Research

Overview

My lab researches sex-specific selection and other context-specific selection, where contexts could be alternative tissues, life stages, environments, etc. Such selection can generate genetic tradeoffs known by familiar terms such as sexually antagonistic selection, antagonistic pleiotropy, ontogenetic conflict, or gene-by-environmental interactions. These phenomena have important evolutionary implications regarding the maintenance of genetic variation in fitness, local adaptation, and population viability, but can also have important applied value to contemporary issues in human society, such as wildlife conservation, pest management, and genetic disease. Past research has focused on sexually antagonistic genetic variation using quantitative genetics, experimental evolution, and transcriptomics. Future work will expand this work toward other forms of genetic tradeoffs (mentioned above) using a broader set of methodologies including genomics, epi-genetics, genome manipulations, and mathematical modeling. Read more…

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