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Research interests
Evolutionary ecology and sexual selection, focusing on insects
Professional experience
Research assistant and teaching assistant, Department of Biology, Tufts University, 2001-2006
Mentor
L. Lacey Knowles
Academic background
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biology, Tufts University, 2007
Ph.D. in Biology, Tufts University, Mass., 2006
Honors and awards
Tufts University Graduate Student Research Award, 2005
Honors Degree of the University's Diploma, 1999
The Moscow Government's undergraduate scholarship award, 1999
Select publications
Tigreros N., A. South, T.Y. Fedina and S.M. Lewis. 2008. Does fertilization by proxy occur in Tribolium beetles? A replicated study of a novel mechanism of sperm transfer. Animal Behaviour (in press).
Levan K.E., T.Y. Fedina and S.M. Lewis. 2008. Testing multiple hypotheses for the maintenance of male homosexual copulatory behaviors in flour beetles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology (in press).
Fedina T.Y. and S. M. Lewis. 2008. An integrative view of sexual selection in Tribolium flour beetles. Biological Reviews (Cambridge) 83(2):151-171
Fedina T.Y. and S.M. Lewis. 2007. Female mate choice across mating stages and between sequential mates in flour beetles. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20(6):2138-2143
Fedina T.Y. and S.M. Lewis. 2007. Effect of Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) nutritional environment, sex, and mating status on response to commercial pheromone traps. Journal of Economic Entomology 100(6):1924-1927
Fedina T.Y. 2007 Cryptic female choice during spermatophore transfer in Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Journal of Insect Physiology 53(1):93-98
Fedina T.Y. and S.M. Lewis. 2006. Proximal traits and mechanisms for biasing paternity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 60:844-853
Fedina T.Y. and S.M. Lewis. 2004. Female influence over offspring paternity in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 271:1393-1399
Lewis S.M., A. Kobel, T.Y. Fedina, and R.W. Beeman. 2004. Sperm stratification and paternity success in red flour beetles. Physiological entomology 30(3):303-307
Gokhman V.E., T.Y. Fedina and A.V. Timokhov. 1999. Life-history strategies in parasitic wasps of the Anisopteromalus calandrae complex (Hymenoptera:Pteromalidae). Russian Entomological Journal 8(3):201-211
Gokhman V.E., A.V. Timokho and T.Y. Fedina. 1998. First evidence for sibling species in Anisopteromalus calandrae (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae). Russian Entomological Journal 7:3-4
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