Expertise
My dissertation research investigates the coevolution of hosts and their parasites.I examine the selective pressure that coevolution imposes on the reproductive strategies of both host and parasite populations.
  • Short-term, parasite-mediated selection for sex and resistance:
  • Experimental evolution of an avirulent association:
  • phylogenetic test of the Red Queen Hypothesis:
Degrees
BA, Amherst College , Biology, 2008