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Eileen A. Lacey (1961) is an American biologist who specializes in the evolution of behavioral diversity among vertebrates. Lacey’s research focuses on identifying ecological causes of sociality and assessing the genetic consequences of sociality in subterranean rodents. Eileen Lacey is most known for her research on the social structure of naked mole rats and her arguments regarding the eusociality continuum.

Early Life:

Eileen Lacey spent her undergraduate years at Cornell University where she established her research on mole rats in the laboratory. Lacey then went on to pursue her Masters and Ph.D. at the University of Michigan.

Career:

Lacey is currently a Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she manages the Lacey Lab. The Lacey Lab focuses on vertebrae social behavior and population biology and encompasses a variety of taxa and topics. Eileen Lacey has published findings from her studies in various scientific journals and has also published a scientific text regarding the biology of subterranean rodents.

Selected Publications:


 * Lacey, E.A. 2004. Sociality reduces individual direct fitness in a communally breeding rodent, the colonial tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sociabilis). Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology, in press .
 * Lacey, E.A. and J. R. Wieczorek. 2003. The ecology of sociality in rodents: a ctenomyid perspective. Journal of Mammalogy 84:1198-1211 .
 * Hambuch, T.M. and E.A. Lacey. 2002. Enhanced selection for MHC diversity in social tuco-tucos. Evolution 56:841-845 .
 * Lacey, E.A. 2001. Microsatellite variation in solitary and social tuco-tucos: molecular properties and population dynamics. Heredity 86:628-637.