Results for "population genetics"

Projects

Evolutionary variation in genes, brains and behaviors

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Description:

The Phelps lab is broadly interested in animal social behavior, its brain mechanisms, and how those mechanisms evolve. We do a variety of work ranging from mechanisms of gene regulation to the fitness consequences of…

Faculty

Deana Erdner

Affiliated Departments:
Marine Science
Research Interests:

Current research in the Erdner lab focuses on the genetics of bloom-forming algae, particularly toxic dinoflagellates. Examples of ongoing projects include:
- population genetics of toxic dinoflagellates…

Howard Ochman

Affiliated Departments:
Integrative Biology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, School of Biological Sciences
Research Interests:

We applied experimental and computational approaches to investigate the factors contributing to the evolution of bacterial genomes and microbial communities.

Some on the projects that are currently underway in…