DAVE SHUTLER - Curriculum vitae Professor,  Department of Biology, Acadia University,  Wolfville, NS, Canada  B4P 2R6 902-585-1354     902-585-1059 (FAX)  dave.shutler [at] acadiau.ca Homepage Info for prospective students Research
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Other sections of this résumé:  SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY; TEACHING, ADVISING, AND SERVICE

 
Biology education

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SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

Refereed publications

Burgher-MacLellan KL, Williams GR, Shutler D, MacKenzie K, Rogers REL, 2010. Detection of the microsporidian
     parasites Nosema apis and Nosema ceranae in Apis mellifera using SYBR Green I real-time PCR with melting curve
     analysis.  Can Ent:in press.
Williams GR, Shutler D, Little CM, Burger-Maclellan K, Rogers REL.  The microsporidian Nosema ceranae, the antibiotic
     Fumagilin-B®, and western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony strength.  Apidologie:in press.
Williams GR, Shutler D, Rogers REL, 2010.  Effect at temperate latitudes of indoor versus outdoor overwintering on
     fumagillin-treated microsporidian parasites Nosema ceranae, and on western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony mortality. 
     J Invertebr Pathol:in press.
Shutler D, Lowe AG, Robinson SR, 2010.  Relationships between leucocytes and Leucocytozoon simondi in mallards,
     Anas platyrhynchos.  Comp Biochem Physiol A 156:46-49.
King J, Shutler D, 2010.  Parasite transmission stages in feces of common eiders flushed from their nests.  
     Northe Nat in press.
Hainstock MH, Smith MC, Carr J, Shutler D, 2010.  Parental investment and brood value in tree swallows, Tachycineta bicolor. 
     Behaviour 147:441-464.
McLellan NR, Shutler D, 2009.  Sources of food delivered to Ring-Billed, Herring, and Great Black-Backed Gull
     chicks in marine environments.  Waterbirds 32:507-513.
Dalley KL, Taylor PD, Shutler D, 2009.  Success of migratory songbirds in harvested boreal forests of north-western
     Newfoundland.  Condor 111:314-325.
Williams GR, Rogers REL, Kalkstein AL, Taylor BA, Shutler D, Ostiguy N, 2009.  Deformed wing virus in western honey bees
     (Apis mellifera) from Atlantic Canada and the first description of an overtly-infected emerging queen.  
     J Invert Pathol 101:77-79.
Shutler D, Smith TG, Robinson SR, 2009.  Relationships between leukocytes and Hepatozoon spp. in green frogs,
     Rana clamitans.  J Wildl Dis 45:67-72.  
Shafer ABA, Williams GR, Shutler D, Rogers REL, Stewart DT, 2009.  Cophylogeny of Nosema (Microsporidia:
     Nosematidae) and bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) suggests both cospeciation and a host-switch.  J Parasitol 95:198-203.
Cowan KL, Shutler D, Herman TB, Stewart DT, 2009.  Spleen mass of masked shrews, Sorex cinereus, in relation to
     body mass, sex, age, date, and bladder nematode, Liniscus (=Capillaria) maseri, infection.  J Parasitol 95:228-230. 
Williams GR, Sampson MA, Shutler D, Rogers REL.  2008.  Does fumagillin control the recently-detected invasive parasite,
     Nosema ceranae, in Western honey bees (Apis mellifera)?  J Invertebr Pathol 99:342-344.
Dalley KL, Taylor PD, Shutler D, 2008.  Nest-site characteristics and breeding success of three species of boreal
    songbirds in western Newfoundland, Canada.  Can J Zool 86:1203-1211.
Williams GR, Shafer ABA, Rogers REL, Shutler D, Stewart DT, 2008.  First detection of Nosema ceranae, a
     microsporidian parasite of European honey bees (Apis mellifera), in Canada and central U.S.A.  J Invertebr Pathol 97:189-192.
Cowan KL, Shutler D, Herman TB, Stewart DT, 2007.  Extreme male-biased infections of masked shrews by bladder nematodes. 
     J Mammal 88:1539-1544.
Shutler D, Campbell AA, 2007.  Effects on tree swallow nestlings of experimental exposure to yarrow.  J Avian Biol 38:7-12.
Shutler D, Clark RG, Fehr C, Diamond AW, 2006.  Time and recruitment costs as currencies in manipulation studies on the
     costs of reproduction:  evidence from tree swallows.  Ecology 87:2938-2946.
Forbes MR, McRuer DL, Shutler D, 2006.  White blood cell profiles of breeding American toads (Bufo americanus) relative
     to sex and body size.  Comp Clin Pathol  15:155-159.  
Shutler D, Reece S, Mullie A, Billingsley PF, Read AF, 2005.  Rodent malaria parasites Plasmodium chabaudi and P.
     vinckei do not increase their rates of gametocytogenesis in response to mosquito probing.  Proc Roy Soc B 272:2397-2402.
Shutler D, Weary D, McLellan N, 2005.  The clones need to return:  a comment.  Appl Anim Behav Sci 91:363-365.
