News

2019-2020

Welcome to the lab;
Katja Kasimatis,  A new postdoc with Prof Asher Cutter  and Rowe lab

Rowan French – is a new 2019 PhD with Prof Luke Mahler & Rowe lab
Rowan received an NSERC CGS-D in April and a $1500 travel grant from the Entomological Society of America in May. The travel grant is for future fieldwork in Panama.

2018

Sean Clark successfully defends his PhD. Congratulations Sean!!

New Papers
Perry, J.C. and L. Rowe. In Press. Sexual conflict in its ecological setting. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 20870418 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb/2017.0418

De Lisle, S.P., Paiva, S., and L. Rowe. 2018. Habitat partitioning during character displacement between the sexes. Biology Letters 14: 20180124.

Rowe, L., Chenoweth, S.F., and A.F. Agrawal. 2018. The genomics of sexual conflict. American Naturalist 192: 2.

Rollinson N. and L. Rowe. 2018. Oxygen limitation at the larval stage and the evolution of maternal investment per offspring in aquatic environments. The American Naturalist DOI: 10.1086/696857

Rollinson N. and L. Rowe. 2018. Temperature-dependent oxygen limitation and the rise of Bergmann’s Rule in species with aquatic respiration. Evolution DOI: 10.1111/evo.13458

2017

New Paper
Perry, J.C., Garroway, C.J., and L. Rowe. 2017. The role of ecology, neutral processes and antagonistic coevolution in an apparent sexual arms race. Ecology Letters 20: 1107-1117.

New Paper
De Lisle, S.P. and L. Rowe. 2017. Disruptive natural selection predicts divergence between the sexes during adaptive radiation. Ecology and Evolution 7: 3590-3601.

New Paper
Austen, E.J., Rowe, L., and J.R. Stinchcombe. 2017. Explaining the apparent paradox of persistent selection for early flowering. New Phytologist 215: 929-934

New Paper
Punzalan, D. and L. Rowe. 2017. Hybridization and lack of prezygotic barriers between Phymata pennsylvanica and americana. Ecological Entomology 42: 210-220. DOI: 10.1111/een.12380

2016

New Paper
Kwan, L., Dobkin, A.N., Rodd, R.H., and L. Rowe. 2016. A potential of long genitalia in male guppies: the effects of current speed on reproductive behaviour. Ethology 122: 945-953.

New Paper
Punzalan, D.
, and L. Rowe. 2016. Concordance between stabilizing sexual selection, intraspecific variation, and interspecific divergence in Phymata. Ecology and Evolution

New Paper
Rollinson, N. and L. Rowe. 2016. The positive correlation between maternal size and offspring size: fitting pieces of a life‐history puzzle. Biological Reviews 91: 1134-1148.

Welcome Augustine le Bouquin!
New PhD student, jointly supervised with Prof. Abderrahman Khila

New Paper
Kwan, L., Fris, M., Rodd, F.H., Rowe, L., Tuhela, L., and T.M. Panhuis. 2016. An examination of the variation in maternal placentae across the genus Poeciliopsis (Poeciliidae). Journal of Morphology 277: 986-986.

Older News

Teresa and Margo (Rowe Lab Sydney Chapter) meet to discuss progress on manuscript writing in Sydney, Australia.

F1000 Faculty
The F1000 Faculty recognizes De Lisle & Rowe’s recent Proceedings paper Independent evolution of the sexes promotes amphibian diversification worthy of inclusion in F1000Prime.  PDF

Jen Perry wins 2015 ASAB New Investigator Award
Congratulations Jen on winning the 2015 Christopher Barnard Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Investigator. more…

Stephen De Lisle wins the ASN Ruth Patrick Student Poster award at Evolution. Congrats!

Celina Baines successfully defends her Master’s. Congratulations Celina!

Taking the science world by storm! Lucia’s latest work is featured on LiveScience, ‎National Geographic’s Phenomena, and U of Ts Media Room! You can read the original paper here.

De Lisle & Rowe publish in American Naturalist: Correlated evolution of allometry and sexual dimorphism across higher taxa. Read it here

Lucia wins the outstanding TA of the year award. Congrats!

Stephen publishes a short essay in Science, as part of their NextGenVOICES series. See his essay

Minyoung Wyman (PhD) and Penelope Gorton (MSc) successfully defend their theses! Congratulations!

Caitlin Dmitriew, former PhD student, is awarded an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations Cait!

Jen Perry, former PhD student, wins the American Society of Naturalists Young Investigator Prize. Congratulations Jen!

Lucia Kwan wins the 2012 Ramsey Wright award. This award is made to senior PhD students with particularly strong contributions to research and the life of the department. Congratulations Lucia!

Abderrahman Khila, former Postdoctoral fellow of Locke Rowe and Ehab Abouheif (McGill University), heads a team at Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon studying developmental genomics and evolution.

David Punzalan is now a Research Associate at the Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Penelope Gorton wins 2nd place for best student talk at CSEE. Congrats!

David Punzalan starts a post doctoral fellowship at The University of Exeter.

Caitlin Dmitriew is starting a post doctoral fellowship in Zurich at Institute of Evolutionary Biology
Universität Zürich-Irchel with Prof. Wolf Blanckenhorn.

Jen Perry is awarded an NSERC post doctoral fellowship.

Jen Perry successfully defends her PhD thesis. Congratulations Jen!

Penelope Gorton, who is starting a MSc. in the Rowe lab, is awarded a Canada Graduate Scholarships (CGS) from NSERC.

Russell Bonduriansky is now a lecturer and Australian Research Fellow at University of New South Wales.

Russell Bonduriansky wins the prestigious Dobzhansky Award (2006).