How do new species form? I'm a biologist trying to answer this question by studying reproductive traits to ultimately understand how reproductive isolation evolves and the barriers that prevent species from hybridizing. I want to understand the mechanisms that produce trait divergence, if they are genetic or plastic, the genes underlying reproduction, and where these genes are located in the genome. To do this, my research combines quantitative genetic and phenotypic studies in the laboratory, epigenetics, field sampling, and comparative genomics.
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