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Research
I am a Behavioral Ecologist broadly interested in combining field and molecular methods to explore topics including sexual selection, mating systems, and evolution. I use rodents of the genus Peromyscus, microsatellites, DNA sequencing, (Solexa and Sanger methods) and cloning to explore ideas related to these central themes.
My Dissertation research includes:
- The development of a quantatative measure of mating systems
- Analysis of the effects of mating system on selection on MHC genes.
- Patterns of selection on MHC genes in the genus Peromyscus
- Characterization of vaginal bacterial flora in rodents with different mating systems
Other research (both current and previous):
- Characterization of the hippocampal transcriptome in social versus non social rodents using Solexa sequencing
- Phylogeography of Peromyscus eremicus and Peromyscus fraterculus in southern California
- Construction of a multilocus Peromyscus phylogeny
- DNA sequencing from 100 year-old museum skins
- Cross-species amplification of microsatellites in Peromyscus (with Karen Mabry)








