Topic: speciation

Tenure-track, nine-month appointment in the Department of Evolution and Ecology for a plant evolutionary biologist. Research may address plant diversification, trait evolution, major innovations, comparative genomics and evolutionary development, or population biology, quantitative genetics, adaptation, speciation, biogeography, life histories and species interactions, using empirical, computational, experimental or theoretical approaches. The appointee will build an independently funded research programme, teach undergraduate and graduate courses and mentor students. Published salary range: U

The function and evolution of calling song recognition networks is central to understanding speciation in insects. Evolutionary changes in the recognition network can compel speciation, so understanding the commonalities in the mechanisms by which song recognition is achieved across species can help define a central or “mother” network architecture that is shared among closely related species in a group. One instance of such a mother network for calling song recognition has been extensively characterized for G. Bimaculatus. A computational model of this proposed network has been shown to recov