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titleboxGERALD S. WILKINSON titlebox

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email:wilkinso@umd.edu
phone:
301.405.6942 (office)
301.405.6914 (lab)
fax:301.314.9358
office:2223 Bio-Psych
graduate programs: Biology, BEES, NACS
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

Evolution of social behavior, with emphasis on how genetic mechanisms may influence the outcome of evolution and how behavior may affect genetic population structure. Recent research in the lab addresses several controversial topics in animal behavior: sexual selection, cooperation and communication. Stalk-eyed flies are being used as a model system for studying the evolution of sexually selected traits.

Recent Publications


Wilkinson, G.S. and Johns, P.M. Sexual selection and the evolution of fly mating systems. In: The Biology of the Diptera. (D.K. Yeates and B.M. Weigmann, eds.) pp. 312-339. Columbia University Press, New York

Christianson, S.J., Swallow, J.G., and Wilkinson, G.S. Rapid evolution of postzygotic reproductive isolation in stalk-eyed flies. Evolution 59:849-857

Wilkinson, G.S., Amitin, E.G., and Johns, P.M. Sex-linked correlated responses in female reproductive traits to selection on male eye span in stalk-eyed flies. Integrative and Comparative Biology 45:500-510

Johns, P.M., Wolfenbarger, L.M. and Wilkinson, G.S. Genetic linkage between a sexually selected trait and X chromosome meiotic drive. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 272:2097-2103

Swallow, J.G., Wallace, L.E., Christianson, S.J., Johns, P.M. and Wilkinson, G.S. Genetic divergence does not predict change in ornament expression among populations of stalk-eyed flies. Molecular Ecology 14:3787-3800.

Pitnick, S., Jones, K.E. and Wilkinson, G.S. Mating system and brain size in bats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B 273: 719-724.

Munshi-South, J. and Wilkinson, G.S. Diet influences life span in parrots (order Psittaciformes). Auk 123: 108-118.

Munshi-South, J. and Wilkinson, G.S. Isolation and characterization of polymorphic microsatellite loci in Bornean treeshrews (Tupaia spp.). Molecular Ecology Notes 6:698-699.

Bohn, K.M., Moss, C.F. and Wilkinson, G.S. Correlated evolution between hearing sensitivity and social calls in bats. Biology Letters 2:561-564.

Wilkinson, G.S., Johns, P.M., Kelleher, E.S., Muscedere, M.L. and Lorsong, A. Fitness effects of X chromosome drive in the stalk-eyed fly, Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19:1851-1860.

Bohn, K.M., Wilkinson, G.S. and Moss, C.F. Discrimination of infant isolation calls by female greater spear-nosed bats, Phyllostomus hastatus. Animal Behaviour 73: 423-432.

Johns, P.M. and Wilkinson, G.S. X chromosome influences sperm length in the stalk-eyed fly Cyrtodiopsis dalmanni. Heredity 99: 56-61 .