Clark RG, Boutin C, Jobin B, Forsyth DJ, Shutler D, Leeson JY, Olfert O, Thomas AG, 2005.  Making a living on the
     edge:  beneficial effects of field boundary habitats for biodiversity and agriculture.  Pp 113-133 in Thomas AG, ed. 
     Field boundary habitats:  Implications for weed, insect and disease management. Topics in Canadian weed science,
     Volume 1. Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec:  Canadian Weed Science Society - Société canadienne do malherbologie. 
Kirby RE, Sargeant GA, Shutler D, 2004.  Haldane's rule and American black duck x mallard hybridization. 
     Can J Zool 82:1827-1831.
Shutler D, Leonard ML, Horn AG, Shutler R, Hussell DJT, 2004.  Breeding between Tree Swallows from the same brood. 
     J Field Ornith 74:353-358.
Shutler D, Mullie A, Clark RG, 2004.  Tree swallow reproductive investment, stress, and parasites.  Can J Zool 82:442-448.
Shutler D, Petersen S, Dawson R, Campbell A, 2003.  Sex ratios of fleas (Siphonaptera:  Ceratophyllidae) in nests of
     tree swallows (Passeriformes:  Hirundinidae) exposed to different chemicals.  Env Entomol 32:1045-1048.
Shutler D, Clark RD, 2003.  Causes and consequences of dispersal by tree swallows.  Auk 120:619-631.
Thomas K, Shutler D, 2001.  Ectoparasites, nestling growth, parental feeding rates, and begging intensity of tree swallows.
     Can J Zool 79:346-353.
Shutler D, Mullie A, Clark RG, 2000.  Bird communities of prairie uplands and wetlands in relation to farming practices in
     Saskatchewan. Conserv Biol 14:1441-1451.
Shutler D, Ankney CD, Mullie A, 1999.  Effects of the blood parasite Leucocytozoon on growth rates of anatid ducklings.
     Can J Zool 77:1573-1581.
Shutler D, Alisauskas RT, McLaughlin JD, 1999.  Mass dynamics of the spleen and other organs in geese:  measures of
     immune relationships to helminths?  Can J Zool 77:351-359.
Shutler D, Clark RG, Rutherford S, Mullie A, 1999.  Blood parasites and clutch volumes of gadwalls and mallards. 
     J Avian Biol 30:295-301.
Clark RG, Shutler D, 1999.  Avian habitat selection:  pattern from process in nest-site use by ducks?  Ecology 80:272-287.
Ilmonen P, Hakkarainen H, Koivunen V, Korpimäki E, Mullie A, Shutler D, 1999.  Parental effort and blood parasitism in
     Tengmalm's Owl:  effects of natural and experimental variation in food abundance.  Oikos 86:79-86.
Shutler D, Gloutney ML, Clark RG, 1998.  Body mass, energetic constraints, and duck nesting ecology. 
     Can J Zool 76:1805-1814.
Shutler D, Read AF, 1998.  Local mate competition, and extraordinary and ordinary blood parasite sex ratios. 
     Oikos 82:417-424.
McCurdy DG, Shutler D, Mullie A, Forbes MRL, 1998.  Sex-biased parasitism of avian hosts:  relations to blood parasite
     taxon and mating system.  Oikos 82:303-312.
Read AF, Shutler D, 1998.  Darwinian medicine?  Lessons from avian blood parasites.  Bull Scand Soc Parasitol 8:30-32.
Shutler D, Ankney CD, Dennis D, 1996.  Could the blood parasite Leucocytozoon deter mallard range expansion?  J Wildl
     Manage 60:569-580.
Shutler D, Bennett GF, Mullie A, 1995.  Sex proportions of Haemoproteus blood parasites and local mate competition.
     Proc Natl Acad Sci (USA) 92:6748-6752.
Read AF, Anwar M, Shutler D, Nee S, 1995.  Sex allocation and population structure in malaria and related parasitic
     protozoa.  Proc Roy Soc Lond B 260:359-363.
Weatherhead PJ, Metz KJ, Shutler D, Muma KE, Bennett GF, 1995.  Blood parasites and dominance in captive
     blackbirds.  J Avian Biol 26:121-123.
Shutler D, Weatherhead PJ, 1994.  Movement patterns and territory acquisition by floater red-winged blackbirds.  Can J
     Zool 72:712-720.
Shutler D, Weatherhead PJ, 1992.  Surplus territory contenders in the red-winged blackbird:  where are the desperados?
     Behav Ecol Sociobiol 31:97-106.
Shutler D, Weatherhead PJ, 1991a.  Owner and floater red-winged blackbirds:  determinants of status.  Behav Ecol
     Sociobiol 28:235-241.
Shutler D, Weatherhead PJ, 1991b.  Basal song rate variation in red-winged blackbirds:  sound and fury signifying
     nothing?  Behav Ecol 2:133-142.
Shutler D, Mullie A, 1991.  Size-related foraging behaviour of the leaf-cutting ant, Atta colombica.  Can J Zool
     69:1530-1533.
Weatherhead PJ, Bennett GF, Shutler D, 1991.  Sexual selection and parasites in wood-warblers.  Auk 108:147-152.
Shutler D, Weatherhead PJ, 1990.  Targets of sexual selection:  song and plumage of wood warblers.  Evolution 44:1967-1977.
Weatherhead PJ, Shutler D, 1989.  Sparrow sexual size dimorphism and testis size:  a comment.  Evolution 43:1120-1121.


