Introducing...
…faculty sponsor, Dr.
Goggy Davidowitz, Assistant Research Scientist, Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology. My broad area of interest is in ecological
development: how organisms adjust developmental pathways in
response to short-term environmental variation. Specifically,
I am focusing on the developmental mechanisms by which insects
translate variation in diet quality and temperature, two environmental
factors with strong effects on life histories, into phenotypic
variation in body size and development time, two traits highly
correlated with fitness. The complexity of the traits and the
developmental programs that regulate them have led me to develop
a multidisciplinary research program. Currently, I am employing
techniques from quantitative genetics, physiology, endocrinology,
ecology, evolutionary biology, and elemental stoichiometry,
combining both lab and field work.
Email: goggy@email.arizona.edu
URL: http://eebweb.arizona.edu/Faculty/Bios/davidowitz.html
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