Male flies fighting. Video by Ellie Bath
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Hangry flies! New work, led by Dani Edmunds, shows that male Drosophila get more aggressive when food deprived. Check out the paper in Animal Behaviour here, and news coverage over on the media page! |
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Stuart Wigby is an evolutionary biologist. In the lab we study sex and death, mainly using the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, as a model organism.
We are interested in sexual selection, sexual conflict, speciation, fertility, sperm competition, kin selection, immunity, life history and ageing. |
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Recent news
MAY 2021
Two new papers – led by Ellie Bath, we explore the evolution of female and male aggression in response to sex ratio, and how male condition influences female post-mating aggression
APR 2021
Former PhD student, Dr Juliano Morimoto is a winner of the 2021 Royal Entomological Society's award which is given for a "contribution to entomological science that is judged to be outstanding or exemplary". Nice one Ju, congrats!
JAN 2021
Our latest paper shows how a the seminal fluid protein sex peptide has an additional function in the packaging of seminal material. It might even be its original evolutionary function. Read more in PNAS here
OCT 2020
Our new review on Drosophila seminal fluid proteins and post-copulatory sexual selection is out now, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Read here
JULY 2020
6 years in the making, our new paper in PNAS dissects the roles of seminal fluid versus sperm in mediating reproductive ageing in males. We also found that the decline can be postponed – read here!
MAY 2020
We've moved to the superb Department of Evolution, Ecology & Behaviour, in the new Institute of Infection Veterinary and Ecological Sciences at the University of Liverpool. It is an exciting place to be – come join us!
Two new papers – led by Ellie Bath, we explore the evolution of female and male aggression in response to sex ratio, and how male condition influences female post-mating aggression
APR 2021
Former PhD student, Dr Juliano Morimoto is a winner of the 2021 Royal Entomological Society's award which is given for a "contribution to entomological science that is judged to be outstanding or exemplary". Nice one Ju, congrats!
JAN 2021
Our latest paper shows how a the seminal fluid protein sex peptide has an additional function in the packaging of seminal material. It might even be its original evolutionary function. Read more in PNAS here
OCT 2020
Our new review on Drosophila seminal fluid proteins and post-copulatory sexual selection is out now, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Read here
JULY 2020
6 years in the making, our new paper in PNAS dissects the roles of seminal fluid versus sperm in mediating reproductive ageing in males. We also found that the decline can be postponed – read here!
MAY 2020
We've moved to the superb Department of Evolution, Ecology & Behaviour, in the new Institute of Infection Veterinary and Ecological Sciences at the University of Liverpool. It is an exciting place to be – come join us!
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