Intralocus sexual conflict

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

 

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

Costs of reproduction in females

How does current reproductive investment impact survival and future reproduction?

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10 October, 2009

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Evolution of polymorphism

How does natural selection create and maintain discrete phenotypic variation?


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?


Hormones, performance and fitness

How do hormones mediate performance to influence an organism’s fitness?

Learn more about my 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?

These pages describe my past research, side projects, and recent collaborations:

Read about student projects conducted by undergraduates at Dartmouth and Rutgers.