Dr Kate Feller
Biography
Sea Education Association SEA semester, C195, Woods Hole, MA 2004
BSc (with high honors) in Biology & Environmental Studies, William Smith College 2006
PhD "The Visual Ecology of Stomatopod Larvae", Cronin Lab, UMBC 2014
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecology of Vision Lab, University of Bristol 2015-2016
Sea Education Association SEA semester, C195, Woods Hole, MA 2004
BSc (with high honors) in Biology & Environmental Studies, William Smith College 2006
PhD "The Visual Ecology of Stomatopod Larvae", Cronin Lab, UMBC 2014
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ecology of Vision Lab, University of Bristol 2015-2016
Research Interests
Visual ecology
Neuroethology
Stomatopods (aka mantis shrimp) & other marine crustaceans
Marine crustacean larvae
Visual predation
DNA Barcoding
Scientific Illustration for morphological description
Visual ecology
Neuroethology
Stomatopods (aka mantis shrimp) & other marine crustaceans
Marine crustacean larvae
Visual predation
DNA Barcoding
Scientific Illustration for morphological description
Publications
2016
Feller, KD; Jordan, TM; Wilby, D; Roberts, NW. In review. Selection of the intrinsic polarization properties of animal optical materials creates novel structural colouration and camouflage. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.
Jordan, T; Wilby D; Chiou TH; Feller, KD; Caldwell, RL; Cronin, TW; Roberts, NW. 2016. A shape-anisotropic reflective polarizer in a stomatopod crustacean. Scientific Reports 6, 21744. doi: 10.1038/srep21744
Feller, KD and TW Cronin. 2016. Spectral absorption of visual pigments in stomatopod larval photoreceptors. J Comp Phys A. doi: 10.1007/s00359-015-1063-y
Geheber, A.D., Davis, D.R., Watters, J.L., Penrod, M.L., Feller, K.D., Davey, C.S., Ellsworth, E.D., Flanagan, R.L., Heitz, B.B., Moore, T. and Nguyen, M.D., 2016. Additions to Philippine Slender Skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) I: a new species from Lubang Island. Zootaxa, 4132(1), pp.1-14.
Davis, D.R., Geheber, A.D., Watters, J.L., Penrod, M.L., Feller, K.D., Ashford, A., Kouri, J., Nguyen, D., Shauberger, K., Sheatsley, K. and Winfrey, C., 2016. Additions to Philippine Slender Skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) III: a new species from Tablas Island. Zootaxa, 4132(1), pp.30-43.
2014
Feller, KD, JH Cohen, & TW Cronin. 2014: Seeing double: visual physiology of double-retina eye ontogeny in stomatopod crustaceans. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. doi: 10.1007/s00359-014-0967-2.
Davis, D, KD Feller, & C Siler. 2014. Evaluating the diversity of Philippine slender skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae): Redescriptions of B. bonitae and B. tridactylus, and descriptions of two additional new species. Journal of Herpetology 48(4): 480-494.
Feller, KD & TW Cronin. 2014. Chaper 8: Sensory Ecology of Vision. In: The Natural History of Crustaceans: Crustacean Nervous Systems and Their Control of Behavior. C. Derby & M. Thiel (eds.), Vol III. Oxford University Press.
Feller, KD and TW Cronin. 2014. Hiding opaque eyes in transparent organisms: In situ spectral and image contrast analysis of eyeshine in stomatopod larvae. The Journal of Experimental Biology 217, 1-11 doi:101242/jeb.108076
How, MJ; ML Porter; AN Radford; KD Feller; SE Temple; RL Caldwell; NJ Marshall; TW Cronin; & NW Roberts. 2014. Out of the blue: The evolution of horizontally polarized signals in Haptosquilla (Crustacea, Stomatopoda, Protosquillidae). The Journal of Experimental Biology doi: 10.1242/jeb.107581
2013
Feller, KD, TW Cronin, ST Ahyong, & ML Porter. 2013. Morphological and molecular description of late-stage Alima Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) larval types from Lizard Island, Australia. Zootaxa. 3722(2): 22-32
Feller, KD. 2013. Subclass Hoplocarida Calman, 1904: Order Stomatopoda Latreille, 1817: Larvae. In: Treatise on Zoology – Crustacea. FR Schram & JC von Vaupel Klein (eds.), vol. 4A: 257-269. Brill, Leiden.
