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Primary Supervisor: Dr Jose De Vega Scientific Background: Interspecific hybridisation is a common mechanism of diversification in plants, unlike in animals, largely because plants can overcome
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patterns? Do the evolutionary rates of pigmentation associated genes differ between mimetic and non-mimetic species? Ultimately, this research will shed light on a fundamental question in evolutionary
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spp.)? Do you want to explore how these butterflies recognize and adapt to their host plants, and to contribute to cutting-edge research at the intersection of evolutionary biology and sensory ecology
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, prior interactions, rank differences, and kin relationships). We will explore the implied cognitive complexity of great ape communication to identify evolutionary trends and simulate dynamics that might
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and skilled individual to join our cross-disciplinary research team studying the ecology of vision. Our goal is to better understand the inter-relationships between vision, evolutionary processes
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. Individuals with Runs of Homozygosity (ROH) spanning immune genes are more susceptible to viral infection. Differences in alleles at immune genes explain variation in disease status of birds. Training: AI
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of the organism's genome. Over long evolutionary periods, specific interactions between hosts and TEs have been selected to facilitate their coexistence, thus preventing the extinction of the host and/or the TE. In
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evolutionary ecology and conservation. The long-term study of Seychelles warblers Acrocephalus sechellensis, on Cousin Island provides an excellent system for this PhD. Our database contains data on survival and
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, extinctions, and environmental change; ● Running simulations and scenario analyses to explore how different discounting rules or time preferences shift optimal conservation choices; ● Fitting models
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reprogramming. This project will explore transcriptional changes in both natural and synthetic Miscanthus hybrids across different ploidy levels, focusing on how genome merging alters gene expression, subgenome