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Zen Faulkes’s home pagehttp://doctorzen.net or http://www.utpa.edu/faculty/zfaulkes/ What’s on this page
ContactEmail (preferred): Department of BiologyThe University of Texas–Pan American 1201 W. University Drive Edinburg, TX 78539 U.S.A. Office: Science 2.364 ResearcherID: A-5777-2009 Yahoo! Messenger ID, AOL / AIM: utpazen Related PagesMostly serious
Mostly socialResearch InterestsI’m interested in the evolution of behaviour and nervous systems, particularly the origin of new behaviours. I am currently working mostly with decapod crustaceans, with a particular emphasis on the unusual crayfish Marmorkrebs. PublicationsArticles in journals and books2010
2009Faulkes Z. 2009. How Marmorkrebs can make the world a better place. In: Rohn J (ed.), Grant RP (deputy ed.), Zivkovic B (series ed.), The Open Laboratory: The Best In Science Writing On Blogs 2008, pp. 86-87. Coturnix: Chapel Hill. 2008Faulkes Z. 2008. Turning loss into opportunity: The key deletion of an escape circuit in decapod crustaceans. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 72(4): 251-261. Flores AR, Faulkes Z. 2008. Texture preferences of ascidian tadpole larvae during settlement. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology 41(3): 155-159. 2007Faulkes Z, Davelos Baines A. 2007. Evolutionary string theory. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30(4): 369-370. 2006Espinoza SY, Breen L, Varghese N, Faulkes Z. 2006. Loss of
escape-related giant neurons in a spiny lobster, Panulirus argus. The Biological Bulletin 211(3): 223-231. Faulkes Z. 2006. The locomotor toolbox of spanner crabs, Ranina ranina (brachyura, Raninidae). Crustaceana 79(2): 143-155. Faulkes Z. 2006. Digging mechanisms and substrate preferences of shovel nosed lobsters, Ibacus peronii (Decapoda: Scyllaridae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(1): 69-72. 2005Lambert G, Faulkes Z, Lambert CC, Scofield VL. 2005. Ascidians of South Padre Island, Texas, with a key to species. The Texas Journal of Science 57(3): 251-262. 2004Faulkes Z. 2004. Mechanisms of behavioral switching. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 191(3): 197-199. Faulkes Z. 2004. Loss of escape responses and giant neurons in the tailflipping circuits of slipper lobsters, Ibacus spp. (Decapoda, Palinura, Scyllaridae). Arthropod Structure & Development 33(2): 113-123. 2002Paul DH, Faulkes Z, Antonsen BL. 2002. Synergies between disparate motor systems: loci for behavioral evolution. In: Crustacean Experimental Systems in Neurobiology (K Wiese, ed.), pp. 263-282. Springer Verlag: Heidelberg. [Click here for U.S. branch of publisher's website.] Faulkes Z, Macmillan DL. 2002. Effects of removal of muscle receptor organ input on the temporal structure of non-giant swimming cycles in the crayfish, Cherax destructor. Marine and Freshwater Behaviour and Physiology: 35(3): 149-155. 2001Patullo BP, Faulkes Z, Macmillan DL. 2001. Muscle receptor organs do not mediate load compensation during body roll and defense response extensions in the crayfish Cherax destructor. The Journal of Experimental Zoology 290(7): 783-790. Faulkes Z, Pollack GS. 2001. Mechanisms of frequency-specific responses of omega neuron 1 in crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus): a polysynaptic pathway for song? The Journal of Experimental Biology 204(7): 1295-1305. 2000Faulkes Z, Pollack GS. 2000. The effects of inhibitory timing on contrast enhancement in auditory circuits in crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus). Journal of Neurophysiology 84(3): 1247-1255. 1998Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1998. Digging in sand crabs: coordination of joints in individual legs. The Journal of Experimental Biology 201(14): 2139-2149. Pollack G, Faulkes Z. 1998. Representation of behaviorally relevant sound frequencies by auditory receptors in the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus. The Journal of Experimental Biology 201(1): 155-163. 1997Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1997. A map of the distal leg motor neurons in the thoracic ganglia of four decapod crustacean species. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 49(3): 162-178. Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1997. Coordination between the legs and tail during digging and swimming in sand crabs. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 180(2): 161-169. Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1997. Digging in sand crabs (Decapoda, Anomura, Hippoidea): interleg coordination. The Journal of Experimental Biology 200(4): 793-805. Faulkes Z. 1997. Is intelligence inevitable? In: The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Cover-Ups (eds. K. Frazier, B. Karr, J. Nickell), pp. 303-312. Prometheus Books (US website | UK website): Amherst. 1992Faulkes Z, Paul DH. 1992. Connecting invertebrate behavior, physiology and evolution with Eshkol-Wachman movement notation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15(2): 276-277. 1991Faulkes Z. 1991. Getting smart about getting smarts. The Skeptical Inquirer 15(3): 263-268.
