Islands in The Bahamas can be netted to exclude birds and study how predators shape selection on lizards.

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19 November, 2009

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Intralocus sexual conflict


Do populations suffer a fitness cost due to sex differences in selection on shared traits?

Costs of reproduction in females


How does current reproductive investment impact survival and future reproduction?

Learn more about my current research projects:

Evolution of polymorphism


How does natural selection create and maintain discrete phenotypic variation?

Hormones, performance and fitness


How do hormones mediate performance to

influence an organism’s fitness?

Dissertation research and ongoing studies of sexual dimorphism:

Evolution of sexual size dimorphism


Why are males the larger sex in some species, yet females are the larger sex in many others?

Endocrinology of sexual dimorphism


How do hormones regulate sex differences in growth, body size, and coloration?

Past research, side projects, and recent collaborations:

Related student projects by undergraduates at Dartmouth and Rutgers

Physiology of water balance


How do animals regulate their rates of water loss

in response to extreme heat and aridity?

Costs of reproduction in males


How does testosterone impact survival, immune function, and parasite load?