2011
Gumm, JM, KD Feller, TC Mendelson. 2011. Spectral characteristics of male nuptial coloration in darters (Etheostoma). Copeia. 2011(2): 319-326.
2009
Feller, K.D., Lagerholm, S., Clubwala, R., Silver, M.T., Haughey, D., Ryan, J.M., Loew, E.R., Deutschlander, M.E. and Kenyon, K.L., 2009. Characterization of photoreceptor cell types in the little brown bat Myotis lucifugus (Vespertilionidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 154(4), pp.412-418.
2016
Feller, KD; Jordan, TM; Wilby, D; Roberts, NW. In review. Selection of the intrinsic polarization properties of animal optical materials creates novel structural colouration and camouflage. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B.
Jordan, T; Wilby D; Chiou TH; Feller, KD; Caldwell, RL; Cronin, TW; Roberts, NW. 2016. A shape-anisotropic reflective polarizer in a stomatopod crustacean. Scientific Reports 6, 21744. doi: 10.1038/srep21744
Feller, KD and TW Cronin. 2016. Spectral absorption of visual pigments in stomatopod larval photoreceptors. J Comp Phys A. doi: 10.1007/s00359-015-1063-y
Geheber, A.D., Davis, D.R., Watters, J.L., Penrod, M.L., Feller, K.D., Davey, C.S., Ellsworth, E.D., Flanagan, R.L., Heitz, B.B., Moore, T. and Nguyen, M.D., 2016. Additions to Philippine Slender Skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) I: a new species from Lubang Island. Zootaxa, 4132(1), pp.1-14.
Davis, D.R., Geheber, A.D., Watters, J.L., Penrod, M.L., Feller, K.D., Ashford, A., Kouri, J., Nguyen, D., Shauberger, K., Sheatsley, K. and Winfrey, C., 2016. Additions to Philippine Slender Skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae Complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) III: a new species from Tablas Island. Zootaxa, 4132(1), pp.30-43.
2014
Feller, KD, JH Cohen, & TW Cronin. 2014: Seeing double: visual physiology of double-retina eye ontogeny in stomatopod crustaceans. Journal of Comparative Physiology A. doi: 10.1007/s00359-014-0967-2.
Davis, D, KD Feller, & C Siler. 2014. Evaluating the diversity of Philippine slender skinks of the Brachymeles bonitae complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae): Redescriptions of B. bonitae and B. tridactylus, and descriptions of two additional new species. Journal of Herpetology 48(4): 480-494.
Feller, KD & TW Cronin. 2014. Chaper 8: Sensory Ecology of Vision. In: The Natural History of Crustaceans: Crustacean Nervous Systems and Their Control of Behavior. C. Derby & M. Thiel (eds.), Vol III. Oxford University Press.
Feller, KD and TW Cronin. 2014. Hiding opaque eyes in transparent organisms: In situ spectral and image contrast analysis of eyeshine in stomatopod larvae. The Journal of Experimental Biology 217, 1-11 doi:101242/jeb.108076
How, MJ; ML Porter; AN Radford; KD Feller; SE Temple; RL Caldwell; NJ Marshall; TW Cronin; & NW Roberts. 2014. Out of the blue: The evolution of horizontally polarized signals in Haptosquilla (Crustacea, Stomatopoda, Protosquillidae). The Journal of Experimental Biology doi: 10.1242/jeb.107581
2013
Feller, KD, TW Cronin, ST Ahyong, & ML Porter. 2013. Morphological and molecular description of late-stage Alima Leach, 1817 (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) larval types from Lizard Island, Australia. Zootaxa. 3722(2): 22-32
Feller, KD. 2013. Subclass Hoplocarida Calman, 1904: Order Stomatopoda Latreille, 1817: Larvae. In: Treatise on Zoology – Crustacea. FR Schram & JC von Vaupel Klein (eds.), vol. 4A: 257-269. Brill, Leiden.
2011
Gumm, JM, KD Feller, TC Mendelson. 2011. Spectral characteristics of male nuptial coloration in darters (Etheostoma). Copeia. 2011(2): 319-326.
2009
Feller, K.D., Lagerholm, S., Clubwala, R., Silver, M.T., Haughey, D., Ryan, J.M., Loew, E.R., Deutschlander, M.E. and Kenyon, K.L., 2009. Characterization of photoreceptor cell types in the little brown bat Myotis lucifugus (Vespertilionidae). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 154(4), pp.412-418.