Dr Domino Joyce

Dr Domino Joyce

Senior Lecturer

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
  • School of Natural Sciences

Summary

Domino became interested in conservation genetics during her undergraduate degree, working on UK butterflies with Natural England for her PhD and first post doc. Trying to better understand adaptive change lead to a switch in allegiance from insects to fishes (although she still has a soft spot for insects) and she worked with Prof. Ole Seehausen first at Hull and then in Lucerne, Switzerland before being awarded a Leverhulme Fellowship to work on "bower-building" cichlid fishes. She became a lecturer at Hull in 2010 and enjoys teaching evolution and behaviour (among other things).

University of East Anglia. BSc (hons) Ecology with Biology

University of Birmingham Ph.D. ‘The use of molecular genetics in the formulation of conservation strategies for Lepidoptera’.

Jan 2003-June 2006 Leverhulme Trust PDRA, University of Hull and EAWAG Luzern, Switzerland “The cichlid fish species flocks in African lakes: single founders or hybrid swarms?”

June 2007-Aug 2010Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship “Habitat driven runaway sexual selection fuels speciation”. University of Hull.

Sept 2010-July 2013 Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Hull

August 2013-presentSenior Lecturer in Evolutionary Biology, University of Hull

HEA Fellow (2016)

I teach a combination of genetics, behaviour and evolution, which reflects my research interests perfectly. I also join our final year Field Studies scientific diving trip to somewhere with tropical coral reefs (e.g. Malaysia/Egypt).

First year: Evolution*

Second year: Molecular Evolution & Genomics

Third year: Sex and Social Behaviour*, Field Studies

*module lead

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes

Almeida, M. V., Blumer, M., Yuan, C. U., Sierra, P., Price, J. L., Quah, F. X., Friman, A., Dallaire, A., Vernaz, G., Putman, A. L., Smith, A. M., Joyce, D. A., Butter, F., Haase, A. D., Durbin, R., Santos, M. E., & Miska, E. A. (2025). Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes. Genome Biology, 26(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03475-z

Subtropical specialists dominate a coral range expansion front

Chong, F., Soong, G. Y., Hakim, A. A., Burke, C., De Palmas, S., Gösser, F., Hsiao, W. V., Kise, H., Nishijima, M., Iguchi, A., Sommer, B., Joyce, D., Beger, M., & Reimer, J. D. (in press). Subtropical specialists dominate a coral range expansion front. Coral Reefs, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02601-w

Genotype But Not Body Shape Predicts River Migration Success in Atlantic Salmon

Moccetti, P., Bolland, J. D., Adams, C. E., Rodger, J. R., Honkanen, H. M., Newton, M., Lothian, A. J., Nunn, A. D., & Joyce, D. A. (2024). Genotype But Not Body Shape Predicts River Migration Success in Atlantic Salmon. Ecology and Evolution, 14(12), Article e70682. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70682

Environmental fluoxetine promotes skin cell proliferation and wound healing

Rodriguez-Barucg, Q., Garcia, A. A., Garcia-Merino, B., Akinmola, T., Okotie-Eboh, T., Francis, T., Bringas, E., Ortiz, I., Wade, M., Dowle, A., Joyce, D. A., Hardman, M. J., Wilkinson, H. N., & Beltran-Alvarez, P. (2024). Environmental fluoxetine promotes skin cell proliferation and wound healing. Environmental pollution, 362, Article 124952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.124952

Spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. in reservoirs and headwater tributaries

Dodd, J. R., Noble, R. A., Nunn, A. D., Owen, H. M., Moccetti, P., Harvey, J. P., Wallace, L., Gillespie, B., Joyce, D. A., & Bolland, J. D. (online). Spatial ecology and population dynamics of brown trout Salmo trutta L. in reservoirs and headwater tributaries. Journal of fish biology, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.15814

Research interests

I'm interested in the behavioural and genomic adaptations of animals (primarily freshwater fishes). This is because these adaptations can lead to the formation of new species, and understanding how species evolve is of fundamental importance to biodiversity and conservation.

I use haplochromine cichlid fishes as my primary study system, but I've recently discovered that Atlantic salmon are also fun to work on, and I'm interested in the role that anthropogenic pressures can exert on natural populations which may lead to evolutionary change in populations over time.

I lead the Happy Chemical Cluster, and you can find out more about this here:

https://happychemical.wordpress.hull.ac.uk/

Lead investigator

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Project

Missing Salmon - does their DNA hold the answer?

Funder

Atlantic Salmon Trust

Grant

£32,760.00

Started

1 October 2019

Status

Complete

Project

Fish adaptation to depth: alternative splicing in the twilight zone?

Funder

Fisheries Society of the British Isles

Grant

£1,000.00

Started

28 May 2018

Status

Complete

Co-investigator

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NERC Discipline Hopping: Fish on chips: developing a new microfluidics model as a tool for testing and mitigating the effects of environmental and biological contaminants on fish

Funder

NERC Natural Environment Research Council

Grant

£13,582.00

Started

1 December 2022

Status

Complete

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