We study several related topics in evolutionary/behavioral ecology, including, host-parasite coevolution, the evolutionary maintenance of cross-fertilization, the evolution of parasite virulence, the effects of genetic diversity on disease spread, mate choice, and the social behavior of microbes.
Banner image: Lake Alexandrina on New Zealand's South Island—where we have conducted long-term studies of host-parasite coevolution between a snail host and its parasitic trematode worms.