Research

Our main research interests

Evolution of cooperative breeding

• Hannah Dugdale – Quantitative genetics of cooperative breeding behaviour

• Sjouke Kingma – Costs of helping behaviour

• Jildou van der Woude – Physiological consequences of different life-history strategies

Senescence

• Martijn Hammers – Causes of senescence in wild populations

• Kat Bebbington – Telomeres as biomarkers of cost and quality

Personality and fitness

• Hannah Edwards – Fitness consequences of personality

• Consequences of diversity at immune loci

• Danni Gilroy – Consequences of functional variation at immune loci

Genomics of translocated populations

• Lewis Spurgin – Genomic approaches to conserving populations

Conservation biology

• David Wright – Conservation Genetics: MHC Diversity

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