Selected conference abstractsJimenez S & Faulkes Z. 2009. Establishment of a research colony of Marmorkrebs, a parthenogenetic crayfish species. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49(Supplement 1): e249. doi: 10.1093/icb/icp003 Puri S & Faulkes Z. 2009. Do crayfish like spicy foods? and other tests of crustacean nociception. Integrative and Comparative Biology 49(Supplement 1): e139. doi: 10.1093/icb/icp002 Faulkes Z. 2007. Motor neurons involved in escape responses in white shrimp, Litopenaeus setiferus. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47(Supplement 1): e178. doi: 10.1093/icb/icm105 Espinoza SY, Faulkes Z. 2007. Compromised weaponry enhances crayfish tailflipping. Integrative and Comparative Biology 47(Supplement 1): e176. doi: 10.1093/icb/icm105 Faulkes Z. 2007. The key deletion of an adaptive neural circuit in decapod crustaceans. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 70(3): 207. doi: 10.1159/000105462 Faulkes Z. 2005. Do shovel-nosed lobsters shovel with their noses? Integrative and Comparative Biology 45(6): 994. doi: 10.1093/icb/45.6.955 Espinoza SY, Breen A, Varghese N, Faulkes Z. 2005. Loss of escape-related neurons in spiny lobster (Panulirus argus). Integrative and Comparative Biology 45(6): 1129. doi: 10.1093/icb/45.6.1104 Faulkes Z, Varghese N. 2004. No escape: loss of escape-related giant neurons in spiny lobsters (Panulirus argus). Program No. 89.4. 2004 Abstract Viewer / Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2004. Faulkes Z. 2001. Parallelism in digging behaviour in two distantly related decapod crustaceans. American Zoologist 41(6): 1642. Faulkes Z & Macmillan DL. 2000. Losing speed to gain control? The influence of muscle receptor organs on tailflipping in crayfish (Cherax destructor). Proceedings of the Australian Physiological and Pharmacological Society 31(2): 44P. Faulkes Z & Pollack G. 1997. Sound frequency specific responses of cricket omega neuron. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 23(2): 1570. Faulkes Z & Paul DH. 1995. Sand crab digging: an evolutionary mosaic of disparate ancestral locomotor modules? In: M. Burrows, T. Matheson, P.L. Newland, H. Schuppe (eds.), Nervous Systems and Behaviour. Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Neuroethology, pp. 483. Stuttgart: Georg Thieme Verlag. Faulkes Z, Paul DH. & Pellis SM. 1991. Digging by the sand crab Blepharipoda occidentalis. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 17(2): 1245.
Other articlesFaulkes Z. 2009. Crustacean connectomes. (Response to Lu J, Tapia JC, White OL, Lichtman JW. 2009. The interscutularis muscle connectome. PLoS Biology 7(2): e32. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000032). PLoS Biology http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=read-response&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000032#r2486 Faulkes Z. 1994. [Review of Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a “Language” Among Bees by Adrian M. Wenner & Patrick H. Wells, Columbia University Press.] Animal Behaviour 47(5): 1241-1242. Faulkes Z. 1993. Who watches the watchmen? Our animals and ourselves. [Review of The Inevitable Bond by H. Davis & A.D. Balfour (Eds.), Cambridge University Press.] PSYCOLOQUY 4(40): human-animal-bond.4.faulkes. [Click here for text | Click here for response from Davis & Balfour] Education and TrainingMy academic heritage can be seen at the NeuronTree website.
Professional Affiliations
TeachingI regularly teach General Biology (BIOL1401), Biological Writing (BIOL3302), Neurobiology (BIOL3310) and Evolutionary Theory (BIOL 6324). I maintain class websites for my UTPA classes here (password protected, for student use). Selected Awards
Miscellany and TriviaI was the first graduate student at UVic to defend my dissertation using videoconferencing. Consequently, my Ph.D. defense went down as the first in UVic history to be interrupted by a French janitor... who was in France at the time. I did some lettering for Time City, an independent comic book, in 1992. I lettered Time City #5, and a back-up feature in #4. The creator of that book, Adrie van Viersen, relaunched the series with a new title: Technopolis (published by Caliber Comics). I was an extra in Eastern Condors (1986, Boho Films), a Hong Kong film directed by Sammo Hung. No, I didn’t get to go to Hong Kong. They were doing location filming in an old jailhouse in Lethbridge. Alas, pretty much all the footage shot during the days I worked on the film wound up on the cutting room floor. It was described on the set as “a kung fu comedy version of The Dirty Dozen,” but Eastern Condors wound up being more than that. It’s widely considered to be a classic of its genre. Some of my articles concern the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence. If the search for aliens interest you, I recommend the SETI Institute and the SETI@Home project. This page was last modified 1 February 2010. |
Faulkes Z. 2010. Taking a cue from the silver screen. Science 327: 523. [Letter responding to: Alberts B. 2010. Promoting scientific standards. Science 327: 12.