Recent presentations at professional conferences (* presenter if not first author, P if poster)

Shutler D, 2009.  Should we expect tradeoffs in condition-dependent sexually-selected traits?  Am Ornith Union, Philadelphia.
McNeil G, Shutler D, 2009.  P  Do sex and age affect immune function in Leach's Storm-petrels?  
     Cooper Ornithol Soc, Tucson, AZ + Can Soc Ecol Evol, Halifax, NS.
DeCicco L, Shutler D, Mockford S, 2009.  P  Clinal variation in Gray-headed Chickadees across the Bering Strait.  
     Cooper Ornithol Soc, Tucson, AZ + Can Soc Ecol Evol, Halifax, NS.
Williams GR, Shutler D, Rogers REL, Litttle CM *, 2009.  Effects of microsporidian parasites Nosema ceranae on honey bee
     cology strength, and parasite susceptibility to the antibiotic Fumagillin-B®.  Northeast Biol Grad Stud Conf, Halifax, NS.
Little C, Shutler D, Adamo S, Easy R, Rogers D, Williams GR, Fairn E, 2008.  Effects of miticide and Fumagillin-B® on
     honey bee immune responses.  N Am Pollin Protect Campaign, Wash, DC.
Shutler D, 2008 (invited talk).  Of birds and bees (and their parasites).  Can Soc Zool, Halifax, NS.
Cleveland K Shutler D, 2008.  P  Mate choice in Leach's storm-petrels (Oceanodroma leucorhoa).  Can Soc Zool Halifax, NS, + 
     Int Soc Behav Ecol, Ithaca.
Williams GR, Sampson MA, Shutler D, Rogers REL, 2008.  P Does fumagillin control the microsporidian parasites Nosema apis and
     Nosema apis in western honey bees (Apis mellifera)?  Can Soc Zool, Halifax, NS.
Little C, Shutler D, 2008.  P  Honeybee immunity and parasitism by the fungus Nosema and Varroa mites.  Can Soc Zool, Halifax, NS.
Shafer ABA, Williams GR, Shutler D, Rogers REL, Stewart DT, 2008.  Nosema in bees:  co-evolutionary considerations.  Can
     Soc Zool, Halifax, NS.
Williams G, Shafer ABA, Rogers REL, Shutler D, Stewart DT, 2008.  Nosema in North American honey bees:  evolutionary beginnings,
     ecological interactions, and potential economic fallout.  Can Honey Council &  Can Assoc Prof Apiculturists, Calgary, AB.
Williams G, Shafer ABA, Shutler D, Rogers REL, Stewart DT, 2008.  Nosema and bees have incongruent phylogenies:
     how, why, and what might this portend?  Am Bee Research, Sacramento, CA.
Shutler D, Alisauskas RT, McLaughlin JD, 2007.  Nutrient reserves and helminths of lesser snow geese. 
     Am Ornith Union, Laramie, Wyoming, + Atl Soc Fish Wildl Biol, Acadia.
Shutler D, 2007 (invited talk).  Behavioral ecology meets parasitology.  Atl Can Assoc Parasitol (ACAP), Pictou, NS.
Williams G, Shafer ABA, Rogers REL, Shutler D, Stewart DT, 2007.  Nosema ceranae:  a recently-introduced
     and potentially virulent parasite to honey bees in Canada. ACAP + Acadian Entomol Soc, Halifax, NS.
Little C, Shutler D, 2007.  Immunity in honeybees and Nosema and Varroa mites.  ACAP.
Sampson M, Williams G, Shutler D, 2007.  Nosema in several hymenopterans of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.  ACAP
Williams G, Shutler D, Rogers R, 2007.  Winter 2007/2008 Nosema study in Nova Scotia.  Nova Scotia Beekeepers’
     Association Annual General Meeting, Kentville, Nova Scotia.
Williams G, Rogers R, Shutler D, 2007.  Tales from the Crypt:  using dead-bee traps to monitor deformed wing and other aspects
     of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony health.  Northeast Biological Graduate Student Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia,
     + American Bee Research Conference, Phoenix, Arizona. 
Shutler D, 2006.  Overview of the Symposium:  Swallows of the Americas.  North American Ornithological Conference (NAOC),
     Veracruz, Mexico.
Shutler D, Dawson R, 2006.  Geographic variation in prevalence and intensity of ectoparasitism in Tachycineta.  NAOC.
Clark RG, Shutler D, Winkler D, Dawson RD, 2006.  Survival of Tree Swallows in relation to sex, reproductive effort,
     geographic location, and climate.  NAOC.
Dalley K, Shutler D, Taylor P, 2006.  Breeding success of migratory songbirds in heterogeneous boreal forests of
     northwestern Newfoundland, Canada.  NAOC.
Ringelman KM, Winkler DW, Hussell DJT, Clark RG, Lombardo MP, Dunn P, Leonard ML, Dawson RD, Shutler D,
     Massoni V, 2006.  A pan-American view of the influences of ecology and phylogeny on clutch size and the clutch
     size-lay date regression in Tachycineta swallows.  NAOC.
Winkler DW, Reboreda JC, Clark RG, Dawson RD, Shutler D, 2006.  Opportunities for further integrated research on American
     swallows.  NAOC.
Reboreda JC, Winkler DW, Clark RG, Dawson RD, Shutler D, 2006.  Opportunities for partnerships in international research and
     education.  NAOC.
Samuelsen A, Shutler D, Wilson B, 2006.  Seasonal corticosterone concentrations and ectoparasite load, and Sex
     determination in Leach’s storm-petrels.  Atlantic University Undergraduate Biology Conference, Charlottetown.
Dalley K, Shutler D, Taylor P, 2006.  Boreal songbirds breeding in heterogeneous landscapes of northern Newfoundland.
     Northeast Wildlife Graduate Conference (NEWGC), Bar Harbor, Maine.

