Million Lab
Research in the Million Lab
Parasites and reproductive behavior in fish
My research is on darters (colorful North American freshwater fishes) many of which are endemic to the southeastern U.S. My research focuses on two main areas: 1) Describing and studying a group of monogenean gill parasites that have specialized on darters, and 2) Studying the reproductive behaviors of darters, including male-male territorial interactions and male parental care.
Publications
Héjja-Brichard Y, Million KM, Renoult JP, Mendelson TC. 2024. Using neural style transfer to study the evolution of animal signal design: A case study in an ornamented fish. Ecological Informatics 2024: 102881.
Million KM, Proffitt MR, Reese SJu. 2024. Response to MHC-based olfactory cues in a mate choice context in two species of darter (Percidae: Etheostoma). Ecology and Evolution 14(2): e11025.
Million KM, Lively CM. 2022. Trans-specific polymorphism and the convergent evolution of supertypes in major histocompatibility complex class II genes in darters (Etheostoma). Ecology and Evolution 12: e8385.
Million KM, Stallsmith B. 2019. Description of a new species of Aethycteron (Monogenoidea: Ancyrocephalidae) on the gills of the rare Striated Darter, Etheostoma striatulum Page and Braasch (Perciformes: Percidae) from the Duck River, Tennessee. Systematic Parasitology 96(2): 191-197.
Million KM*, Tarver C*, Hipe Su, Stallsmith B. 2017. Does infection by the monogenoidean gill parasite Aethycteron moorei affect reproductive ecology of the darter Etheostoma flabellare in Mill Creek, Tennessee? Ichthyology and Herpetology 105(1): 75-81.
* = equally contributing authors. u = undergraduate co-author.