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Michael Jennions

Jennie Mallela (ARC Post-doc)
Martin Edvardsson (Visit Fellow)

Sophie Callander (PhD Student)
Andrew Kahn (PhD Student)
Dominique Roche (PhD Student)
Jonathan Henshaw (PhD Student)

Jacqueline Davis ("Pre-doc")

James Davies (Research Officer)

Recent  Members
Post-Docs & Fellows
Megan Higgie | Clint Kelly |
Fleur de Crespigny | Crystal Vincent
PhD Students
Isobel Booksmythe |
Richard Milner | Jean Drayton | Brian Mautz | Bob Wong
MSc
Kobus Boeke |Michelle Shackleton
Honours
Jules Livingston | Fredrick Hayes | Jessica Bolton | Leah Bala |
Katie Humphrey

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Evolution, Ecology & Genetics Research School of Biology
Australian National University,
Canberra, ACT 0200,
Australia
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 NEWS ITEM: [Video Explanation of our paper on Penis size]

Welcome:  First, thank you for visiting our website. Good choice. We are a happy and extremely productive research group. We place a strong emphasis on creating a friendly working environment. If you thrive best in a winner takes all setting then we are not for you. If, however, you enjoy biology, like working with  animals and find evolution fascinating then read on. We value and strive for research excellence. Ultimately scientists are evaluated on what they publish - avoid the hype and just check out our publications . If you are considering a PhD or Post-doc and want to produce high quality work with a view to pursuing a career in biology then please get in touch.

What do we do? We are interested in  whole organism evolutionary biology, especially the evolution of behavioural and morphological reproductive traits. Our main focus is therefore testing sexual selection theory. The kinds of questions we ask are:

• Why is there a tight scaling relationship between body and genital size in some species?
• Is there a trade-off between diets that maximize mating as opposed to fertilization success?
• How does inbreeding affect sexually selected traits versus other traits?
• Why do females mate multiply?
• What affects the offspring sex ratio?

We conduct:     Behavioural ecology experiments | Breeding Designs (quantitative genetics) | Artificial selection |  Meta-analysis of literature

We use:  Acoustic monitoring devices | Sound analysis | Immunological assays  | Diet manipulations |  Paternity analysis | Sperm assays

We have conducted research on:  Fish | Crickets | Beetles | Fiddler crabs | Humans

Thanks again for visiting our web site. The silly stuff is here. 
Kids Dancing from fieldtrip to Inhaca, Mozambique (2008)         Photos from fieldtrip to Inhaca, Mozambique (2008)    

 

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