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Timothy Connallon
Ph.D. Student
B.A., Rutgers University, 2000
U-M affiliation(s)
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Museum of Zoology
Contact information
University of Michigan
1089/1094 Museums Building
1109 Geddes Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
Phone: (734) 763-7943
Fax: (734) 763-4080
Email: tconnal@umich.edu
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Fields of study
Evolutionary genetics
Research interests
Darwin predicted that, because male and female reproductive success favors different kinds of adaptations, the forces of natural and sexual selection should operate on males and females in different and often opposite directions (this has been termed “sexually antagonistic selection”; Rice 1984). However, most quantitative traits that are influenced by sexual selection (e.g. size, growth rate, or time of maturation) are not sex-limited. Furthermore, artificial selection experiments indicate that selection on one sex for trait elaboration or reduction nearly always leads to correlated evolutionary responses in the other sex (reviewed in Rhen 2000). My research attempts to explore some of the implications of sexually antagonistic selection. Early experiments with the fruit fly are directed towards identifying the abundance and genomic locations of sexually antagonistic genes. Future work will hopefully integrate sexually antagonistic variation into traditional models of female choice.
Academic background
B.A., Rutgers University (2000); University of Michigan (2003-present).
Advisor
L. Lacey Knowles
News
Connallon awarded Tinkle Scholarship
Tim Connallon has been awarded the Donald W. Tinkle Scholarship from the U-M Museum of Zoology. This $5,000 award is a special recognition of his research excellence. Connallon is researching the genetics of the fruit fly Drosophila. The scholarship was endowed by the family and friends of Donald W. Tinkle, former curator of herpetology and director of the Museum of Zoology.
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowships awarded
Congratulations to Tim Connallon on his Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, which pays $26,400 for three terms, candidacy tuition and registration fees for fall and winter and an opportunity for health and dental insurance coverage for 2008. Connallon studies evolutionary genetics.
Connallon gets Ph.D. grant
Congratulations to Tim Connallon, Ph.D. student, who received a $12,000 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. His thesis, “Overdominance and the maintenance of genetic variation for fitness” involves working with the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster.
Recent publications
Connallon, T, and L L Knowles (2005) Intergenomic conflict revealed by patterns of sex-biased gene expression. Trends in Genetics 21: 495-499.
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