Undergraduate and graduate students collaborated with biology faculty from Missouri State University to develop posters based on their research findings to present at the 50th annual meeting of the Animal Behavior Society. The meeting, held July 28-Aug. 1 in Boulder, Colo., featured five poster presentations from Missouri State’s biology department.

• Ben Dalton and Dr. Alicia Mathis, head of the biology department, produced “Identification of Sex and Parasitism via Chemical Cues in the Ozark Zigzag Salamander.”
• Graduate student Wendy Evans worked with Mathis and Dr. Brian Greene, associate professor of biology, on “Discrimination of Substrate Cues from Predatory and Non-Predatory Snakes by Ring-necked Snakes.”
• Travis Reeder, graduate student, worked with Mathis on “Stability of Behavioral Syndromes in the Southern Red-backed Salamander, Plethodon serratus.”
• Graduate student Emilee Helton worked with Adam Crane and Mathis on “Embryonic Learning of Food-Related Cues in Ringed Salamanders (Ambystoma annulatum).”
• Mathis worked with undergraduate student Whitney Heuring on “Landmark Learning by Juvenile Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum).”