Organisms experience a wide range of stressors that influence their ability to reproduce, survive, and adapt over time. My research focuses on the roles that genetic variation, phenotypic plasticity, and behavior play in response to anthropogenic sources of stress.
Current areas of research include characterizing the genetic control of resistance to copper toxicity and dissecting the genetic relationship between physiological and behavioral responses to heavy metal stress.
My work leverages the Drosophila melanogaster model system through a combination of large mapping populations and wild-collected populations to determine the genetic and evolutionary factors that influence physiological and behavioral copper stress resistance
Everman ER and SJ Macdonald 2023 Gene expression variation underlying tissue-specific responses to copper stress in Drosophila melanogaster. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2023.07.12.548746. Accepted at G3.
Everman ER, SJ Macdonald, JK Kelly, 2023 The genetic basis of adaptation to copper pollution in Drosophila melanogaster. Frontiers in Genetics 14: DOI=10.3389/fgene.2023.1144221. PMID: 37082199.
Everman ER, KM Cloud-Richardson, and SJ Macdonald, 2021 Characterizing the genetic basis of copper toxicity in Drosophila reveals a complex pattern of allelic, regulatory, and behavioral variation. Genetics 217: 1–20. PMID: 33683361. PMCID: PMC8045719.
Gleason JM, RR Roy, ER Everman, TC Gleason, and TJ Morgan, 2019 Phenology of Drosophila species across a temperate growing season and implications for behavior. PLoS One 14: e0216601. PMID: 31095588. PMCID: PMC6521991.
Everman ER, CL McNeil, JL Hackett, CL Bain, and SJ Macdonald, 2019 Dissection of complex, fitness-related traits in multiple Drosophila mapping populations offers insight into the genetic control of stress resistance. Genetics 211: 1449–1467. PMID: 30760490. PMCID: PMC6456312
