (Volume 2), pp. 27. Lucid Press: South Jordan, Utah. http://pub.lucidpress.com/Interstellate_Volume2/ Faulkes Z (ed.). 2017. Stinging the Predators: A Collection of Papers That Should Never Have Been Published. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5248264 Faulkes Z. 2016. Model organism. In: Vander Weele CM (ed.), Interstellate: A Collection of Thoughts (Volume 1), pp. 15. Lucid Press: South Jordan, Utah. http://pub.lucidpress.com/Interstellate_Volume1/
(The two altmetric scores are for version 1 and 2 of the pre-print.)
Selected conference abstractsFaulkes Z, Segura C, Garcia L, Terry J, Terry M. 2018. Blind sand crabs have visual opsins. Integrative and Comparative Biology 58(Supplement 1): e62. https://doi-org.ezhost.utrgv.edu/10.1093/icb/icy001 (Note: Published abstract lists authors as: "Faulkes Z, Segura S (sic), Garcia L, Terry M." JT contributed to the work after the abstract deadline.) Faulkes Z, Garcia L, Terry M. 2016. Eyes under the beach: the visual system of sand crabs (Lepidopa benedicti). Integrative and Comparative Biology 56(suppl 1): e63. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icw002 Puri S, Faulkes Z. 2014. Thermal nociception in Louisiana red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii). Integrative & Comparative Biology 54(suppl 1): e334. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu009 Faulkes Z. 2014. First, do no harm: Challenges to controlling another organism's nervous system. Integrative & Comparative Biology 54(suppl 1): e62. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu008 Joseph M, Faulkes Z. 2014. Nematode worms infect, but do not manipulate, sand crabs (Lepidopa benedicti). Integrative & Comparative Biology 54(suppl 1): e105. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icu008 Puri S, Faulkes Z. 2012. Crayfish avoid noxious high, but not low, temperatures. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience: 00416. http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fnbeh.2012.27.00416/event_abstract Faulkes Z, Feria TP. 2012. Size differences in sand crabs living in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Poster PS 109-238 at 97th Ecological Society of America meeting, 5-10 August 2011, Portland, Oregon USA. http://eco.confex.com/eco/2012/webprogrampreliminary/Paper39609.html Faulkes Z, Feria TP. 2011. Risk assessment of a mysterious invader: Marbled crayfish in Japan. Presentation given at 96th Ecological Society of America meeting, 7-12 August 2011, Austin, Texas. http://eco.confex.com/eco/2011/webprogram/Paper29937.html Jimenez SA, Faulkes Z. 2009. Assessing threat of introduction of the parthenogenetic marbled crayfish Marmorkrebs into North American waters. Poster #20891 presented at the 94th Ecology Society of America annual meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2-7 August 2009. http://eco.confex.com/eco/2009/techprogram/P20891.HTM Jimenez S, Faulkes Z. 2009. Establishment of a research colony of Marmorkrebs, a parthenogenetic crayfish species. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49(Supplement 1): e249. Puri S, Faulkes Z. 2009. Do crayfish like spicy foods? and other tests of crustacean nociception. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49(Supplement 1): e139. Faulkes Z. 2007. Motor neurons involved in escape responses in white shrimp, Litopenaeus setiferus. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47(Supplement 1): e178. Espinoza SY, Faulkes Z. 2007. Compromised weaponry enhances crayfish tailflipping. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47(Supplement 1): e176. Faulkes Z. 2007. The key deletion of an adaptive neural circuit in decapod crustaceans. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 70(3): 207. Faulkes Z. 2005. Do shovel-nosed lobsters shovel with their noses? Integrative
and Comparative Biology 45(6): 994. Espinoza SY, Breen A, Varghese N, Faulkes Z. 2005. Loss of escape-related neurons in spiny lobster (Panulirus argus). Integrative and Comparative Biology 45(6): 1129. Faulkes Z, Varghese N. 2004. No escape: loss of escape-related giant neurons in spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus). Program No. 89.4. 2004 Abstract Viewer / Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2004. Faulkes Z. 2001. Parallelism in digging behaviour in two distantly related decapod crustaceans. American Zoologist 41(6): 1642. Faulkes Z, Macmillan DL. 2000. Losing speed to gain control? The influence of muscle receptor organs on tailflipping in crayfish (Cherax destructor). Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society 31(2): 44P. Faulkes Z, Pollack G. 1997. Sound frequency specific responses of cricket omega neuron. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 23(2): 1570. Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1995. Sand crab digging: an evolutionary mosaic of disparate ancestral locomotor modules? In: Burrows M, Matheson T, Newland PL, Schuppe H (eds.), Nervous Systems and Behaviour. Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Neuroethology, pp. 483. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag. Faulkes Z, Paul DH, Pellis SM. 1991. Digging by the sand crab Blepharipoda occidentalis. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 17(2): 1245.
Datasets and figuresFaulkes Z. 2012. Ibacus leg motor neurons Figure 3. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.95656 (Published 6 September 2012; retrieved 03:19, Sep 06, 2012 GMT. Figure.) Faulkes Z. 2012. Ibacus leg motor neurons Figure 4. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.95655 (Published 6 September 2012; retrieved 03:21, Sep 06, 2012 GMT. Figure.). Faulkes Z. 2012. #SciFund Round 2 success and social media. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.92541 (Dataset.) Open Science Foundation, Byrnes J, Faulkes Z, Ranganathan J, Open Science. 2012. SciFund success and social media. Figshare. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.90818 (Dataset.)
Other articlesFaulkes Z. 2009. Crustacean connectomes. (Response to Lu J, Tapia JC, White OL, Lichtman JW. 2009. The interscutularis muscle connectome. PLoS Biology 7(2): e32. Faulkes Z. 1994. [Review of Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a “Language” Among Bees by Adrian M. Wenner & Patrick H. Wells, Columbia University Press.] Animal Behaviour 47(5): 1241-1242. Faulkes Z. 1993. Who watches the watchmen? Our animals and ourselves. [Review of The Inevitable Bond by H. Davis & A.D. Balfour (Eds.), Cambridge University Press.] PSYCOLOQUY 4(40): human-animal-bond.4.faulkes. [Click here for text | Click here for response from Davis & Balfour] Education and TrainingMy academic heritage can be seen at the NeuronTree website.
Professional Affiliations
TeachingI regularly teach General Biology (BIOL 1406), Neurobiology (BIOL 3310) and Evolutionary Theory (BIOL 6324). I maintain class websites for my UTRGV classes here (password protected, for student use). Selected Awards
Miscellany and TriviaI was the first graduate student at UVic to defend my dissertation using videoconferencing. Consequently, my Ph.D. defense went down as the first in UVic history to be interrupted by a French janitor... who was in France at the time. I did some lettering for Time City, an independent comic book, in 1992. I lettered Time City #5, and a back-up feature in #4. The creator of that book, Adrie van Viersen, relaunched the series with a new title: Technopolis (published by Caliber Comics). I was an extra in Eastern Condors (1986, Boho Films), a Hong Kong film directed by Sammo Hung. No, I didn’t get to go to Hong Kong. They were doing location filming in an old jailhouse in Lethbridge. Alas, pretty much all the footage shot during the days I worked on the film wound up on the cutting room floor. It was described on the set as “a kung fu comedy version of The Dirty Dozen,” but Eastern Condors wound up being more than that. It’s widely considered to be a classic of its genre. Some of my articles concern the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence. If the search for aliens interest you, I recommend the SETI Institute and the SETI@Home project. This page was last updated 26 November 2019. |
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