OFERTA DE BECA PREDOCTORAL FPI

Estimados colegas

En breve se publicará en la web del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación la
convocatoria de becas de FPI para 2009. En nuestro laboratorio estamos
inmersos en un nuevo proyecto, que tiene asignada una de dichas becas.

Por este motivo, os ruego la difusión de este anuncio entre personas
interesadas en realizar una tesis. Los organismos modelo son odonatos.



La información estará disponible en breve en la web del ministerio:
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Este es el resumen del proyecto:



PROJECT TITLE: Sexual selection and the evolution of mating strategies in
odonates (ODOEVO)

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Adolfo Cordero Rivera

SUMMARY

The study of sexual selection has traditionally focused on precopulatory
events, or, when postcopulatory processes have been taken into account, the
focus was primarily on sperm competition mechanisms. Nevertheless, in the
last decade, female processes that bias paternity (i.e. cryptic female
choice) and the re-emergence of the sexual conflict view of reproduction
have changed our interpretation of the evolution of reproductive strategies.
Here we propose to study postcopulatory sexual selection and the evolution
of genitalia and female colour polymorphisms in odonates. This order is a
model system for sperm competition studies, but recent findings have shown
that female views and conflict approaches are also important. Our goals are
complemented with a conservation genetics approach of three model species,
which will also be used for sexual selection studies. The main goals are (1)
sexual selection (the study of anomalous sex-ratios in the Fijian endemic
genus Nesobasis, genital evolution, especially in Ischnura graellsii, sperm
competition in neotropical species); (2) the evolution of colour
polymorphism (mapping of the colour locus in Ischnura elegans, behavior of
I. genei, the effect of fecundity on the maintenance of this polymorphism,
and the evolution of colour polymorphism in a phylogenetic approach); and
(3) conservation genetics of red-listed odonates, concentrating on a wide
latitudinal study of Coenagrion mercuriale, and the phylogeography of
Macromia splendens and Oxygastra curtisii.



Saludos



Adolfo Cordero







Adolfo Cordero Rivera

Grupo de Ecoloxía Evolutiva e da Conservación

EUET Forestal, Universidade de Vigo, Campus Universitario,

36005 Pontevedra, Galiza, España (Spain)



adolfo.cordero@uvigo.es

Tel. +986801926

http://ecoevo.uvigo.es