Frances Tyler

Postgraduate research student

Qualifications

2004-2007 BA Biological Sciences, University of Oxford
2008-2009 MSc Evolutionary and Behavioural Ecology, University of Exeter

PhD thesis

Behavioural and genomic studies of sexual selection and reproductive isolation in wild field crickets

Funding

ESF

Supervisor(s)

Primary: Professor Tom Tregenza
Secondary: Dr Rolando Rodriguez-Munoz

Research interests

Previously I have looked into differential sperm allocation by fowl, Gallus gallus, and copulation failure in flour beetles, Tribolium castaneum. I am currently employing a combination of behavioural studies, bioinformatics and molecular techniques to investigate the evolution of reproductive isolation and the genetic basis of behaviour in two closely related species of field cricket; Gryllus campestris and Gryllus bimaculatus.