News: Honours projects - Jack Da Silva
Hill-Robertson interference, the Red Queen and the evolution of sex
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Honours project: This evolutionary genetics honours project explores the Hill-Robertson interference, the Red Queen and the evolution of sex.
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Testing the gamete competition theory of the evolution of anisogamy
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Honours project: Explore genetics and evolutionary biology by testing the gamete competition theory of the evolution of anisogamy.
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Evolution of sterile helpers in bees, ants and wasps
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Honours project: Explore evolutionary genetics by explaining the evolution of sterile helpers in the eusocial Hymenoptera - ants, bees and wasps.
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Plasticity of lifespan in the honeybee & the disposable soma theory
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Honours project: This project investigates the plasticity of lifespan in the honeybee and the disposable soma theory.
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