Research

Seychelles warbler

Berthelot’s pipit

Red flour beetle

Red junglefowl

Other systems

We use a powerful combination of extensive field studies on wild populations (to observe behaviour, screen for pathogens and measure survival and reproductive success), ingenious experiments, molecular techniques, genetics and genomics. More tractable semi-wild (e.g. red junglefowl) or model lab systems (e.g. flour beetles) allow us to perform more manipulative studies and experimental evolution. Current projects include:

• Gut microbiota, fitness and senescence within a natural vertebrate population
• Spatio-temporal dynamics of genomic variation in vertebrate populations
• Understanding the pros and cons of genetic rescue
• Understanding the evolution of genetic load
• The causes and consequences of telomere dynamics in wild population
• Determinants of individual variation in senescence in a natural population

Please click on the images above to explore each system.

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