I am broadly interested in the mechanistic basis of behavioral evolution in animals, especially insects, in the context of social and sexual communication. Much of my research has investigated the evolution of social behavior in orchid bees, using them as a model system to examine transitions from solitary to social life-histories. I take an integrative approach to research, utilizing behavioral, transcriptomic, genomic, and chemical data to understand how socially sensitive physiology and communication systems evolve and function.
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