Females and males often have markedly different mortality rates and life spans, but it is unclear why these forms of sexual dimorphism evolve. The unguarded X hypothesis contends that dimorphic life spans arise from sex differences in X or Z …
Collaboration with Tim Connallon, Yasmine McDonough & Filip Ruzicka (August 2021 - February 2022)
A semester long internship developing models to understand the evolutionary dynamics of palindromes on the X chromosome, supervised by: [Dr. Tim Connallon](https://connallonresearch.wordpress.com/) (February 2021 - July 2021)
A short winter vacation project investigating the association between inversions and sexually antagonistic genes, supervised by: [Dr. Filip Ruzicka](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9089-624X) and [Dr. Tim Connallon](https://connallonresearch.wordpress.com/) (June 2019)