Evolutionary Theory

How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?

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 …

How much does the unguarded X contribute to sex differences in life span?

Collaboration with Tim Connallon, Yasmine McDonough & Filip Ruzicka (August 2021 - February 2022)

Investigating the evolution of palindromes on the sex chromosomes

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)

Testing a theory for the evolution of inversions

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)