Research grants (since 2003)

2008 - '12	NSF Partnerships in International Research and Education; Golondrinas de las Americas (5 Principal Investigators [PIs], I      am on steering committee for 33 collaborators).
2010	Ducks Unlimited, Value of constructed wetlands (PI; with Soren Bondrup-Nielsen).
2008 - 10	Agri-futures, Control of Nosema disease in honey bees (REL Rogers PI, I am one of  3 collaborators).
2008 - '09	N. Am. Pollinator Protection Campaign, Effects of pesticides on honey bee survival and immunity (C Little is principal     author;  I am PI with 4 collaborators)
2008 - '09	Bee Maid (C Little is principal author; I am PI with 4 collaborators).
2008 - '09	Canadian Bee Research Fund, Real time PCR to identify pathogens in honey bees (K Burgher-MacLellan is PI, I am one      of 4 collaborators).
2005 - '09	NSERC of Canada Discovery Grant, Avian reproductive ecology and parasites.
2007 - '08	Agri-futures, Evaluation of Fumagillin-B for fall control of the microsporidean Nosema spp. in honey bee (Apis mellifera)      colonies in Nova Scotia, Canada (G Williams is principal author; I am PI with 1 collaborator).
2007	Agriculture Research Centre, Nosema in Nova Scotia bees.
2003, '04,  '06	Acadia University Research Fund, various.
2005	Atlantic Centre for Global Change and Ecosystem Research, Effects of eelgrass decline on Nova Scotia water birds.
2000 - '04	NSERC Operating Grant, Host-parasite ecology of cavity-nesters.
2004	Science Horizons (Lead of 2 co-applicants), Mercury in river otters.
2003	Environmental Damages Fund (6 co-applicants), Breeding status of the common tern and ring-billed gull in PEI.
2003	Science Horizons (3 co-applicants), Mercury in river otters.
2003	Wildlife Conservation Society, Mesocarnivore research.

Other scholarly activity
Reviewing Editor, Condor (2008- )
Associate Editor, Behaviour (2006- )
Associate Editor, Avian Conservation and Ecology (2005- )

TEACHING, ADVISING, AND SERVICE

Sep - Dec	Jan - Apr	May-Aug	Aug
Organisms and their Environment Either Ornithology or Parasitology	Animal Behaviour	Field work!	Natural History and Field Biology

I usually have 2-3 BSc (Hons) students and 1-3 MSc students.

I am Director of Bon Portage Island, a remote research site largely owned by Acadia University.

Updated Feb 2010